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Lexi: Thirty minutes.
Linkin: Make it twenty-five and there might be a reward.
Lexi: Will it involve pizza? I’m starving.
Linkin: You know me well.
Lexi: Gotta go. See you soon.
I smile as I set my phone down, ready for Lexi to come home. Home. This place is small and lifeless without her. Sure, my brothers turn it upside down and make the walls shake, but it’s not the same thing. This isn’t their home. They just stay here when my mom needs help.
But when Lexi’s here, everything is alive. The sounds, the smells, the lifeless walls. She makes this small, dingy little apartment a home. My home. Our home.
How in the hell did this happen? I went from a guy not wanting any of this to a man wanting all of it.
As I check on my brother in the shower and make sure the other finished reading his required chapters, I throw some leftover pizza in the microwave and wait for my girl to get here. Because even when I was surrounded by noise, I was alone. I floated through life, aimlessly and recklessly, doing what I had to, trying to get by.
But now I want to stop running. I want to settle down. I want Lexi.
And it’s time to tell her.
