Humming a laugh, Leah shrugged a shoulder, conceding his point. “A lot’s happened between then and now that it feels like forever.” A span of seven months used to fly by and now it seemed like one month was as long as two. “Either way, we’ve been slacking on our friendship.”
Losing a family member was always hard. Leah honestly didn’t know how David was keeping himself together. If it had been her brother or one of her sisters, she wasn’t so sure she’d be nearly as put together. “One day at a time. That’s all anyone can ask. You’re handling it better than I would be.”
She nodded. “It definitely came as a surprise, but I’m okay with it.” Now. Probably an unusually subdued response to that kind of question, but it was what it was. She chuckled. “All right, so you don’t have to worry about what I have being contagious.”
“Probably the same group of teens who’ve been terrorizing this place for the past little while. They just want to stir up trouble. Fuck with people.” Steal things. Leah had yet to spot any of them red-handed with any of the things they’d stolen from Evan’s apartment a while back. She was keeping her eye on them, though.
“She has a blue panda I came across in storage one day. That’s about as far as her interest in bears goes, it seems,” she explained as she waited for David to get his jacket. “She’s still way into the pony thing. She loves Dog, though, but I’m not sure I’d want to use the comparison of Dog to Mochrie.” Marigold didn’t need to be riding around on a bear like she rode around on Ellie’s dog sometimes.