“Oh shit, I’m sorry, Grace! I didn’t realize it was so late.”
Grace let out a long dramatic sigh. “It’s okay. At least tell me you’re calling because you had mind blowing sex.”
“Better!”
Silence. Followed by some movement and a door quietly closing. “Better? What in the world would be better for you than mind blowing sex?”
“First. I need a second opinion from your opinion so say one of our other best friends names. First one that comes to your mind.”
“Um . . . Lauren?”
“Okay, hold on!”
I clicked over and hit Lauren’s number.
It sounded as if Lauren answered and then dropped her phone. “Hello! Meg? Is everything okay?”
“Yes! Sorry Lauren to call so late. Hold on, let me get Grace back on the line.”
I brought Grace back on and cleared my throat. “Are you both there?”
Grace and Lauren both said yes at the same time.
“Meg, what’s going on?” Lauren asked.
I drew in a deep breath and slowly blew it out. “Okay, so I had the most amazing day of my life today.”
“Hot sex?” Lauren asked as I rolled my eyes.
“No! Damn it, y’all. My life is not only about sex.”
There was a moment of silence before Grace and Lauren both started laughing.
“Says the girl who sucked her cucumber like a boss,” Lauren said with another chuckle.
I took in a deep breath and counted to five. “Do you want to hear my news or not?”
“Yes! Of course we do, sweets. Sorry. Lauren, behave for Christ’s sake.”
“Me? Tell me you didn’t think sex first?”
Grace laughed. “Oh, no I did.”
“Ugh! Stop you two!”
“Sorry, Meg. You had the best day of your life. Why?” Lauren asked.
“Okay, so I was pissed at Grayson and then he showed up and said he wanted to spend the day together but as friends only. We went ice skating and then he brought me up to his moms and we ate lunch and—”
“What?” Lauren shouted.
“Hold the fucking phone! You met Ashley?” Grace shouted into the phone as I quickly started getting undressed for my shower. Glancing around, I saw Grayson’s robe and slipped it on as I heard a door open and close through the phone.
“Noah! Wake up! Grayson took Meg to meet Aunt Ashley.”
Noah mumbled something as I tip toed back out to Grayson’s living room to check on him. He was out cold.
Turning, I headed back into the bathroom and shut the door. “No, I’m delirious from being pregnant,” Grace said as I heard a door shut again.
“Can we move on from meeting Gray’s mom?”
“No!” Grace said. “Meg, that is like huge. A guy like Gray doesn’t bring home just any girl.”
“Oh my glitter! This is so romantic. You met his mom!” Lauren said as she sighed dramatically into the phone. At this rate I’m thinking I would have been better with the sleep-deprived new mother.
“Moving. On,” I said as I sat down on the toilet. “So anyway, after that we went to a club and Gray danced. Jesus H. Christ, it was hot as hell.”
“Gray danced? As in he stripped?” Lauren asked as concern filled her voice.
“No, not really. His old boss was there, and they had a few guys dancing, only taking off shirts and stuff, they weren’t showing anything. Anyway, she asked Gray to dance and he said yes, and he put me on stage and got me all turned on and I couldn’t do anything because today we were just friends.” I dragged in a deep breath and kept talking.
“Then Claire was there and I got pissed and did what I always do and took off, but Gray wouldn’t let me and I ended up telling him everything about Claire and what she did to me in college.”
“Good!” Grace said.
“Yes, I agree with Grace. I’m glad you told him about that bitch.”
I nodded my head even though they couldn’t see me. “Well, then he twisted his ankle, but he really didn’t—he just said he did and we came back to his place and he told me the only way he’d feel better was if I danced for him, so . . . I did.”
“What song?” Grace and Lauren asked together. How in the hell they were keeping up, I’ll never know.
“‘Dance For You’ by Beyoncé.”
“Nice!” Grace said as Lauren giggled. “Then you had hot sex.”
“I tried to.”
“Um . . . you tried to? Meg . . . I’ve never known you not to be able to have sex. Especially with Gray. I’m pretty sure his sergeant was made for your Wonder Woman.”
Lauren busted out laughing as I bit down on my lip to keep from laughing.
“Shut up, Grace. Shall I get back to my story now?”
“Please do,” Grace said.
“Anyway, I thought things were going to move on, but Grayson had been up for hours. He worked all through the previous night, so I honestly don’t even know how long he had been up for . . . well he fell asleep as I tried to get my sex on.”
“So, let me get this straight,” Grace said, “you spent the day with him as friends only.”
“Yes.”
“Then you met his mom, as friends only.”
“Uh-huh,” I whispered as I chewed on my nail.