Page 9 of Feels Like Falling
ASPEN: Heard Ellison Mills is coming back to Blackstone Falls…
VIENNA: Uh-oh…
VIENNA: Do I need to book a ticket home?
MONTANA: Why would you need to book a ticket home?
ASPEN: We remember Ellison-gate big brother
VIENNA: It wasn’t pretty
MONTANA: What are you talking about? Nothing happened
VIENNA: (side-eye emoji)
ASPEN: (gif of woman making a faux surprised face)
MONTANA: Couldn’t y’all just come home because you love me and not because you think my life is about to implode?
VIENNA: It’s hard getting time off work right now–gotta spend that PTO wisely
MONTANA: I’m so proud of you but I still miss you
VIENNA: Awww
ASPEN: Focus people. Big brother, the girl of your dreams is moving home. What’s your status?
MONTANA: There is no status. Everything is fine.
Three dots appear and then disappear. Sighing, I take a sip of my sweet tea and try unsuccessfully to move my thoughts away from my best friend. I’d expected the interrogation from Archer but not my sisters. They should have been too young to understand what had gone down between Ellison and me.
More accurately, whathadn’t.
There was nous—just a friendship that we’d both let fade into the background. I hated thinking of it like that, but at the end of the day we’d left our relationship out in the rain. We’d rescued it from the elements worn and faded and in need of repair.
It was in rough shape, but it wasn’t broken.
Still, times like these had me forgetting my sisters were well into their twenties instead of the two hell-raising princesses with dark hair and green eyes.
VIENNA: We’re just worried about you big brother
ASPEN: We hated seeing you so upset when she left
MONTANA: Should have seen me when my baby sisters moved away never to return
ASPEN: (gif of woman looking annoyed)
VIENNA: Did he just…
ASPEN: He did
MONTANA: Love my girls
MONTANA: (gif of guy blowing a kiss)
VIENNA: Ugh we love you too
MONTANA: Then I don’t know why you need to gang up on me
