“Nope.”
“No worries, follow me and I’ll get you set up. You ever been on a snowmobile?” Jack asked as I foll
owed him up the stairs.
“Never. This morning was the first time I’ve ever really seen snow.”
Jack stopped and turned to look at me. “You’re fucking with me, right?”
“No. I’ve lived in Texas my entire life.”
A wide grin moved over his face. “Dude, we are going to have so much fun.”
And boy, did we have fun. By the time we got back from playing on the snowmobile, my face felt like was about to fall off.
Jack pulled up and parked in front of the house and we climbed off.
“Next time I’ll have Jill ride one over and we can really have some fun.”
Stomping the snow off of my boots before walking into the house, I couldn’t help but chuckle. “This is like a damn playground up here.”
Jack took off his jacket, scarf, and hat and tossed them over one of the sofas. I looked around for a coat rack when Jack grabbed my stuff and threw it by his.
“We’re not uptight in this family.”
He glanced around. “Wonder where the girls are.”
Laughter could be heard from down the hall. “It sounds like they’re in the library.”
Jack started down the hall. “I’m not surprised. You’ll find out that Kaelynn has two places in this house that are her favorite. The library and the theater room.
We used to find her in the theater reading in one of the recliners. She liked it because it was dark and quiet.”
They weren’t in the library, so we headed on to the family room. Attached to that room was the billiards room. Walking in, I looked at the large flat-screen TV that had a video from Jim and Terri’s wedding pulled up.
“Play it again!” Jill cried out, wiping tears from her face.
“You didn’t,” I said, glaring at Kaelynn.
She lost it laughing and said, “I did! Charlie sent me this!”
Hitting play on her phone, the video on the TV started up.
“Tell me you didn’t!” Jack said, jumping over the sofa and landing next to Jill.
There wasn’t anything I could do but watch and laugh. It really was funny as hell watching Jim think he was taking the garter belt off Terri when it was really me.
After watching the damn video three more times, Jack couldn’t take it anymore. He was on the ground laughing hysterically.
“Dude, he was all up in that! You were . . . dude, you looked desperate to get away!” Jack cried out, making us all laugh again.
“Who came up with that idea anyway?” Kaelynn asked, wiping a tear away.
“Tucker. Then Blake jumped on board. We drew straws to see who would get to be the lucky . . . bride. I drew the short straw. Now that I think about it, I always draw the short straw.”
They started laughing again.
When everyone settled down, Jack stood. “We need to leave. I only came to bring you guys a few supplies.”