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Couple months after graduation 

“Need a hand?” Stepping inside the laundry mat that Connie had recently opened up, I recognized Georgie’s voice instantly.  I leaned my back against the wall watching him go over to a short blonde girl who was having trouble with her machine.

She sighed slightly annoyed.  “This thing ate my quarters and now it’s stuck.” 

“That tends to happen with number 7.  What you wanna do is a push pull.” 

She chuckled after he showed her what he was talking back and the machine started working immediately afterwards.  “And here I was just pushing like a damn fool.” 

“I ain't seen you in here before. “ Georgie tilted his head to the side. 

The blonde tucked hair behind her ear.  “Oh, I just moved back from San Antonio.” 

“Oh, big city girl.” Georgie sent her a cheeky smile. 

She shrugged her shoulders. “Well, now I'm "living back with my parents" girl.”

“That's all right.  I lived with my folks not too long ago.” My boyfriend somewhat lied to the new girl. 

“Isn't it weird? Whenever you live at home,  no matter how old you are, you feel like a teenager.” The new girl began to rant to him not knowing she was talking to a teenager. 

Georgie extends her hand out to her. “It did feel that way. I'm Georgie.” 

“Mandy.” She shakes his hand turning back around to do her laundry. 

“I’ll see you around, Mandy.” Georgie chuckles finally seeing me waiting by the doorway where he crossed the room.  He takes my hand and leads me inside the broom closet so we had some privacy.  “Hey baby, I thought you’d be working at Dale’s store.” 

“I planned to but I woke up this morning with horrible back pain so I called in.  And I didn’t feel like simply running the cash register.  It’s gotten boring already and it’s only been two weeks since the doctor put restrictions on me.” Running my hands down my face I groaned staring down at my very obvious pregnant belly.  The doctor's theory was that we would be having twins but it hadn’t been confirmed yet.  

Georgie stepped closer to me, putting one his hand on my swollen stomach.  “It’s only two more months.” 

“Okay then I’ll go back to living my life carefree for nine months and you can raise the little one all on your own.  How does that sound?” I teased him since he didn’t have to deal with a tiny human pressing on his bladder. 

Georgie raised his hands up in surrender.  “What can I do for you to throw me in the deep end?” 

“Just keep being who you are and take me to dinner when you can slip away from work.” I sent him a tiny smile. 

Georgie nodded his head in understanding, opening his arms and wrapped me in a comforting embrace.  “I’ll pick you up at my memaw’s house later tonight.  I promise.” Laying my head against his tea shirt I closed my eyes enjoying the simple moment between the two of us. 

Kicking opened the door of the Cheesecake Factory. I was leading my twins outside to Penny’s car.  I needed to be somewhere else hut around my ex boyfriend.   Penny helped me put the kids in the backseat of her car after she had offered to take them home.  She turned around to me, motioning her head towards the doorway of the restaurant she worked at currently.  “I can come back and pick you up from wherever.  Just text ne later okay.”

“Yeah.  Just put them down for bed for me.  I don’t want them to hear us fight.” I crossed my arms over my chest glancing over in the direction of her red car. 

She nodded, getting in the driver's seat driving away and leaving me alone with my best friend.  “Good luck with him.  And remember if he’s being an asshole remember how I taught you we handled things in Nebraska.” 

Closing my eyes I thought back on that brief two weeks me and my girlfriends had gone down to her family's place after I had given birth to the twins.  Connie had agreed to watch them for the weekend.  While we were down there I told them all what had happened between me and Georgie.  Penny decided if he ever came around me again with some crap excuses I should hit him where it hurts.  

Footsteps came up beside me when I sat down on the nearest bench outside the restaurant yet I didn’t dare glance in his direction.  “Can we talk?”

“I didn’t leave with my kids and Penny did I?”

He weakly replied.  “I thought they were our kids, Y/n.” 

“So now you’re considering them you’re kids huh.” Forcing myself to stand up from the wooden bench I clutched my hands into fists at my sides.  “Where was this George Jr when you met the girl at the laundromat!”  

He lowered his head, staring down at his boots.  “Nothing happened between us.  How many times do I have to explain this to you?” 

“It doesn't matter how many times you try and smooth talk your way out of this.  We're not getting back together!” 

Georgie raised up from the bench grasping my hands in his own so I had no choice but to look into his familiar gaze.  “Y/n, I know you think something happened between me and her but I swear nothing happened.” 

“Even though you hung out with her almost every weekend after the kids were born.  What's your story for all those times?” I snapped back at my best friend. 

Georgie opened his mouth to speak but paused trying to come up with a good enough response.  “She needed help moving in her apartment and refused to go back to living with her parents.  I didn't want to leave her to do all of that by herself.” 

