Easy to Love You (16 page)

I looked up to find Hunter gazing at me; I blushed, thinking of the shower this morning. “Yeah, he’s pretty good at distracting me.” Hunter smirked, smug jackass.

“So what’re your plans today? Is everyone still there?” Mom asked. She must’ve been cooking because I could hear pots and pans hitting the stove.

“Well, Hailey wants me to venture out with her today. I don’t know if that’s a good idea or not, you know how things can end with her sometimes.” I laughed.

Hunter said, “You can say that again.”

Mom was cracking up too, “Oh Kenzie, I think you’ll be just fine. You’ve been cooped up in that house for too long, you must be going crazy.”

I was a little bit now that she’d said it. “Yeah, I think I’m going to go. Hunter said he would come and get Ryder, so you don’t need to worry about that.”

“Oh honey, tell him to go out with the boys. Ryder’s just fine here with us. Why don’t you all go out, do your things and come here for Sunday dinner? We haven’t done that in a while.” I glanced up to Hunter who was at his dresser spraying on some cologne.

“Mom, hang on.” I covered the phone. “Mom said not to worry about Ryder and go out with the boys and then we can do Sunday dinner there. Is that ok with you?” I missed having family dinners too.

“Yeah, sounds good, I’ll call Mom and tell her about dinner.” Hunter said while reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.

“Mom that sounds good, I’ll let everyone know since they’re all still here.” I told her. This would be good for Mason and Hailey too; I think they needed to spend more time together. Hailey was so busy with classes and Mason was so busy with baseball that they barely saw each other. Maybe that’s their problem.

“I take it everyone had a good time if they’re still there?” Mom asked, pondering.

I snickered, “Things were great, but I think everyone is still here because Mason cooked breakfast.”

Mom didn’t respond for a few minutes, “Mom?”

“I’m here; I think I’m in shock honey. Mason doesn’t cook, that child of mine can’t even boil water.” She’s right, he couldn’t. “I’m going to let you go. Please make sure to text me a picture of this because if not, I’m not going to believe you.”

I cackled, “Will do. Give Ryder a kiss for us. Love you.”

“Love you too baby girl.”

I hung up the phone and heard the end of Hunter’s conversation with his mom, “I don’t give a shit. You’re coming.”

I was a little blown away by his harshness. “Hunter?” He twisted and looked at me.

He looked down to the floor and spoke, “Yeah, don’t worry about her. You ready to go downstairs?”

His whole demeanor had changed from his conversation with his mom, and I wondered what the hell was going on with them. Now that I thought about it, I haven’t really seen her either. I’d question him about it later, right now I was starving. “Yeah, I need to see this shit.”

He mustered up a little smile, “You and me both.”

As soon as Hunter opened the bedroom door we were engulfed with the smell of bacon. “Damn,” my stomach growled, “at least it smells good.”

He was still so far away, “Let’s hope it tastes as good too.”

Walking into the dining room where Hunter could put me down, we were greeted by everyone sitting around the table. It was full of food; eggs, pancakes, French toast, sausage, ham, bacon, toast, orange, grape, apple juice and chocolate milk.

My mouth fell open, “Close your mouth, Kenz.” Jackson said, sitting next to Chloe who hit him in the arm.

“Damn Mase, what the hell got into you?” I asked as Hunter sat me down in the chair that Cooper had pulled out for me.

He flicked his eyes over to Hailey who was sitting across from him and shrugged his shoulder. I peeped over at Hailey who had a smile on her face as she was digging into her food.

“Don’t worry, it tastes pretty good. I think if he was going to try and off someone, it would be me.” Hailey said to everyone.

That got Hunter to laugh; he took a seat next to me and started putting all my favorite foods on the plate without me even having to ask.

When everyone had their plates loaded, I leaned over to Hunter, “You want to tell them that we set a date? Or should we wait for dinner?”

A smile that finally reached his eyes showed me he wanted to tell everyone now, “Up to you.”

I ruffled his hair, “You tell them.” He kissed my forehead.

Everyone’s eyes were on us, “I’m gonna lose my breakfast if you two don’t knock that shit off.” Cooper said. Then he bent over and kissed Jaylinn on the forehead to make a point to Hunter.

“Shut the fuck up asshole,” Hunter threw a piece of his bread at him, of course Cooper caught it with ease. “CC and I set a date for the wedding.” All the girls got that dreamy look in their eyes, “January 22
nd
.”

All the guys nodded and the girls squealed at the same time, “Shopping!”

Looks like I was in for a day of shopping for the wedding. I was actually looking forward to this outing with the girls.

After the girls finally settled down and finished their breakfast, the guys and I cleaned up the kitchen while they got ready to go out.

“You’re really ready to hand your balls over to my sister?” Cooper asked. He was drying the pots and pans that Jackson was washing while I put them away. Mason had disappeared somewhere.

“He already handed them over years ago bro, you just never saw it.” Jackson responded for me.

“Shut up jerk off, you handed yours over to Chloe too.” I snapped back.

He shook his head, “I know man, I know.”

