Best Friend's Brother

Chapter Six

The phone rang right as I reached my desk. I took a deep breath and picked up after the second ring. "Hey Whit, what's up?"

"Claire, I have some amazing news!"

I hoped that her good news was good enough to cancel out the interesting news I had to tell her. "And what's this news you have to share?"

"I'm pregnant! Tyler and I are having another baby!"

I could hear the excitement in her voice and I knew this was exactly what she had wanted. "Congrats. I'm so happy for you!"

She laughed. "Thanks. I know you mean it because you always do but you sound upset about something. Was Matt a jerk last night or something? Because I might have been wrong about him not liking you anymore. He really didn't mind when I told him that he'd be spending the evening with you instead of me. In fact, I expected him to complain at least a little bit but he didn't complain at all!"

I settled into my chair and laughed. "Whit, he was great. He didn't act like a jerk at all and I really didn't mind spending the evening with him although I'd originally put up a fight about entertaining him for you. I just have something to tell you about last night."

"You are going to have to tell me all about it!" she gushed. "Obviously not right now since you're at work and I'm about to be at work but soon! I'm having lunch with Matt today so I'm going to get some of the dirt but I'm sure he won't tell me everything. I'll call you tonight after he's gone off to his hotel and then we can discuss how big of a jerk he was to you. Or how un-jerkish he was."

"Whit, I need to tell you something right now. It's about last night and I'm not sure you're going to like it."

"Go ahead. You know you can talk to me about anything."

"Maybe not this," I muttered too low for her to hear. "Are you sure? I don't want to ruin your good mood."

She laughed. "Nothing you say can ruin my mood right now."

I took a deep breath. "I kind of, maybe, sort of slept with your brother last night."

Another laugh. "So you're telling me that you got really drunk and slept in the same bed as Matt? How would that upset me?"

I shook my head even though I knew she couldn't see me. "No Whit, it was more than that. I kind of, you know, slept with Matt."

She was silent for a second. "Are you telling me you lost your virginity to my brother? The same brother that you swore you didn't have any feelings for? The boy you swore you'd never like as more than a friend."

"Yes," I said barely audibly.

She burst out laughing. "Oh my God! I never thought this would happen! I mean, I know I should have thought it was possible since my family has always wanted you together but I never thought it would actually happen!"

I was shocked by her reaction. "So you're not mad?"

"Mad? I'm happy for you! You can get together with my brother and we'll literally be sisters."

This time it was my turn to pause. "Nothing's going to happen. It was a onetime thing and he knows that. We were both really drunk and that's the only reason anything happened between us."

She sighed. "Claire, things never work out the way you expect them to. Now that Matt knows you like him at least a tiny bit he won't be willing to leave you alone."

I laughed. "I talked to him about it already and he sounded fine about it."

"That's because he's planning his next move. He is from a very sneaky family, after all. Just look at me. You just wait, he'll be seducing you from now on and you'll give in eventually."