“Pfft more lies.  Why aren’t you with her?” I scoffed under my breath. 

He throws his hands up in the air.  “Cause she told me she was 29 after we had met and she saw you talking with my memaw.  You were pushing around the twins in a stroller.” 

“Georgie, just stop.  Just stop with the lies.  I know what I saw that night at the restaurant.  You and her were cutting it up and you weren't thinking about me at all.  When your memaw’s business went under that girls father gave you a job.   I know you’ve been sleeping with her.” 

My ex boyfriend grabbed me by my shoulders forcing me to look him in the eye.  “I took the job her father offered to provide for you and the twins. But I have my own tire stores now.  I swear on my memaw’s brisket that I'm not lying to you darlin’.” 

“I wish I could believe you but - I've seen you go through a lot of girls before you knew I liked you.  So I just  - I've decided I need to assume you're gonna do the same thing now regardless of us having kids together or not.” I pushed my hands against his chest forcing him away from me while tears began welling in my eyes. 

Georgie stumbled backwards reading out for me.  “Y/n, I'd never do something like that to you.  We're best friends.” 

10 ten years later 

“Mommy, where are we going?” My ten year old daughter Maya asked me once we had made our way up flights of stairs to one of my friends that I had met when I moved from Medford, Texas. 

Knocking on the apartment door I kept one hand intertwined with my daughters so she didn’t run off somewhere in this large building.  “To see an old friend from mommy’s past.” The door opens after I knock a couple of times. 

A familiar girl with long blonde hair and a bright smile stuck her head outside into the hallway.  “Hey Y/n.  Little Maya.   What are you guys doing up here? Is Hannah up here with you too?” 

“Hi Aunt Pen!” My son jumped out from behind my leg throwing his arms up with cheer. 

Penny stepped into the doorway ruffing his dark curls on his head. “Hey Grady.  So what’s wrong?” 

“I miss daddy.” He muttered with watery eyes. 

Tucking some hair behind my ear I sighed heavily turning to the side to show her our three small suitcases that we had drug up the stairs given the elevator was out of order.  “So here’s the thing I - we’re needing a place to stay since my landlord couldn’t handle me shuffling around noisy kids anymore.  He kicked me out.” 

“Oh my god that’s awful.  I only have one bedroom but of course you can stay here until you find someone better to accommodate you and your kiddos.” Hannah’s cousin covered her mouth in shock rushing to grab our bags and show us inside. 

Grady and Maya  ran past my legs straight for the window by the small dinner table.  “Wow!” 

The reason I had come to Penny was because she is the only person I know here.  Hannah and Ryker moved to Nebraska after they graduated high school since they fell in love with the scenery.  Marlowe had went to Nashville for a little while but realized that he just liked playing guitar as a hobby and now he worked at one of the music stores outside of Medford. Ashley had stayed in Medford and works as a nurse.  And then there’s Georgie…

“So are you still doing the blog videos occasionally for money or have you found a job that works for you now?” Penny asked me sitting down on the couch while we watched my twins play around the big apartment. 

Hugging my knees to my chest I felt my phone vibrate inside my back pocket meaning someone had texted me but I didn’t think it was important.  “Sort of.  I’m working on getting a better job at another sporting goods store.  I have more past experience in that than anything else.” 

“Penny, Penny, Penny.” Someone knocked calling her name on the other side of the closed door. 

“Who’s outside?” I questioned her. 

She got up from her spot on the couch answering the door. “What’s up, Buttercup?” 

“You have to get rid of the chair.” 

She shut the door in the person's face.  “Nope.” 

“Penny, penny, penny.” 

She spun around opening the door a second time. “What’s the word hummingbird?” 

“For your safety please wait in my apartment as I call the authorities so they may remove the Chair of Death.” 

She shut the door in his face. “No.” 

“Penny, penny, penny.” I huffed wanting to know who this guy was and why he wouldn’t leave her alone so we could hang out. 

Penny opened the door asking.  “What’s the gist physicist?” 

“Under my authority as a self-appointed member of the Center for Disease Control Street team these premises are condemned -“ Penny tried to close the door but he pushed his hand against it stopping her.  “As a man with a keen sense of style I must tell you.  That chair does not work with the room.” 

Penny slammed the door crossing the room grabbing a hold of a small red chair that was sitting beside the couch where I shifted around on the couch raising a brow in confusion.  “Penny, what is this guys deal with this chair?” 

“Oh it’s my neighbor across the hall.  Him and his roommate are really smart.  He came over one day and I told him I got the chair off the street and now he can’t calm down and not freak out if it’s still in my apartment.  Urgh! Can you help me with the door?” 

