“Right, so that was… “
“Yeah, that was Mark for you. I swear he’s usually not that chatty. I have no idea what’s gotten into him.” Adam explains, then mumbles more to himself. “He must be having a good day.” I can practically hear the unlike me that he didn’t voice but definitely said in his mind.
“Glad to see we’re not the first, though.” I say to break the tension that is building back up.
“The first?”
“The first ones to fake date. I see now that’s a long standing tradition in the Davies family.” I grin, for a moment falling back into the easy banter Adam and I developed.
“I guess you’re right. I never really thought about that.”
“And there you were pretending not to know what a beard was.” I shake my head playfully. In the same spirit, Adam’s hand goes to his own beard that he kep
