He Thought It Was Just Frogspawn, Until The Park Ranger Saw It Up Close

Telling a lie

And that’s when, for the first time, Evan did something he’d never done before. He called his mother and told her a flat-out lie.

He told her he was eating at a friend’s house and would not make it home in time. She sounded annoyed but believed him. “Next time, tell me before I start cooking,” she said.