My phone went off at five this morning.
Ben grabbed it right over my head and answered with a swear word I've never heard used in quite that way. He grunted a bunch of confirmations and then repeated a time. Then he hung up and left the phone on his bedside table. He said to stay put today. That he was going to go help Caleb out for a bit and he got up right away.
He came back and woke me up later to say goodbye and I asked him what the hell he was doing. He said Caleb needed me to do a couple hours of work early and that it was important so Ben said he would do it, calling him on his urgency. Ben used to be an insurance agent of all things. He can find his way around an office. He wasn't concerned.
I think he wants me though, I told him and Loch's arm tightened around my hips.
Then I'll wear lipstick. Where is it?
I smiled. There's seventeen or eighty of them in the drawer in the bathroom.
Any particular color I should look for?
Something like a blue-red? Go big or go home, Benny.
I would love to stay here but I'll be damned if he's going to summon you this early. Time to teach him a lesson. I'll just go with full makeup. Want to help?
Oddly I want to see what you can pull off on your own.
He came out twenty minutes later looking like the fifth member of KISS. Lochlan took one look at him and burst out laughing so loudly I'm pretty sure we woke up everyone with our howling and I lunged for my phone to take a picture, which I promptly sent to the whole group with the title of Caleb's EA for today.
I forgot Caleb was on the group chat as well and he replied Lucky me
With a sad face emoji.
Hahah.
