Note: Fudgel means pretending to work when you’re really doing nothing at all

The bedroom door opened. I scrambled to hide the candy wrapper.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh,” I pushed my hand between the pile of folded shirts. “Just laundry.”

“Then why is there chocolate on your face?”

I reached up and rubbed the evidence from the corner of my mouth.

“Fudgel.”