"Here give them something to sleep in. I certainly want be biting my tongue if she walks around my house half dressed" Janet dug out three of Eddie's tee-shirts. The ones he never really wore anyway and she didn't care for.
"Your not going to change" He knew she was tired and wanted to get comfortable
"Not unless your okay with me walking around in front of Tyler in my nightgown" Janet looked at him like he was nuts for asking
"That depends on which one your wearing" He raised his brow
"I was going to wear the one you got me once we go to bed but now I think I'll wear my comfortable pants" She had changed her mind and was going to befriend him before she knew they were going to have house guests
"Sorry baby, I cut you some slack for a few days but it's time to hold up your end of the bargain"
"I'm not having sex with everyone hear to listen." She had to stand her ground even if it was imaginary
"I thought we weren't having sex because you weren't up to it yet" Eddie asked not realizing he caught her
"We're not" Janet smiled naughtily guilt-ridden
"Okay, if you say so but I seem to remember one of the ground rules having something to do with being sexy when you came to bed every night and in case you hadn't noticed I took out the garbage, foot and back massages last night, I warmed up dinner every night, and I got the spider off the porch that should earn double points "
"So I suppose I looked like what exactly the last couple of nights" She didn't care about the damn list
"It was sexy for a few nights you know that whole take care of you thing, but now I really want to take care of you and pajamas aren't going to do it. Not that I can't work something out but………."
"I know that and I'm going to wear it once we turn in."
"Put it on for both of us, it'll make you feel better and you know it"
"I'm not walking around in front of everyone in that gown Eddie so give it a rest. I can't believe you would actually want me to unless you're in a cock fight with Tyler."
"Normally I would say hell no but this is our house and I'm ready to go to bed so they can entertain themselves. You don't have to stay up until they go to sleep, Janet. You're tired enough." Eddie never intended on her walking around in it
"For the last time we're not having sex with our parents on the other side of the door. No matter how much you like the bad boy part of it" She patted his cheek sarcastically
"Do you honestly think with four men in this house that someones not going to be dipping in the honey"
"Do you honestly believe with the particular women that are accompanying them they are going to get anywhere near that honey"
"Clearly one of us isn't" Eddie sighed and Janet shot him a look as she slipped into the gown.
"Don't be mad at me, it's to soon to fight" Eddie sat on the bed in front of her as she continued to get ready for bed.
"I'm not mad at you for wanting that. I do to and I know your not really pushing me"
"I just can't believe our ex-whatevers are going to be having sex in our house but we're not" Eddie mumbled
"Now I'm pissed at you" She broke lose from Eddie's arms and closed the door to the bathroom behind her
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"Janet" Eddie opened the door not wanting to talk through it and risk being overhead by their guests
"Get out" Janet quietly demanded
"No we need to talk"
"Can we maybe do it after I pee" She was sarcastic sitting on the toilet when he came in. Janet nearly died of embarrassment for Eddie to see her on the commode. She would have if she wasn't so mad at him for it.
"It's fine, trust me after the exams I've seen it's not a big deal."
"IT is a big deal so please get out"
"It's not like you have anything I haven't seen" Janet threw a roll of toilet paper at him
"Baby….."
"LANA" Janet was mortified and just wanted him out of the room
"Eddie, go away. We'll talk about it later"
"I am not, what's wrong" Eddie was clueless "Why do you need mom"
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"What's the matter" Lana asked pushing Eddie aside "Are you bleeding again" Lana was actually pretty panicked . Eddie was shocked that his mom knew because Janet had told her over the phone when they got home and now she called her into the bathroom.
"No but will you please make him leave" Janet asked from her royal perch
"What are you doing in here"
"I'm talking to my wife"
"Really Eddie, she's in the bathroom. Just go" Lana pushed her son out of the door.
