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“Why wouldn’t it be?” I asked. I liked the idea of them having their own belongings in my apartment. Maybe then they’d spend more time there. I thought after my confession to Lexie yesterday, she’d have moved back to her place. Perhaps she feared her father, and rightly so.
I didn’t care why they continued to stay at my apartment. I just wanted them there.
“Where is Lexie’s room going to be?” Teague gave an exaggerated wink.
“She’ll live with Lincoln. Me and Beau brought most of her clothes and put them there,” Eric volunteered.
“Hold up a minute. Are you two . . .” Teague motioned back and forth between Lexie and Eric.
“We’re moving in with Lincoln. We just have to get the rest of our things.”
The instructor started the video the second Eric finished speaking. I looked to Lexie for confirmation, but she refused to focus anywhere but the front of the classroom.
“You didn’t think you should mention this?” Teague leaned forward so he could better see me.
“We—” I cleared my throat. “We just discussed it.”
His eyes narrowed. Then his face split into a grin. He elbowed Pepper again. “Told ya it would happen.”
She threw her hands up. “Itoldyou.”
Everyone in the class turned around, and Pepper blushed bright red.
“Did you know about this?” Teague poked Beau with a paintbrush.
“I live there. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out.”
Eric zeroed in on the first set of instructions. His canvas already matched the one on the video screen. The rest of ours were blank.
“Oh yay!” Pepper clapped her hands. “You two can come to our wedding as a pair.”
“What she’s really saying is you won’t both bring random dates to our family gathering,” Teague said.
Pepper put her hand to her forehead.
“Have you decided on a venue?” Beau swiped a blue streak across her canvas that was completely the wrong color compared to what Bob Ross was doing.
“We’re thinking about the old Grey Paws location,” Pepper said, also starting her painting.
“It’s a mess.”
My sister wasn’t wrong, though she could’ve used a little more finesse.
“We’re hoping to have the demolition and cleanup done soon so we can make an outdoor area big enough for just us, Miss Adeline, the dogs, and the guys from the fire station to come,” Teague said.
“What do you need to make that happen?” I asked.
If that was the wedding my brother and Pepper wanted, then that was what they’d have.
“We have contractors we use who can get the job done quickly and reasonably,” Beau chimed in, completely in tune with the same line of thought as me.
Teague painted his own streaks as the video directed, though it wasn’t quite the same. “I may take you up on that.” He frowned. “As long as they don’t have anything to do with . . .”
“They won’t,” I said quickly. I wouldn’t allow my father to taint the most important day of Teague’s life.
“Who are you going to bring, Beau?” Pepper asked. “Miss Adeline wants to know. You know I’m not that nosy.”
“No one,” she said sharply, adding another swipe of color to her canvas.
