"If you say pina coladas I might go get my gun and shoot you." Or he could stab him with the knife. Either one would be satisfying. It was the sarcastic sort of answer he expected and tells him nothing about Peter.

They had all sort of become consultants to the kids. There wasn't a great way to keep them out of things anymore. In a lot of cases they have proved to be helpful and right. He didn't like seeing them in danger but there was no stopping them.

"You can just say you don't want to answer instead." He looked over at Peter trying to read him again. It was usually fruitless but he was right there and Chris couldn't let a mystery go. "Or is it physically impossible for you to not be sarcastic?"

He was fairly certain that hadn't heard a genuine word out of Peter once in the long time he had known him.