"Have some respect for your wife. Go take care of your guests" Eddie was booted out of his own bedroom by his mother
"Is everything okay in there" Richard asked when Eddie sat down on the couch
"I guess. You would have to ask them though I've officially been banished" He pouted
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"God what is wrong with him. Okay I can handle the whole naked aspect but some things are just not meant to be shared, married or not" Janet blushed coming out of the bathroom
"What was so important he needed to talk about it now" Lana couldn't help but laugh at her son
"According to him it doesn't matter. I swear I just thought I was embarrassed by his lack of embarrassment when he crashed the first vaginal exam but staring at the man I sleep with while I'm peeing tops it all"
"It gets worse, wait until that baby is born. He just thinks he's seen it all now" Lana laughed rubbing Janet's belly
"I guess that's the problem there isn't going to be much of this time before I'm done incubating" Lana looked at her strange knowing that didn't come from Janet "Talk to your son, he decided we needed ground rules" Janet shook her head
"Really"
"Really, his remote, his truck, his beer, his feet propped on the table and I should come to bed half dressed he also thinks a wife should listen when he puts his foot down and incubate or possibly marinate" Janet and Lana sat on Janet and Eddie's bed talking
"And what were your ground rules"
"The basics…trash, house, cleaning up behind yourself and of course the most important the right to change said rules with out notice"
"Smart Girl" Lana smiled but took a serious face "It's going to be fine. I had only been married a month when I got pregnant with Eddie and Claire knows what…. You two have a lot in common."
"She was pregnant with Rory when she got married"
"I'll let her tell you about it sometime." Lana was about to get up to leave
"Hey, Lana do you think very many people get married for reasons other than being pregnant"
"A few, but the majority of us get married for the babies. You grow up, find a man that sweeps you off your feet, get married and expect a baby. It doesn't matter how long it does or doesn't take for them to arive from that point. A little head start doesn't hurt. What does matter is what made you decided to love the man to start with"
"Eddie's right you do have a beautiful room" Lana added changing the subject
"Eddie said that?"
"I think he's having a hard time admitting he likes the 'girly stuff'."
"I don't know he bought this and this and that' Janet was speaking of the gown she was wearing and the robe she put on over it then pointed at the crib.
"Richard thinks he's spoiling you" Lana pointed out "Sully thinks he's spoiling him self"
"What does his mother think?"
"I think they're both right and his wife thinks?"
"I think he's trying way to hard. Eddie's a wonderful man and I don't need everything that he thinks I do but I've tried to tell him to take care of his self more or to let me take care of him and he refuses to listen."
"I think he's taking care of him self more than you realize, Janet" Lana suggested
"How when all he does is what I need"
"Maybe you both need a lot of the same things"
"Maybe"
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"Just so you know if I don't get to see mine naked tonight neither does anyone else" "Especially you" he added looking at sully
"He didn't say anything about them seeing us" Tyler and Sully actually got along fairly well
"If one of your naked asses graces the sheets, you just bought them" Eddie wasn't completely serious he knew between four couples and it storming outside someone would be getting busy whether Janet believed it or not. Hell he would have even if he had been in someone else's house.
"Do blankets counts" Richard asked gaining an elbow from Claire and a glare from Eddie.
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"I think I'm going to make sure they don't need any help" Claire got up to check on them
"This isn't awkward at all" Rory mumbled
"Believe me their not talking about you. They're talking about me" Eddie eased her mind
"What did you do" Richard asked cackling
"Does it matter. The judge just called the jury in"
"You don't have a clue do you, son" Sully asked
"I've got a clue but that's about it since your girlfriend kicked me out of my own damn bedroom." The guy's laughed. Rory grinned cheaply
"I think I'm going to call it a night. Maybe when I wake up this storm will be over" They all knew she wasn't talking about the weather in general. Tyler gave her is over shirt.
"Second door on the left" Eddie replied when she stood about the time Lana opened the door and snatched Rory by the hand pulling her into the bedroom.
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"Here hold these" Claire handed her some towels
"What are we doing."
"We're about to drive the little boys nuts" Janet grinned and Rory was intrigued
"You can count me in on that one, but how"
"What's the one thing men hate but can't live without" Claire asked her daughter
"I'm pretty sure I know both of those but generally they don't feel both ways about the same thing"
"No wonder your husband ended up being gay" Lana burst out
"Lana" Janet screeched and Rory looked at her mom for comfort
"Sorry baby, she's right. It's time to learn how to get a man's attention with out actually giving anything up until your sure they are willing to make it worth your while"
"I know how to get a man to make it worth my while" Rory defended pitifully
"No you don't" Lana burst out into chorus again
"Lana" Now Janet was embarrassed for the lack of hospitality
"How would you know, your seeing a man old enough to be, hell he is Janet's grandfather" Rory took up for her self
"My point exactly, at that age they tend to go heavier on the naps and lighter on the moaning" Lana was one of a kind and just like Janet.
