𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 • 𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚎

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I don't ever remember having to clean being so exhausting. Finn, Lexie, and Scarlett were coming over today to do our whole "reunion" thing--it's not even really a reunion, more of an old time high school sleepover. I was running around like an absolute crazy person when Sam came into the living room where I was cleaning. 

"A.J...what are you doing?" I quickly glanced over at him. "Oh, well, Finn, Lexie, and Scarlett are coming over today and we are having a sleepover, but it's just us four, so you need to go...somewhere. I don't care where." I thought for a moment. "Oo! Go see your brother and sister. You haven't even talked about them for as long as we've been back. They adore you, Sam. It's good to go and see them." I told him. He just stared at me. 

"What?" 

"I...kinda...never told my parents about the whole engagement thing." 

I nearly choked on air. "You never told them? We went to dinner with my mom and Burt two days after it happened. Don't you talk to your mom every night?" He nodded slowly. "What's the catch?" He sighed. "Well, when I told your mom that I wanted to propose...she gave me her grandmother's ring, and my mom wanted me to propose with her grandmothers ring. And...I don't want her to be pissed at me." 

I rolled my eyes as I just sat on the couch. "Okay, here's what you're going to do. You're gonna call your mother. Tell her about it. Get the ring from her, I'll wear that one. I'll give this one to Finn for when he proposes, god knows when that'll be." He nodded. 

"Now, go. They're gonna be here in like ten minutes, and you cannot be here. Go to your parents house. It's not that far a drive. Okay? You use to do it all the time in high school. I know you did, mainly because you did it all the time and I use to do it with you." 

He nodded. "I love you." I told him as he walked out of the house. He rolled his eyes and smiled a little before heading out to his car and driving to his parents house. A few moments later, the doorbell rang. Finn, Lexie, and Scarlett came in after I had opened the door and ran back to what I was doing. 

"Well, hello to you too." 

"Sorry, I'm just really busy. I have regionals to prepare for and I'm trying to decide whether or not I want the bridesmaids to wear red or blue." 

They all looked at each other. "Okay, well, I don't look good in either of those colors, so pick something neutral." Scarlett said to me. I just stared at her. "I never even said you were in the wedding-" 

Scarlett smirked a little. "Am I?" I looked down. "Well see, if I say no, now I look like a bitch. But yes, you are. You have been from the beginning. Also, um, you and Lexie have to plan my bachelorette party because you two are the maid and matron of honor." 

They both looked at each other before doing a devious smirk. Finn just stared at me. "I'm not your best man?" I looked at him. "You're walking me down the aisle, isn't that enough?" 

He nodded like he agreed. The three of them went into the living room, while I finished what I had to do in the kitchen. 

Once I was all settled with what I had to do, I grabbed the bowls of food I had been preparing for the last two hours and brought them into the living room. I set them down on the table, before sitting down across from the three of them. 

"Okay, so, I don't really remember how the sleepovers went when we were back in highschool, considering the four of us didn't really have sleepovers in high school, but um...there's not really any games here...so..." 

Scarlett, Finn, and Lexie looked at each other for a moment before they looked back at me. "We could play truth or dare...that's a...sleepover game, right?" 

I nodded. "Okay, Scarlett, you ask the first person." She nodded and looked around the room before her eyes met mine. "A.J, truth or dare?" I sighed and thought for a moment. "Truth." 

"What is one thing that you have never told anyone before?" 

It took me a while before I was able to say my answer. "I'm terrified." They all stared at me. "Of what?" Lexie asked. 

"Of the future. When you're married, you're really grown. When you have a child--another life that is solely dependent on you--that's terrifying. That means you're grown. And I want it, I do. I want the house and the family and the dog. But, it's just so scary. And don't give me that look on the brightside or you just have to hope that whatever the future holds, that it's right for you, because in the end I don't care if the heavens above created my future. It's scary. And I'm just so nervous that I'm gonna screw it up. Regionals. The wedding. Hell, even my own child. I just...I see all these different people on the internet who have these great marriages and great families and great jobs even....it's just...terrifying." 

The room went silent. "Wow...that was...a lot." Finn said. "That was probably the most I've ever heard you say without being cut off." They all just sat there for a moment before I left from that dark place I was just in and went back to being me. 

"Okay, um...Finn, truth or dare?"