Meeting Monty's Parents by Lisa Worrall

Author:Lisa Worrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Lisa Worrall
Published: 2013-06-20T23:00:00+00:00

IV

Feeling a lot more awake after his record breaking shower, but no less embarrassed, Aiden paused as he walked the long hallway to the front of the house. He could hear voices in the kitchen and he swallowed nervously. Get a grip! His brother saw your junk, big deal. So did the mail man when you dropped Patti’s Cosmo magazine last month. You still talk to him! Punching his inner voice in the mouth, Aiden squared his shoulders and strolled as casually as he could into the big kitchen/diner where—everyone stopped and stared at him.

The silence was deafening for what seemed like forever to Aiden, but was probably only thirty seconds. Thirty seconds of torturous embarrassment that only doubled when AJ got up from the table, grabbed him into his arms, dipped him and kissed him hard on the mouth before saying, “Morning, honey, sleep well?” AJ righted him to the sound of everybody’s hysteria and Finn holding his stomach, pointing at Aiden then AJ, unable to talk for laughing.

Delivering a swift elbow to AJ’s gut, Aiden said the first thing he could think of to turn the attention away from him. “Laugh it up, Grizzly. You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face when I tell everyone about the Tweetie Pie tattoo.” The words had the desired effect as Ben and Finn stared at their brother, open-mouthed and Molly glared at her eldest.

“You’ve got a tattoo?”

“Mom, seriously? You’re gonna believe this… this stranger over your own son?” AJ clasped Aiden in a headlock, ruining the just got out of bed look it had taken him years to perfect with one swipe of his giant paw.

“In a heartbeat,” Molly deadpanned. “Now let the poor boy go. We’ve got a full morning ahead of us and he’s gonna need food.”

Aiden struggled out of AJ’s grip and sank into the empty chair beside Finn, who was still laughing, but had moved from the doubled over stage to the hiccupping and holding his face stage. “Shut up,” Aiden admonished, accepting the plate piled high with eggs, bacon, hash browns, tomatoes and mushrooms Molly handed to him.

“Oh, oh,” Finn complained, wiping the tears from his eyes. “My face hurts.”

“Serves you right,” Aiden snapped back. “You should have woken me.”

“Hey, you were dead to the world,” Finn countered, picking up a piece of toast from the plate in the centre of the table and slathering it with butter. “How was I supposed to know you’d wake up and try to molest my brother?”

“I thought he was you.” The words were out before Aiden could stop them and silence fell on the table once more. Shit!

“Well,” Dan drawled, taking a sip of his coffee. “I guess we’d better factor in an extra fifteen minutes to tomorrow’s activities then.”

This time, Aiden joined in the laughter echoing around the room, feeling the last of his nervous fears float away. He’d only known them one day, but there was no doubt in his mind that he and Kaylee were now part of this warm and loving family.

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