“Sure.” I jumped up grabbing the door handle ready to fling it open. 

The three knocks went off louder this time. “Penny, penny, penny!” 

“The chair is staying dude - Sheldon, you’re her neighbor!” 

The guy in a yellow and blue striped shirt screamed when my friend held up the red chair and he stumbled down onto the floor trying to get as far from the chair as possible screaming. “Ahhh! - Y/n?” 

“Why didn’t you tell me it was Sheldon.” I turned my head back to my friend who was holding the red chair still in her arms. 

Penny shrugged her shoulders with a half smile.  “I didn’t think you wanted to talk about a certain Cooper boy.  So I just didn’t mention that his brother is my neighbor.” 

“Wait, I'm confused here.  You and Georgie are married.  Why are you living with Penny?” Sheldon questioned entering the conversation once he had gotten up from the ground. 

Glaring at my ex’s younger brother I sighed and dropped my shoulders heavily thinking back on our life.  “According to your brother, being best friends since you were five years old isn't as special as I thought it was.” It seemed like it would always be me and Georgie against the world forever. 

We had been driving in Ashley’s car for hours on end and I still was aware of where in the world we were heading.  The only information I was given was to pack a bag for the weekend and that we were going to visit Hannah’s cousin who lived in Nebraska. Sitting in the front passenger with Ashley driving and Hannah sitting in the backseat.  “Okay seriously you have to tell me why we are going to see your cousin at such a random time.  We’ve only got a few more weeks before we graduate high school.  So why are we going to see Penny now?” 

“It’s a surprise.  Just trust, have we ever steered you wrong?” Hannah remarked from the backseat. 

Shifting around in my seat I glared at her. “What about 8th grade when you had me try out for the cheerleading team.” 

“How was I supposed to know that the coach wasn’t going to give you a spot because he had a crush on your mom when they were in school but she chose your dad.” Hannah shrugged her shoulders remembering what moment I was thinking about. 

Ashley just chuckled finally parking the vehicle in the driveway getting out first.  Hannah and I got out at the same time before I shifted my gaze down to my boots seeing a trail of red roses going up the porch stairs.  “What is all this for?” 

“Go inside.  Just trust us.” Ashley clasped her hands together grinning ear to ear. 

Slowly walking up the wooden porch steps I pushed opened the front door of the large cabin.   I gasped entering the living room seeing Marlowe, Ryker and Missy standing behind Georgie who was standing in front of the large fireplace.   “Georgie, what - what are you all doing here?” 

“Y/n, we’ve been attached at the hip from the age of five, we know each other better than we probably know ourselves, and have no problem fighting over the last tater tot.   Now I’ve gotta admit I wasn’t too bright to not see how you felt about me and me about you , for a long dang time.  But I’m going to work everyday to make it up to you. And you already know  I’m the hardest worker you’ll ever meet.  When I see something I want I don’t stop till I get it.  And what I want is for you to be my wife.”  Georgie lowered himself down on one knee, pulling out a small box revealing a ring to me.  “Will you marry me Y/n?” 

Covering my mouth with my hands I felt happy tears falling down my face before I gave him a verbal answer.  “Georgie. Yes - yes I’ll marry you.” 

“Yes! She’s finally gonna become my sister.” Missy threw her hands up cheering loudly with a grin plastered across her face. 

Georgie rose up from the wooden floor meeting me in the middle of the room when we ran to one another and he quickly slipped the ring on my finger.  “I’m guessing the baby is happy for us too.” I giggled after we shared a kiss once I had felt some kicking against my stomach that was starting to show.  

“Hey you two.  I just needed to tell you that y’all can totally get married out here on my family’s place if you want.” Hannah’s cousin Penny who had her blonde hair up in a ponytail was standing beside my two high school girlfriends smirking. 

Georgie threw a fist up into the air.  “Hell yeah!” 

“Thank you so much.  We'll definitely do that.” I grinned back at the blonde knowing it was a big help to us considering we didn’t have a lot of money at the time saving up for baby stuff. 

Holding my daughter's hand in mine we entered the restaurant with Penny. We decided to go to the Cheesecake Factory on her day off since she was working there to make money and trying to still be an actress like told our parents she wanted to be. "Okay sweetie, you sit here and we'll get some food in a second."

"Do your mom and dad know you're still doing the whole blog thing?" Penny asked, sitting across from me on the other side of the table.

Taking out a small camera I sat it down on the table looking over the menu with the waitress coming over to our table. The girl had curly blonde hair and was rather short, she also knew her by showing excitement. "Hey Penny, who are your friends? I didn't think you were coming in today."

"Hey Bernadette, I wasn't going to until my friend and her kiddos  said they were hungry.  So I picked here." She grinned at her.

