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“I’ll bring you coffee and menus,” she tells them. “Unless you both want the usual.”
“The usual is good,” Dad and Hollis say in unison.
“I’ll take a beer instead of coffee, though,” Hollis adds.
“Make that two,” Dad agrees. He gives me a disapproving look after she leaves.
I roll my eyes. “Let her have her fantasy.”
“I didn’t know you two were…” Jameson trails off.
“We’re not,” Dad says.
“I love pussy,” Hollis says flatly.
“Hollis.” Roman elbows him.
I nearly spray him with my coffee. I swear, Hollis is entirely unhinged right now, and I don’t even know what to do about it.
I kick him under the table, hard. Except I’m the one who flinches because I wore a stupid pair of cute flats and not practical winter boots as the weather would suggest.
He doesn’t so much as blink. “That was crass. I’m a cisgender, heterosexual male. I can’t speak for Roman, but we’ve been friends for a long time.”
“Right. Yeah. It would be totally cool if you were gay, though. I have a younger brother who is. And my aunt is married to a woman,” Jameson says helpfully.
“Hemi has two moms,” I add. Just to be part of the conversation, I guess.
“You two should dig in. Don’t wait for us.” Dad grins and reclines in his seat.
Hollis stretches his leg into my space. I’m about to kick him again, but then I remember it’s the right one, and he often does this because it’s more comfortable post-surgery.
“Do you want some waffle? We can get extra plates, so you don’t have to wait,” Jameson offers.
He’s so excited about eating with Roman Hammerstein and Hollis Hendrix. This further confirms that Jameson and I are destined to be friends only. He’s not surly enough, or old enough, or Hollis enough.
I’m so screwed.
My dad and Jameson start talking hockey, of-fucking-course. It’s not that I don’t love hockey talk, but now my date is fawning all over my dad. It’s annoying.
And my phone is blowing up. I have twenty-seven new messages in the Badass Babe Brigade chat.
Several of them are surprised and dying GIFs.
Rix messages in our private texts:
Rix
If he’s going to fuck with you, you should fuck with him back.
She makes a good point.
Hollis is ruining my date. Probably on purpose.
Aurora
He can’t take a bite out of his cake, tell his cake it was a mistake, and refuse to let anyone else eat it.
Rix