"Now now ladies, if you get into a cat fight we're all going to be disappointed by over eagerness tonight" Janet came out of the bathroom loaded down with baskets of potions
"The one thing men love is women and why because we spend all this time polishing and plucking and god knows what else to our self for them. You'd figure they could spend a little time doing something."
"Most men love women and the other ones are they only ones that do something, trust me you would rather the do nothings" Rory laughed with humility.
"I'll take your word on that but as much as they love everything we do they hate the idea of being in the middle of it being done"
"So what exactly are we going to do"
"Put them in the middle of it where they have no where to hide" Claire answered
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"I should have asked you first if you were comfortable sleeping in the same bed as Tyler. I'm not asking for an explanation of your relationship but if for some reason you're uncomfortable I'll make Eddie banish him to the other couch" Janet offered nicely and quietly to Rory
"Thanks but it'll be okay. Tyler seems like a pretty good guy."
"I'm sure he is" Janet replied as Claire and Lana changed into Eddie's shirts.
"So you want one of Eddie's shirts, I know Tyler's a pretty big guy and you'll probably be swallowed whole by that one"
"It'll be fine. I think I would be more comfortable knowing my rear end is fully covered and I wouldn't want to bruise his ego that much" Lana and Claire didn't have a care in the world. At their age modesty was only something that mattered when they weren't drinking enough wine to drown a grown man.
"Mom your not seriously going to walk out there like that are you" Rory was embarrassed
"Relax, baby I know how to sit like a lady" Rory thought it wasn't something a mother should be wearing in front of other men even though it nearly came to her knees.
"Knowing and doing are two separate things with her" Rory replied stepping into the bathroom to change
"Hey Janet, I'm coming in I need to get something" Eddie knocked on the door becasue Sully bet him he couldn't get in
"No, we're changing. We'll be out in a minute and then you can get what ever you want"
"Whatever I want?"
"It's your dream baby, dream it the way you want it" Janet replied and the guy's laughed at him openly
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"Why do they get to see each other naked and we don't get to see them" Tyler asked
"Because, they enjoy slowly torturing us until we roll over and play dead" Sully replied
"I want to know how a woman can give birth to and raise a child then trade him in for his wife the second he says I do" Eddie asked
"Ohh I guess we forgot to tell you that one" Richard swigged his beer snickering
"I hope that beer is flat, wishing me to have a girl. I'll be happy with what I get but I have to say a boy would be nice"
"Nope, you need a girl"
"Girls aren't so bad. They're just like little women as long as you give them whatever they want they'll love you to death" Tyler chuckled
"That's so true but the only problem is when it comes to the diapers" Richard interjected
"Not a problem. Janet's never going to believe I'm competent enough to do it long enough to make me" Eddie laughed
"It's different when it's your own, you'll get use to it about the time potty training starts" Sully chuckled
"The first time you have to change your daughters diaper you'll understand what you took from me" Richard was drinking quite a bit as was the other guys
"Don't worry at the rate I'm going she's going to be living with one of you anyway" Eddie chuckled playing around about his mom kicking him out
"Ohh no, she's yours no returns. You married her, you got her pregnant, she's not my little girl anymore and I've already got one women I don't need another one on my ass"
"Did you seriously do it in the storm. I'd be afraid of getting my ass struck by lighting" Tyler laughed
"Gives you more incentive to make it count if you think it could be the last time." Eddie laughed back
"Hey, can we only talk about sex if we omit who it was with"
"Alright change of topic, why ain't you having sex in your house?" Tyler asked Eddie both and Sully laughing
"Janet's comfortable here" Eddie answered simply.
A minute later Eddie finished his thought. "Which means I've got to trick her into moving."
"Here you're going to need all the help you can get" Richard tossed the bright pink nail polish in Eddie's lap.
"If she doesn't want to move why are you making her?" Sully asked
"Because, I'm the man. I provide the house and she wants it I knew that months ago when she did everything but not tell me to kick Phiz out. She just doesn't want to admit it."
"You asked her to move in with you? How long was that after our little talk?"
"The next day and I didn't actually ask her to move in." Eddie smirked turning up his beer
"Asshole" Richard mumbled turning his own beer up
"I was going to just didn't get the chance before we changed plans"
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"Woah, woah, woah. What are you doing baby?" Janet flopped down on the table in front between Eddie and the Game on TV.
"We're finding something to do" She replied simply as all four began to sprawl out. Rory tossed a towel at Tyler and he honestly looked scared to death as did the rest of the men.
