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Ethan is staring at me. Cas has stopped with his fork halfway to his mouth, Dex looks like he's fighting for his life not to laugh, and Grace's eyes are so wide I immediately wonder what the hell I just did. Even Summer has her lips pressed together.

I look around the table.

“What?”

Every damn phone starts buzzing at once.

Grace: GRUMPY???

Ethan: GRUMPY

Dex: Oh this is fucking gold.

Lexy: I LOVE IT

Summer: It does suit him.

Cas: It really does.

Jace: WHO THE FUCK IS GRUMPY?

Grace: JUDE

Three seconds later:

Jace: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

“What?” I turn toward an annoyed Jude. “You are grumpy.”

Ethan loses it.

His laugh explodes across the table and Dex follows, then Cas, and suddenly everyone is talking at once.

“She's known him a month!” Ethan manages between laughs.

“And already figured him out,” Penny adds.

“I'm not grumpy,” Jude mutters beside me.

I cock my head and study him.

“You kind of are.”

“She’s right,” Summer says.

I point toward her. “Thank you.”

“I still prefer Moody,” Grace argues.

“No.” Lexy shakes her head. “Grumpy is better.”

“Neither,” Jude says.

“Oh, Grumpy is absolutely sticking,” Ethan tells him.

Jude looks around the table like he's reconsidering every decision he's ever made that resulted in him being born into this family.

My phone buzzes again.