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“Daddy,” a small voice whispered.
I lay completely still and kept my eyes closed. My alarm was set for six
and hadn’t gone off yet, but my daughters had been up for at least twenty
minutes. I’d heard them talking through the thin wall separating my
bedroom from the one they shared in my crappy apartment. Now they were
playing their favorite game, which was to stand next to me while I slept and
talk shit about me.
“Daddy.” The voice was a little louder now, and I recognized it—my
five-year-old, Luna. “We heard you snoring.”
I continued playing possum.
(And for the record, I don’t fucking snore.)
“Daddy always looks so funny when he sleeps.” Luna got the game
started. “Don’t you think?”
“Yes.” That was Hallie, my eight-year-old. “He makes grumpy faces.”
“And weird breathing noises.”
“Yeah. And he’s so hairy.”
“Daddy’s not that hairy,” Luna whispered defensively. “Just some right
there.”
Since the blankets were at my waist, I imagined her little finger pointing
at my chest, although they often made fun of my hairy legs and scruffy jaw.
“Yeah, but have you ever seen his armpits?” Hallie asked. “They’re
super hairy.”
Just to mess with them, I flopped one arm over my head, putting one
armpit on display.
“Ew.” Luna giggled. “You’re right. Gross.”
“I’m never getting tattoos,” Hallie announced. The girls were both
fascinated and horrified by the ink on my biceps.
“Me neither.”
“Why would anybody let someone draw on them with a needle?”
“I don’t know.”
“You could just use a permanent marker and it wouldn’t hurt.”
“That’s a good idea,” Luna said enthusiastically. “Let’s do it on each
other later.”
I was about to sit up and inform them there would be no fucking tattoos
given with permanent markers on my watch—I could already hear their
mother yelling at me for it—when Hallie said, “Let’s poke him.”
One of them poked my ribs with a bony finger.
“Grrr.” I growled long and low and opened one eye. “Who poked the
bear?”
“She did.” Standing beside my bed, they pointed at each other.
The hall light lit them from behind, illuminating their messy hair and
summer nightgowns—Hallie’s had owls all over it and Luna’s had a unicorn
on the front. I couldn’t see their feet, but I knew Luna’s were bare and
Hallie had socks on because she hated being barefoot, even in summer.
“What do you want?” I grabbed the covers and pulled them over my
head. “I’m hibernating.”
“Hibernation is for the winter, Daddy,” said Hallie. “It’s August right
now. You’re just sleeping.”
“Am I?” I said from beneath the blanket.
“Well, you were.”
“You know why?” Coming out from beneath the covers, I reached over
to the nightstand and tapped my phone screen. “Because it’s not even
fucking five a.m., and that is what normal human beings do at this hour.”
“Mom says you’re not supposed to say that word around us,” Hallie
reminded me.
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