Phoenix
I was kind of wondering the same thing, I’m just not a dick so I didn’t want to ask.
Brody
Don’t flatter yourself. You’re a complete dick. But I think we’re all wondering the same thing.
Bass
Have you crossed into a gray area, my man?
I don’t know anything about a gray area, boys. I’m just living my best life over here.
Phoenix
What kind of bullshit answer is that?
Cannon
It means he’s definitely in a gray area. He and his pipe are up to no good.
Brody
Since when do we keep secrets?
Bass
There’s only one person he would keep a secret for, and we all know who that is.
You’re all ridiculous. On my way to your place now, Brody.
They weren’t being ridiculous. I was being secretive, and they fucking knew it.
We didn’t keep shit from one another.
But I was in a very gray area.
We weren’t having sex, so it wasn’t as gray as it could’ve been.
“Why do you look perplexed?” Gracie asked as we walked side by side. Brody’s house was close to downtown and not far from me, and it was a nice day, so we were walking.
Clover liked to walk, and when she got tired, she loved for me to pop her up on my shoulders. Gracie knew her, but she hadn’t seen her since she’d been back in town, as the last few weeks had been busy for both of us. She was anxious to see her, since Clover had grown so much over the last year.
“I’m not perplexed. I’m actually very relaxed,” I chuckled, glancing over at her with a smirk.
She laughed and shook her head. “I think we’re both relaxed. We’ve got ourselves a nice little arrangement.”
“Don’t use the word ‘little’ with our arrangement,” I said with a loud laugh.
“Fine. We’ve got ourselves a nice big arrangement.”
I glanced down at her, not able to hide the smile on my face. “You surprised me when you came into my shower after we got out of the lake last night.”
“It only seemed fair. I mean, I had a feeling I knew what you were going to do in that shower, so I thought I’d give you a hand,” she said, smiling up at me as her cheeks turned a dark shade of pink.
“Literally and figuratively.”
She’d shocked the shit out of me when she’d knocked on the bathroom door and asked if she could join me. And she’d used her hand to do exactly what she’d known my hand was about to do.
