"Jonah? Are you listening to me." Jonah could barely hear Noah over the phone. As it was, he was barely awake. He looked at the clock. Really, he didn't get up until 10. Showered and was at No Frills by noon for his shift.
"Yes." He looked over. Lex was already at school. He rubbed sleep from his eyes. "What is it?"
"Mom's got a guy here." Jonah said it so dreadful.
"A guy?" Noah winced. "So?" His mother had a life. Still he kind of thought of her right up there with Mother Mary. The reinvented virgin after rearing two fine young men, who of course would never be priests. But still, it was possible for her to have a love life.
"Look, he's, um, I dunno." Jonah was keeping his voice low. "Can you come over for breakfast? Now."
"Now?" Noah squinted hard. "All right." He clicked off his cell. Reached in the floor for some jeans. He squeezed into them. It was after buttoning them that he figured out these were Lex's not his. He could hardly walk in these. He climbed out of them quckly and found his old loose jean. He smiled then. Much better.
