“What kind of lame ass party you think this is? I got a reputation to uphold. Unless.” Her eyes widen and her lips stretch into a devious smirk. “He knocked you up, didn’t he?”
I shake my head. Damn Pam and her meddling and always in everyone’s business. “We can have a good time without getting shitfaced.” I swirl my straw around in the ice water my daughter pushed in front of me.
“If you say so, but this is a kid free night mind you, and I intend to take advantage.”
“My not drinking isn’t
stopping you.”
“It’s no fun to drink alone.”
Wylla Mae chews on her bottom lip and Jules looks away.
“What’s with you two?”
“Go ahead and tell her,” Pam presses then downs the shots I refused.
Jules sips her Coke. “Roane and I are having another baby. I wanted to wait until after the wedding before I said anything.” A sheepish smile crosses her features.
“And you?” I turn to my daughter.
“Um. You see...what happened was...”
“Pfft. We know what happened,” Pam cuts her off with a snort. “East couldn’t wait the six weeks after Mila was born for her to start birth control and went and knocked her up again.”
“Seriously? I thought you were planning to go back to school. I’m going to kill him. What about your plans?”
“I can still go back.”
“And who is going to be changing all these diapers while you’re at school? I tell you who it won’t be is me.”
“Wow. Some things never change.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean that. I’m just stressed from the wedding,” I lie. What the hell were James and I thinking? Wylla Mae still needs me. What will people think? Mom and daughter pregnant at the same time? I know what James will say. Fuck them. Who cares? I shouldn’t care. It’s stupid. I deserve to be happy. We deserve to be happy. “I’m pregnant too,” I blurt out. “But you can’t say anything yet. James wants to wait.”
“Fuckin’ knew it,” Pam mutters then she smiles big at me. “You bitches are gonna get on my damn nerves. I need new friends. Probably planned this shit together. Don’t think I don’t know the two of you go shopping and shit without me all the damn time.”
“You’re unbelievable,” Jules starts.
“I know I am. Link says the same thing every time I give him head.” She cackles.
“I’m starving.” I change the subject and pick up a menu. “Tonight calls for steak.”
“Now that we can agree on.”
“How are things coming along with the new house?”
“It won’t be ready until summer and James is driving me crazy at my house. The man is worse than a child. He never puts the toilet seat down and leaves the cap off the toothpaste. He leaves his deodorant on the sink. But it’s not all bad. He does the dishes.”
“And fucks you morning, noon, and night from what I hear.”
“Yes, there is that.” I grin.
“Eww. I don’t want to hear about your sex life with my father.”
“We need to plan how we are crashing Murder’s bachelor party,” Pam cuts in. “I was thinking we bring her out of one of those fake cakes.”
“Alexa pops out of a cake naked in front of his men Murder will kill us all,” Jules says.