My Best Friend's Dad || J.A.

Chapter Eight

"Someone came home late last night," Caleb comments when Calen walks into the kitchen. "Surprised I didn't hear a second party." His smirk gives away he's not talking about Astrid but Jensen.

"If he were to sleep over you wouldn't be enjoying the sounds coming from the room right next to yours." Calen fires back as she grabs a mug from the cabinet above the coffee maker. "And last time I checked, I'm not allowed to screw anyone under your roof."

"Ah, so you can listen to rules?" Caleb slides Calen a bagel with cream cheese.

"I have two important things to tell you that happened yesterday," She informs her brother about the deal she made with Astrid and the fact Astrid's feelings for Jackson are coming back.

"Yesterday sounded interesting." He laughs at everything he was just informed of. "Is today going to be any more entertaining?" He takes a sip of his own coffee.

"I was thinking if my favorite brother wasn't busy that we can go out today and do whatever," Calen states as she looks at him from over the rim of her mug.

"I'm free today," Caleb tells her and Calen gets so excited she chokes on her coffee. "Easy there." He laughs at her as he pats her back.

"Shut up." Calen calms down from her coughing fit. "What do you wanna do today?"

"I mean, I haven't gone surfboarding in a while." Caleb knows his twin is automatically down as she's obsessed with the ocean. "Our boards are at the house."

"Maybe if Charlotte's home we can ask her if she wants to join." Calen throws the thought out. "Or is she now too cool to be seen in public with us?"

   "She's too cool," Caleb replies and neither can judge. Every teen has their "I'm too cool to be seen with my weird and embarrassing family" phase. The twins had theirs but "family" meant their parents and sister because Calen and Caleb couldn't do school without each other.

   Calen's ringtone blares from her bedroom and she rushes to her phone. Sliding on the hardwood floor with her fuzzy socks, she about knocks into the nightstand. The contact I.D. not so surprisingly shows it's Jensen calling.

   "Hi." Calen and Jensen say at the same time and both can hear they're wearing goofy smiles.

"Are you free?" Jensen asks and Calen lets out a huff and pouts. She'd love to hang out with Jensen but she's already told Caleb they'd hang out today and she plans on sticking to that because she missed her twin. "I'm going to take that as a no." He sounds a little deflated.

"I told Caleb that we'd hang today because I missed him." Calen sits on the edge of her bed. "We're going surfing like we did in high school. We're going to the beach we went to last night."

"I'm not your dad, you don't have to tell me what you're doing and when you're doing it," Jensen chuckles, and a smirk slides onto Calen's lips.

   "But you're old enough to be mine." She jokes and she hears silence on his end, making her burst into a fit of laughter.

   "You think you're funny, don't you?"

   "I think I'm hilarious," Calen responds when she catches her breath. "I'm the most humorous you'll ever meet." She wipes a tear from her face.

"Well, ha ha," Jensen says sarcastically. "Go have fun with Caleb."

"I will," Calen assures him. "Go have some father-daughter time with Ash. Though she's been spending a lot of time out of the house, she was nonstop talking about how she missed you and Kat at college."

   "Will do." His grin is heard in his tone and it causes Calen to smile. A noise at her bedroom door makes her turn to it. Caleb turns around and crosses his arms and puts his hands on his back and does the pretend kissing thing.