"Huh? Oh, haha–" Lyra shook her head, curls bouncing around her face. No way, now was so not the right time. "That, that was mostly just a ploy so he wouldn't invite himself to walk with us. Mom, though," she blew a exasperated raspberry, glad she had backup drama to fall back on. Not that Lyra didn't always have backup family dramas to fall back on. "Mom has a new beau, we think. She keeps ditching poor Jemma with one of us last minute, so, Jocelyn says to tell Amparo that if mom says the words 'emergency babysitting' to her it's probably not an emergency and that Amparo should remind her that other people have lives too."