Chapter Fourteen

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

LEIGH: I’m pretty sure I agreed to go out with Luca.

INDIE: Fuck yes.

WILLOW: Like on a date?

LEIGH: It’s not a date.

LEIGH: But he did say he wants to fuck me.

INDIE: Wait what?! WHY DIDN’T YOU LEAD WITH THAT?!

LEIGH: Because I’m still freaking out.

LEIGH: I thought I’d wake up, and I don’t know, not be still freaking out. Now I have to go spend the whole day with him doing cute Christmas shit and pretend I’m not spiraling about this damn dinner.

INDIE: THIS HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AND YOU’RE JUST TELLING US NOW?!

LEIGH: Focus Indie. What do I do?

INDIE: If the answer isn’t obvious, I think we have a bigger problem.

LEIGH: INDIE.

WILLOW: Do you not want to sleep with him?

LEIGH: Me, a woman who hasn’t been laid in over two years? Yes. Me, Zach’s mom? Not so much. It seems too messy if he’s the father.

WILLOW: Still no word on the paternity test?

LEIGH: He only sent it off yesterday. He’s rich but not that rich.

INDIE: Do you want him to be Zach’s dad?

LEIGH: No.

LEIGH: Yes.

LEIGH: I don’t know. He’s really good with Zach, and he’s done his best to mostly respect my boundaries. He’s committed to co-parenting. And his friends are amazing. Basically, on paper he’s perfect.

WILLOW: But…

LEIGH: He’s still a Donati.

WILLOW: Did he tell you the whole story?

LEIGH: No. But why do I get the feeling he told you?

WILLOW: I might have demanded he explain himself when he asked how to prepare for Zach.

LEIGH: AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME.

INDIE: She wouldn’t tell me either.

WILLOW: It’s not my story to tell.

LEIGH: Bash said the same thing.

WILLOW: Go to dinner. Let him explain. If you still hate him afterwards, then don’t fuck him.

LEIGH: I never said it was dinner.

WILLOW: ………

LEIGH: Are you talking to him?!

WILLOW: Gotta go. Bishop’s mom is insisting I participate in some Lawson family tradition that involves a pickle.

INDIE: Yeah you’re definitely going to have to explain that one later. Pickles and Christmas sound fun.

INDIE: As for you, Leigh, for what it’s worth, he seems like he’s trying. But I’m also just saying you don’t have to love him to fuck him. You don’t even have to like him.

LEIGH: Isn’t that what got us here in the first place?

INDIE: Just don’t get knocked up this time.

LEIGH: middle finger emoji

INDIE: Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.

LEIGH: That isn’t saying much.