Chapter Nineteen
Phoenix was into her crawling in a big way, proving hard to contain as her expertise increased. At Amy’s place, the rugged floorboards with random nail heads poking out and the presence of Jas, who crawled around behind her, drove Hana to distraction. By mid-morning on Saturday, she was ready to quit and walk out altogether.
Tama showed up around ten thirty and collapsed width ways across Hana’s double bed, where he stayed until after lunch, maintaining he wasn’t hung over – just extremely tired.
“You flamin’ liar!” she raged at him. “You’re boozed up!”
But it was pointless. Tama lay like a dead man, his head sagging off one side of the bed and his feet lolling off the other. Jas used him as a trampoline for a while but got quickly bored when there was no response. Log
