Page 12 of Hypothetical Heart

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I don’t even get the chance to think of a plan before Eloise is answering for me:

ELOISE

Meet at the Callaghan house, either me or Logan can drive, I don’t care what time.

ELOISE

See how easy that was?

I laugh as I read through the texts. It’s typical for the girls to hijack the group chat and only reply to one another while Jameson, Luke, and I sit back and watch. We only reply once a plan hasbeen made.

ME

That works. Meet at my house at 3, I’ll drive us to dinner and we can leave from there.

LUKE

I like the sound of that.

JAMESON

Sounds good

ELOISE

Oh, look who decides to reply now.

GENEVIEVE

DINNER? Who said we were getting dinner?

ME

We’re growing boys, Gen, we at least need to be fed.

GENEVIEVE

Whatever. We’ll meet at Logan’s at 3.

This weekend, we’ve all decided to spend the weekend at Genevieve’s family cabin in the north end of Connecticut.It’s a little over a two-hour drive, and we’re going to have the place all to ourselves.

It’s almost March, and before we know it, we’ll be in North Carolina the first week of April for spring break, but all of us can feel a burnout on the horizon, so being able to get away from Fairwood for a weekend will be a nice refresher.

I look back down at the book I’ve been reading. I’m almost halfway through it now, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t entertaining.

I open a separate text chain with Winnie, typing out a new text.

ME

I just got to the part where baby daddy comes into play.

WINNIE

She’s pregnant already?

ME

It’s in the title of the book. How could you possibly be surprised?

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