Chapter Nineteen
Fox
TEN MINUTES EARLIERBaby showers probably weren’t supposed to be so damn amusing, but nothing ever ended up being as it was typically supposed to be at any of my family’s events. So I actually didn’t have a problem attending what was probably “supposed to be” a female-dominated party. I knew I was going to go away vastly entertained.
I wasn’t even talking to anyone in particular at the moment. I mean, I’d made the expected greetings to my parents and sister and other assorted non-cousins and unrelated family. But I was currently just leaning against a little section of wall, out of the way, and sipping on a small plastic cup of extra-sweet blue punch, taking it all in.
It was a mystery to me if the mothers had even thought things through when they’d decided to put a
