wait, are you safe?
why can’t you talk?
I’m fine. Logan’s upstairs on a work call.
okay.
and?
And I dunno when he’ll get off and I don’t want him to overhear.
overhear what?
I’m sort of having an existential crisis.
She sends a heart emoji.
why are you having an existential crisis, cupcake?
I start typing but really, I have no idea how to explain this. Or even what it is. When several seconds go by and I haven’t sent anything, Chloe starts typing herself.
you said this was just for the weekend and no big deal. i gather that’s changed?
She’s like the most perceptive person I know.
Yeah.
But it’s complicated.
Explaining to Chloe that I’m letting Lance’s dad be my Daddy, at least for the weekend, is the very definition of complicated.
oh my god, are you letting lance’s dad be your daddy?
Well, crap. I guess not that complicated.
Um…
I mean, she knows me pretty well and I don’t keep a lot of secrets from her but damn, I didn’t expect her to guess this immediately.
holy shit!
Another set of three dots bounce but only for a second before there’s another flurry of emojis. A cartoon version of a dad with a little boy in front of him, another eggplant, and then a cartoon face of a baby, complete with a single curl on the top of its head.
And then a baby bottle, an open safety pin, and the emoji face with the raised eyebrow.
OMG, was that meant to be a diaper pin? WTF, it’s not like that!
dude, don’t yuck someone else’s yum.
Dude, baby bottles and diapers are not my yum!
whatevs.
why complicated?
Well, for one thing, Lance walked in on us.
Okay, I’m a coward, but I’m easing into it. Or something.
