68 Days And Counting

Chapter Fifty One: What's A Peter? I Don't Know What That Is.

Justin was already out the door. "I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it."

I glanced at Emma and she had gone over to sit on the floor of Justin's bedroom where she previously was, picking up the book. "So, what's happening with you two?"

"What do you mean?" She asked, confused, putting the book at her feet.

"You two. Are you're still..." I trailed off, placing the paper back on his desk.

"Dating? Together? Yeah, Macy."

"Even though the distance?"

"Even though the distance. I care about him."

"But wasn't he the one that was worried?"

"About us? Yeah. But he wants this. I want it to. I just didn't want to stop him from anything or anyone."

"I know."

"But we'll see how this goes."

"Yeah. You have the rest of summer to figure it all out."

Emma cleared her throat. "Um, about what happened with you, Sam and my sister..."

"Yeah," I muttered, a bad taste suddenly getting in my mouth. "That was interesting."

Emma bit her bottom lip. "That's not going to affect anything is it?"

"What do you mean?"

"With us being friends? Just because my sister was in love with your boyfriend, that's not going to affect us, is it?"

I shook my head, wondering why she would ever think that. "Emma, your sister and I have completely disliked one another since we met. But I've always liked you. Trust me, nothing is going to impact our friendship."

"Okay." She looked really relieved. 

"Were you really worried about that?"

"Kind of...I mean Sam's like my older brother and he cares about you and I'm kind of dating your brother so it would be weird if I wasn't friends with you. Plus whenever I usually see Sam he brings up Alexis and asks how she's doing and now he doesn't anymore and it felt different."

"What kind of different?"

"Good almost." She admitted. "It's a good thing she's not in the country or else us coming over here would have been really weird and awkward."

"Yeah, I know."

Justin walked back in the room, handing me my glass filled with water. "When's Sam leaving?"

"In a couple of days."

"Aren't you guys having that dinner tomorrow?" Emma asked Justin and me.

"Yeah," Justin said. "Are you coming?"

"I-I don't want to intrude. Plus I know Gigi is going out with Liz that night and-"

"Emma just come," Justin said and if one could see the look on my little brother's face it was so obvious that he really wanted her there. "Dad loves you and I'm sure he'll be happy to have you tomorrow."

Tomorrow was the day that my dad could bring his girlfriend home. It felt weird to say that my dad was dating. Very. It wasn't a problem. It was just weird. 

Emma seemed to notice that because she quickly changed to topic to Christian and Justin. And so did Sam a day later as we were standing on the balcony of his room looking down at Greg and Phillip who were passing a tennis ball to one another in the garden. "It's just a dinner." Sam told me. "And it's not like you're going out. It's at your house."