The other blonde saw my daughter looking at a pancake picture. "What can I get you guys to eat?"

"I'll take a coke and a barbecue cheeseburger and little Maya and Grady here will have orange juice and a chocolate pancake to share." I handed her the menu.

She nodded, walking away. "Thanks."

"Okay, I'm gonna start my video if you want to be in it with us." I hit the record button and turned the camera around in my hand, focusing it on me and my little girl. "Hey MG Loves, so I thought I'd blog today and show you who we are hanging out with today. I think you'll like her, my friend Penny."

Spinning the camera around Penny throws her hands up introducing herself but her face changes to a confused one pointing to something over my shoulder. "Hey y'all, I always love being in the videos. Since they were in town I thought I'd show them around the city. Uh Y/n, don't freak out but look.."

"What are you talking about - son of a bi - gun" I quickly changed what I was going to say since I was with my daughter and son plus on camera.

Bernadette came over carrying our plates and sitting them down in front of us. I handed the camera to Penny so she could record for a minute. "Pancake, mommy." Grady started tearing it with his hands until I grabbed a fork and knife cutting it up for him.

"Y/m!" I scrunch my nose and shut my eyes briefly in annoyance.  I ignored him just eating my cheeseburger, not looking over my shoulder until I heard his footsteps stop behind my chair. "Y/n."

"Y/n, do you want to tell the followers who this stranger is." Penny asked, trying to lighten the tension that had been started.

I sat my burger down, taking the camera in both my hands and turning it around to show my ex boyfriend. Georgie still had the same curly hair just longer and he was in his Dr, Tire work uniform for his own store. "I'm back MG Loves and I forgot to mention we had another special guest for this video. This guy behind me is actually my children's father Georgie. Hopefully he can be in the next video by guys." Pressing the stop record button I put the camera back in my bag.

Maya spun in her chair and jumped straight out rushing over to him so excited. "Daddy!"

"Hey baby girl." He opened his arms, getting down on his knees and hugging her tightly with a laugh. He ran one hand through her hair lifting his gaze up to mine.

I crossed my arms over my chest glaring at him once he had gotten up to his feet standing in front of me. "What are you doing here, Georgie? I thought I made my feelings for you perfectly clear."

"I tried to call you last night but you didn't answer.  I came to fix what we had. I want us to be together again like how we used to be." He shrugged his shoulders with a half smile watching our daughter sit back down with her aunt Penny and her brother.

I shake my head just staring at him for a few seconds. "I doubt we can ever be what we were, Georgie." He focused his gaze on mine and we just stayed there looking at one another, not having seen each other for eight years.

I wasn't sure how long I had been staring at the science homework that was due the next morning.  We had an exam coming up at the end of the week....and I felt so unprepared which was not a normal thing for me.

One concern that I was fearing had happened.  I had missed some of our lessons in class because of my morning sickness.  

Dropping my face in my hands I screamed sitting on the bed in the garage before the door creaked opened.  Slowly lifting my face upward I sniffed through tears seeing Georgie come inside.  "Hey darlin' have you seen an old hair dryer in here.  The one in the house just broke on me."

"No.  I - uh haven't." I wiped my hand underneath my nose.

Georgie started looking through boxes until he noticed that I was sniffing for some reason so he turned slightly to the side.  "Why are you crying?"

"Because I can't finish this homework and I'm totally going to fail our science exam on Friday." I screamed up into the ceiling throwing my face in my hands starting to cry once more.

Georgie crossed the room sitting down on the edge of the bed mattress, wrapping his arms around my body and bringing me against his chest.  "We're gonna get through this."

"How?" I mumbled into his black guns and roses tea shirt.

He moved one hand through my hair,  seeing me lift my head up from his chest while I let some tears fall.  "I don't know.  But I'm gonna fix this.  I hate seeing you upset."

"Well we're gonna need a miracle for me to pass this exam." I nervously responded.  My boyfriend got up from his spot on the bed rummaging around in the boxes like he was when he was looking for the hair dryer.   Hugging my knees up to my chin I closely watched him till he paused coming upon a white box.  "What did you find?"

He removed the lid smirking lightly, holding it up in front of his chest showing it off.  "Sheldon's tests."

"Miracles really can happen." I slumped my shoulders in relief when he came back over jumping up behind me on the bed with the box.  He shuffled around the papers finding the one that I needed to hand it to me until I grabbed his wrist stopping him.  "Wait a second.  I've never cheated before.  What if I get caught?"

"Then it's your lucky day you're dating the master." Georgie grins and I slightly wished he wasn't that proud of it.

Laying my head on his shoulder I smiled.  "So what do I do exactly?"

