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“I have no idea. That’s the worst part. Like, it’s not work. I asked my brothers. They said everything was status quo. I’ve never known her to struggle with money. She’s not rolling in it, but she’s always been stable. The only thing I can think of is she’s, I don’t know, sick?”
Fuck.
I hadn’t even considered that.
I felt like even more of a prick to have said what I’d said to her if something was going on with her health-wise.
“Or, I don’t know. Maybe it’s something with her mom. Or… or… maybe she’s pregnant?” she asked, and it felt like her words kicked me in the gut.
Surprisingly, though, it wasn’t panic I felt.
Which shocked the shit out of me.
I’d have thought an unexpected kid would fill me with dread and anxiety. Somehow, though, the idea of my baby in her belly… yeah, that made all sorts of sense to me.
The thing was, I’d been careful.
We never fucked without protection. And, sure, that shit wasn’t one hundred percent, but it was close.
“No, that’s stupid,” she said, shaking her head. “She’s been on the Pill since she was, like, sixteen. She keeps them in a little candy dispenser in her bathroom,” Dell recalled with a smile for her friend’s quirk.
And, sure, one method of birth control could fail, but I really doubted two of them at the same time could.
That sinking feeling inside, you know, the one that felt a lot like disappointment, yeah, I pushed that shit aside.
“I dunno. Maybe I’m being paranoid,” Dell said, sighing.
“Don’t think you are,” I said, shrugging. “If anyone knows Nyx, it’s you.”
“Which is kind of crazy because, like, I do know her. But I still feel like I don’t know much. If that makes any sense.”
“It does,” I agreed. “Nyx seems like someone with a lot of shit locked away.”
“Exactly,” Delaney said, nodding. “Like I know how she lost her virginity. With details. But I don’t really feel like she’s ever been really vulnerable with me.”
The closest I got to seeing Nyx vulnerable was when Dell was in the hospital in Vegas and Nyx felt responsible.
That was the only time I’d seen her worry and cry and lean on someone else for comfort.
“Look, way I see it, Nyx seems like someone who takes a long time to let someone in. So don’t stop trying. Eventually, you will catch her in the right minute and she’s gonna spill it to you.”
Then, maybe, Dell would tell me.
And I could stop fucking worrying too.
“You’re right. I think—“ she started, then cut off when a car pulled up out front.
Some irrational fucking part of me hoped to look and see Nyx’s old car there.
But it was Cillian’s car instead.
There, no doubt, to see his nephew again.
“He’s got baby fever,” Dell said, shaking her head as she watched her eldest brother make his way to the door. “I hope he finds someone to give him some of his own soon. He’s right there in the—“ Delaney said as Cillian came in. But she cut off when he already made a beeline for the crib, scooping up the baby, but making his way toward us with a stern face.
“Everything okay?” Dell asked, frowning at her brother.
“Yeah. I’m actually here for Slash,” he said, nodding his chin at me.
