Page 65 of Just (Fake) Married
A Few WeeksAfter the Wedding
Seth: Guess what I just found out?
Mac: The earth is round?
Seth: Is that supposed to be a joke, little brother? You remember what happened the last time you tried to make a joke at my expense?
Mac: Yeah, but you have a bum leg, so I figure I’ve got a chance.
Seth: Then I’d be a one legged ass-kicker.
Tag: Why am I on this group chat? I’m not a McGraw.
Mac: You’re honorary.
Tag: Can I get out of it?
Mac: No
Carter: SETH! WHAT DID YOU HEAR?
Seth: Ethan’s already knocked up his fake wife. With twins. Which makes sense. Harmony always had a very fine ass.
Ethan: Don’t talk about Harmony’s ass.
Seth: Ha! So, is this true? Have you gone from fake to fucking already?
Ethan: How’d you hear this?
Seth: A trucker at the bar heard it from a waitress in Big Horn, who heard it from her cousin who teaches at the school in Last Hope.
Carter: And you believed that?
Seth: Hey, I’m just trying to reconcile what I heard with what you all told me. I thought this marriage was just for show.
Ethan: It is.
Seth: So you didn’t knock her up?
Ethan: Of course not!
Mac: They barely speak to each other.
Ethan: We speak…when she’s not avoiding me.
Carter: Best you avoid each other. It will be cleaner when this all ends.
Eli McGraw has left the chat
Ethan McGraw has added Eli McGraw to the chat
I stood justinside the bathroom door and waited for the sound of her door opening.
After a few days of listening for it, I’d detected a pattern.
Around seven in the morning, the goose started honking, and about thirty minutes after that, she would emerge from her bedroom in a storm of noise and animal chaos to head downstairs. It’s like the woman was late for life every single day. There was a coffee pot set to an auto timer, which I’d deviously turned off last night.
So if I didn’t catch her coming out of the shower, I’d have a second chance to catch her in the kitchen while she was forced to make coffee.
