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“Are you sure?”
“No,” she admitted. “They’ve been really touchy lately…”
“Then we’ll tell them in a day or two.”
“Are you sure?”
“No,” he laughed, his voice parroting her own thoughts a moment ago. “But touchy or not, they are going to be grandparents, and I can’t wait to brag to the world that you are my wife.”
“I love you,” she breathed softly.
“I love you too… and don’t worry, Niki.”
Ending the call a few minutes later, she walked back inside the house and trudged up the stairs – taking the trashcan with her and rolling her eyes at her brother singing loudly in the shower in the background.
As she disappeared into her bedroom, she flopped down on the bed and sighed. They were going to be setting up for the graduation party tomorrow night, and she was beyond tired.
Setting an alarm on her phone, she gave in to the fatigue, closing her eyes for a quick nap.
* * *
Disoriented,Nicolette opened her eyes in confusion and lay there trying to get her center, realizing something had awoken her… but it wasn’t her alarm.
“NICOLETTEMARIESAXONGETDOWNHERENOW!” her father roared,literally roared, from down the stairs, and she could hear him yelling angrily at someone in the distance.
Her mother?
Her father never,ever,raised his voice to her mother…
“No! No, Marisol! Don’t you cover this up! If this isn’t ours, then it has to be hers…”
“Aeron, please… just listen…”
“NICOLETTE!”
“Aeron, you are going to scare her and if she’s…”
“Don’t you even say it…”
Nicolette perched at her doorway, listening in disbelief and shock as she looked up to meet Caspar’s ashen face.
“What did you do?” he whispered, stunned at the angry display downstairs. “Did you wreck his plane or something?”
“I married Luke Fuller…”
“What?” he hissed, looking at her in disbelief. “Dad’s gonna seriously straight-up kill you. Do you want me to dial 911 now?”
“NICOLETTE!” her father yelled again angrily. “No Marisol, if we aren’t having a baby then there’s only one other woman in this house…”
“Aeron, stop, please…”
“Oh I’m gonna! …NICOLETTE, GET DOWN HERE NOW! DON’T MAKE ME COME UP THERE!”
“Don’t make him come up here!” Caspar blurted out in a panic.
“Why?”
“It’s nothing…”
