Chapter 6

NOAH

Jenny placed the white tile marked ‘m’ on the cell of the scrabble board, between ‘e’ and ‘a’.

“This is not a real word,” I complained.

“Yes, it is.”

Jenny and I were sitting adjacent to each other on the bean bag in our toy room. A white wooden shelf stood vertical to the teal wall. Jenny fancied a mermaid-themed room while I had my heart set on a football theme, consequently, dad had the workers paint one wall as I wanted and the one opposite to it according to Jenny’s liking. Dad heard us quarreling and came to the room.

“Dad Jenny’s cheating. She is losing so she made up some word.”

Jenny answered as she got to her feet and wrapped both of her hands around dad’s, “Tasha taught me this word and he doesn’t know it so he’s calling me a cheater.”

Dad beamed at her and walked over to the scrabble board.

“Oh, honey.” He twinkled. “you’ve got your ‘e’ and ‘i’ misplaced, and there’s an ‘m’ missing over there.”

He swapped the places of ‘e’ and ‘i’ tiles with one anot