Cooper was amused by this. I saw Jackson reach for the sprayer on the sink, I backed up and he shot Cooper right in the side of the face. “Now that’s amusing.” Jackson said.

Cooper dried his face with the towel in his hand, “Good one Jackson. Just remember payback’s a bitch.”

Mason came around the corner pulling Hailey with him. Hailey’s hair was a little ruffled and her lips were red. “What the fuck’s going on?” Mason asked.

I started laughing, “Hmm, well Coop, Hailey got her chocolate milk…” and Cooper finished my sentence, “and from the looks of it Mason’s dick too.” Hailey turned beet red, Mason was shooting daggers at us with his eyes while Cooper, Jackson and I, laughed our asses off.

“Funny, assholes.” Mason shot back.

CC yelled from the top of the stairs, “What the hell’s going on down there?”

I walked over to the bottom of the stairs and yelled back up, “Oh you know? Hailey loves her chocolate milk…”

CC cut me off, “Hunter don’t you
dare
finish that sentence.” I started cracking back up again. “Come get me.” She whined. I climbed the stairs and brought CC back down with Jaylinn and Chloe following behind.

“How the hell am I going to go out like this? I can’t even walk or use the crutches and I’m scared shitless the girls will drop me.” CC voiced her concern to me.

“Hunter, please tell her we can handle it.” Chloe piped up behind me.

I kissed the side of CC’s head, “They can handle it, and you barely weigh a thing.”

CC glared at me, “Are you kidding me? Have you seen my ass lately? The longer I sit on it, the bigger it’s getting.”

I wanted to laugh at how cute she was but I knew she was self-conscious about her body now. I mumbled in her ear, “I love that ass. The things I want to do with it.”

Her eyes widened, completely in shock, “Umm…”

Exactly the reaction I wanted, speechless. “You’ll be fine, but if it makes you feel better we can follow you to the mall and put you in the wheelchair. The boys and I are going to watch the game at the bar not far from there.”

CC looked at the girls and they all smiled, Jaylinn spoke up first, “It’s up to you.”

She looked at me with those piercing blue eyes, “Please?”

I actually kind of liked that she was leaning on me; she knew the girls would never let anything happen to her, but she wanted my security. “No problem.”

After we dropped the girls off at the mall, the boys and I went over to the sports bar not too far away. I was glad we’d chosen to come here so we were close by if anything happened.

We walked in and the place was packed, we found a table in the back corner and went to sit down. The waitress, a cute redhead with crazy curly hair came over, “My name’s Danielle, I’ll be your waitress today. What can I get ya?”

We all ordered our beers and Danielle couldn’t take her eyes off Mason. It didn’t help that Mason was flirting with her either. I saw his hand fall from the table and the girl shifted her weight to her other foot. When she walked away, I glared at Mason, “What the fuck are you doing dude?”

“Nothing.” He brushed me off, “Just making sure we get taken care of since it’s so fucking packed.”

I shook my head in disgust. “Any word from your dad, dude?” Cooper asked.

“Nope, not since the day we left the hospital. Jaylinn hear anything?” I hadn’t really talked to Jaylinn lately because all my time was being consumed with CC and Ryder, but I knew she was in good hands.

It looked like he wanted to say something but he held back, “Just random calls and hang ups a lot more at your mom’s.”

“Shit. Us too. I guess we need to change the numbers. I’ll pull Mom aside tonight and tell her I’m changing both of ours.”

Cooper nodded. “Wonder what the hell he’s doing here. Do you think he’s been looking for you guys?” Jackson asked.

I knew they were concerned about us. Hell, I was worried too.
How the hell did he find us?
I was debating asking Mason if their dad had said anything more to him, when none other than Dominic walked in with a few of the guys he hung out with.

When he noticed us he tipped his head, said something to his friends, and then came in our direction.

“Just fucking great!” Mason said sarcastically.

He walked up cautiously, “Sorry to bother you but I just wanted to give you a heads up that Brittany’s back in town. Apparently she moved here with her dad.” He looked off into the distance, shook his head and then continued, “I don’t understand why she can’t get the fucking hint that I don’t want her here.”

“Sounds like a personal problem Dom, keep it moving.” Mason told him at the exact same time that Cooper’s, Mason’s and my phone beeped with a text.

We all looked at our phones and then to each other before looking at the text.

My stomach was in a knot and I started sweating.

Hailey 12:19 p.m.: Get your asses here now.

It was a picture of the dickbag, Jason outside Victoria’s Secret. All of us stood up at the same time, reached in our wallets and threw some money on the table.

“What the fuck’s going on?” Jackson asked, chasing behind us.

We all piled into Mason’s car and peeled out of the parking lot, while Cooper explained to Jackson what was happening. I was pissed off and fuming, I wanted to punch something but I just needed to get to CC first. Everything else could wait until she was safe and tucked into my arms.

The first place the girls wanted to go was Victoria’s Secret; I had a bad addiction to that place and only went once every six months because I spent entirely too much money. I allowed them to talk me into going because I hadn’t bought anything in almost a year. I wasn’t about to spend that kind of money on boobs that I knew wouldn’t be staying around.