Malachi watched the phone ring for a few seconds.
Luna watched her husband as he seemed to get lost in a world all his own. She started to reach out to him when he suddenly silenced the call and handed his phone to her.
"Mind holding onto this for me so I don't do anything stupid..?"
Luna was almost hesitant to take it. "Are you sure about this?"
Malachi smiled earnestly. "Believe me… right now, it's best I don't have it, love."
Every part of him wanted to pick up that phone and answer it. But he didn't trust himself not to do something stupid afterward.
Joanne had already told him what she wanted. He wouldn't go against her if he could help it.
Luna accepted the phone and put it away in her back pocket for safekeeping.
"Are you two, erm…" the father looked back and forth between them.
"Husband. Wife." Luna pointed to Malachi and then herself.
The husband paused for a long time. "That is a very young husband."