"The smart cheater gets some answers wrong." Georgie chuckled into my hair.

Turning his chin towards me I connected our lips in a simple kiss.  "Thank you."

"I just got a great idea.  We could secretly sell my brother's tests for five bucks and become quick rich."

I scolded him.  "Georgie."

"We're going to need the extra money when you can't work at the sporting store when the baby gets closer to being born.  Plus I know half of the people in our school don't bother studying. And Sheldon just left them to get dusty in a box."

I corrected his last statement.  "He started college.  He didn't run away."

"So is that a no?" Georgie asked with a weak smile.

Taking the paper test from his hands I wrapped my arms around his neck and he snacked his own.  We just remained that way for a few minutes till I answered his question.  "I don't know what I would do if I didn't have you in my life."

"You'll never know what it feels like cause once I see something I want I don't stop till I get it." He drew his head back showing me his scared right wrist where I held mine right next to his smiling fondly.  "And we're always gonna be best friends no matter what comes our way."

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Rubbing the sleep from my eyes I rolled over towards the window. I saw the sun was just starting to come through the window curtains. Looking around the room I noticed the Guns & Roses poster and that's when I realized I wasn't in my room. Quickly dropping my gaze downward I remembered the night before the second I saw I wasn't wearing anything underneath the covers. "Georgie…Shit. Georgie, wake up. We're late for school." I started shaking him trying to get him up seeing it was almost 8: 30am and we had class at 9am.

"Mmm." He made some noise but made no move of getting up for school and just put his bare back to my view.

Grabbing the pillow out from under me I smacked him across the head with it calling his name again thankful that we locked the bedroom before we slept together for the first time last night. "George Marshall Cooper wake up!"

"Huh what…oh morning darlin'." He rubbed his eyes after feeling the pillow hit his head so he rolled over to face me trying to snuggle into me and go to sleep. "I didn't hurt ya too bad last night right. Cause I rather enjoyed it."

Laying the pillow in my lap I tilted his chin up to meet mine needing him to realize we were late. "It was so good last night but we are going to be late for class if we don't get up right now."

"Oh crap!" Georgie finally figured out what was rolling and fought to get out of the tangled blankets. He grabbed his jeans and fell on the floor while putting them on.

Climbing out of the bed I remembered that I couldn't wear the same shirt from school that I wore last night. Whipping my head around I shrugged my jeans on eyeing Georgie. "I need to borrow one of your shirts."

"Here ya go. We can take my Meemaw's car." He responded by tossing me a shirt that I quickly throw on. Grabbing our bags we thankfully didn't have to deal with his family since the house was empty. We ran across the street and he found the spare key to get in her house.

Tapping my foot nervously Georgie quietly looked around but couldn't find her keys where she normally kept them. "What are we gonna do, Georgie?"

"We could just skip class." I launched a couch pillow at his head when he suggested that yet he ducks and the pillow knocked over the toaster and made a loud noise. Georgie teased me raising himself upright again. "Now you've gone and done it, Y/n."

"You made me do it. We can’t miss the math test today." I whispered a scold back to my boyfriend.

"What the hell are you two doing in my house?" We both snapped our heads around seeing Connie standing at the bottom of the stairs twirling her keys in her hands still in her sleep clothes.

Running my hand throughout my hair I dropped my shoulders not expecting her to be there. “Connie, I’m sorry but we need your car to get to school on time.”

“You two must have had fun last night. I take it. I’m surprised you could keep it in your pants that long.” She scoffed eyeing her older grandson while I just turned a deep red avoiding her gaze,

Georgie took my hand in his. “Can we just borrow your car? Y/n is freaking out about missing class. But I know she liked what we did last night too.”

“Fine. Just don’t scratch it.” Connie tossed him the keys, turning to leave us but she paused at the stairs. “Oh and I won’t tell your parents what I know about you two. God knows what the people of this town would think if you got pregnant.” She left and we did make it to school with neither of us thinking how our lives would never be the same after last night.

Rain hit the windows of the house hard and there was thunder coming in while I saw the girls and Montana sadly looking out the window. Entering the room and coming out of the kitchen I sighed knowing we were supposed to go camping with Missy and her kids. “I’m sorry guys. But we can’t go when it is storming like this outside. So no camping trip this weekend.”

“But mommy!” Montana whined sliding off the top of the couch and sitting down.

Eve turned her head eyeing the driveway. “When will dad get home if it’s storms?”

“What are we doing instead?” Aurora asked finally the secluded before my phone started ringing from the bedroom. I left the kids waiting going to answer my phone without them hearing me.

"Hello, who is this?" I hadn't bothered to look at the caller ID.

