“My pet monkey decided to rule the world.”

“What? Pedro, talk sense.”

“He did! Mikey decided to rule the world!”

“I always thought if you had an exotic pet, it would be a wolf,” Nikii said, brushing tangled blond hair behind an ear.

“So did I. But my cousin—”

“Of course it was your cousin. The same cousin that taught you the llama song, and the one that gave you your nickname.”

“Yes. That one,” Pedro said, brushing something off the shoulder of his lime green shirt.

“Anyway, he gave me a pet monkey, and he started talking and decided to rule the world.”

“You’re lying.”

“I’m not.”

“You are.”

“I swear to you, I’m not.”

“I can’t tell,” Nikii said, grey-blue eyes looking at the cement under them, “you never show emotion anyway.”

“You can thank Tae Kwon Do for that. I’ve done it since—”

“You were three, we know!” Nikii, Ashley, Josh and Ben all said at once.