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God, I love this girl. “Come here Bug.” I open my arms and she rushes over and wraps her tiny arms around me.

“How ‘bout we invite Aunt Quinn over and have a girl’s night tonight?”

“Yay! Can we make cupcakes?”

“It wouldn’t be a girl’s night without cupcakes would it?” I ask and she giggles and shakes her head.

Me:Girls night! Get your butt over here

Quinn:Awesome!! Be there soon!

“Alright Bug, Quinn will be here soon. Let’s go get our jammies on.”

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Thirty minuteslater Violet and I are sitting in the living room waiting on Quinn, when she comes barging in.

“Honey! I’m home!” she calls dramatically, and Violet and I giggle.

“In the living room!” I call back.

She walks into the room with a bag in her hand and I raise my eyebrow at her in question.

She raises the bag, “I’ve brought chocolate and popcorn!”

“Yay! I love chocolate and popcorn!” Violet gasps, “Can we mix the chocolate and the popcorn?!”

“Ummm... of course, we can! That’s thebestway to eat popcorn you know,” I explain to my daughter. “Alright Vi, you go pick out a movie, and Aunt Quinn and I will get the popcorn and snacks.”

Quinn and I walk into the kitchen, and I pull her across the room to the pantry. “Oh my god, I have to talk to you! Shit went down today Quinn!” I whisper shout at her.

“What? Why are you freaking out right now?”

“Well, my day pretty much started with Hudson professing his love for me and kissing me like he would die if he didn’t kiss me right that second.”

“OH MY GOD!” she whisper shouts back. “What else? What did you do? For the love of god don’t stop there!”

I suppress my laughter, but just barely, “I kissed him back of course! Then he tried to tell me Nate and the twins felt the same way, and I didn’t believe him. So, he closed the bakery and took me to their house, where the three of them were waiting for us. They all told me they’ve loved me our whole lives and proceeded to kiss the ever-loving fuck out of me.”

She sighs dramatically, “it’s about damn time! I told those idiots they should have told you before you went off to college. Did they listen to me? Nooooo.”

“Oh, shut up!” I stick my tongue out at her. “Do you wanna hear the rest or not?”

“What? There’s more?!”

“Ummm yeah, I haven’t told you about the orgy we had in their living room,” I tease her.

“Shut up! No, you didn’t!”

“Oh my god Quinn! Of course, I didn’t! There was a child sleeping upstairs!”

“Oh damn. I forgot about Logan for a minute,” she chuckles. “Well, what the fuck else happened then woman?! Tellll meeee!” She grabs me by my shoulders and shakes me.

“Okay, okay, calm down woman!” I laugh at her excitement. She understands how big a deal this is. “Not much. Just made out with three guys one after the other. Only stopping when it started getting a little too hot and heavy. Then Hudson took me on our first date.”

“No way! Damn girl, you move fast. Well not if you count the twenty years y’all have all been secretly in love with each other, but still,” she smirks at me. “So where did Hudson take you on your very first date?”

“This amazing winery, about an hour outside of town. It was so much fun. We need to go for a tasting sometime and have a girl’s day.”

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