“You are leaving me here?” I lamented as I ran up to them.
“Alvin sweetie, I told you all about it in the car on the way up here.” Mom said.
“Nuhuh!” I argued, “You didn’t say anything about abandoning me here!”
Yeah I was being overly dramatic, but I was worked up, so give me some slack okay?!
John was hanging all over Mom and nuzzling her neck as he mumbled something that sounded like, “I bet he had already dozed off by then.”
Mom wriggled free from John’s groping hands, knelt down in front of me, took hold of both of my wrists and explained, “Your father and I want to spend some time alone and,” she paused to look over her shoulder at John and then trying to make it sound like she’d coated this next part in ten tons of syrup, she sang, “we thought you would like spending the weekend with your new little friend Joey.”