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Chapter 32--E and Melissa’s house is full-out chaos e arrive Babies are crying everywhere Cohen and Sway are running around the lower level of their house with underwear on their heads and capes flapping behind the on the loveseat because she hasn’t stopped throwing up for, what she calls ‘an eternity’ Izzy rolls her eyes fro Danielle, their month-old baby

"Don’t you roll your eyes at oing to kick your ass" Dee tries to stand but then holds her hand over herthis h

Her eyes water with the effort it takes her to push aside her sickness And then she locks her hormonal-driven fury on me "Emmy! Don’t even start withup every two seconds!"

Maddox goes solid next to me as he helps ure out what he’s thinking, but his face is completely void of emotion Whatever I’ll pick it out of hi into the rooainst her chest "It isn’t that bad Plus, it’s worth it" She smiles at Zac and sits down next to Dee

The movement is obviously not what her stomach needed because she jumps up and runs to the bathroom

Once we stop laughing, I move to my side and drop down onto the couch I wait for Maddox to sit next towhere I left hi around the room orry

"Why don’t you head out to the backyard, Mad?" Melissa asks fro you all do when you stand around a grill and grunt" She laughs and gives hi

He looks around the rooirls and outside I keep my eyes on them and wait to see when they notice None of theive hi he feels sha better than I thought I knoorried there would be soasp and fanfare, but he should have known our friends a little better than that

"Hey!" a small voice screams from the kitchen "Look, Dilbert! Maddox Locke is a transformer! MOMMY! I wanna be a transfor into the roo into the hen his socks don’t let hirin "Mommy, did you see?! It’s soooo cool!"

I don’t breathe, afraid of how this is going to play out I want to rush to Maddox and make sure that he’s okay, but I know that wouldn’t help He needs to learn to get past this one all on his own

"Yeah, Co, I saw," she laughs "You can’t be a transforh" His little face falls and she rushes on "Baby boy, you can’t just decide to be a transforet that honor and only God can pick them But you knohat? That er superhero He’s is a transformer because he saved people"

My eyes prickle and I listen as Melissa gives a child version of whyman is a hero

As they continue to talk about how ‘cool’ Maddox is, I use that time to look at the faces of the others in the rooreen, but like the others, she has a s on all of their faces, though, is shock

When Cohen leaves the roo have you guys known?"

"Uh, maybe about a otten stuck and were folded in the back"