Jessica Forever After

Chapter 10

Two weeks later...

"We want you to move in."

I laughed and then stared at Sam before letting my eyes sweep the table. "What?" I asked, when they all just returned the stare.

And no one laughed.

"We would love it if you moved in." Cam rephrased the statement.

"We just decided two weeks ago that we would give this type of relationship a shot." I blinked at him.

"And we lived together for the past two years." He retorted.

"And I wanted more than anything to get back with you for the past five years." Zack piped up. Which triggered the others to chime in with their own invitations and reasons we should live together.

I pinched the bridge of my nose to ward off a headache. "You're all ready for this?" I asked. "To share like everything? To watch as I get cuddled up with your brothers and not you?" I was choosing my words carefully, knowing I needed to make a point or two but also knowing that I needed to make them realize just what would be at stake if we were all living together.

"Been there, done that. I miss you." Cam arched an eyebrow at me because of course. Of COURSE he'd watched me date Sam and had to just wait that entire relationship out.

And pick up my broken pieces to glue me back together.

I kept my eyes locked on his as Eiffel made her way to me and climbed up into my lap, batting her paw against my chin as if adding her own plea for 'mama' to move home. "And, I know, baby." I crooned to her, scratching her under the chin. "You want me here too." I sat there, bonding with my furbaby while they allowed me the time.

Probably far too much time passed before Tony cleared his throat. "Any thoughts?"

I glanced up and smiled. "I..." I sighed, biting my lip. "We have to talk. No... truth or truth, no would you rather... no never have I ever game to hide it."

"Okay." Josh shrugged. "We all know what we're all in on. We're just waiting for you."

"Are you sure about that? Y'all have never shared me." He shut his mouth. I pursed my lips. "I want to enjoy my loft first. I just moved into it." I'd really been looking forward to living above my bakery.

"It is a really nice loft." Zack smirked.

"Exactly." I said. "If I move in here, I want at least two... three weeks in my loft. And if I have a big order or need to do early morning or late night bakery stuff, I'm staying there."

The boys exchanged a long look. Sang often called them the silent eye conversations. I had to agree with her. Her guys had been having those conversations since I was practically a baby. Well, since I was six. Maybe not a baby but not that old either.

"We can agree to that." Pete said, after the conversation with eyes had ended.

"Yeah, if you're moving in, we need your thoughts for the master suite anyway." Cam said. "We'd need at least that much time to paint and get the right furniture for you."

"Okay..." I glanced at Josh, who, unsurprisingly, had a laptop open. "You taking notes, hot stalker cop?" I teased.

"Easiest way to make sure we don't forget what we agree to." He pointed out.

"Excellent. I need to start recording or having someone take notes at the bakery meetings. My handwriting is barely legible once I'm an hour past note taking." They laughed. "What are you expecting from me when I move in?"

"Besides bread, cake, cookies and stealing my laundry?" Cam asked.

"You didn't suffer." I reminded him. "I mean... intimately? In bed? I've gone the farthest in that manner with Cam and Sam. I've gone almost that far with Josh and I wasn't ready when I was with Pete and Tony and Zack, well, Zack totally got inexperienced prom date Jessie."