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.”