After Midnight With Him
Wyatt shoved a drawing into my hands—something involving a dinosaur riding what I could only assume was a skateboard—and demanded I guess what it was, while his brother Milo tried to talk over him with an entirely different, competing explanation.
"It's obviously a *dragon*," Milo insisted.
"It's a dinosaur," Wyatt said, aghast at the accusation. "Dragons don't have this many teeth."
"Dragons can have as many teeth as they want, it's *my* dragon—"
I laughed. Really laughed, the kind that comes from somewhere low in your chest and takes you by surprise, the kind I hadn't let myself do in front of anyone in longer than I wanted to admit. It felt strange in my throat at first, like a muscle I'd