“Uh, sure, I guess.” Karen had to admit – she was liking her brother much more like this. Hoping it wouldn’t come back to her earlier weirdness, she questioned, “What is it?”
“Kinda got to wondering about it due to something you said earlier,” the boy explained, and then he asked the question he had in mind, “What do you think it’d be like to have a baby brother or sister?”
Something about that question made Karen realize how absurd this situation was. Being asked by her baby brother, who was now taller than her, what it’d be like to have another baby? This was getting weird.
After that moment of silent clarity passed though, Karen scoffed, “Well, Dillion, that would depend.”
“Depend on what?”
“A lot of things.” Smirking a little, Karen replied, “How much do you like getting a full night’s sleep?”