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Anthony

Lol. Lucky guess

Hey

Text me when Aaron comes to pick you up, k?

And then again when you get home

Penelope

And then you’ll guess what I’m wearing????

Anthony

Lol. No, P

We’re going to save that for after our date, so we can get this right

Don’t boo me this time

Penelope

Omg

How’d you know what I was typing

Anthony

Text me when you leave??? And when you get home???

Penelope

Yes sir

Anthony

Ugh. WOMAN. You’re going to be the death of me.

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anthony

“Canyou hand me another screw? I must’ve miscounted.”

I reach behind my back, and Nathan lays a drywall screw into my hand. In seconds, I have the last panel of the kitchen installed. With that, the first floor of the house is entirely drywalled. I’ll do the mudding down here before I get started upstairs, but with the main floor finished, I’m feeling good. It would have taken me forever by myself, and with one brother still on the mend, and the other with a stacked social calendar, I enabled the help of some friends.

Sam, Nathan, and Aaron fit me right into their schedules. It helps that all of their women are friends. Pen is having a girls’ hang out at our place while the guys and I work, and I have been thinking about her since the moment I left.

We slept together last weekend, and I swear sleeping next to Penelope Barker was the best sleep I’ve had since I was in the womb. I didn’t toss and turn. Didn’t wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. After I took her back to my bed and took her until the early hours of the morning, we were both pretty exhausted and knocked out until the sun came in through the eastern facing windows.

Have we spoken a word about it since?

No.

Have we really had the chance though?

Also no.