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“Dillon’s already here. He’ll stay in his room.” Hil turned to the two of us. “Right?”
I looked at Remy. “You’re welcome to stay. It’s going to take us a few days to flesh out a plan.”
“You’re suggesting I stay in Hicksville?”
“If he’s going to disrespect our town like that…”
“I’m kidding. What is it about hill-folk that makes them unable to take a joke? Is it all the in breeding?”
Cali, charged towards Remy and grabbed his shirt looking like he wanted to shift. Remy looked at him with a smile.
“He’s trying to get a rise out of you,” Hil explained.
“It’s working,” Cali stated.
“Don’t let it.”
“And Remy, you said you need all of our help. That includes Cali. So, be nice!”
“Okay, fine. I’ll be nice. I’m sure you have a lovely town filled with lovely people.”
Cali’s intensity melted eventually letting him go.
“And I’m sure only half of you share the same father,” Remy added unable to help himself.
Cali’s head snapped towards Remy but this time he didn’t react. He just stared at him.
“Remy?” I chastised.
“Fine, a quarter of you.”
“Remy!”
“There’s only so much…”
“Remy, you need his help.”
He sighed and gathered himself.
“This,” he said gesturing to the bed ‘n breakfast. “This is… lovely. Truly lovely. You should feel proud to have grown up in a place like this. Hil and I didn’t and I’m sure we were made worse for it.”
Remy turned to me.
“Are you happy?”
“I am,” I said again surprised by his softer side.
“Thanks,” Cali replied suddenly confused and disarmed. “You, ahh, want some breakfast? Your brother really knows his way around a kitchen.”
“Does he?” Remy asked with shocked delight. “That’s one of those things I’ll need to see to believe,” my guy said before sitting at the table and becoming a part of our group for the first time.
After we enjoyed Hil’s impressive breakfast, Cali cleaned the dishes as the four of us brainstormed a plan. Remy described Hil’s and my ideas as being ridiculously naïve, though he was sure to throw in a complement when it came from me. And my man described Cali’s ideas as sociopathic, but to be fair, they were.
“We could just bomb the place and be done with it,” Cali suggested while washing a plate.
“And that’s an option,” Remy replied before mouthing to me ‘Is he serious?’
I looked at Hil for the answer. Hil’s eyes bounced between the two of us with a look that said that he didn’t know.
