Page 14 of Marvelous

Garrick – Yeah.

Carter – Yep.

Me – Uh Huh.

Garrick – We all got grounded for a month because you wanted to know if the mustard would mess up the boy’s car.

Carter – He had a shit car.

Me – He did.

Ethan – Alright. Fine.

Carter – Dinner at our house tomorrow night.

I hated missing these things. Family was the most important thing you could have.

They were there for you when you needed them.

Yeah, I know some families aren’t like that.

But then you have to remember that not always is a family made of blood.

But anyway, I thought about what I could say to get out of it.

But Garrick beat me to it.

Garrick – Text Tink what to bring. Alec, you’re going straight to that campus in the morning. Right?

Thank fuck.

Me – Yeah. Sorry Carter. Give Harlee a kiss on the cheek for me, yeah?

Carter – You got it.

Carter – Okay, Garrick. I’ll text Tink what to bring.

Garrick – Fucker. You know what I meant.

Ethan – Melanie will be with Fred and Ginger, but I’ll be there.

***

A dream I was having about a faceless woman with long black hair was just interrupted when the alarm on my watch went off.

I growled low in my throat.

That dream was getting good, too.

Fuck me.

I’ve been celibate for three years now. I sighed.

New Man, Alec.

New Man.

Checking it, I silenced it, then turned off my phone, and shoved it in my bag.