She gives good advice.
“I scared the shit out of my house sitter when I got home last night, and then I was an asshole this morning because I didn’t sleep and I was off my meds, and I can’t take care of myself, but it doesn’t feel right to ask her to take care of me when all she agreed to do was watch my house and my dog, and?—”
“You have a dog?”
“Long story.”
“How long have you had a dog?”
“Couple months.”
“And you didn’t tell us?Us. Fletcher. Fletcher who carries Sweet Pea everywhere in a pink baby sling. You didn’t think to tell us you got a dog?”
“That’s not the biggest issue here.”
Sweet Pea gives me a look that clearly says I’m wrong. Her brother is sleeping and doesn’t care at all.
Goldie seems to agree with Sweet Pea. “So you weren’t your best when you came back early and now you’re having trouble with yourdog sitter.”
“I indirectly participated in getting her fired from a job, so I offered her my house to stay at while I was gone since her other options weren’t ideal, and now I’m back early and I can’t kick her out because she’s pregnant.”
Goldie blinks at me.
I’ve officially moved past the broad spectrum of situations in which she always has good advice.
After the longest pause I’ve ever seen her make when faced with a problem, she clears her throat. “I see.”
“Do I get a point for stumping you?”
“I’m not stumped. I’m thinking.”
“About what I should do?”
“About which questions I want to ask you next.”
I shake my head. “Don’t worry about it. I’ll figure it out.”
“Will you?”
Legit question. I’m asking myself the same thing. “I will. I’m just up in my head.”
“So get out of your head and handle it like you’d handle a situation with Fletcher.”
“I have zero intentions of telling this woman to quit being a fucknugget and then tackling her harder and harder until one of us gives.”
She laughs.
Sweet Pea heaves the long-suffering sigh of a dog who loves her owner but knows he’s not perfect and never will be.
Get out of my head.
I can get out of my head.
Maybe.
Okis out as a response to her text.
But if she were one of the younger guys on the team?—
