Page 35 of The Summer Plans

Lucy: Bella’s right. But your secret is safe with us. Besides, Raven isn’t the insecure type, but I get that she might not want to know about you wanting to do dirty things to her little brother.

Me: I didn’t say I wanted to do dirty things to him. I just want to kiss him.

Lucy: What are you gonna do?

Bella: You know what Aunt Delilah would say!

Lucy: Bella, don’t. That won’t help in this situation.

Me: Your Aunt Delilah? The school principal?

Lucy: Yeah, that Delilah.

Me: I don’t know her that well, you all work with her, but I’ve only ever interacted with her at a handful of PTO meetings and like one after hours PTO meeting at the bar. She was fun though.

Lucy: Don’t say it.

Bella: I’m gonna say it.

Lucy: How will that help her? She’s in a house full of kids.

Bella: It’s great advice. It helped both of us.

Lucy: I’ll admit, it was funny and helped me a little, but this isn’t a book. There are real things at steak here.

Bella: Do you even realize how perfect your typo is?

Lucy: Typo?

Bella: Stake not

Bella: Raven’s not here to correct our grammar, but steak made me remember when we tried to get you back into the meat market and date people, Lucy.

Me: Yeah, I’m still sorry about Doug.

Lucy: You know, it’s actually okay. If it weren’t for that terrible date, I probably wouldn’t have ended up with the love of my life.

Bella: Exactly. And now we need to get Summer her cut of grade A man meat!

Me: Okay, enough you two. What’s the advice?

Bella: You need to go hump the hot firefighter.

Lucy:

Me: That’s not helping.

Lucy: Told you.

Bella: What? It’s great advice!

Me: I can’t just hump the man, his daughter is here, along with my merry band of heathens. You know I only get them for like one week every summer before they go off with their dad.

Bella: If this were an Ayana Cox book, how would this scenario play out?

Lucy: But it’s not a book.

Bella: But if it was?