“What is this, my boy?”
“Oh, your sweet Ivy gets this for my birthday. It is a pen with recorder she said. She said I can record important stuff with it.”
“Are u recording it now?”
“Well, I just want to show u how it works.”
“Hmm. It works just fine I suppose.”
Long pause.
“What’s with that smile?”
“Nothing.”
“I recognized that smile. U always have that smile when u talk about her.”
“Ma, it’s nothing.”
“U love her do you?”
“I don’t know. She is different. Her smiles make me going crazy. I have been missing her if she is not around.”
“That is love, my boy. Tell her that. I can see from her eyes she fall for you too.”
“I don’t know ma. I am afraid she is just like another girl. Swooning over the Anderson name.”
“I don’t think she is that kind of person.”
The recording stops. A
