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“Well, it helped, didn’t it?”
“No, it didn’t help. What helped was Arya being a dumbass and taking those stupid jobs.”
“Excuse me?” she snapped. “I’m not a dumbass!”
“Honey, you are a bit of a dumbass. You taking a job at St. Rose’s Exclusive Club and not even knowing what you were hired for? Bells weren’t ringing in your head?”
“Well, not really,” she said. “…Okay, they were kind of ringing, but I wasn’t thinking properly.”
“So did you actually have to strip?” Mom looked worried.
“No.” Arya shook her head quickly. “Chet saved me just in time.
“Were you going to strip?” I asked her, eyes narrowed. “From what you said, you weren’t but—”
“I don’t know what I was going to do. I was nervous and I was scared, so I’m very grateful that you came to save me. You’re my Prince Charming.”
“Well, that’s more like it.” I grinned. “I’m your knight in shining armor.”
“So does this mean I’m planning a fourth wedding?” My mom beamed.
“Whoa, hold up.” I held my hand up. “We’ve just started dating. I don’t know about planning a wedding yet.”
“Yeah,” Arya said with a small smile. “We don’t even know if we’ll be able stand each other for a couple of weeks of dating, let alone a lifetime of being married.”
“Oh, you are very funny, Arya,” I grumbled. “You won’t be able to keep your hands off of me after a couple of weeks of dating. You won’t be able to go anywhere without me. You will just…” I pause as I looked up at my parents’ interested face bases. I realized that I could not continue my line of thought. “Well, anyway,” I said with a quick smile, “we should get to bed.”
“And exactly which bedroom will you be sleeping in?” My mom raised an eyebrow.
“My bedroom, of course.”
“And will you be having any guests?” She asked pointedly. Arya’s face turned bright red.
“Mom, really? Do you have to put her on the spot?”
“I’m just asking if I should be prepared to wake up Eloise in the morning.”
“Oh no, no, no. That’s fine. Thank you, Mrs. Hamilton,” Arya said, and shook her head. “See, Chet. I can’t sleep in your room tonight. Sorry.”
“Um, you can and you will.”
My dad raised an eyebrow at me. “Really, son? Do you need to learn the hard way who the boss is?”
“I’m the boss, always.”
“I don’t think so, dear.” My mom shook her head. “But, Arya, if you’d like to sleep in Chet’s room tonight, that’s fine. I’ll wake up Eloise and make her breakfast. Then maybe we can get Eloise her own room.”
“Oh no, you don’t have to do that.” Arya shook her head. “I mean, that’s too much.”
“I’m sure she’d love to have her own bedroom though,” my mom said.
“Well, when I get my apartment—”
“Are you kidding me?” I stared at Arya. “You’re not getting an apartment by yourself. The next time you move, it will be somewhere that we moved together.”
“Really?” She looked at me with a small smile.
“Yes,” I said. “I love you, Arya. And from here on out, we’re planning our future together. Whatever one of us does, the other one needs to be on board with. Okay?”
