AFTER DINNER, MIKEY roped everyone into a game of hide-and-seek throughout the house, with him seeking every time because he didn’t like sitting still long enough to hide. Even Mrs. Geller left the dishes in the sink to join in, tiptoeing upstairs to sneak into a linen closet left open a crack for him to find her. Mikey perched on the bottom of the stairs with his hands pressed solemnly over his eyes and counted in a loud, high voice, stumbling over the numbers he forgot and starting over at the beginning when he lost track.
The first round, Casey nestled under a blanket on the couch but then got so hot waiting for Mikey to make his meandering way to thirty that she flung it off her head to make some breathing room. She was the first one found when Mikey opened his eyes, caught sight of h
