Father, Please.
I gesture to the empty pizza box and soda bottles.
He laughs again, and neither of us say anything, we just sit in each other’s arms, feeling lighter than usual, as we are lost in our thoughts.
“Wait, you think of us as friends with benefits?”
“I think of you as a lot of things, my friend, my boss, my priest, my friend with a mutual benefit. If you don’t like that, sneaky link then? We literally have to sneak to do anything.”
He stays silent for a while, I think maybe I had upset him or something but he goes,