Suzy puts her arm around Joy. “Dearie, I just realized you woke up only a couple of hours ago. You must be famished.”
Joy looks at Justin. “Famished?” she says.
“It means hungry,” Charlie says.
Justin’s eyes light up. “Oooh, Joy! You have grandparents now! You haven’t had a breakfast until you’ve had your grandmother’s cooking!”
“She has special pizza and carrot juice?”
I see Suzy open her mouth in shock, and I put my hand on her shoulder. Enough criticism for one day, I’m thinking.
“Uh, no,” Justin looks nervously at my mother.
“Sushi?” Joy looks at Charlie then at me.
“No, dearie.”
“Hamburger?”
Suzy opens her mouth in shock again. I increase my pressure on her shoulder.
“No,” Justin says. “You’ll see. Ready to give your new granddaughter breakfast, Mom?”
“Of course!” she says.
“It’s all ready on the kitchen table,” Justin says. “We’ll all join you!”
“What do you mean it’s ready?” Suzy says. “I want to make it.”
“But I just summoned it up. Your special breakfast. It’s already there.”
“If I don’t make it, it’s not the same, Justin,” she says.
Justin seems exasperated. He looks at me. I nod at him. He sighs.
“All right. It’s gone. Now you have all the ingredients in the kitchen.”
“Tomatoes?”
“Yes.”
“Eggs?”
“Yes. Fresh eggs. Mom, everything’s there. Enough for a week! Just have Joy touch it!”
Suzy heads down the ramp. Joy looks at Charlie. “Charlie, I want to see how she makes breakfast. Want to come?”
“Yah!”
“Want to help me bring Master Mind?”
They each go on either side of Master Mind and help him walk.
“Joy, this is your life?” Charlie’s all excited. “It’s crazy!”
“It’s actually the least crazy it’s ever been,” Joy says. “I promise to do crazy later.”
Charlie laughs. But I have a feeling Justin doesn’t think it’s that funny. I look at him.
He’s made a face and is nodding to himself sadly.
—Told by Grampa Walt