"Y/n, this is Sheldon Cooper. My sister told me you were supposed to go camping but it's gonna rain. So Ami is making me - uh suggested that we all come play dungeons and dragons over at your house since we will be heading back to California in the morning." The genius explained to me.

Sitting down on the bed I could hear the rain getting worse outside and then I heard Eve scream through cheers. "Daddy's home!"

"I'll talk with Georgie. But that sounds like fun." I responded hanging up the phone going back into the living room.

Coming around the corner I saw Georgie racing around the room carrying Eve on his shoulders with her cackling in such joy. Aurora and Montana were hot on his boots laughing too until he caught sight of me gently laying down on the couch and sitting his youngest daughter down in the process. He came over to me putting one hand on my hip and I leaned forward kissing him. "You're brother called me."

"Oh he huh…what about this time?" He broke the kiss and responded down to me.

Tilting my head towards the kids on the couch. "Ami said we should play d and d with them tonight since we can't take the kids camping."

"I'd rather just spend the night with y'all then entertain my brother." He shrugged his shoulders, but I knew he cared slightly about hie young brother.

Sending him a glare. "George Marshall Cooper."

"Fine, tell him they can come over." He caved in knowing that I would win in the end.

It was an hour before they showed up and Sheldon brought in pretty much the entire board game and everything we needed for it. But I knew he never jokes about what he cares about…like ever. His mother Mary, Connie, Amy carrying baby Leonard and Missy came inside first before we saw Sheldon. Georgie had ordered pizza for the night thankfully before the storm had gotten any worse. He sat the boxes down on the kitchen table hugging his sister first. “Hey Missy, where are the kids tonight?”

“Oh I let them spend the night with their daddy even though momma didn’t agree.” She embraced him in a hug and then we hugged where I felt her mother eyeing us.

Mrs. Cooper stands off to the side. “I don’t entirely like this game but I am happy that we are all spending time together.”

“Oh calm down. My moon pie will be perfectly fine.” Connie entered the kitchen going to the fridge looking for a drink. “Do ya got any beer?”

“Back of the fridge. Did Sheldon get stuck in the car or something?” I glanced around the room confused as to why he wasn’t in the house yet.

Montana was attempting to play with baby Leonard and Amy sitting on the couch. And I heard footsteps coming down the hallway showing that Aurora and Evelyn were wearing caps and did their best to look like D & D outfits of their own. “Mommy, look at it. I’m a thief.” She had one of my jackets on so it looked like a cloak, a bandana hung around her neck, with some brown boots.

“Rogue princess.” Eve twirled in her boots wearing her Leia dress that we bought for Halloween. Paired with the Indiana Jones whip her sister got and she had a blue tiara on her head.

Clasping my hands together I grinned with Georgie grabbing himself a piece of pizza. “You guys look great. Now we’re just waiting on-“

“Dungeons and Dragons!” The front door got kicked open causing everyone to turn their head at the sound of it hitting the wall. Sheldon holds up the box of stuff for the game wearing a shirt that reads ‘ I am the Dungeon Master ‘.

Aurora and Eve ran straight to their uncle Sheldon. “Dungeons and Dragons, Uncle Sheldon!”

Mary, Connie and Amy sat around the table with Missy but decided not to play. So that left me, Georgie, Sheldon, Aurora and Eve playing the game. Sheldon was obviously the dungeon master of the four of us. “So you first create your character. This is the list Thief, Druid, paladin, wizard and Barbarian.”

“I’ll be a Wizard.” I held my hand up taking a bite out of my pizza, setting it down on my plate in front of me.

Missy chuckled while talking with a mouthful full of pizza. “I was a Ninja Turtle Princess of Power when we played. Do you remember that Shely?”

“I remember everything. Now who is everyone’s character going to be?” He responded by waiting to start his favorite game sooner rather than later.

Evelyn throws her hands up in the air. “Thief!”

“Thief.” Aurora said, throwing her hood up over head and gesturing to our family. “See I am dressed up like one and everything.”

Georgie ran a hand through his curls. “I’m confused about most of this game but what in the world of dungeons and dragons is a Paladin?”

“A paladin is a holy knight who crusades in the name of good.” Sheldon explains to his brother.

Mary smiled, clasping her hands together. “A god to fight the demons.”

“I guess I’ll be that.” Georgie leans back in his chair.

It had been an hour since we started the game and we all had been having some fun with the game he had created for us. Sheldon held his notebook up where we couldn’t see what he had written down next making it more interesting. “You come face to face with an Ogre who declares you shall die. He has a vault full of treasure that you have sought to gain. What do you do?”

“I draw my sword and try to attack it.” Georgie said quickly.

