Olive Green [GxG]

CHAPTER 13

A/N     Spoiler alert, I guess, for a movie at the end of this chapter

"YOUR FRIENDS ARE gettin' here next Wednesday?" Mum asked as she took out another thing from a cloth bag she brought from the grocery store.

  "Thursday, actually."

  "Havin' party, yea?" Dad chuckled at my conversation with Mum. He was working on a file while sitting next to me on the cream couch. This was the thing I didn't want to be a real adult because of—working even on a free day. Just like schoolkids did with homework. Well, some adults didn't have it like this, but I was planning on ending up in the same field as my parents. Just watching them was exhausting. And still, I wanted to do the same job.

  I rolled my eyes at my dad's words and looked down at Zoé. I was watching her as she slept. It was such a weird feeling to have her little body in my arms now. Such a small creature. She was very young, after all.

  They had been here for almost a week already. Daphné and Dad, sometimes with Zoé and me, went around London to spend some time outside, and other times the four of us together with my mum just had family time here in the apartment since the winter was not really warm.

  I turned my gaze back to Mum, who was still doing some stuff in the kitchen with Daphné accompanying her. I heard them talk about things around the baby two days ago. It was understandable since Zoé was Daphné's first child. And dad was probably not really helpful since his job was taking a lot of his time, while she could work easily from home. Or maybe having more sources was just better.

  It was really good to see how the two of them—Mum and Daphné—were feeling alright with each other. Because how I mostly saw on TV that ex-wives hated the new ones or the other way around, apparently. It didn't always end up like that. And that was pleasant to witness.

  "Are they all comin'?" Dad asked after a while, to which I turned to look at him.

  "Just Amy, Ev, and Del."

  Dad just nodded at my answer, and I gave him back the still-sleeping baby after he put down his laptop. Zoé fell asleep in my arms not so long ago, but I liked to hold her. My little sister. I wouldn't be able to see her in person for some time after the Christmas break, so it was probably only natural.

  I got up and left for my room. Being with all of them the whole time... well, it was slightly exhausting. They all were talking about work sometimes, and then just some other things that didn't really interest me. Or maybe it was because I just wasn't used to the full house.

  After entering my room, I fell onto my bed and took out my phone from my sweatpants pocket. The first thing I did was open Instagram so I could see what was new in the world. However, my eyes fell on the new notifications. I wasn't surprised even though the last time I posted something was a couple of months ago... but I didn't have a private profile, so anyone could like anything—I didn't mind as I had nothing to hide.

  However, my brows furrowed when I clicked on them and saw who had liked my latest post. Not only did the profile picture look familiar, but so did the username. Curious, I clicked on it to see if my thoughts were right. It seemed like Ava didn't know what to do, so she just liked my photo. Today. A week after she kissed me. I shook my head before I started looking through her profile. Thankfully, she didn't have a private one either.

  Ava didn't have many photos with her so-called friends on her Instagram profile. Only like one. I wasn't even surprised after our talk in the lavatory not that long ago, to tell the truth.

  A smile spread across my face as my eyes fell on what looked like a family photo, which was actually one of a few with people in it. She was smiling while standing next to two younger kids. Her pretty eyes seemed so happy to be there—right next to her family.