“Don’t wake him! He’ll get angry.” I plead to her.

Daring me to stop her, she leaps ahead.

Her incessant tapping wakes him up.

I wait apprehensively, expecting a backlash.

He looks at her; groggily, adoringly.

“Oh baby, it’s you!” he says.

She smiles and gives him a peck on his cheek.

I stare, stupefied!

Daily Post prompt: Unpredictable