"You'll have more room in there" He pointed to the front room
"I don't want to get anything on the sofa's baby. I paid a fortune for them."
"I'll buy you brand new ones if you do."
"Are you trying to get rid of me. I'm not in your way am I?"
"Of course not honey but we're watching the game and......"
"That's fine dear we don't mind, you fella's go about your business" Lana took over the torture
"Seriously Jay you'd be more comfortable on the sofa than that hard table and I swear we'll go buy a new one tomorrow if that one gets messed up."
"There's no since in waisting money just because you have it Eddie." Janet replied and Richard just used his hand to push Claire's head out of the way so he could see.
"Fine" Eddie gave up and after a half hour of giving the guys hell Janet put one leg up to balance her foot on his knee, no panties straight shot for only him to see.
"Baby will you paint my toenails?" Janet asked and it wasn't like he was going to let her put her leg down.
"Fine, what color do you want" The other guy's died out laughing.
"Don't laugh at him, he's good at it." Janet defended
"So you've done this before?" Richard asked Eddie with a grin
"Plenty of times" Janet answered for him
"When I was trying to get some now I just do it because she claims if she bends forward she'll have to pee"
"Very true" Claire added
"See I told you... and I want pink"
"There's like 50 of them there so...."
"I think you should go with baby blanket pink myself" Richard suggested
"Shut up"
"Just pick one baby"
"Dark, light, what?"
"Light, I'm pregnant not turning tricks"
"Okay, I wasn't aware that mattered but can I ask the obvious?"
"You're going to anyway"
"Have you ever worn trick turning pink?"
"Yes"
"When, if you don't mind me asking?"
"The night you knocked me up for starters" The guy's didn't think it was nearly as funny as the women that were rolling in the floor did.
"I guess you were weren't you" Eddie replied "Because that one was most definitely a trick"
"I don't imagine you were pleading for help" Tyler added having been roped into the same mess painting Rory's.
"He was pleading for something" Rory added having relaxed a great deal. Claire just looked at Richard about to laugh at him turning so red.
"I'm just glad it wasn't condoms" Lana spouted while filing her nails like it was the topic of the day
"I imagine that was the last thing he was thinking about" Sully laughed
"Would you like to know what I was really thinking about?" Eddie asked the room
"I already know the answer to that" Janet replied leaning forward to kiss him and Richard started to stop the conversation but was truly curious as to what Eddie had to say.
"Alright Latekka, what were you thinking about?"
"I was wondering what Tyler's face would look like if he had to scrape our electructed asses off that chair out there."
"Paramedicas don't scrape they gualk while someone elses does" Tyler laughed
"You want to know what I was thinking about?" Janet asked him
" Hell no, so keep it to yourself" Richard barked
"I was wondering how much ammunition I was going to have to get you to paint my toenails"
"Okay, light pink, this one work" Eddie grabbed one
"Yeah baby that'll work"
"That's pretty what color is it?" Rory asked and Eddie looked at the bottom of the bottle then at Richard who was choking on his laugh
"Baby... blanket... pink. Here maybe some will rub off on you" Eddie handed it to Tyler.
Janet tensed holding low her side, Eddie was the only one that noticed between the game and beauty parlor. He just looked up at her and she smiled at him so he let it go without drawing attention to it. The second time he said something. "What was that?"
"Just a twitch" Janet replied rubbing it.
"Does it hurt?" Eddie asked gaining the rooms attention
"It feels like a muscle cramp" He quickly gave up his view putting her painted toes down to the floor and taking her by the hand pulling her into his lap, he slid his hand inside her robe and began massaging for her, she wasn't about to tell him it wouldn't prevent it partly because of his ego but mostly because of the fact that it felt so good anyway.
"The joys of pregnancy" Lana mumbled
"Glad it's you and not me, that thing like to have killed me unlike some of us that had the perfect pregnancy" Lana looked at Claire.
"I can't help he was a bad fetus" Claire laughed at Lana
"I have a feeling his offspring will be just as bad just wait till that baby starts kicking, you just think things are stretching now, it gets worse way way worse" Lana told her
"I think she's already gotten her fair share" Richard took up for her "Really it's bad enough she had to let him touch her now she's got to endure him rubbing on her to. That'd be enough to make me sick" Janet just kissed Eddie for spite gaining another twitch one to be reckoned with.
