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“You should be.” His voice wavers slightly when he replies so I wrap my arms around his waist, tightly, showing him I will always be there for him. “But I would never, ever let anything happen to you. I can promise you that.”
When he lets me go, he looks toward the door before dropping a peck on my nose. “I’m going to smoke, do you want to come outside?”
I join him, but once in the yard, I decline the joint Rose is offering. They smoke while Chris and I chat about the upcoming lacrosse season. He doesn’t play but he knows it’s a big one for me as captain of the women’s team.
We’re cut off by Rose and Jake’s sudden laughing fit.
“These two are up to no good, that’s their stupid plan sort of laugh,” Chris mutters to me.
“Come on,” Rose giggles. “Do it, show him how unafraid of him you are.”
“You do it,” Jake laughs back as he plays with the lighter, rolling his thumb over the metal wheel and flickering the flame. He pauses, observing it. “Better yet. Let’s burn the fucking thing.”
Rose’s eyes widen at the same time as her gorgeous smile spreads across her lips. “Fuck, yes.”
Jake gives Rose the lighter, runs inside and comes back with the paperwork.
“I hope you know this is a really stupid thing to do,” Chris scowls, mist clouding around his face from the cold winter day. The twins both nod.
“Just worry about clicking record,” Jake smiles as he hands him his phone.
I hear the sound of the phone recording and Rose lights up the joint again between her lips as Jake rolls up the paperwork he’s holding. He grabs the joint and lighter from Rose, puts it in his mouth, takes a long drag, and lights up the paperwork with the lighter. Rose starts laughing and grabs the joint back. She takes another long drag and talks as a cloud of smoke escapes her mouth.
“Go fuck yourself, brother,” she says as she blows the rest of the smoke and Jake throws what’s left of the burning paper on the floor. It all dies in a pile of ashes and Chris stops recording.
I can’t say I agree with what they did, but I like how confident they feel that they’re not going to move houses. Because I don’t think I could handle it if they went to live at Nathan’s.
