Caught

"How did the project go?" My mom asks as I step foot into the apartment. She even moved the chair so it would face the entrance, just to wait for me, smiling like a detective that has solved a murder.

"Alright." I avoid her stare and rush to get to my room.

"It must be an important one. You spent hours on it." She continues, even more determined, seeing that I get redder than a tomato. "I will take a wild guess and say you didn't even finish it. And you will start to spend a lot more time at the library."

She emphasized the last word with air quotes.

"Mom! Stop! I know you know!"

"But they don't have to know that I know that you know that I know!" She laughs.

"You've been binging too much on that Netflix show! You start to sound like Georgia!"

"And you act like Ginny! Someone should make a show about this and give us money!" She gets up with a devilish smile. “Come on, tell your mom everything. You never had someone to lie to me about. It’s exciting!

I roll my eyes and walk past her,