“You’re supposed to be the good guy and not be violent.” Sheldon corrected him.

My husband held his hands up glaring at him. “You didn’t let me finish. Y/n attempts to attack it but it tries to kill her so then I attack it to rescue her.”

“You don’t decide what happens the dungeon master does.” He fought back.

Eve reached for the dice in the middle of the table. “I say we steal whatever matters most to the Ogre.”

Aurora and I stared at one another thinking of a team strategy since the other two are just picking random things during most of the night. Throwing a fist in the air Aurora called out. “Mom uses her magic and casts a sleep spell on the Ogre while I steal the treasure he was keeping in the vault.”

“You…defeat the Ogre and gain the treasure.” Sheldon rolls the dice getting a sixteen. Everyone cheers before Sheldon holds his hands up, calming us all down. “Hold on, hold on, before he dies the Ogre mutters out with a smile “I enjoyed playing with my family”.

Rushing over I hugged Sheldon laughing and he slowly hugged me back instead of just hesitating because he actually tightly hugged me back. “Awe Sheldon. Thank you for doing this.”

“You’re welcome, Y/n. Now we need to discuss why you let Batman, Princess Leia and Indiana Jones all be in the same household. I’ve told you they aren’t even close to being in the same universe.”

He broke the hug scolding me, making me chuckle. Georgie and our daughters who all gave me a shocked look. “I tried to warn y’all.”

Montana ran in the room holding the Twister board up to our view. “Can we play this now?”

“Oh yeah but I am doing the board spinner.” Connie got up from her chair heading back to the kitchen.

Everyone else headed into the living room to start the next game leaving me and Georgie alone for a moment. He wrapped his arms around me from behind until I spun around draping my arms over his shoulders smiling. “Maybe you were right that it can be fun to play with my brother. Cause I actually had some fun.”

“That’s good and I’m glad you trust my judgment Georgie. And you should know for certain that I always love you.” Leaning up on my toes he leans down kissing me softly. Running one hand through his hair I deepened the kiss until we needed air. “Always have and always will.”

Georgie grinned ear to ear, squeezing me against his chest, both arms wrapped around the middle of my waist. “I love you too, Y/n. Truly cause you never saw me as dumb.”

“Daddy, mommy. Come play with us!” Montana called from the other room so we separated and headed to join our family.

Pushing the stroller through the grocery store I had our kids with us shopping for their Halloween costumes while Georgie was holding down the store. Going down the isle of costumes Montana was sitting inside the cart with the girls walking beside me. Evelyn rushed forward spotting a star wars costume of Princess Leia. She tugged on the bottom of the package since she wasn't tall enough. "Mommy, can I get this one?"

"Sure. I'll have to find you a headband that has her hairstyle though." Tossing the package in the cart we kept moving forward.

Aurora scanned the pictures until she found one that looked like a female version of Indiana Jones. "Mom, look at this. I want this one."

"Alright. What is it, Montana?" He was tugging on my shirt a little harshly trying to get my attention.

Shifting my gaze forward I saw his tiny fingers were grabbing a hold of a batman package. "Bat…bat."

"Oh I get it." I nodded grabbing both costumes until something came to my mind making me chuckle at my son and my youngest daughter. "You know you're uncle Sheldon won't like it that Leia and Batman are friends. Since they're from two different franchises…but don't worry we're still getting them."

Walking up to the woman at the cash register she eyed me and my three kids clearly remembering who I was. And I remembered who her parents were too. Her mom helped George Sr when Missy had her first period and now I was interacting with her teenage daughter. "My mom knew you. You’re the girl who had a kid before she was married. You slept with that Cooper boy. Not the smart one, but his brother."

"Can I just check out please." I changed the subject, putting my items on the table for her. "Are you excited for Halloween tomorrow?"

The girl nodded seeing the kids costumes they'd picked out. "Yes I am. Oh and you’re kids are adorable…"

I could she wanted to say more than that but I handed her the money and grabbed our stuff quickly before she could say more. "Happy…Halloween." Montana called out to her as I held him in one arm, carrying the bag in my other.

"Bye." Evelyn waved to the cashier woman with Aurora following behind her.

Putting the bag in the truck and Montana in his carseat in the back with Evelyn I got in the driver's seat. Aurora got in the front with me looking over at me where I was almost crying. "Mom, are you gonna cry?"

"Uh…no. I'm fine." I sniffed some tears back using my jacket sleeve to stop them. But my other hand gripped the steering wheel knowing that this still shouldn't affect how people in this town saw us. Turning the engine of the car on I started driving home not saying anything until we got back. "Mommy is totally fine. I just remember that woman's mother is all. Now let’s go carve pumpkins."

