49. Spice Cabinet
SPICE CABINET
Yasmine: I’m back!
Annie: YASMINE VALENTINE LIVES.
Ava: Somebody check the timestamp. She finally remembered we exist.
Tabby: welcome back babe
Yasmine: Thanks. Missed y’all!
Ava: How was it?
Yasmine: The hardest thing I’ve done in my life.
Yasmine: But so good.
Annie: where you at
Yasmine: Airport.
Yasmine: Hale’s about to pick me up.
Tabby: thank GOD
Tabby: we can finally retire the Hale custody schedule
Yasmine: The what?
Ava: Ignore her.
Tabby: maybe we can finally get our men back now
Yasmine: ????
Annie: Hale has had Nico and Grant doing construction like indentured servants
Ava: He been working them like they on payroll.
Tabby: every weekend
Tabby: every SINGLE weekend
Annie: Nico said he stopped answering texts unless Hale specified whether tools were involved
Yasmine: He fixing up the house???
Ava:
Tabby: you didn’t hear it from us
Annie: apparently it’s a surprise
Tabby: he wanted the major updates done before you got back. plumbing. wiring
Ava: Also, for the record. Mission accomplished.
Yasmine: What mission.
Ava: Operation Fix Hale’s Lonely Ass.
Ava: I take full credit.
Annie: HOW?????
Annie: all your picks were horrible
Tabby: Dr. Kimball alone should disqualify you
Ava: Still on that?
Tabby: the woman didn’t read fiction, Ava
Ava: Alright, alright.
Ava: I take 75%.
Yasmine: You take zero.
Ava: 25%.
Annie: generous self-assessment
Yasmine: What else been happening? Catch me up.
Yasmine: Y’all emails been skimpy AS fuck.
Annie: kept an eye on CeeCee like you asked
Yasmine: Thanks for that, by the way.
Yasmine: How is she?
Tabby: we love CeeCee
Ava: She’s Spice Cabinet adjacent.
Ava: We’re workshopping membership.
Annie: there are criteria
Ava: There are vibes.
Tabby: anyway
Tabby: she seems to be thriving
Tabby: Baby thriving too. He’s so cute I could cry.
Annie: somebody needs to pee on a stick, i think
Tabby: girl don’t even
Tabby: i plan on YEARS with my man before kids
Ava: Screenshotting this for the universe.
Tabby: delete that
Tabby: while we’re on the subject, you’re still okay walking with Carter?
Annie: for the wedding? if i have to
Tabby: attitude. what’s the issue?
Annie: he just rubs me the wrong way. it’s a thirty-second walk. i’ll survive
Tabby: did something happen?
Annie: no
Ava: Well, if it helps, he’s single again.
Annie: why would that help
Ava: He’s a lot more chill single.
Annie: whatever. moving on
Annie: i met someone
Yasmine: You did! Who?
Annie: Sal. we had drinks
Yasmine: Who is Sal?
Tabby: motorcycle club Sal
Yasmine: MOTORCYCLE CLUB Sal?
Yasmine: Kidding. I don’t know who that is.
Annie:
Yasmine: I assume he’s in a motorcycle club.
Ava: He’s the president of the Iron Kings. Older. Dangerous-adjacent. Very fuck around and find out.
Yasmine: Wait. The man who pulled my boyfriend off my brother?
Annie: he was sexy as hell when he did it
Yasmine: ANNALEIGH.
Annie: y’all are being very judgey for women who begged me to get a hobby
Ava: We meant pottery.
Tabby: or Pilates
Annie: when all else fails…fuck
Tabby:
Ava: Ma’am.
Annie: what? older just means experienced. you know he has tricks
Yasmine: I leave for one polar expedition.
Yasmine: One.
Ava: And look what happened.
Yasmine: Gotta go. Hale’s here and I’m about to thank him properly for the plumbing.
Yasmine: Do NOT text me tonight.
Annie: go on Queen
Tabby:
Ava: Welcome home, babe.