𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 | 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟎𝟐

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟕

BREE

Today, Rose and I arranged a small gathering for Nora so she could meet everyone in our group.

She and Jack will be leaving New York for a few days to go meet Nora’s family in New Jersey.

Jack was thrilled to finally introduce his girlfriend to everyone who didn’t get to meet her. Nora was nervous at first but slowly started getting along.

Now, us girls are seated around the coffee table talking while the guys are sitting by the kitchen counter engaging in their own discussion. I keep catching Jack stealing glances at Nora from time to time whenever I turn my head to look at Finn.

Finn quickly notices and glances at me before returning back to the conversation with a small smile on his face.

When I turn my attention back to the girls- again after taking another glance at Finn- Maham is in Nora’s arms.

“She’s so adorable,” Nora says as Maham reaches up her hands and touches her face.

“Baba,” Maham says.

"Okay, she's been repeating this since she came here," Rose says.

“Maham is starting to learn more words now,” Arzo explains, “she recently started saying ‘baba’ and now everyone and everything is ‘baba’ to her,”

Maham turns her head to Arzo and squeals, “baba!”

“Even me,”

“Well, we know who’s her favorite,” Farhan says and earns a hit on the back of his head by Faizan, “ow- sorry,” we let out a small laugh.

“I don’t blame her,” Arzo says, quietly, smiling at Maham.

Jack gets up from his seat and makes his way to Nora, sitting down beside her so he can play with Maham too.

“Okay, so,” Jack starts, earning our attention, “if I’m supervised with Nora, can I babysit Maham?”

“Why don’t you just learn to be responsible?” I ask.

“Where’s the fun in that? Look at Ryan. His life is so dull,”

“Agreed,” Rose mutters, loud enough for only the girls to hear.

“Can I hold her?” Jack asks Nora.

“Yes,”

Jack smiles and takes Maham in his arms.

“Your baba should let you spend time with us. You’d have so much more fun,” he tells her.

“Is he trying to steal my title as her favorite uncle?” Farhan asks, frowning.

“You’re not his favorite uncle,” Finn says.

“You’re just jealous.”

“You’re delusional,” Finn fires back.

“Thank you.”

“Dude-”

I turn my attention back to Jack and Maham to find Jack sticking out his tongue at her.

“What are you doing?” I ask.

Jack puts his tongue back in and looks at me as if caught redhanded, “nothing,”

“You-” I cut myself off when I catch Maham mimicking Jack by sticking out her small tongue, “uh, Arzo? Faizan? Jack taught Maham something,”

Jack freezes like a kid caught causing trouble when Faizan turns his attention to him after seeing what he taught his daughter.