Page 1 of Before I Knew

Chapter One

ASTON

Me:

Wait. Why did we make a group chat? I thought we already had a group chat? One with a name and everything.

Flynn:

We had to make a new one because somebody ruined the last one.

Dorian:

I feel like there was a little sarcasm in your pointed tone.

Hudson:

How do you hear tone in a text message?

Theo:

Oh, we read tone.

Ford:

Seriously though, why the new group chat? Do you understand how many group chats I have?

Flynn:

It’s not our fault that you decided to marry two people who had large families.

Hudson:

Greer’s is a large family with three brothers and a bunch of spouses. Noah’s family? Calling the Montgomerys large is like saying the earth is part of the solar system.

Dorian:

That wasn’t even a good analogy. You should have said something like water is wet.

Theo:

Oh, so are we making fun of Hudson’s bad analogy here? Because I’m here for it.

Me:

I still want to know why we have a new group chat. Why we’re even starting with the group chat.

Flynn:

Because Dorian added his ex to the previous group chat, and I didn’t know how to quietly remove her without notifying her.

Me:

Are you serious? She was in there the whole time.

Hudson:

You don’t just add someone to the group chat. You make a separate group chat.

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