Caleb left me his Visa infinite so I could pay for Henry's field trip on the school website. I put my birthday in instead of his when it asked for verification and now I'm locked out of paying until I can use a different card. Does anyone know when it unlocks so I can try again? Because this happens just about every month now and you'd think..well, you'd think someone would get me my own damned credit card and then I wouldn't have to ask.
Oh wait, what? Yes, I know it defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. That's what I was hoping for.
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Yesterday Caleb abruptly told me he was nothing like Cole. Nothing.
(Short of the obvious DNA and predilections and the way they eat/breathe/obsess. Right so NOTHING like him.)
Lochlan agreed, almost laughing in relief before punching him in the head anyway. Poor Matt was the only one present besides and he didn't waste a minute getting them apart and on their feet again. Lochlan made a shitty threat and Caleb ventured a legal one and I asked them both to fuck off and Matt agreed with me and then softened it with a word or two about keeping the peace for all our sakes before wisely shutting up.
PJ came through the door not five minutes later and I told him what happened and he was just sad he didn't win the bet. He figured Lochlan would pop him before lunch.
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I stand in the sun at the top of the stepladder on the back porch of the castle, peeking into the hanging pot of strawberry plants. I have a fork and the watering can and some fertilizer on the railing and I'm poking around when Jacob comes out and wraps both arms around my waist so I can't fall.
What are you up to? Trying to touch the clouds again?
No, I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting the little white flowers but no actual fruit on this one.
I see. What have you found?
Nothing? I don't know. Maybe it's a dud. Or maybe the bees aren't doing their thing since it's up really high?
True. But you know, I can see it just fine so that wouldn't be it.
You're huge though.
I can see right into the pot.
Stop rubbing it in.
So when the berries are ripe I see them when I come in the door.
Jacob, there are no berries on this one.
..and then I eat them as I unlock the door and you always think I've got strawberry gum. It's actually been a crazy producer, this plant. I'm just about full by the time I hit the kitchen.
You've been eating them?
They're really good when they're warm from the sun. You should try them sometime.
Well I would but I can't see when they're there, obviously.
Yeah, that's too bad.
It is.
A travesty!
I can't believe you've been pinching them all summer long when you know I've been wondering and watching.
I'm not sorry either, Princess.
