"You mean I could have gotten paid," he asked, tapping the bottom of the bottle to his palm. "I'm going to start racking up a tab, you'll get a bill at the end of the night."

At mention of Mrs. Rhodes, however, Kira split one leg out from his sulking tower, laid out so his knee pressed into the meat of Ty's thigh. "Let's be glad you didn't ask her, then both our moms would be chaperoning." Etsuko would make up in being fucking all-knowing for any fatigue that kept Ty's mother from doing her duties.

"Or worse, she'd make us take Chiyo."

In being all-knowing, Etsuko knew especially how little trouble Kira would pursue, with his baby sister in tow. Ty, well. She made a show of pretending to trust them when they ventured out, but Kira courted all kinds of trouble in Ty's presence.

Ty's presence being a trouble all its own.