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“You could always make the first move”

“Maybe I will, but for now, just ogling the eye candy is good enough for irl who’d hesitate to make the first move Anyhat’s up with you? I feel like it’s been weeks since we last saw each other Is work keeping you busy, or”

Her smile was coy, and I pursedaround Kayla alwaysabout heavy topics, she was someone I felt I could open up to If I could talk to no one else about this problem, I would definitely talk to her and she would be supportive I’d definitelyout to brood by myself

“I really have been busy, but today I just wanted to come out before I explode Honestly, Kayla, I don’t kno I ed to stay sane over the past few days It could be because I’m still partly in shock”

“Oh?” Her eyebrows arched “What happened?”

“My dad got married,” I blurted out

Kayla’s eyes widened “Wow When did that happen, and asn’t I invited to the wedding?”

I growled “That’s the thing There wasn’t a wedding I only just found out about it a few days ago and I’ve been slowly losing it ever since Can you believe he told me over dinner with his neife there? He just completely blind-sided me and I could only sit there like an idiot, because I didn’t know if I should be happy for him or what, but I was mostly just shocked out of my mind I can’t even tell you how the rest of dinner went after I heard that”

Our cocktails arrived, just at the end of lass and had a sip of the drink It was cool and fruity, and I sighed as the taste slid down otten the words out, my chest felt a little less suffocated, but not by much

“So, your dad married Katie?” Kayla asked “That was the woht? Unless there’s someone else”

I nodded “Yeah, Katie I only knew about her so before then they were together Then suddenly they’re married! Dad didn’t even warn oing on, but she was there, and then he told ht in the middle of dinner, can you believe that?”

That part hat made me most annoyed He’d called and told me he had important news He didn’t even warnwas fine, but how could I not feel aard around Katie? The last ti Howard, were there, and that hen Dad announced they were dating

Actually, when I thought about it now, I should have known it would be so like that the uard down because Hoasn’t there, and I thought Dad just wanted irlfriend

“What about the wedding?” Kayla asked “Or did they just sign the ? A lot of wo, even if it’s just a small ceremony”

I groaned “They eloped He went out last weekend and I had no idea why, though to be fair, it’s not like I cared It turns out, though, they were going to get ain, to be fair, neither of the a ceremony isn’t so far out there, but dammit, at least involve your kids in it Dad did tell me he’d be out for the weekend, and maybe he would have told me why if I’d bothered to ask, but I do wish he’d offered up the information earlier!”

“Would you have tried to stop hiuys had knoould you have tried to stop your parents froet married?”

I opened my mouth, only to pause because I didn’t knohat to say to that Would I have stopped hi? My first instinct was to say yes, but I knew that wasn’t right I would have at least

tried to talk the of a different solution, but the truth was, both Howard and I didn’t have any right to stop our parents fro married

We were all adults While I still lived with ht, Howard lived alone and supported himself I didn’t know if he would have tried to stop hishe was est surprise was that it had to be with Howard’s mom

I was s than Dad getting married to another woman

“Probably not,” IHe ran off to Vegas on the weekend without tellingin with us That was the other big surprise She hasn’tthat over the week I don’t knohat they’re going to do about her house”

I hadn’t heard Howard’s side of the story He was supposed to be there for the dinner, but for some reason, he didn’t show Dad had even waited, and it had been a surprise when he’d said he invited Howard hih that could have been why he didn’t show I didn’t know if he’d found out yet, which was kind of another reason why I’d avoided talking to him until the last few days

What would Howard think about it?

I didn’t doubt that he’d be as bothered by it as I was Fros between us, so he would have to see this as a problenore it and think of it as inconsequential?

What about hisinto o for college, he hadn’t slept over at his own house since, though I figured that wasa nuisance to his rew up in, so if his mom sold it, would it bother him?