"Time for bed" Eddie told her sweetly
"It's not going to matter if I'm laying down or not" He didn't want to argue in front of everyone and he let her have it her way.
Eddie rubbed her stomach like she was nine months pregnant. "She's going to look like she did a belly flop if you don't give her a break" Sully commented just to get to Eddie.
"My baby I can rub if I want to"
"Her belly she can stop him if she wanted to" Lana counter attacked
"That doesn't get on your nerves?" Claire asked
"No, Eddie's always been touchy feely" Janet responded
"Touchy feely is one thing that borders the line of trying to telecommunicate" Richard had to get in
"It's cute, how else is he going to get to know his child before he or SHE is born. It's not like they can just take turns" Rory surprised all by her opinion.
"Very well spoken and for the most part it's true but at the moment he's just trying to annoy me enough I'll go to bed." She got another pain
"Are you going to go willingly?" He asked her simply
"If you don't make her I will" Richard spoke up
"No one is making me do anything. I'm a grown woman, it's my body and my baby and those of you that don't like it can go sit in the rain." Janet's temper flared and Rory got to see that she really did have a less than angelic side.
"If you'll excuse us" Eddie stood picking her up out of his lap as he did and walked to the bedroom with her. Richard got up to open the door then closed it behind them.
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"Thank you" Eddie said kissing her forehead once he got her under the covers
"For what?"
"Letting me wear the pants tonight" He grinned at her
"I was sleepy anyway" Eddie just grinned bigger leaning down to kiss her tummy. "I love you"
"We know you do"
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"Janet said to tell everyone goodnight" Eddie returned
"So she's not mad you made her go to bed?"
"Ohh no she's pissed but she's not mad"
"That doesn't make sense boy" Sully chortled
"Makes perfect sense, she didn't want to be told what to do by her father" Claire scolded him
"And she likes Eddie doing it?"
"I'm her husband but more than that 1/2 that baby is mine and Janet doesn't have any problems with making us both comfortable when it comes to the little one."
"I didn't hear her claiming 1/2 a minute ago"
"Seriously, it's Jay. If she didn't want to go she wouldn't have gone. I'd still be laying in the floor while Tyler shocked me back to life ."
"Are you trying to say my grand-daughter has a temper?" Eddie just looked at Sully like he was crazy
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"We're going to turn in?" Richard was the first to go.
"Do we need to set up a charge account?" Eddie teased him.
"For what?" Claire asked
"Nothing" Eddie replied all the guys laughing
"God you are perverts" Rory commented. Sully and Lana found their way to the couch in the front room.
"Go ahead" Tyler told Rory and she did.
"I don't know about you but I hear chocolate cake calling me" Eddie and Tyler had a few things to work over of their own. Mostly just being in the same room and not ripping each others heads off.
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"Sorry about this man. I honestly didn't know." Tyler apologized as Eddie poured milk having already sat plates on the table.
"Me either" Edie replied sitting down to the cake Tyler cut
"I have to say I didn't see this coming though" Eddie added
"I don't know how you missed it, I knew you were going to spend the rest of your life with Janet before I ever spent any of mine with her."
"I was referring to the four of us under the same roof but thanks anyway."
"I know we've never really been buddy's but we were cool and had a little respect for each other before then and I knew she was your woman but I didn't care and I should have"
"We weren't dating then"
"Doesn't mean she wasn't your woman"
"That is very true, it's been Janet for a long time."
"Prom, we got it."
"It wasn't what you think" Eddie had to defend her honor
"Who ever said you had to make love to a woman to love her was wrong"
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"I figured this is where you were at" Janet bent down and kissed Eddie having gotten up to find him.
"So you came after me or the cake?" Janet took a bite of his
"It's always you baby" She was so sincere "As long as your holding the cake" The three laughed
"I thought I heard voices" Rory had really gotten up to look for Tyler.
"I'll share come on" He pulled her down into his lap.
"The two of you going to eat the whole thing?" Eddie asked
"The baby might"
"I just figure as many years as I passed on cake I'll make up for it now, My modeling career is over anyway."
