"It's crazy, right?" Wayne took back the picture and tried to figure out how to word his responses to the eight thousand questions Ernie asked.
"That's last year's school picture," Wayne began. "We don't have this year's yet. Um, he's with his mum, unless something has gone horribly awry," he joked, resuming chip consumption.
"His birthday's November 27th." It wasn't that he was trying to keep Rhys's age from Ernie, exactly, but it rather stated the entire story right there.
Actually, that might get him out of telling the story. In that case...