Author's Note: I did it! This is for the July 21st word. Notice how happy they are in my world? I didn't know I'd be writing so many fluffy chapters to this.
detente: a relaxing of tension, especially between nations.
"Your time is over. Face it. There's a new top dog in town."
"In your dreams. Because that's the only place you'll ever be better than me."
"I'm better than you now, old man."
"I'm not getting old, I'm just getting better. And better."
As the two brothers went back and forth, Maxie Jones alternated between rolling her eyes and fighting laughter. The foursome had come to Jake's to relax, hang out, maybe play darts. But, instead, Matt and Patrick were bringing their sibling rivalry to the forefront. Again. It seemed the two Drake sons could not let this go. It was clearly an argument they enjoyed having, because it occurred at least twice a month - that she knew of. She was sure if she asked Robin, who was doing her own eye roll/laughter/sigh combo, her cousin would inform her that this debate happened more often than that.
Between her and Robin, they possessed tons of knowledge about a variety of subjects. Yet, they'd only found one way to get Patrick and Matt to stop arguing - seduction. After listening to the two of them for the past twenty minutes, neither woman could take it anymore. They communicated silently and each put their plans into motion.
While Robin lured Patrick to the dance floor, Maxie slid her hand onto Matt's leg under the table. Acting as though nothing out of the ordinary was going on, she let her fingers crawl higher with each pass, lingering at the top. As expecting, the previously chatty doctor stopped talking and tightened his grip on his beer. Somehow keeping the grin off her face, she moved closer to whisper in his ear, "I was thinking we could stay and play darts or we could go back to my place and play Twister." She could tell he was recalling the last time they played the game. And where they'd ended up.
Instead of answering, he took her hand and all but dragged her to the dance floor where his brother looked equally dazed. "We're heading out. You two have fun."
Maxie practically skipped to keep up with him, laughing as she thought, Men are so easy.