"Did you quit?" Janet asked
"I got fired"
"For what?" Tyler asked
"You can't compete with 17 year olds, you men should know that. That is why they hire them becasue that's what you look at"
"Not all men"
"Men will always dream of women they can't have" Janet replied giggling
"Ain't that the truth, perfection is way over rated anyway and to be honest men aren't worth giving up everything" Rory started on her second piece of cake having devoured Tyler's "Especially chocolate" Rory laughed
"What about what we give up" Eddie asked Janet
"What exactly is it you men forfeit other than being able to sleep with everything that has breasts and before you say it yes Edgar had a rather nice set of man boobs himself" Rory asked
"What about being able to watch a game without having to listen to an hour of nail polish discussion. I don't know about Eddie but I could go my whole life without knowing the 26 shades of fuchsia or what the hell sugar wax is made of let alone what you do with it" Tyler responded
"Keep that attitude and you'll be going your whole life without something, I can bet you that" Janet mumbled
"Okay what about having to sleep under a mountain of blankets and lets not leave out the five hundred pillows which result in unmaking the bed before you ever get in and lord forbid you ever use one"
"You had your feet on it, no body wants to put their head where your feet have been Eddie." his wife was quick to explain
"How is my feet on a pillow we're never going to use any worse than your feet on the actual pillow I use. It amazes me how out of those five hundred or so 'decorative' pillows the only one she wants to prop her feet up with is mine"
"So go buy another one." Janet told Eddie
"Oh no we wouldn't want to waste twenty bucks now would we."
"It's different you have man feet" Rory helped her out
"What the hell is that suppose to mean" Eddie asked
"Nothing, you can't help it" Janet rubbed his back
"A foot is a foot, Janet"
"Do you see my foot" Janet propped it on the edge of the table
"Yeah"
"Now look at yours, which would you rather snuggle with……"
"There's nothing wrong with my feet, thank you" Eddie propped his on the edge of the table as well
"Get your nasty feet off the table Eddie"
"I'm with Janet that's disgusting. I know Lana taught you better than that" Rory made a face at Eddie
"Hello, Janet's foot was on the table to" Tyler butted in
"So, what's your point" Rory had yet to let up on the chocolate cake
"So if men get 'pedicures' they can prop their feet on the table to" Tyler was sarcastic and Rory was surprised he even knew what a pedicure was
"No" Janet barked
"And why not" Eddie asked his wife
"Because, I said so" Eddie busted out laughing at her literally putting her foot down
"Fine, don't have a freaking cow. I'll put them down" Eddie and Tyler were both laughing
"Did you just call our baby a cow or were you calling me a cow and before you answer take a minute to think about it"
"You're an idiot" Rory chanted softly to Eddie
"It's a figure of speech I wasn't referring to you or the baby as a cow. I would never do that and you know it." The last thing Eddie wanted was an argument about Janet's size in front of Rory and Tyler
"No you better know it. I on the other hand don't think it's my job to sit around and think about whether or not you're an idiot"
"Did you just call me an idiot"
"No, your more of a marching moron in denial" Janet teased him
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"Janet your house is beautiful but I'm surprised your not moving into Eddie's" Rory could see the look on Janet's face "It's just such a big house and with the baby I'm sure the extra room would be nice" Eddie could have killed Tyler for saying something to Rory. Tyler just shook his head no behind the girls backs.
"I think I can manage here just fine, if the baby gets to be to big a pain in the walking away end I'll send him over there for a while" Janet looked at Eddie to make sure he understood he was the baby.
"I thought all women wanted big houses, especially old ones like Eddie's is" Tyler was trying to help Eddie out but enjoying the torture it also brought
"You mean houses that come with built in room mates. No thank you, I love Phil he's a good guy and Pizza Girl is fun but I don't want to live with them."
"You don't have to live with anyone but me" Eddie tried to end the conversation before it got ugly for him
"I don't blame you, Jakes mom stayed with us for two years. I honestly think that's why he's gay now. Who could blame him, I couldn't imagine how horrified he was that he would be married to that one day" Rory laughed
"I lucked up on the mother in law end but have you seen what I have for friends in law"
"Hey, they're your friends too and they can't help they're marching morons, they were born that way." Eddie laughed
"Don't get your knickers in a twist, I'm just picking Baby. I love our friends and all their little quirks."
"You know you could solve the whole room mate thing and get the bigger house" Tyler suggested
"There's no way we're kicking Phil out. He can't leave the house and that's the way it is." Janet stated
"It's not that he can't, he just doesn't want to. I do things I don't want to sometimes" Eddie went with it
"I was just talking about work" He quickly added
"You are not kicking him out now, Eddie" There was no point Eddie lived with her now
"I wouldn't actually kick him" Eddie smiled at her "Okay, you're right I probably would have to kick him or at least physically force physical Phil to get him out but it can be done. Phiz is like a brother to me but you and the baby come first."
