Page 46 of Terms + Conditions
“Never,” Selena swoons, her dark brown hair falling over her shoulder as she smiles up at him. “It was completely out of nowhere, though.” Elijah protests, but she pushes back. “I walked into your apartment, and you just…blurted it out. Out of nowhere!”
“There’s more to it than that,” Elijah says and rolls his eyes, taking the final sip of his beer, and Selena quirks her thick brow in a manner that says she still doesn’t believe him. “It was a Saturday morning. You had just walked in from your yoga session and you brought back donuts from our favorite bakery by the studio. When you walked in, it put everything in place…You had turned my apartment into a home—our home—and seeing you in there felt right. I knew I had fallen in love with you.So yeah, maybe I just blurted it out, but I didn’t want to wait to tell you. I wanted you to know right then and there.”
Elijah pulls her to him again, pressing a soft kiss to her lips and then her temple before she settles back into his side.
I’m happy for them. Happy they were able to make it work. Selena isn’t the only one who has dealt with some bad relationships in the past. Elijah has had his fair share too. The girl he had just broken up with before our wedding had more than one screw loose if you know what I mean. Let’s just say there was a car involved when he broke up with her—do with that information what you will.
“Remember when you told me you loved me?” Georgie bats her eyelashes up at her husband, snuggling a little closer to him.
“I do,” he says with a small smile, but that’s his only reaction.
“Trust me, we all do.” Elizabeth shudders at the thought.
Yes, we do, unfortunately. Noah had never said he loved Georgie until the day he proposed. He popped the question on the beach outside his parents’ house, and needless to say, they spent the day locked away in their bedroom. The rest of us did our best to steer clear of that part of the house, including Selena, who ended up sleeping on the couch downstairs that night instead of in her room next to them.
“You guys are so dramatic.” Georgie scoffs.
“Tell that to my trauma,” Lola argues.
“Oh, Noah! Noah! Yes!” Selena imitates just some of what we heard that day if we dared enter the house.
“Right thereeeeee!” Lola and Elizabeth add before they fall into a fit of giggles. Georgie rolls her eyes before smiling at her husband, who stares off into the darkness of the sideyard.
“What about you two?” Elijah asks Jeremy. “Have you said it yet?”
“He said it pretty quick, actually,” Lola says, taking a sip of wine.
“Hey, when you know, you know.” Jeremy shrugs and pushes a strand of strawberry-blonde hair to the side so he can rub her back. “I won’t say it was love at first sight, but pretty damn close. And when I saw her with my daughter…that sealed the deal.”
“Don’t let her fool you, Jeremy. She called us not long after meeting you and said she was head over heels for you,” Selena says, earning awhat the fucklook from Lola. “What was it you said, Lo? Oh right, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life with that man.’” She adds a swoon-worthy sigh for extra dramatics.
“Oh really?” Jeremy’s brow arches, smirking at his girlfriend.
“When you know, you know, right?” Lola shrugs and smiles when he kisses her.
It makes me even more curious about what could have driven such a wedge between them amid the chaos of the stalker situation.
“How old is your daughter?” Elizabeth asks.
“Gabby is six. Her mother and I realized pretty quickly after we got married that we weren’t meant to be together. We’re far better as friends,” Jeremy says as Lola absentmindedly plays with his fingers, eventually lacing their hands together.
“Shay is a great mom, though,” she adds. “It’s nice to have a good co-parenting situation instead of the alternative.”
“You’re one of those super secret romantics, aren’t you, Jeremy?” Elijah says, pointing his finger toward the actor. “I can see it.”
Jeremy laughs in return. “I may have rented out her favorite restaurant with a violinist and a shit ton of roses for the occasion.”
“I knew it! You just have that vibe.”
“What about you two?” Jeremy asks me. “Surely, Mr. and Mrs. Perfect have a great story of how you knew you were in love.”
Elizabeth and I share a sheepish glance before Georgie answers for us. “Everyone knows their story. Well, I guess everyone but you, Jeremy.”
Lola rolls her eyes. “Josh and Liz have been together longer than all of us put together, and they’ll be together until the end of time.”
“Oh, we have not.” Elizabeth scoffs.
“Have so! You’ve been together for what, ten years at this point?”
