25. Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Family Group Chat (minus Lennox)
Rina:
Are we just not going to talk about the fact that Lenny SHAVED?!
Ledger:
Oh, we are. I think I’m still in shock.
Willow:
You want to be even more shocked?
Rina:
Will it give me a heart attack?
Willow:
Probably. I snuck a peek at his room—you know how he wouldn’t let us touch it when we would come over and clean? It’s SPOTLESS. Like, perfectly clean, doesn’t smell like he’s been collecting old food for sport.
Ledger:
What. The. Actual. Fuck?
Rina:
What in the hell is happening?
Willow:
Right? I had to do a double-take.
Rina:
I thought Roxie was going to whip his leg into shape, not his whole damn house.
Ledger:
I don’t think she’s fixing the house…
Willow:
Do you see how he looks at her?
Rina:
And how he is with Ivy???? Who is this Lennox?! Pre-Tennison Lennox wouldn’t go out of his way for kids, like he does with her.
Willow:
All the men with Ivy, especially Oakley, are bad for my ovaries.
Ledger:
Ew… What the fuck? I don’t want to hear about my sister thinking like that.
Rina:
Arlo giving her those sweet eyes when he sees her has me ready to drop my pants.
Willow:
Right? Like, please take me right this second, James.
Ledger:
You guys suck… Seriously, never talk like that again. I just almost threw up.
Rina:
Next time, we’ll try harder. I figured that would be enough for you to upchuck.
Ledger:
Har har, you both are so funny.
Rina:
We know. *wink*
Willow:
What a great fucking day, though, right? Like, I don’t even want to think it, but did you ever think we’d see Lennox like this again? That he would actually TALK to us again?
Ledger:
No, and the fact that he told us … what he did … was huge. I don’t know what Roxie is doing to him, but I hope it doesn’t stop.
Rina:
So, we’re in agreement to indoctrinate her into the family, kidnapping Ivy on the weekends for babysitting, and make it so she can never leave?
Willow:
I’d worry about you if I wasn’t in full agreement.
Ledger:
*sigh* I’m not sure what it says about me, but, yeah, she fits in too effortlessly. And Ivy is a fucking doll. I love her.
Willow:
Oakley hasn’t stopped talking about Ivy and the new games he’s going to get her for game nights.
Rina:
Arlo’s pissed she beat him one time and is now making it his personal mission to practice Candyland, so it doesn’t happen again.
Ledger:
I think … I think we’re over the hump. At least, I hope we are. Lennox seems so different. Not the one before Tennison, but a new, more mature one who’s ready to live his life again.