"Eddie we talked about this months ago."
"I know but I had already told him he was going to have to leave, he knew it was coming"
"You put Phil on the street and your going to be living in that house alone and Phil will be living here with me" Janet was serious but didn't think Eddie would ever actually do it and just played along with it
"You know he'd be good with kids" Janet looked over her shoulder teasing Eddie
"Problem solved built in baby sitter" Rory laughed but her and Janet were anything but serious.
"How would that be any different than having him as a room mate to start with" Eddie asked
"Because then you would be an ass and I wouldn't care" Janet giggled
"You don't have to put the man on the street. He's grown he can work and pay rent just like the rest of us." Tyler helped again
"Phil has a job and actually makes pretty good money" Eddie was defending his friend
"Then what's the big deal. Let him move in here and you two move in there. He'll survive from the house door to the car door" Tyler helped Eddie more than he knew
"I don't pay rent. The good thing about having a gay husband is Alimony and I don't plan on getting married again so I'm going to enjoy it for a while. And unlike Janet I don't mind spending every penny of his money. I figure he owes me something for ten years of my life"
"Rory, you'll get married again." Janet encouraged but thought to herself it would never be to Eddie not unless of course it was over her dead body.
"Yeah right, rejected model with a gay ex-husband that's a good catch"
"I don't think your so bad" Tyler added
"That's because you haven't seen what I look like in the mornings"
"I will in the morning"
"You know Janet, I think your offer is getting better by the second" Rory and Janet both laughed
"What offer" Rory refused to answer Tyler's playful questions that seemed to keep him and Rory occupied for a few minutes.
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"Are you ready for bed" Eddie asked her and she nodded
"Night guy's" Janet said on their way out
"Night" Tyler chuckled out as he was pretty occupied with Rory at the moment
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They both crawled into bed snuggling down. "What offer?" Eddie asked her
"Their not sleeping together and I offered to get you to put him on the couch" Janet whispered to Eddie as he worked his hands beneath her gown
"I don't think it's necessary, he's not going to push her. But I will if she wants me to"
"Did she look like she needed help" Janet was serious, Rory looked like she was enjoying it.
"No, but that poor fool does"
"What do you know that your not telling me?" Janet put a few little moves on him in return
"You know how we were before we were"
"So Tyler and Rory are hardheaded to. It doesn't mean anything"
"Tyler's in love with her the way I was in love with you" Eddie lifted his head to look at Janet
"Okay, maybe he's not going to fight it as hard and there's no way anyone can love someone more than I love you but you have to give me points because I was 18 when I fell in love with you and he's a grown man now" Eddie kissed her teasingly
"Eddie, how much did you drink. You were still seeing Rory when you were 18 and the only time we saw each other was playing poker at Sully's, a handful of times at the Bluffs and we barely spoke"
"I know"
"Then what are you talking about?"
"The day I broke up with Rory I was going to ask you out but I couldn't when it was over"
"You're drunk"
"I'm not drunk. I liked being around you but………….."
"But what, you wouldn't be popular if you dumped Rory to go out with me"
"No it's not that. I just was in a bad place and you didn't need that. You seemed happy and as much as I wanted to be a part of that I couldn't for a lot of reasons that you would probably understand but I can't talk about it. I don't want to think about it again" Janet blew it off as Eddie drinking to much.
"Well thanks to Dad she thinks you cheated on her"
"That was a surprise. I almost blew beer out of my nose. But it's the truth we did spend that night together." He crawled over the top of her
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"I hate to be a party pooper but unfortunately I don't have alimony and therefore I have to work in the morning."
"I guess that means your ready to go to bed" Replied replied softly standing up next to Tyler
"Go ahead the couch will be fine" He kissed her deeply but kept it short
"I haven't slept in the bed with a man in a long time, it'll be nice to actually have someone to keep my feet warm for a change"
" I think I can handle that" Tyler replied
"Then take me to bed" Tyler knew she didn't mean it the way it sounded
"I would love to take you to bed so I can keep your feet warm" He laughed it out pulling her into his lap from where she stood beside him
"Are you sure you can handle such a demanding task" She stood again pulling him to stand with her
"If your asking me if I'm going to keep my hands to myself yes but I can't lie and say that I'll want to"
"Thank god don't take this a the wrong way, but I was worried. I guess I'm a little gun shy"
"You actually thought I might be gay" He was insulted
"No, it's just……..never mind. I'm sorry I didn't mean to insinutate you were" Rory replied on the short walk to the guest room
"You thought I might not find you attractive. Sweetheart, trust me you don't have to worry about that. You're as pretty as they come" Rory actually blushed no one had ever called her pretty. Hot, smokin' and a few other less than flattering words but never pretty.
