River chuckled helplessly as he spoke.

“You’re laughing, so that means I’m right. I know you're super busy, especially with trying to impress my future auntie. If Lil’ Pie and I stayed here, you wouldn't have time to woo her properly.

“Uncle River, just admit you want us gone. We won’t be mad. Grown-ups have work, unlike us kids with our summer and winter breaks. We get it.

“You don’t have to feed us fake sweet talk.”

River was rendered speechless by Heath’s razor-sharp logic.

After a long