“Yes, I can be here. Juan’s the one who brought me back here.”
“Listen, fatty, I don’t know who you think you are, but back here are the members’ rooms and offices. Only special women like me, or old ladies are allowed back here. I’m certain he didn’t let you back here. Maybe if you kept your mouth shut instead of full of food, you would’ve heard him correctly.” I realize that’s the hang around Kathleen who thinks she knows everything and is dying to be an old lady. Before I can get to them and say anything, a third voice is heard, and it has me shooting off a text to my brothers so they can help stop the fight I can tell is about to start.
“Listen, bitch, you aren’t in the know. Just like you ain’t gonna ever be an old lady here. My brothers and family invited Jane and want her here. The only place you are wanted is in a STD drug trial. In fact, what the fuck areyoudoing down this hallway? I see you aren’t with a brother and you have no reason to be back here.” Shit, Kierstie is on a roll. I swear she has the biggest temper of all of us.
“I heard the other brother got home today and was going to give him a very happy welcome,” Kathleen smarts back to Kierstie, with a shit-eating grin on her face that is not at all attractive. What she didn’t see was Ror walking up behind her.
“Fuck that. I ain’t interested in anythin’ you gotta offer me. You know from before, since you’ve been here that long, that I’ve never taken what you offered up, and I’m not going to be interested, ever. I also suggest that you leave and go home. Today is a family day and you ain’t family.”
Her nose scrunches up and she points her hand out to Jane.
“This bitch right here ain’t family neither. Why does she get to stay?”
Jane is about to speak up but you never question a Weston woman when she’s already worked up, so Kierstie beats her to it.
“Not that you have a right to know, trash, but she was invited by our pa and the rest of our family. You ain’t.”
Enough is enough.
“I don’t know why you’re even here, but leave now. We’re going to have to discuss you coming back at all. You know we don’t take kindly to anyone calling someone the names you spouted off to Jane, but since she’s a special friend of the family, what you said offends all of us. I’m sure Pres won’t be happy about it once he hears what happened.”
She pales slightly and then huffs off. Rory follows to make sure she really leaves.
Looking over at Jane, I can see what the bitch said did affect her, though in a millisecond, I watch her steeling her back and hiding her hurt.
Looking her in the eyes, I ask her, “You okay?”
She nods her head at me.
Before she can speak, my loudmouth sister interrupts us, “She’s smart enough to know that none of us think like that skank. Now, I’m stealing her away so we can talk book boyfriends with Mads.”
“Do what now?” I think I must have heard her wrong.
She tilts her head toward Jane.
“The day we met her, we discovered our mutual love for romance books. We need to discuss our collection of book boyfriends, ’cause I am a greedy bitch and not sure I can share my men with her or Mads. As much as I like her, I’ll have to cut her if she loves Kale, Terror or Trigger as much as me. I might have to feed her to the pigs, just sayin’.”
Before I can even open my mouth to question my sister threatening to cut my woman, she grabs Jane by the elbow and starts leading her to the back where everyone is. Right before they go through the door, Jane looks back at me and smiles a big smile that lights up her face. Well, shit. She’s gonna fit in just fine with the girls. I feel a hand on my shoulder.
“You scared that she’s already getting along with the girls?” Ror asks me.
Nodding at him, I say, “Yeah, and what’s this book boyfriend shit? She’s got us. What’s that about?”
Rory straight up laughs in my face. “You serious, J? It’s the books they read. Jane’s read a lot of what they’ve read and they talk about the male characters they like. They call them their book boyfriends. They’re fiction. Apparently, it’s something that a lot of women who read those books do. Jane says there are even women who argue about them online, and most of them are happily married. It’s basically part of them talkin’ about the books they like. I’m thinking you haven’t talked about books with her before.”
“It hasn’t come up, but I’m going to change that here soon. See what she likes about them so much.”
Still laughing at me like the jackass he is, he starts heading out to where everyone is.
“Come on, bro. I bet there are some good conversations going on out there and I smell some delicious food. Let’s get out there and you can listen to their conversion like I know you want to do.” Like I said, he’s a jackass.
Jane
This woman has a helluva grip on my arm.
“I really do wanna talk books with you, but I also saw that J was getting seriously annoyed. I thought he might go overboard with that skank and end up outing y’all before you’re ready.”
Wait, how could she know?
