Sure enough, Max sighed on the other side of me. I was sure she was thinking, don’t encourage her. Like I was a child or something.
Emma and Hazel had been talking amongst themselves and I heard Hazel filling Emma in on what we were talking about.
“So, wait, you’ll have a reason to like...go to each other’s houses and be all domestic?” Emma said. She gave me a beaming grin. “Brilliant.”
Hazel didn’t look quite as excited but she was giving me a supportive smile too.
I may have been gloating just a little when I turned back to Max. “See? I’m brilliant.”
Her lips twitched a bit and her eyes danced with laughter. I knew she wanted to argue the point further but I also saw the moment she decided to let it go and my shoulders drooped with relief.
I leaned toward her so the others couldn’t hear. “Please just try to be happy for me, ‘kay?”
She nodded. “I’ll try.”
She popped a fry into her mouth with a wink that reassured me that, all differences aside, we’d be just fine.
We always were.
“So, when do the fake baby shenanigans begin?” she teased.
“This weekend, hopefully,” I said. I couldn’t quite bring myself to meet her gaze. “We didn’t have a chance to work out all the details.”
“But he’s on board with this,” Max confirmed, wariness still there, tinging her voice and clouding my otherwise giddy mood.
“Of course,” I said. “I’ll talk to him later today about the details, but he’s totally on board.”
Keep reading Avery’s story in Saved By the Crush’s Brother
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