Here We Come by Chautona Havig

Author:Chautona Havig [Havig, Chautona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781470019945
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Saturday, January 17th

Bedtime couldn’t come quickly enough for Luke. He chased the little ones around the house until he was ready to drop with exhaustion and then sent them up to Aggie for baths. All settled again, he snuggled on the couch with them, reading stories and doing his best to ensure they would fall asleep in no time.

Vannie and Laird were having Ping-Pong wars in the basement. Aggie dragged herself down the steps, giving Luke half a smile as she passed, and then called down into the basement. “Ok, there are two bathrooms open now. Have at it.”

“Dibs on Aunt Aggie’s,” Vannie called, running up the steps at a speed Luke couldn’t fathom in his present state of exhaustion. “Can I take a bath?”

“Fine, but when the water gets cool, no adding more hot. Shower and get out then.”

“Thanks!”

Laird shook his head as he reached the top of the basement steps. “What is with girls and sitting around in dirty water? You’d think that’d be a guy way to get clean.” Three steps up the staircase, he turned. “Oh, I keep forgetting to tell you. My church pants are all too short. I look ridiculous according to Vannie.”

“Thanks. I’m not going shopping now, so looking ridiculous tomorrow it is.”

“Won’t kill me.”

She collapsed next to Luke twenty minutes later. “Big change in Laird—sort of.”

“What do you mean?”

“He’s back to normal now, which is huge compared to what he was for a week or two there.”

There was no argument with that. Laird had teased, played, and ignored things that he usually ignored for the past week and it had felt good to see normalcy settle into Aggie’s family again. “Hey, Cassie said you guys had a good time.”

“We did. I think I hurt Corinne’s feelings by asking Cassie first, though. I didn’t even think about that. You said Cassie over the phone and I fixated on that.”

“That’s ok. It’s good for Corinne. So, what’d you guys talk about?”

“You. I know all your tricks, your virtues, and your faults now. You cannot get away with hiding anything from me anymore.”

“I think Cassie likes you. She sent a text message after she left Espresso Yourself.”

“Well,” Aggie pushed, “what was it?”

“‘She’s a keeper.’”

She smiled up at him. “I agree—Cassie is definitely a keeper.”

Luke pulled her close, one arm around her, and nearly sighed with satisfaction when her head nestled into his shoulder. “This is pretty much perfection.”

“I was thinking the same thing.

“Two months.”

“Two eternities,” she argued.

“I like how you think. Now, I’ve been thinking.”

“Uh-oh. Whenever Dad says that, Mom cringes. Should I cringe?”

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