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Triton has Pebbles up on his shoulders in the pool, and right next to him is Reaper with me on his shoulders while Pebbles and I play chicken. The rest of Pebbles’s backyard filled with people everywhere.
“I used to love going to barbecues at your house. Renee and your mom didn’t get along, so she never came.”
“Is that why she never came?” Pebbles’s brows raise.
I nod with a laugh. “She said your mom was a bitch.”
Pebbles throws her head back and laughs. “Robin said the same thing about Renee!”
Our laughter dies down as we look through more pictures. The next one is what allows the tears to finally spill over my lids. “This is what I mean, Lilah,” Pebbles says as she looks at the picture over my shoulder.
I’m standing on a stool mixing some sort of mixture in a large bowl with a huge smile covering my face. Nana stands beside me with her arms crossed over her chest with a small smile as she looks down at me.
“See that smile?” Pebbles asks, pointing to me in the picture. “Baking wasyourpassion. She just helped you find it. Don’t let the fire kill your passion, Lilah.”
“You’re right,” I say with a smile as I press the picture close to my chest.
I wipe the tears off my cheeks, and Pebbles lightens the mood by pulling more pictures out of the box. She smiles wistfully every time she comes across one with her dad. I secretly start a pile of all the photos she finds with Triton and tuck them away to give her later.
My cheeks flame when she turns a picture around with a knowing smirk. Ringer is probably 20 or so, and right next to him? Me, staring up at him like a lovesick child.
I let out a groan and grab for the picture, reaching across the bed. Pebbles is quicker than me and holds it out of reach. She turns back to study the image with a smile. “Huh.”
“What?”
“You really have always been in love with him, haven’t you.”
My spine stiffens, and I turn back to the picture of Tank and Maria I’m holding. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Pebbles reaches over and slaps my ass, hard.
“Ow!” I scramble to sit on my knees. “What was that for!”
She narrows her eyes at me. “Don’t you lie to me!”
“I’m not!”Yes, I am.
“Does he know?” she asks giddily.
“Does Trigger know you’re in love with him?” I throw back at her.
It’s Pebbles’s turn for her smile to drop. “We’re talking about you here, Lilah!”
“I don’t care!”
She waves the picture in my face. “You werealwaysfollowing Ringer around when we were kids. He had to have known.”
“It wasn’t like that,” I cringe, thinking of all of the times I did, in fact, follow him around like a puppy. Thinking back on it now, as an adult, is very fucking embarassing.
“You aren’t a kid anymore.” She wiggles her eyebrows at me.
It’s so nice to have this Pebbles back. She’s nowhere near what she was six months ago, but I can tell she’s getting there.
“I am painfully well aware of that fact,” I laugh.
“Oh?” she narrows her eyes with a devilish smile at me. “What’s going on?”
I roll my eyes. “Like you don’t already know, you’ve always been the queen of knowing literally everything.”
