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“I wanna be a fucking boy scout!” Jesse cheered and waved his hands around over his head.
Caleb groaned. “That’s not fair. No one’s perfect.”
Jack looked back at them. “I may have accidentally taught him that. Sorry.”
“Jesse, you know that’s a big boy word.” Olive elbowed Caleb in the side and then leaned forward to pinch Jack. “Is Andrew the only one out of the three of you not teaching him things that can get him in trouble?”
The truck grew quiet and the guys seemingly debated whether or not it was worth it to throw me under the bus. Turns out they didn’t need to, though. Jesse did it for them.
“Andrew used to kiss the lady at the first dress shop we went to. And another one from the next one. They didn’t seem happy to see him, either.”
I cleared my throat. “Ah… I used to date around a lot. Some of the women didn’t take the ending too well.”
“Now he only wants to kiss Mommy.” Jesse giggled and made kissing noises.
I felt myself blushing and tried to keep my face turned away from everyone so they wouldn’t see. I parked on the street a block away from the popular ice cream shop and cleared my throat. “Well. We’re here. We should stop talking and start walking.”
“Jack wants to kiss Mommy and Caleb wants to kiss Mommy and Andrew wants to kiss Mommy.” Jesse was basically singing by that point and I knew there was no hiding how red I was so I just turned to face him.
“How do you feel about that?”
Olive watched Jesse closely and we all held our breath. If Jesse hated us being with Olive, she wouldn’t be with us. She wouldn’t put her son in a situation he wasn’t comfortable with to make herself happy.
“Kissing is gross.” He looked up at his mother and shrugged. “But Mommy’s happy now. And I’m happy. So I guess it’s okay.”
“Alright then. Let’s go get some ice cream.” Caleb laughed like he didn’t have a care in the world. “Now that kissing has been covered, I’m starving for something sweet.”
43
***Olive***
Weweretheonlypeople dressed up in The Mooery so we drew quite a bit of attention when we walked in. The guys were used to it being positive attention, so they peacocked their way to the ice cream counter without issue. The attention I was used to getting was more along the tomato throwing kind, so I tried to make myself as small as possible. Thankfully, Jesse was oblivious. He just had eyes for ice cream.
Andrew reached back and pulled me forward so I was standing with my back pressed against his chest. He wrapped his arms around me as he looked at all the flavors. “What’s your favorite?”
I licked my dry lips and had to clear my throat to speak. “Moose tracks.”
The woman working behind the counter couldn’t take her eyes off of the guys. Not that I blamed her. In suits, they were dangerously handsome. She dropped an ice cream scoop on the ground and giggled. “I think you’re in my business classes.”
Caleb looked up from the ice cream and pointed to himself. “Me?”
She nodded and smiled. “Yeah. We have Professor Donaldson and Professor Pauls together. I’m Sara.”
I was stuck. I wanted to tell her to get away and stay away from Caleb, even though she hadn’t done anything wrong and I had no claim over him. I couldn’t move, though. With the amount of people staring at us, I couldn’t make it obvious that I was all over Andrew first and then Caleb right after. The older rumors I’d escaped would come back again.
Caleb bent over and picked Jesse up. “Cool. I’m Caleb and this is my buddy, Jesse. We’re not sure what we want just yet. Could we have some samples?”
Andrew nodded happily. “Samples!”
I forced a smile up at Andrew and pointed to the bathroom. “I think I’m just going to…”
He gripped the back of my neck and kissed me, bending me back as he did. Almost in a complete dip, he held me steady and lifted his mouth so he could look at me. “No hiding. You think I don’t know what’s going through your head right now? I can feel your body and how stiff it gets when you’re uncomfortable.”
I let him slide me upright again and held onto the lapels of his jacket. “I don’t want to go through it again.”
He kissed the tip of my nose. “You’re the most beautiful woman in here, Olive. You’ve got so much going for you. No matter what, people are going to look at you. They can’t help it. The same way I can’t help it. If you run and hide, I’m going to have to come find you and between classes and football and trying to date you, I’m a little busy.”
I smiled and cupped his cheek. “I told you I’m not dating right now.”
