Mikey
For a second, nobody moved.
Vivian stood in the hallway with her arms stretched wide like she had just announced the arrival of actual royalty. Deidra was somewhere behind the door, giggling so hard she sounded like she might explode, and Liam stood beside me wearing the expression of a man who had been through battle and lost badly.
Then Rocky appeared.
Or at least, I thought it was Rocky.
It was honestly hard to tell beneath all the accessories.
Macey’s poor dog came walking out of that room wearing a pink tutu around his middle, a superhero cape tied around his neck, heart-shaped sunglasses resting crookedly on his snout, and a plastic sheriff’s badge clipped to the front of the cape. Someone had added a tiny crown between his ears, though it kept sliding to one side, and th
