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“I’m fine, just wondering what I’m going to name our third child. The bottom of that one definitely had a newborn.”
Smiling at the realization that I wasn’t the only one loosening up, I clapped my hands.
“I’m not mad at you. Please invite me to the shower.”
“She won’t have one,” Kleu joked.
“But I do accept gifts.”
“Good, because I’ll send them.”
“I’ll return the favor.” She laughed.
“Noooo. I’m just getting my feet wet in my field. The last thing I need right now is a baby.”
“Ma’am. Have you met the man you’re with and the men with the same last name as him? Aside from Lawe, they don’t care all that much,” Nature explained.
“Technically, we’re Eisenbergs now. Lawe, Ledge, and I. Kleu, though, she doesn’t claim us.”
“Sho don’t. One day, maybe. That day isn’t today.”
“It’ll happen soon,” Nature added.
“It will,” Aeir agreed.
“Whatever.”
“Back to you.” Nature tilted her head in my direction. “How’d you and Makai meet? When did you meet?”
“Three months ago. He fixed my flat.”
“Makai? Fixed your flat?” Kleu scoffed.
“Yes. I wasn’t far from his tire shop.”
“Makai doesn’t sell tires, love,” she explained.
Shrugging, I continued. “According to him, he doesn’t. But my car has been riding smoothly since he returned it. I got new tires and a new engine it feels like.”
“You’ve been dating for three months?” Aeir asked.
“No. We haven’t. But it—”
“Feels like it,” she interrupted.
“Yeeeeessss. And I’m freaking out.”
“Why?”
“Ever felt something deep? Extremely deep and extremely scary at once? Yet, you can’t help yourself? You can’t stop yourself. And with each passing second, you’re silently praying that it’s not all for nothing and reciprocation is in your favor?”
“In fact, I have.”
“That’s how I feel about him.”
“That’s how I felt about my Malachi.”
“How’d you keep yourself from crashing?”
