Has she left?
TREY
Nope
WEST
Playing house with a sexy little nursemaid, sheriff? Hot.
ME
Don’t talk about her like that.
WEST
I’ve got a competence kink and if “it’s not like that” maybe I’ll make a move like Trey did on Aspen
CREW
Shut your fucking mouth right now or I will MAKE you. That’s my WIFE, you asshole.
I chuckled. Over a year had passed since that particular incident, but it was Trey’s boneheaded move that had ultimately drawn Crew and Aspen together. Trey had apologized profusely, and everyone had moved on, though Aspen remained a bit standoffish with Trey.
West pressed on, undeterred.
WEST
Or maybe one of us should tell her you’ve got the hots for her so you’re finally forced to pull your head out of your ass.
ME
So help me, West, if you don’t shut the fuck up, I’ll tell Tyler about how you got wasted here last weekend and cried about how much you love her.
WEST
I DID NO SUCH THING!!!
I chuckled. Truthfully, he hadn’t. Yes, he’d gotten drunk, but he hadn’t cried about anything. We’d merely had a heart to heart about the state of our love lives. Trey had been here too, surprisingly forthcoming about his own issues.
But that wasn’t my story to tell. Suffice it to say each of us was suffering from our own form of unrequited love-shaped torture.
Thankfully, the comment about Tyler had the intended effect: it got them out of my hair and right into West’s. Trey went right along with it.
TREY
You totally did
FINN
why is this the first I’m hearing about it? You’re my TWIN, you know?????
I chuckled at Finn’s obvious petulance. The twins were thick as thieves, obviously. They’d always operated on a different plane than the rest of us. I was genuinely shocked Finn hadn’tused their freaky woo-woo twin shit to figure out how fucking down bad West was for Tyler already.
Or maybe he had and was being a good brother by not mentioning it.
Whatever, not my problem.
The conversation quickly shifted to my brothers giving West shit for his completely made-up show of emotion, and I reclined on my bed in the darkness, a shit-eating grin on my face.
