Page 129

It clicked slightly, and I gasped at the sudden feeling of lightness.

“Who do you need it for?” Drew asked, stopping next to his sister and bringing his arm up to hook around her neck.

He then proceeded to pull her down and mess every bit of her hair up with his opposite hand.

“Ahh!” Risa screamed. “Stop it, you big shithead!”

I laughed, my face breaking out into a large grin.

I’d always wanted Downy to be that way with me, and slowly but surely, we were getting there.

It’d been a full week since the day Ellison had tried to burn down my house. A full week since I’d moved in permanently with Drew.

A full week since my brother started trying to be the brother that I’d always wanted him to be.

Although, that’d definitely take some time to fix. My brother had gone off the handle at first, and then had come the regret everything he’d ever said or done to Jonah and me to ever make us feel like we were unwelcome.

After sitting us all down, my mother explained—without my stepfather there—that my father was infertile. She’d also told us that after a cancer scare with my biological father—who’d been dead at the time of my conception—that they’d frozen his sperm and had saved it even after his death.

When my father realized he was infertile, he’d reluctantly let my mother use my biological father’s sperm, only if she promised not to tell her kids that they weren’t really his.

Which led us to Downy finding out anyway.

Secrets always had a way of coming around and biting you in the ass.

Needless to say, my father wasn’t very happy with the situation. Downy, however, was.

He was like a completely different person.

And I freakin’ loved it.

Everything I wanted out of life was perfect.

Even on the Danny front.

Risa had approached the DA on my behalf, and had somehow made miracles happen by getting me freed from my shackle.

It’d just taken a little bit of time to process it all, which was why it’d taken Risa so long to get here and take it off.

Despite plenty of annoyed phone calls from Drew.

I’d also had all of my belongings returned to me that Danny took when he left. Including all of the money replaced in my bank account from my blog advertisements.

Now the only thing left was meeting the parents, which we were getting over and done with in one fell swoop.

Meaning his parents, my mother, his sister’s family, my brother’s family, and our friends were all meeting in the same place. At the same time.

And nobody but us knew why.

***

Two days prior

“I want to get married,” I blurted out.

Drew’s beer paused halfway to his lips.

“What?” He asked, turning away from the breakfast I’d cooked him and fully towards me.