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“You’re all dicks.” Leah drops the broom and steps down off the chair.
“I have one question,” Claire speaks from her current position on the floor. “Why on God’s green earth did you climb onto a chair and grab a broom? If a bear is chasing you honey you’d be dinner, because even the babies are taller than that chair and would chew the broom like a toothpick.”
“It was instinct,” she sasses.
“Oh sweetheart, this weekend is so much more than a girls getaway, Amara and I need to sharpen up your instinct, double time.”
“I won’t be running from any bears back home.”
We all step inside, closing the door behind us. “It’s okay Leah, I won’t tell anyone back home that you ran like a little bitch, and screamed like those idiots in all the dumb scary movies we laugh at.” Leah says giggling.
“Keep it up and I’ll shave off your eyebrows when you fall asleep.” Leah deadpans.
“I just roar,” Lauren’s laughs. “You’ll piss yourself and hide under the covers. I’m not scared.”
* * *
Our entire day was filled with Lauren hassling Leah, because there are very few opportunities she ever gets to do so. Leah finally found the humor in it and joined in on the laughter.
All four of us made dinner, each taking on a task.
With dinner finished, and fresh popcorn made we all settled onto the big comfy couch and broke out the board games.
“Did you and Tyler break up?” Lauren looks to me from across the coffee table, and I am at a loss for words. “Because he sent several messages through messenger that went to my spam asking me to tell you to turn on your phone.”
“Yeah, me too,” Leah looks up from her phone.
I glance at Claire, and she offers me a nod and I know I can’t ignore their curiosities any longer.
“I’m not sure what Ty and I are right now.”
“What does that even mean?” Lauren wastes no time. “You either are or aren’t together.”
“It’s a little more complicated than that.”
“Oh my God this is why I stay away from boys,” Lauren rolls her eyes. “Everything gets so weird, and no one admits what they want, or one person wants something the other doesn’t, it's a nuisance.”
Claire laughs, then covers her mouth. “I am sorry, but these two are hilarious.”
I ignore her, knowing she is no help. “When the two of you kept asking me on the way here if something was up I told you there wasn’t, but that was a lie.”
“No shit,” Leah mumbles.
“You both need to watch your mouths,” and of course almost simultaneously they pucker out their lips and look down like they are in fact trying to watch their mouths. “Remind me why I brought them?” I ask Claire.
“Because you love us,” they singsong, and I laugh, because I do, so much it's sickening.
“So who ended it?” Leah is the first one to ask and my chest aches.
“I found out a few days ago that I’m pregnant.” The room grows silent, and the twins widen their eyes, and their mouths fall open in shock.
“And that my friend is how you silence a room,” Claire says and it's my turn to roll my eyes.
“I’m just saying,” she says, holding up her hands and then waving to me to continue on.
“I wanted to tell him, but I was nervous. Tyler isn’t the type to settle down and though these last several weeks since the wedding we’ve been dancing around each other, both saying things and feeling things I was scared that this would freak him out to the point of no return.”
“So what did he say when you told him?” Lauren leans forward placing her elbows on the coffee table.
