“Hold on a second,” she said, her voice tinged with hesitation. “He specifically told us not to…” Mindy’s brow furrowed in confusion. Was her mother being serious? “What exactly are you saying?”
Mindy couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just go ahead with it. “The garage has to be cleaned out eventually, doesn’t it?” she questioned. But her mother remained firm, and so they redirected their efforts to tidying up the living room.