Page 42 of Two Minutes for Holding

LUCAS: Is it Knox?? Is Lorelai pregnant??? We can’t have both our therapists off on mat leave at the same time. The team will fall apart. My knee has been acting up again. She’s the only one who knows how to treat it.

CLAY: Any therapist can treat a knee…don’t panic…

KNOX: WHAT the fuck? Don’t you fucks start spreading those types of rumors? Last thing I need is to be pulled into Larson’s office, or Thompkins office…

I glanced at my screen, my heart in my throat, when I saw Knox respond. I thought I’d grabbed the chat we’d started when Lucas was in Vegas. As I scrolled back up the screen, I saw I was wrong. I’d grabbed the wrong fucking chat. Panic filled me as I watched the conversation continue to unfold.

DYLAN: No rumor, just hypothetically guessing who might be pregnant.

KNOX: Pregnant? It’s your woman, dumbass, in case you haven’t noticed.

DYLAN: For the love of god, see what you've started, Clay.

CLAY: I started?

DYLAN: Yeah, it was your hypothetical…

LEVI: Just spill it….Who’d you knock up?

COLTON: Clay, You knocked someone up? Way to go…didn’t they teach you to wrap it before…

DYLAN: Care to share, Harris?

CLAY: I said, HYPOTHETICAL…

KNOX: Is it the girl I heard you with when we were in Vermont?

I swallowed hard as I stared at the screen. He’d heard me with a girl in Vermont? He’d heard me with Peyton? How the hell had he heard us? I seriously wanted to delete this entire set of messages and go back in time, wishing I’d sent nothing. Instead, they were like a shiver of sharks going after a meal. They wanted the goods, and while I’d tried to play it off as a hypothetical question, I should have known they’d all know it was real.

CLAY: Girl in Vermont?

I figured if I played dumb, I’d at least figure out how the hell he’d heard us.

KNOX: One of the guys mentioned he saw a woman enter your room. I’ll admit, at quick glance, he thought it was Peyton, but I know you know better than that. Plus, I’d moved rooms and was put in the room next to yours. FYI, I’m not deaf. Sounded like a hell of a good time though. Just ask Lorelai about our call that night.

DYLAN: WHOA…way too much information that none of us need to know there Evans.

LUCAS: Yeah…didn’t need to know that…

LEVI: Kill me now….

COLTON: Why did I need to read that…my eyes will never unsee those words…

DYLAN: However, Clay, this would explain the shitty games you’ve been playing. Remember how badly I played after I first found out about Aurora being pregnant?

LUCAS: Yeah, you played like shit. Probably exactly how you’ll play in a couple of weeks after the baby is born.

DYLAN: Thanks for that.

LUCAS: Just saying it like it is.

CLAY: I haven’t been playing like shit and seriously, it was hypothetical.

KNOX: Fine, provided I was in a relationship, I’d be excited as fuck. If I wasn’t, I’d probably be getting in touch with my lawyer, you know, to cover my ass from her. She could take all my damn money for support, hypothetically speaking, of course.

COLTON: Same

LUCAS: So, if I were to get someone pregnant, it would be Ella, so I have no worries.

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