Random Acts of Love (Random #5) (36 page)
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Authors: Julia Kent
“WHAT?” Rick was nonverbal, though he sometimes made sounds that were approximations of words. “What was the word?”
“Mavis.”
I sprayed whisky out of my nose, tears springing to my eyes from the deep burn. “Dad! Don’t joke.”
He clapped a hand on my shoulder. “Not joking. But about all this...if you and Joe want to be, uh, unconventional, that’s up to you. I need a lot more alcohol and your mother will need a bottle of Xanax to get through the next few days of untangling all this, but before this turns into a brawl, I just want you to know we love you no matter what. And Darla is a wonderful young woman. Anyone who spends that much time with Rick and who Rick likes right back is good in my book.”
Dad gave me one of those adult parent hugs where he made me feel like a little kid again, small and warm and well loved.
Meanwhile: “You are not leaving Penn to go pretend to be rock stars!” Joanne screamed at Joe.
“We’re not pretending!” he screamed back.
Darla mosied over and said out of the corner of her mouth. “I think we’ve had enough revelations for one day. Let’s rescue Joe and go home and let it all simmer.”
Mom came over, hiccuping lightly. “Joanne is such a ‘see you next Tuesday’. Always has been. I was only nice to her because...because...oh, hell, I’ve forgotten why.” Mom’s eyes landed on me and I gave her an apologetic smile.
“Sorry you got roped into this,” I said as I hugged her.
She hit my shoulder. “You should be sorry for not telling us. All of it, threesome and law school.”
“I planned to.”
Her face darkened. “You all need to come over for a dinner party. No Herb and Joanne. Just you three. I have to confess it’s weird, and I don’t understand the dynamics of how you relate to each other, and you’ll get flack from people—oh, God, your grandfather is going to be such a bastard about this—”
“It’s fine, Mom. We don’t need to announce it to the world. We can unfurl it in our own time. It’s not like we need to make a video announcing our sexual habits to the entire world, you know?”
She patted my cheek and gave me a boozy smile. “Right.”
Darla and I made a ghost exit, slipping out of the house so quietly. I got in my car and texted Joe.
Just come out here and we’ll go back to the apartment. You can sort it all out later with your parents. Let’s go decompress.
In seconds he was at the front door, running to the car, his mom at his feet.
The backdoor flew open, he crawled in, and shouted:
“Let’s go!”
As Trev backed up, he nearly hit a brown chicken wearing a little red and white sweater that said:
MAVIS FOR PRESIDENT
Darla
And that, kids, is how I met your fathers...
Okay, no, seriously. That was how we told Joe and Trevor’s parents. On the drive back to the apartment, all Joe could talk about was how Gene turned out to be the third in his parents’ marriage.
“Tough luck, huh?” Trevor said to him.
“What do you mean?”
“Now you have even more in common with your parents. You’re all lawyers, you’re all in threesomes. Sucks not to be able to rebel.”
“Fuck! You’re right!”
Trevor found a magic unicorn parking spot right in front of the building and we got out. I looked at the main door and sighed.
“It’s good to be home.” We had already agreed that I would move my shit back in, because why live with Josie and Alex and the constant reminder of my human peacock days whenever I went to the bathroom? If I was gonna have something a couple of feet long attached to my ass, I’d like to be—
“It’s good to have you here,” Trevor said, slinging his arm around me as Joe keyed in.
“Sam and Amy are home,” Joe said as we walked in.
“Hey! Welcome back! How’d it go?” Amy asked. Sam was on the couch drinking a beer and watching some stupid nature show. He mercifully turned off the television when we walked in. All I really wanted was to go into the bedroom with Trev and Joe and spend the next few hours decompressing, all right.
With my tongue, fingers, pussy, clit, and a few of their complementary body parts.
“We know you guys want to spend some time alone, so we’re headed out to a movie,” Sam said, checking his back pocket for his wallet as Amy went into the kitchen. I saw her rummage in the freezer, then come back over to us.
She held out an ice cream pie to Joe.
“What’s that?” Joe asked as Amy offered it to him. When he realized what it was, he cocked one eyebrow and just looked at her.
“A present,” she said. “For you.”
“Nice.” He looked a little uncertain. No one had ever said a word about what happened at Josie’s that night with Maggie, Amy, Charlotte and me.
And no one ever would.
I gave Amy a questioning look but she didn’t answer. Just smiled.
She looked remarkably like an evil clown.
THE END
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
