Peyton

“Well now I just look lame,” Everett teased although her job was arguably far more important, “I work for a market company in the finance department.”

“You’re not lame, I just have this complex about saving kids. I’m big enough to admit that.” Peyton let out a weak laugh as she shrugged. “If I didn’t, I’m pretty good with math. Maybe I’d have ended up there too.”

“How about something simple? What do you do?”

“I work with the city as a social worker for troubled kids.” Peyton admitted with a shrug. Having parents like hers had made the decision easy to try keeping others from that. “What do you do?”

“Well why don’t you tell me more about yourself.”

“I guess that depends on what you want to know.”

“That’s probably at least the truth.”

“It definitely is the truth. At least for me.”

“When has this town ever been this normal?”

“I’m gonna go with never. At least, not since I’ve been alive.”

“I really doubt Marley would care if you or Phoebe ever needed to move in with us. You’re family, and she gets it.”

“Maybe. But I’m really okay on my own, Caleb. You don’t have to worry about that.”

“I do know that you love us, but you’re still my family too. Just because I have them doesn’t make you any less important.”

“I know that, Caleb, but it’s different. As well as we get along, I don’t think Marley would want me living with you and your very small children permanently.”

“I’d at least try to make it work for you though. But I wouldn’t push it because you’re right you’d be miserable.”

“You know that I love you and adore those kids though, right? And I’d be fine even living down the street, I just would feel weird being in your house. Even if we are family, you have your own now.”

“It’s almost terrifying how well you know me. But I mean it wouldn’t be so terrible if it happened.”

“Not for you. We both know I’d be moody and miss my own space within a month.”

“I could just kidnap you for a month, Pey.”

“Which would sound great if I didn’t know one month turns into two, and then three, until suddenly I’m a live-in aunt for the babies.”