"If you don't want to compete with me, then go outside."
Hannah agreed and took a couple of steps outside, then backed back in, leaning against the doorframe and poking her head out to ask him, "When will you be done washing? I want to go out and set off fireworks."
She had bought a lot of sparklers and had been waiting for tonight all along.
"You can go set them off in the yard," Arnold Simmons suggested after a moment's thought.
In the yard?
Hannah glanced out the window, where the red glow of lanterns settled and the silhouettes of banyan trees were faintly visible in a corner.
Although it wasn't very spacious, it was still large enough for fireworks.
But Hannah still wanted to go outside to set them off.
"It's livelier outside, can I go there?" she asked.
