“She asked you what?” Dylan stopped folding the couch blanket to look at me.
“Shh! You’ll wake them!” I chastised him in a whisper.
I glanced down at the floor where Emily, Ally, and Ivory were all asleep while their movie played quietly in the background.
“Sorry. But what?” He lowered the volume of his voice to ask.
“She asked if she could move in with us.”
“And what did you say?”
“Well, I obviously couldn’t tell her no but I didn’t want to say yes before talking to you so I said that I needed to talk to you. This is a big deal, I don’t know what to do.” I stopped picking up the room to rub my face harshly.
“Did she say why?”
I was frustrated with having to whisper and tiptoe around the room so I let out a huff before pulling him outside into the backyard. The stars and moon in t
