‘Elijah? Are you coming down? Lunch is almost ready’ my mother calls out, startling me out of my thoughts as I turn toward the door to my room, thankful to find it empty.
‘I’m coming mum, I was just putting my gifts away’ I call back quickly.
‘Well hurry up, you’ve been up there for over an hour, I’m starting to think you don’t want to spend time with us’ she retorts, with the perfect sprinkling of disappointment in her voice to have me rolling my eyes and moving my ass.
‘I’m coming right now, I swear, I just got distracted tidying up, you know how much you hate it when the rooms are messy’ I shout back, hearing her humpf of disbelief but she doesn’t argue with me.
‘You have five minutes or we’ll be eating without you’ she warns before I hear her walk away, calling out an answer to a q
