Parker did not like this woman.
Her smile was too fake. It reminded him of a clown he had seen on TV. The clown had told a little boy 'We all float down here' and he half expected Hannah to say the same thing. She was pretty, with blond hair like his mom, but hers was straight with bangs. Like Bones'.
Parker liked Bones. He wished that she was his dad's girlfriend. This lady was treating him like a baby and Bones treated him like a grownup. She even used words he didn't understand, which was so much better than the baby talk Hannah was firing at him.
The sunglasses were perched on top of her head. Parker recognized them. They belonged to Bones. She had let him wear them once, when they had been at the park. And he saw them on her head all the time. Once, he had been listening his mom talk to someone on the phone and she had said something about his dad giving the sunglasses to Bones.
That made him think: you did not give someone else your gifts unless they were really ugly. And you did not give someone something that someone you loved gave you.
So, if one followed his logic, they did not belong to Hannah.
Parker was only nine and a half* but even he knew that this was wrong.
"How did you get Bones' sunglasses?" he asked when his dad went to the bathroom.
"She gave them to me," Hannah answered, taken aback by his question.
"Why?"
"I asked for them."
"Why?"
She had no answer for that.
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*Note: Hey they never tell us how old he is. In Season 1 Parker is mentioned as being 4. So now five years later plus a couple months, he should be around nine.
One more chapter…where Booth will finally wake up, Angela does what she does best and a Wizard Of Oz reference!