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“Is Ramona coming too?”
“She said she would.”
“Good I haven’t seen her in a few weeks.”
Skylar glanced across the table at Ava. She realized what her daughter said was true but she also knew that Ramona was working very hard right now. She had lost two servers and was trying to replace them.
“I’ll call Ramona later and make sure she’s still coming.” It would give her an excuse to ask about Brett.
“Can we have a picnic at the park after my game?”
“Sure sweetheart,” Skylar told her.
Luka was looking between Ava and Skylar. He wanted to talk with Skylar to understand why she had run. Did it have to do with Tag? He didn’t really think so but he was sure that something had upset her and he wanted to know what.
Skylar cleaned up the kitchen while Ava and Luka went to the other room. Ava was engrossed in her Saturday shows. “Ava, I’m going to talk to Momma for a minute.”
“Sure Daddy,” she said barely giving him a look before her gaze was tuned to the television screen once again. Nickelodeon was something Luka needed to become educated about now that he had a kid. He walked down the hall to the kitchen. She had her back to the doorway wiping down cabinets.
“Skylar, can we talk?”
She about jumped out of her shorts and let out a little squeal of fright. Luka couldn’t help but laugh which only irritated her that much more. Skylar went back to scrubbing down her cabinets.
“You’re going to scrub the paint right off those cabinets,” he told her.
She glared at him over her shoulder. “Why are you pissed at me?”
She sighed. “I’m not. I’m frustrated.”
“I can take care of that too. I remember how I used to make you not so frustrated.”
She turned and threw her wet sponge at him. He was caught off guard so it slapped him in the chest. “Hey, play nicely,” he told her bending down to pick up the sponge. He walked across the room and laid it on the back of the sink. Luka had a wet spot on his shirt now where she had hit him.
“Now why don’t you tell me why you ran away this morning in your pajamas no less?”
“I’m not telling you shit,” she informed him.
She started to walk around him and he grabbed her around the waist hauling her backwards. “You aren’t leaving here until you do.”
“I broke up with Tag this morning. Are you happy?” She scowled at him.
“You were that upset that you needed to run to Ramona?”
“It was the reason that I broke up with him that made me want to run to Ramona. She’s my sister. I do that.”
“You weren’t gone very long,” he told her.
She crossed her arms. “She was with somebody. It was rather embarrassing walking in on them. He was putting his pants on actually when I got to the top of the stairs.”
His eyebrow raised. “Brett will be disappointed to hear that.”
Skylar frowned. “How did you know Brett liked her and I didn’t. He and I are like this.” She crossed her fingers and waved them in his face.
He grabbed them and shoved them down to her side. “The same way he didn’t know that you and I were an item. You’re too close to each other. You can’t always see what is right in front of you where the other one is concerned.”
“That makes no sense,” she snapped.
“Did he know that you and I had been sneaking around for six weeks before we finally came clean that we were seeing each other?”
