IOU: A Romantic Comedy by Kristy Marie

Author:Kristy Marie [Marie, Kristy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A 21 Rumors Novel
Publisher: Kristy Marie Books LLC
Published: 2020-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Rumor has it the neighbors heard screams coming from his room.

“Is he okay?”

A familiar tingling in my hands has me standing up to pace around my bedroom.

“Yeah, just a TIA,” my brother says, sounding amused and slightly distracted.

Good, I can handle brief stroke symptoms. “Are they concerned about another stroke?” I rub at the pain in my chest. “Are they going to keep him overnight at least?”

“I’m talking to Mav, old man. Mind your business and eat your Jell-O,” he says, talking to Pops instead of me.

“Maverick? Why is he up at two in the morning?”

I sigh into the phone. I already know what’s coming.

“I called him,” my brother returns, exasperated. “You’re the one making our young bodies lose sleep.”

“You weren’t losing sleep, you little shit. You had to give that poor girl cab money so we could leave.”

Their arguing has me craving a visit home. I miss both of them.

“It’s called Uber, Pops, and she was lost. I was looking up hotels for her when you called out that the Reaper was here to take you.”

“Maverick!” Pops hollers, most certainly disrupting other patients at the hospital. “Go to bed! I’m fine.”

My brother quickly jumps in. “Funny how you had no concern in waking me up! Where’s the concern for my sleep deprivation?”

“You weren’t asleep!”

I snort. “Sounds like he’s just fine,” I tell my brother.

“I told you he was fine in my text.”

Thunder rattles the window. “I know, but I needed to hear it from you.”

“You mean, you needed to make sure I wasn’t lying?” He’s not offended; he knows how I am.

“Exactly.” No sense in lying about it. I needed to hear my brother’s voice to make sure he didn’t sound bleak or stressed. With text, he and Pops could say whatever to ensure I did not come home.

“Sure you don’t want me to come down and help?”

It’s an excuse to see them, but I really do want to help more. Apart from what Pops thinks, I won’t drop out of school and work at the QuickMart. Sure, I’ve considered moving home and helping out more, but Pops has been downright vicious in keeping my ass firmly planted at Havemeyer. It’s always been important to him that we boys go to college. Cooper can beg Pops all he wants about joining the MLB, but he will go to college if Pops has anything to say about it.

“No, Mav. We don’t need your bossy ass coming down and telling us what to do, right, Pops? We got it. Stay there, get some sleep and pus—”

“Boy!”

I grin at Pops jumping in. They are like two old men arguing over a chess game.

“I was just telling him to have a Push Pop, old man. Why is your mind always in the gutter? Is that a side effect from the stroke or—”

“I will get out of this bed, Cooper Lexington.”

I laugh. “Don’t make him get out of the bed, Coop.”

“The doctor says he needs to move around more,” Coop argues, but it’s a joke.

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