Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,81
of us are willing to. That’s just who he is.”
“You have a point” Cash agrees, “it’s still shocking though.”
“Agreed, you better go help him before he injures himself and we end up in trouble with Ever for letting him on a ladder in the first place” I chuckle as we watch Jensen wobble on the top of the ladder trying to reach somewhere that is obviously too far out of his reach in the first place.
“Dude!” Rafe exclaims. “Ever will kill us if you get hurt being your usual clumsy ass self, get the fuck down here and set up the decorations for the tree instead!”
“Fine!” He grumbles reluctantly as he climbs back down the ladder then promptly trips over a box of decorations, landing on the floor in a heap and just staying there.
“You good?” I ask trying not to laugh.
I lose it when he just sticks his thumb up but stays down.
“I think that was probably a good call, guys” he says still on the floor before he pops back up, how he can be that agile and so fucking clumsy at the same time is a complete fucking mystery to me.
“It’s alright, dude, I’ll do the high stuff, you keep your feet on the ground” Cash chuckles as he goes to help and I go back to helping Rafe in the kitchen.
“That’s pretty much it for a while now” Rafe says, after ten more minutes of prep. “Thanks for the help” he grins.
“Anytime” I give him a quick peck on the lips and then turn and go into the sitting area and start to help Jensen and Cash. Rafe joining me.
“We haven’t really got much stuff to decorate a tree with have we?” I ask, “where did this stuff even come from anyway?”
“It was left over from the people who had the house before us” Cash says as he rummages in a box.
“I’ll text Trick, hopefully he can pick up some more decorations in town” Jensen says as he pulls out his phone. “He says he can pick some stuff up. They shouldn’t be too much longer but Atlas is taking ages to choose a gift for Ever” he grins.
“Well thank fuck for that, we really do have a piss poor choice” I chuckle. “Do you think Atlas is going to want in on the plan?”
“You’re joking right, of course he fucking is. He’s so far gone for her it’s hilarious” Cash chuckles giving up searching in the box and striding towards the kitchen. “Anyone want a beer?”
“It’s like two, we haven’t even had lunch” Jensen chuckles. “Sure” he adds making us all grin as we each nod our heads to Cash's question. “Ever seems pretty far gone on him too” he comments.
“It’s like with you guys though, I don’t feel particularly jealous about it” Rafe says sounding slightly confused.
I think we all are to be honest, it’s not exactly a normal situation we find ourselves in. Yet, I wouldn’t want it any other way and if it works for us then who the fuck cares if it’s not the norm?
“The only time I felt remotely close to jealous was hearing Ever this morning, fucking hell she makes hot as fuck sounds” Jensen chuckles and Cash the fucker just smirks and gets this faraway look in his eyes, clearly remembering this morning.
Rafe punches him on the arm and sets us all off.
The front door opens and Trick and Atlas walk in, Atlas carrying a ton of bags.
“Finally” Cash smirks.
“Fuck off, dickhead” Atlas grins flipping him the bird as he makes his way up the stairs with his bags, presumably to wrap them.
“He found everyone else’s in like half an hour” Trick chuckles, his grey eyes amused as he places three more bags on the now replaced coffee table. “We still had spares then?” He chuckles.
“Yeah but there’s only one left now” Cash grins shooting Jensen a look, he just smirks from where he’s lounging on the couch and takes a sip of beer.
“I’ll order another couple before we go. So, I got lights and decorations for the tree and some lights to hang from the rafters since I thought that would look good, but we are probably going to have to wait until Luc gets back to hang them. None of us are agile enough to get up there” he says and I grunt in agreement all of us leaning forward to see what he bought.
For such a big guy Luc is surprisingly light on his feet.