The Bucket List

getting worse

I wake up next to Kevin in the morning and get up, trying not to wake him. Liam is in the room next door. Kevin lied to be and said the smallest cabin he could get had two bedrooms, because Liam was going to stay with us too, he just hadn't told me yet. 

I go into the kitchen/living room area to grab a glass of water. I grab my water and turn to back into my bedroom when I see...

...wait. 

What the fuck is going on here?

"What the hell?" 

And I watch as Liam and Rachel instantly break apart, staring at me in shock. "Were you just- what?" I ask, in shock and disbelief. 

"Morgan-" 

"You were just making out with Rachel!" I yell, and Kevin comes into the room, looking tired and confused.

"What's going on?" He asks. 

"Liam was making out with Rachel!" I yell, and he turns to them, then back to me.

"What?" He yells, and I watch Rachel shift uncomfortably in her seat. I go and sit in the chair across from them.

"Are you guys... dating?" I ask, and they take a second before they respond. 

"Yeah." Rachel says, "I'm sorry we didn't tell you Morgan. It's only been a week."

"A week? Liam! We've been living under the same roof for a week and you didn't bother to tell me that you're dating one of my best friends?" 

"I'm sorry, Morgan." He says, "please don't be mad."

"I'm not mad!" I say, "I'm just a little shocked, especially because I had to find out this way, but I'm not mad at all! I'm happy! Really! I am!" I say.

"I'm confused." Kevin says, and I laugh. "I'm going back to bed." He turns around and walks back down the hall to his room. 

"So, how did this happen?" I ask, and then look at each other. 

"I'm not really sure." Rachel says. 

"You were drunk?" I ask, dissapointed. 

"What? No." Liam says, "when you were in the hospital, Rachel was just being really supportive and helpful." 

"We spent a lot of time together for that little while. I was trying to be a nice person, just trying to be a good friend, but it went further than we both thought it would, and about an hour before you woke up, we kissed for the first time. A couple says later, we talked about it and decided that we wanted to make it official, so we did." 

"Who knows?" 

"Just you, and I guess Kevin, is he knew what was going on at all." Liam says, and I laugh. 

"Wow, this was not at all what I was expecting. I'm shocked, really." 

"I'm sorry that this is how you had to find out." Rachel says, and I laugh. 

"Nah, it's cool. I never would have guessed before, but now that I know, I can really see it." I say. "Anyway, I'm going back to bed. See you later." I get up and walk back into my bedroom. I get back into bed and Kevin wraps his arm around me.

"We're cuter." He says, and kisses me.

"Brush your teeth." I say, and laugh.

"Shut up." He says, "you love me."

"Right." I say, and he smiles.

•••

After spending another night up in Manitoba we all flew home yesterday.