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“Ex-fiancé,” Jacob interjects.
“Does he know that? Do his folks? Do Kev and Michelle? I’m going to say a fuck no on all accounts given that you’re probably still inside of her, so yeah, she needs to go to New York, or she’s kind of the worst.”
“I… DAMMIT. Laura is calling again,” I say in reference to Parker’s mom. I pick up the phone and slip out of the room. “Laura… oh my God, I just heard!”
“Where have you been!?” I hear shrieked into the phone and I pull my ear away. “The hospital and some of his friends have been trying to get in touch with you all night.”
“It’s eight in the morning, Laura. I’m sorry. I just woke up, and I must have been asleep when the hospital called.” I press a hand to my forehead.
“It’s an emergency and you’re sleeping beauty.” She sighs. “I can’t believe it!”
Laura Anderson was dramatic and very much an overreactor by nature so I can only imagine the whirlwind she’s been since she heard. Luckily her and Parker’s father live in Colorado and I’ve only had to deal with her a handful of times, none of which were particularly enjoyable. It wasn’t that she was necessarily mean, she was just…a little judgmentalmaybe? She always found ways to make little digs or comments to and about me and it was obvious that she preferred Parker with his previous girlfriend. A girlfriend she still had a relationship with.
It was weird but whatever.
“I just heard, I… I guess I’m going to try to get a fly out there for today?”
“You guess!? My baby is all alone in New York—”
“Well, he’s not all alone. His coworkers are there.”
“I’M NOT THERE!” she shrieks and now I hear shuffling and I wonder if she’s packing.
“Are you…?”
“Of course, I am, Ben got us on a noon flight. You need to book your flight before it gets too late.”
“Of course, I’ll check right now—”
“Ours is Flight 1958, non-stop to JFK,” she interrupts.
“Got it…”Although, I’m not sure why I needed to know given that assumedly she’d land in New York before me.“Ummm did the doctors say anything? About his condition?”
“That he was going into surgery and it was a little touch and go until they got him stable last night.”
“Do you know what happened?”
“No… car accident… I don’t… Whitney, my baby!” she wails.
“I know, I know. He’s going to be fine though, alright?”
“You… are you sure?” Her voice is small like a child’s almost, and I know she’s a pain in the ass but I do feel for her in this moment.He is her child.
“Yes. He’ll be okay, Laura.”
She sniffles and then I hear her talk to I assume Parker’s father. “No, don’t pack those. Those shoes won’t go with any of the clothes I packed.”
Alright then, priorities.
“Okay, let me get packing and get a flight out of here,” I say just before I hang up the phone, not before hearing Laura scream ‘hurry!’ one more time.
“You’re going?” Jacob asks from the entrance to his bedroom. I am very aware that I’m still naked but he’s put on a pair of briefs that doesn’t do anything to hide his cock that is hardening as he roves his eyes over my body.
“I have to.”
“Do you?”
“Jacob, no one knows so I kind of have to. How would that look? And even if I am planning to break up with him, I don’t want him to… I don’t want anything bad to happen to him. He’s not a terrible person, no matter how badly you want him to be.”
