This month is dedicated to one book in particular and the good quotes.... 🙃 This scene is from the bonus chapter at the end of a long small town story of trauma and family tie-dyes... Happy endings!!
"On cue, the front door was wrenched open from the inside.
“Your father and I have been climbing the walls all day,” Amanda announced, hands on hips. I spotted Lou in the living room, watching TV with Nash and Lucian.
“Just your mother. I’ve been very calm,” Lou yelled.
“What’s this big news?” Stef asked, coming up behind my mother-in-law.
“Yeah? Why all the secrecy?” my brother’s wife wanted to know.
“Did you bring dinner?” my grandmother demanded, appearing next to them.
“Is this about Waylay’s soccer scholarship?” Wraith asked. No matter how long it went on, I still couldn’t get used to the biker dating my grandmother. Even though they seemed to make each other deliriously happy.
“Uh, guys,” Jeremiah said, squeezing Stef’s shoulder.
Sloane peeked over Amanda’s shoulder as I stepped aside. “Look,” she breathed.
Amanda noticed first. Her scream of joy brought Lou, Nash, and Lucian tearing out of the den, looking for a threat. It also woke the baby, who was not pleased about being screamed awake.
Fi came trundling out of the kitchen.
“What the hell is all the screaming—” She cut herself off with a blood-curdling scream of her own.
“Babies!” Amanda sobbed as Waylay handed over the crying Gillian to her. “We have babies!”
“Come to Grandpa,” Lou said, holding his hands out to Bridget. “I promise I’ll always have candy for you.” She balked shyly for a moment, but the word candy worked its magic, and she reached for him.
If I wasn’t mistaken, my father-in-law had to choke back a sob of his own.
“Look how perfect she is,” Amanda said to Sloane as she tickled the baby’s tiny fingers.
“Now, I get why you were texting me with all those girl hair questions,” Jeremiah said with a grin.
I’d been pumping him for the best products and styling techniques because my daughters were going to have the best hair in Knockemout.
Waylay’s boyfriend, Theo, stepped forward and pulled her into his side. I glared at him, but it didn’t have the heat it usually did. “Theo,” I said.
I was definitely losing my touch because he didn’t drop his arm from my daughter’s shoulders.
Naomi elbowed me in the ribs.
“Dad, behave,” Waylay said, rolling her eyes.
Liza was holding Gillian now, and Nash was juggling Bridget, making her belly laugh.
“Well, I think this calls for pizza,” Amanda decided. “Lucian, you order it. Lou, go get Knox’s measuring tape.”
“You and the menfolk are going to go measure the girls’ bedrooms so we can get started on the nurseries. Ladies, to the wine cabinet. We have colors and themes to pick, daycares to research, and shopping lists to make,” Amanda ordered.
“I’m going with the womenfolk,” Stef decided. He paused and gave Jeremiah a kiss on the mouth.
“Save me a glass,” his husband called after him.
Naomi gave me a squeeze around the waist. “I love you, Knox Morgan,” she whispered.
I never got tired of hearing it.
“Love you, baby.” She slipped out of my grasp, and I watched her follow the women into the dining room, her dress flowing around her ankles.
- Things We Never Got Over (Lucy Score)
