“Where did you go, Betsy? You just suddenly disappeared from the market earlier,” Dad asks, confused. We are currently in the kitchen and he is cleaning the fish in the sink. I am sitting on the chair and massaging my aching foot. I wonder if Devyn is still in there. Maybe he’s home back in Seattle or New York. Wherever he maybe. I look at Dad. “I just talked to someone I know,” I lie. “Gloria thought you already went home ahead of us.” My gaze lands on the pitiful fish he has been cleaning for some time now. “I think you’re going overboard in cleaning the fish, Dad,” I say. He turns to look at me with a frown on his face. “I don’t want it to smell fishy.” “That’s a fish, Dad,” I state the obvious. He shakes his head and resumes with what he’s doing. Before I can give a comment any further, we hear the doorbell rings. “I’ll go get it,” I inform and walk out of the kitchen. When I reach the
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