Mom has declared allegiances I was not consulted on.

The television has been on at unusual hours. Dad occupies his usual chair. Mom has opinions about a Portuguese man she has never met. The room has a different atmosphere than it usually does at this hour.

I have positioned myself in the sun patch.

I do not follow football. I follow the sun — it moves, I move, the math is simple. At 23°C this is not hardship. By afternoon it will want some management.

Gus is on the sofa. He has not chosen a side. He has chosen comfort, which is arguably the more defensible position.

Mom says something emphatic. Dad responds. I lift one ear. Nobody has mentioned cookies and that is the only result I am tracking today.

The patch shifts. I shift. Ronaldo, apparently, has scored.

The room confirms this.

I have noted it.

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