Theo

Talks

When I woke up it was dark, when I looked over at my clock it read, 12:34 a.m. I was still locked in Theo's tight embrace.

I carefully rolled over onto my other side and looked at him. He was beautiful when he slept, he didn't have frown lines, his eyes weren't hard, he just seemed. . .Peaceful.

He must've felt my stare cause he started frowning, then his eyes carefully opened.

"Hey," his voice was rough from sleep, I loved it.

"Hey," mine was hoarse from crying before falling asleep.

"What's wrong?" He lifted his big hand and rubbed his thumb over my frown lined forehead.

I closed my eyes as I felt the tears coming back, I tried to hold them in.

"Por favor no llores cariño, me duele." He whispered against my forehead in his mother tongue.

"Camryn is pregnant. Obviously it's your brothers baby." Theo tensed up, but didn't move his lips away from my forehead. "All I can think about is the fact that my brother is having a baby, now my best friend is having one, and your little brother is having one before you. I ruined that for you and I can't help but feel terrible."

Theo pulled me closer to his chest and held me tighter.

"Stop blaming yourself Peyton, you didn't know I can't blame you for that. Besides we can have plenty of babies later on when we're both in a stable position." I nodded against his chest, I understood but I still felt terrible.

"And in the meantime, we can just keep practicing," I laughed a little at that and I felt his chest vibrate with a laugh.

"Your mind is always in the gutter," I smiled up at him.

"Where else would it be? Especially when I'm around you all the time," I slap his chest playfully and snuggled into him more.

***

When I woke up again, the bed was empty. There was light streaming in through my turquoise curtains. I decided to get myself together and head downstairs.

I laid out my clothes on my bed, just a simple white tee and some jeans. I went into my on - suit bathroom and turned he shower on, once the room filled with steam I got in. I washed away the past day and all my sorrows - for now anyway.

When I climbed out of the shower and wrapped myself up in a towel, I washed my face and brushed my teeth, when I opened the bathroom door I saw Theo sitting on my bed holding my red lace thong with his thumbs.

I leaned against the doorframe and watched as he looked up at me with his signature smirk, his chocolate brown eyes holding heat.

"Were you going to wear these for me?" He asked, while still holding his smirk.

"Why would I wear special panties for you?" I rolled my eyes and he stood up from the bed, taking his long strides towards me.

"Because you know red is my favorite color." He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me into his hard body. "But no panties on you are my most favorite,"

He bends down and nips at my earlobe, I sigh and push him away. Much to my dismay.

"My brother and best friend are right downstairs, we cannot get into this," I tell him, he huffs like a child but backs away.

"Fine, later then?" He gives me the puppy dog look, and I can already feel my resolve flying out the window.

"Maybe," I casually pushed him out of my door so I could get dressed without distraction. "I'll be down in a minute."

Once I was dressed I threw my hair up into a pony tail and walked downstairs. I saw my brother holding my baby book and everyone was standing around the table.

"And this was when she had her 'I'm a cow phase'," Maverick said.

"Excuse me?" I say, breaking through everyone's laugh.

"Oh hey sis! Remember these good ole glory days?" Maverick had a shit-eating grin on his face that I just wanted to slap off.

"Oh really? Should I break out your album? Since you were first born mom recorded everything that you did," I smirked at him.

"You wouldn't." He narrowed his eyes at me.

I shrugged and walked into the hallway closet and grabbed the green and brown album that had 'MAVERICK TAYLOR' stitched into the cover.

I opened up to one of my favorite embarrassing moments for him.

"Here's my favorite, Maverick takes his first solid shit!" I turned the book around to show the little version of my brother laying on the changing table - naked.

Everyone started laughing and Maverick came over to me and stole the book from my arms.

"It's not fair that mom and dad only embarrassed me by recording everything, but you'll be the same way,"

I laughed dryly. "No, if I'm going to embarrass one kid I'm going to embarrass them all, you know, to show future boyfriends and girlfriends." Theo gave me a longing look before he looked away.

"Who's ready to go to brunch?"

***

We went downtown to where everyone used to hangout when we were growing up.

Al's. Al's had the best food in town, and everyone used to go there to hangout after school, even on weekends. He was the only place open past midnight on the weekends so everyone went there after they got totally shitfaced and ate out the joint.

Al was a super nice old timer, he wouldn't tell your parents or the cops about you coming in wasted, he would lecture you but then he'd tell you stories about when he was a teenager and did the same thing.

One time he told me and Cam after we showed up at one in the morning a story.

"Now you girls are pretty and you're smart, so what the hell are you doing here at one in the morning?" Camryn and I had giggled at him while he shook his head at us. We were just sixteen.

"Alright girls, listen to this story. When I was sixteen, like you two, I went to a party also got drunk and spent time with girls and my friends. Back then we had no designated driver, we were all drunk and nobody could drive. But my buddies - Greg and Lennie - decided to go on a beer run, when they were already drunk. I lost my two best friends that night because they were too drunk to drive. Ever since that night I never drank another sip of alcohol. Nothing good ever comes from it. I would really like to never see you girls in here again like this, okay?" We just nodded and he served us burgers and coffee.

"What can I get for you?" The new waitress asked, I looked at Cam and smiled.

"Two burgers and two coffees."