The Hook-up

Chapter 189

Bruno woke up in the morning on a couch that he didn't recall with Damaris asleep on the other side of the couch.Shit. He thought standing up to glance in the trash. There's not a condom. We didn't do it. Thank God. He thought standing up rubbing his head. I should go before anything else happens. He reached for his phone seeing the blinking light stepping on something making a noise waking up Damaris. "Go back to sleep, D. I'm going to go." he said watching her open her eyes.

"We didn't do anything last night, Bruno. We talked and then fell asleep." she told him sitting up patting the couch for him to sit down. "I promise. We talked about you and Lauren and the babies and your tour and how you feel about everything."

"Did we talk about the fact that I spent the night at some mystery girl's apartment and the whole world, including my wife, know about it?" he asked showing her a picture from someone's instagram of the two of them walking upstairs to Damaris's apartment.

"Umm..." she said looking at the picture. "You should probably go." she said handing him his jacket that she had somehow ended up with. "But I'll see you again." she winked at him as he made his way out the door.

**

"What are you going to do?" Larissa asked handing her sister a bottle for her son.

"I have no idea. But I left him a message saying that I was going to go back home. So I really can't take it back." she answered.

"But when is he going to be home?" Larissa wondered.

"I think Wednseday." Lauren told her sister.

"So don't go back until then." Larissa replied.

"I don't know. I kind of miss my big bed and letting the babies sleep in their own cribs and not on top of each other." Lauren justified hearing her mother's door bell ring. "Who the hell is here at 10 on a Sunday?"

"Don't open it. It's probably the Jevovah's Witnesses. They love this neighborhood." Larissa said seeing Lauren open the door to a man with a giant bouquet of flowers. "For Mom?"

"No. Me." Lauren said turning around burying her head in the flowers.

"Should have bought her flowers...huh?" Larissa laughed.

"Ugh. Whatever." Lauren smiled setting them down on the table seeing her son reach his hand out to get them. "Nu-huh..." Lauren told him picking him up.

"So what are you going to do?" Larissa questioned.

"No matter what I do it isn't going to change. Nothing is ever going to change. Maybe I just need to accept the fact that he has her and just move on." she said.

"Are you happy?" Larissa asked taking Ezra from the high chair to feed him.

"I think so. I mean. I know he hurt me but we figure it out. And maybe he wouldn't hurt me if I didn't talk about this stuff. Like if we just let it be an unspoken rule that he has her."

"Laur, that's just going to end up hurting both of you." Larissa told her.

"Or I could just get even...." Lauren raised her eyebrow looking at her phone. "I still have Alex's number..."

"Give me that!" Larissa exclaimed taking her sister's phone. "That is not what I was thinking!"

"The what the hell do I do?" Lauren said taking her phone back. "How do I fight back?"

"Kill him with kindness until he breaks. Don't bring it up, don't fight about it. Tell him how proud of him you are and how much you love him and all that."

"Oh. I get it." Lauren said smiling at her sister seeing her phone start to buzz. "Speaking of..." she picked up her phone with a devious smile on her face. "Hey baby. You were amazing last night."