Rory laid a kiss on Tyler that left him blushing and speechless for a few minutes anyway. The blushing lasted a good bit longer.
"Do I want to know what that was for" He had trouble looking her in the eye
"You called me pretty" Rory Dunlap had never blushed in her life but there was a first time for everything as she continued to be shy around a man
"So I did but now we're really going to have to call it a night before ……….." He kissed her back short and sweet at the bedroom door forcing himself to pull away.
"Okay" Rory started into the room "You coming" She asked noticing he was still at the door.
"Yeah, I'll be there in a minute" Tyler replied with a smile.
"You're planning on sleeping on the couch aren't you"
"It's probably best" He hung his head a little ashamed
"Come on, it'll be fine as long as you don't try to hump me in my sleep anyway"
"I'm not making any promises but I'll do my best" Tyler almost giggled as Rory pulled him by the arm about the time he started to step in and he stumbled into her knocking her onto the bed. He naturally offered her a hand to help her up.
"You might as well turn out the light now, I'm already in the bed" She found the humor in it.
"What if I'm scared of the dark" Tyler pulled his shoes and belt off. Soon followed by his tee-shirt.
"If you'll keep my feet warm I'll keep the monsters away"
"Promise" Tyler flipped the switch and Rory could hear him coming out of his pants before crawling into the bed and under the covers with her
"Damn woman, you do have cold feet!"
"I can't help it, it feels like January in here and I've been freezing all night."
"Come here" Tyler pulled her to him "Why didn't you tell me you were cold, I'd of warmed you up" Rory snuggled right into his chest burying her face under his chin and managing to intertwine her legs with his. Tyler just pulled her tight against him resting his hand on the small of her back. Rory was so at peace being truly held by a man again.
They were both silent for a while thinking the other was asleep. "Are you asleep"
"About as asleep as you are. You still cold" Tyler turned the lamp on
"No, I was just thinking"
"Trying to decided how likely it was they've done it in this bed" Tyler made her laugh
"Yeah"
"Me to. What'd you decide"
"That Janet's a neat freak and there's no way she wouldn't change the sheets besides did you see her bedroom. It's gorgeous, like the perfect little girls room"
"Lets hope your right and no I have never seen her room"
"You know how little girls rooms are all pretty and pink and everything as girlie as possible. Hers is like that but the grown up version of it and this room is really nice but not like hers"
"Are you admitting you like something about Janet?"
"I like that her dad makes mom happy, she's nicer than anyone should be and she does have good taste"
"And she makes Eddie happy" Tyler pointed out the most obvious
"Her room reminds me of my house at the lake. I use to go there a lot in the summers, I bought it when I moved away I've been coming back every year but I never left the lake house when I did. I was a little shy of facing everyone again and having to explain that Jake wasn't with me because he had to work. I figured everyone would think he was running around with some young intern" She puffed out a little
"Why aren't you staying there now instead of at the hotel?"
"I don't know, it use to be somewhere I could just relax. It's got a ton of big windows and the sun shines through in the mid morning. I like to just lay on the couch and let the breeze blow in but now it's kind of sad to be there by myself because I am by myself. I can't hang on stupid excuses of needing time alone"
"I think I know which one it is. What did you do when it rained, that place is solid glass."
"You should really get some sleep" She avoided that topic reaching up to kiss him good night which didn't seem to have an end as things quickly progressed and he rolled her over onto her back at her will.
"I can take some time off. We could go to the lake and get a few days in before the summers over" He laid a gentle kiss on her lips.
"A few days?"
"Tomorrow morning" He kissed her "Saturday" he kissed her cheek "Sunday" He kissed her neck "Maybe Monday" he made his way to her collar bone "Possibly Tuesday if we need it" He kissed tenderly at the top of her breast but halting any further exploration
"It'll be tomorrow afternoon"
"Is there a reason we can't go in the morning" He asked cheek to cheek
"We're still going to be asleep" She whispered.
"Not like this, not here."