The girls went around and covered the kitchen table with newspapers. I had their costumes hanging in the laundry room. Montana was in his highchair eating some Mac and cheese so I could help the girls with their pumpkins. The front door opened when I cut off the top of one of them, seeing Georgie. "Hey honey, how was the store today?"

"Pretty good. I managed to sell almost 100 tires in an hour." He shrugged off his leather jacket hanging it on the hook by the door.

He walks over the second I sat the knife down on the table and he spun me around so that he could kiss me which caused Eve and Montana tp make disused noises. Breaking the kiss I put a hand on my hip so they knew I was serious. "Be nice or daddy and I won't help you carve pumpkins."

After the kids ate their lunch we got straight to work. Georgie started pulling out some of the seeds and then let the kids each do it on their own. "This is so gross.." Aurora said pulling out a huge handful and putting it on the newspaper.

"Rora, Rora think fast." Evelyn suddenly launched a handful of pumpkins skin and seeds at her sister’s face.

It got all over her face and even in her hair where she grumbled going into the bathroom. "Seriously Eve. Act your age."

"I'm this many." Montana held up two fingers showing me and Georgie.

Georgie held down his hand to his son's level giving him a high five. "That's my little man."

"Eve, I told you don’t make too much of a mess or no TV before bed tonight." Sending a raised brow to my daughter she looked at the ground sadly.

"Sorry Mommy." She apologized.

Kissing her forehead I heard my phone going off in the other room. Moving to grab it I could see that it was a video call coming in from Penny. Clinking the answer button I waved. "Hi Penny, what's up girl?"

"Leonard and I decided to have a Halloween party and you guys haven't seen the baby yet. So why don't you come up for the weekend?" She suggested it to me.

Georgie and Evelyn were laughing when I looked in their direction seeing that the pair were throwing some pumpkin guts at Montana but weren't making as much of a mess as earlier with Aurora. Turning my attention back to the blonde I responded. "That sounds great, Penny. We should be able to make the trip. I'll let you know if something changes. I'll talk to you later." Hanging up the phone and laying it on the table going back over to the trio.

"Hey honey, what was Penny calling about?" Georgie asked, walking over to me putting a hand on my hip tugging me close to his chest, sending me a smile.

Draping my arms around his neck I grinned up to my husband leaving up on my toes to give him a kiss. "She wants us to come up to California for a Halloween party where they are having to meet their baby, Wyatt."

"I think that's doable, darling." He responded by kissing the crown of my head.

Aurora came back from the bathroom finally wiping off the mess that her sister had covered her in. "Eve, no more pumpkin launching at me. I'll do marshmallow fights but not with pumpkins."

"Okay…sissy." Eve responded simply.

Montana reached inside the pumpkin on his own baby one that we had bought him. "Here we go, little man." Georgie came back over taking the knife carving a smile into his pumpkin.

"Can I have fangs on mine, dad. That would be school." Aurora questions her father sitting back down on the kitchen barstool by her pumpkin watching him carve.

Her father nodded in agreement finishing the carving. "There's some rocking fangs, Rora. Eve, what do you want?"

"One with rounded eyes and mouth." She clapped her hands together.

It was a few hours before sunset before we could put out the pumpkins. The kids were heading to bed by the time I had cleaned the kitchen and threw away the newspapers covered in pumpkins guts. Georgie was sitting on the couch in front of the TV tuning into a football game. "How was your day, Y/n?" He lifted his right arm allowing me to snuggle up against him once I laid down.

"Pretty good. Hopefully since Halloween is on a Friday the kids will go to bed for most of Saturday to give us time to rest." I sighed in relief meeting his soft brown eyes running one hand through his curls, seeing him send me a soft expression. "But I did feel off when the teenage girl working at the gas station recognized me. I remember her mom from when Missy had her first lady mouth."

"I bet that would be weird. Like seeing my mom at the Tire store or at the laundromat we used to work at." Georgie got lost in thought. "That would be super odd if I saw any of our kids working where we used to work."

Laying my head back down on his chest I intertwined my freehand with his. "Even though it's hard living in a small town where everyone knows everyone, I do enjoy it here. And I know the kids do too. What about you, Georgie?"

"I wouldn't change anything cause I get you and our beautiful babies." He tucked some loose hair behind my ear watching my eyes begin to fall closed from the lack of sleep. He felt my body falling against him where he slowly got to his feet picking me up bridal style, carrying me to our bedroom. He crawled in the bed beside me mumbling when I peaked my eyes open slightly. "I love you so much, Y/n Cooper."

"I love you too, Georgie." Squeezing his hand in mine I buried my face against his chest when he wrapped his arms around my waist letting me fall asleep in his arms.