“Mel, get up.” someone nudged me.

“Alright, Mom, I’ll see you when you get back from work. I love you, bye.”

I heard somebody laugh, and it wasn’t Mom – it was Matt.

Oh snap.

I pointed an accusing finger at him, “That never happened, got it?”

“Trying to forget about it myself.”

I sat up and stretched. I wanted to ask what time it was, but there was something missing in the room. “Matt, where’d Hayden go?”

“I woke him up a few minutes ago. I think he went to go take a shower.” he looked me in the eye, “but if you fancy something to do I’ll kick your butt in Lego Star Wars for PS2 .”

“There’s a Lego Star Wars game?”

“Yeah. But you’d probably suck at it anyway.” he said, playfullness and edge lurking about in his eyes.

“That sounds like a challenge! Bring it on!”

And we started playing. I hadn’t the faintest idea of what I was doing. He tried talking me through it, but.. what’s an R2D2 , anyway?