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“So, what did you and my smelly brother get up to?” I asked, my memory finally reminding me she’d had to spend the same amount of time with Dean.
“Hardly anything,” she said. “We watched a lot of TV at the hotel.”
I turned to her and raised an eyebrow. “You guys got a hotel?”
Lexi rolled her eyes at me. “No… we slept in Dean’s truck. Of course we got a hotel, dummy.”
I gave her a questioning look to try and see if she’d spent the time with Dean in a similar fashion to my last few days, but she laughed.
“You’re utterly ridiculous.”
Alexis got to her feet and went to her suitcase to grab the presents that had been left there. When she bent over, something shiny and silver fell out, fluttering to the ground.
My eyes went to it. Her eyes went to it. Then our eyes met each other.
“Lexi… That’s a condom.”
“It’s not a condom,” she insisted, scooping it up. “It’s a condom wrapper.”
“Alexis!”I yelled in shock. “You acted like I was being crazy. You fucked my brother!”
Lexi got quiet and her face turned the same color as the reds on the wrapping paper all around us.
“It’s not what you think,” she said. “It’s… Dean and I have been talking for a while. Six months at least. We only made it official when we got stuck in the city.”
I was stunned. How could I not have realized Mr. Summer Fling was Dean. They’d met at my birthday party last June and really seemed to hit it off. But I never heard either of them talk about the other again. I didn’t think anything of it at all, how stupid of me.
“And by official you mean…?” I asked, not sure if I wanted the answer.
Lex nodded and held up the condom wrapper.
“Well, at least you used protection,” I said. Lexi looked at me with heavy guilt and I shook my head to try and reassure her. When that didn’t work, I went to her side and hugged her.
“If Dean makes you happy, then I’m happy. At least if you two get married, I’ll know what kind of sister-in-law I’ll be getting.”
Lexi finally laughed and nodded. “I think we’re a long way from that,” she said. “Dean is a little commitment phobic.”
I nodded dramatically. “It’s so true. He has a hard time committing to what he wants for lunch, let alone a person.”
“But what about you?” Lexi asked. “It seems you’re enmeshed in a whirlwind romance. Any chance he’s gonna pop the question while you’re together? Be fiancés from afar?”
I laughed and shook my head. “No way. Though, he did offer me something much better than a ring. He’s paying my nursing school tuition.”
“No way,” Lex said. “That’s a freakin’ keeper.”
I nodded. “It will be so nice to focus on my rotations rather than staying up all night at a diner.”
“I’m really happy for you, Jen,” Lexi said, giving me a hug.
“And I’m really happy for you, Lex.”
“Merry Christmas to us,” she said, grinning.
“Merry Christmas to us.”
After I got dressed and did my hair, Lexi and I went to the kitchen to start cooking dinner while the men were still scouting the damage from the storm. She and my brother had gone all out with the food choices, including a whole ham and a whole duck.
“I tried to stop him,” Lexi said. “But when Dean has his mind made up—”
