Got the Life by Jade C. Jamison

Author:Jade C. Jamison [Jamison, Jade C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jade C. Jamison
Published: 2011-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

NICKI SHOWERED WHEN she got home. She had to remove all the kid germs. It was worse than when she’d arrived at Jillian’s, because she actually hugged and kissed all three kids before she came home, and she left with a sticky film covering herself from head to toe. There was some weird grape stain on her shirt that she was pretty sure would never come out. Ick. Maybe Nathan should have hosed her down when she left, kind of a decontamination chamber in the front yard, instead of upon her arrival.

But she got what she’d gone there for. She had her friend’s perspective on the whole Sean thing, and it was what she’d needed. Nicki had actually started convincing herself that maybe she had a chance with Sean, but Jillian didn’t think so. Jillian figured it was just because Nicki—one of Sean’s closest friends—was getting all kinds of attention from this good-looking swarthy man right under Sean’s nose, and it set off his primeval macho defenses. “It’s thousands of years of evolution, Nicki. One alpha fights another for dominance over all the females. It’s not that he cares about you that way, Nick. It’s that he wants to be the rooster of us all. You’re part of his brood and Carlos was sniffing around.”

So, it completely sucked, but she could live with it.

And it got her to thinking that maybe too Sean was still struggling with his whole do-I-or-don’t-I-move-in-with-Kayla dilemma, and maybe that kiss was his one last-ditch attempt at asserting his singleness.

Or he just wanted to fuck with her head.

Yeah, that was probably it.

So she spent the next twenty-four hours de-escalating the situation in her head, so that next time she saw him, she could be good old Nicki, friend extraordinaire.

Yeah, right. Sunday afternoon, about two o’clock, Nicki pulled her car in front of her parents’ house. And in the end of the driveway sat Sean’s blue Ford truck. She felt her body pump up with adrenaline to rise to the challenge, and that’s when she realized she was still nowhere near ready to deal with Sean. But what was she gonna do? Not see her one and only brother? Didn’t think so. She had to re-find that pair of balls she grew and strap ‘em on. In front of the family, there was only one way to handle it: get along as best she could and pretend things were peachy. Ignore Sean as much as possible. Avoid eye contact when able. Deal with him the way he deserved later. Even if she was just one of his fictional hens and there was only friendship there, they needed to talk about it.

Why did mom even invite him? This was supposed to be a family thing.

But Sean was like family. Nicki knew that. Sean had been a part of Will’s life since Will’s age was in the single digits. So Will had probably invited Sean himself. So be it. It was what it was, and she had to deal with it.

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