polyandry • jordan poole & juan toscano-anderson

twelve: laying down the foundation

Juan
Coach cancelled practice at the last minute which is great because I just wanted to chill at the house. The other day has been on my mind heavy to the point where I'm having trouble sleeping. We haven't discussed further details on our situation, but I think today will be a good day to have that discussion. As I walk in the kitchen, I see Sydney dressed sipping on her ice coffee.

"You gotta go to the office", I say sadly.

"Yeah but only for a little bit though. You want to come with?

"Yeah of course", I smile.

I barely get to spend alone time with Sydney because I'm always doing other stuff or hanging out at my mom's house. When she asked I was going to take advantage of this time. She places tinfoil around what I am assuming is Jordan's plate and places it in the oven.

"Let me just text Jordan's phone real quick and we'll be ready to go."

Thanos runs up to me and I pick him up to give him some love.

"You already took him for a walk?"

"Yeah and he already had his breakfast so him, Kai, and Kota are good."

She grabs her backpack and purse while I sit Thanos down so we can head out. Sydney stares back at Thanos and he stares back tilting his head to the side.

"You want to bring him with us do you?"

"I do", she pouts.

Grabbing his harness and leash, Thanos immediately runs over jumping up on my legs. Once they are on and secured we are ready to go. Jordan took training Thanos into his own hands and I will say I am impressed. All he does is play so it's surprising to see him take something so serious and stick with it. For how young Thanos is he is a very well behaved boy.

At the Oracle Office...

I should've just stayed home because I'm bored as fuck. Sydney's office is nice and she has a lot of things in here such as video games, puzzles, color books, and many more things. She tends to take breaks while she's working so it's understandable why she has all this stuff in here. Plus her job is very chill. These niggas got a room where you can just scream in and then she was telling me that they be having yoga sessions and a on-site therapist.

My phone rings and Jordan's picture pops up causing me to quickly answer.

"Yo."

"Where did y'all go and where my son at?"

"We went to Sydney's office because she had to come into work. You were still sleeping and she didn't want to bother you."

Hearing him smack his food made me roll my eyes and pull the phone away from my ear. Jordan is a cool guy and all but sometimes his immature side overpowers his everyday personality.

"Bro stop smacking."

"Says the nigga that smacks every time he shoved some food down his throat."

Yeah he got me.

"Ok but at least I don't smack when I'm on the phone with people."

"Alright well I'm going to head to the gym incase I'm not back when y'all get here."

"Cool have a nice workout your shot hasn't been hitting lately."

Before a rebuttal left his big ass mouth I click the red button before shoving my iPhone into my pocket. On que Syd removes her headphones from her ears and gives me a small smile.

"You hungry?"

"Is that a rhetorical question?"

"Come one let's go downstairs to the new Cava spot they put down there.