danielgraceful:
“Buddy, this is my friend. Can you say hi to Marcy?” Daniel coaxed the little boy, prompting him to wave and look down at his feet. “Say, ‘Hi, I’m Kolby,’” His son repeated the phrase, barely looking up from the ground. “He’s really shy, it just takes him a little bit to relax with you,” he released his son to go play again as he stood. “I blame his mother, to be honest with you. She shelters the fuck out of him. Makes him scared of people. But you can’t tell that woman nothin’ if it’s not what she wants to hear. When I took his to get his hair cut without her, so lost her goddamn mind. She’s fucking crazy, dude.”
Marcy smiled at the little boy, her blue eyes soft despite the deep ache she felt in her chest. When she heard him mumble the phrase his father had stated, she couldn’t help but chuckle. “Shy? Yours and Annabel’s child? That’s surprising,” she said, not able to hold back her old snarkiness. She stood back up at rolled her eyes and his statement about Annabel. “At least she’s parenting. That’s more than anyone did for her,” she stated, defending her old best friend.








