Falling Down(84)

I just chuckle. "Relax, Luce. It's only Sera, not the press."
"I just… I'm not sure how much…?" I trail off.
"How much to tell her? Everything. It's family."
I shrug. "Yeah, she's staying in my room so really it's our room now."
Ben whistles. "Damn bro."
"No shit," Ethan says with a shake of his head.
Kennedy's mouth is hanging open.
"Dude, close your mouth. I don't want to see your chewed up f*cking pizza."
Jace snorts. "I've gotta say, it seems so unreal, you know?"
"What do you mean?" Ethan asks.
"Just last week I was working in accounting wearing a f*cking suit and tie and today I'm sitting on the patio of Casa Falling Down with the best f*cking band ever and Lucy's sitting on the lap of the guy she majorly crushed on since she was twelve."
"Well, f*ck," Ben says. "When you put it that way. But we're just guys who worked our asses off to get where we are. We caught a lucky break with Cage just as you all did."
"Mostly Lucy worked her ass off to get us here," Sera says.
"No thanks to her mom," Jace replies.
I squeeze her hip and she sighs. "It wasn't what I wanted to do, we all know this, but I did it. It wasn't exactly a hard job. I got on the set and pretended to be someone else and got paid a butt load of money to do it."
"But--" Sera starts.
Lucy cuts her off. "Stop. We've been through this a million times. Mom got her way from sixteen to now, but now it's us. Let's let the past stay there and be grateful because if we hadn't met Cage, like Ben said, we wouldn't be here."
Sera snickers. "You wouldn't be sitting on Jesse Kingston's lap and sleeping in his bed."
"Uh-uh. Our bed," I correct.
"Yeah, that," Sera says with a sigh.
"I gotta pee," Lucy says. I pull her down for a quick kiss before she heads inside.
"You know this is a dream come true for her, right?" Sera asks.
I shrug. Talking about the crush thing makes me uncomfortable. I don't mind being a crush or whatever chicks turn me into in their fantasies, but I don't want to be that for Lucy. Not anymore.
"I guess."
"Could be for him too," Ethan says.
Sera nods.
"She's definitely a dream," Xander says winking at me.
"Shut up, f*cker." I throw my bottle cap at him.
"What? I could've said wet dream, but I was respectful," he says, putting his hand over his heart.
I can see it, he's thinking about her, trying to imagine my woman naked.
"Knock it the f*ck off or I'll beat your ass."
Xander laughs. "I can strip her down in my head anytime I want to."
I nod. "You can, but you don't know what it really looks like under those clothes and it's so much more than your imagination."
"Well, f*ck," he says and takes a drink of his beer. I smirk.
Lucy comes back out and slides back onto my lap. I kiss the side of her neck and she smiles. She slams down the other half of her drink and holds out her empty glass to Ethan who grins and takes it to make another.
"Wow, Lucy," Sera says. "Who would have thought?"
"Right?"
"I mean, all from a crush."
"Seriously."
"Then the chance meeting."
"Mhmm."
"Then the video."
"Yeah."
"Toss in a weekend of fabulous sex and now you're living together."
"Yup," she says around my bite of pizza then takes the drink Ethan hands her.
"But he's not just a crush," she tells Sera and I pull her back for a kiss.