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expecting when I came over tonight,” she said. “But, it wasn’t this.”
    Isaac turned onto his side and smiled down at her. “Come on, it’s not like we’d leave you hanging.”
    “Well, no.” She smirked. “But I didn’t expect you to drag me to bed, either.”
    “Drag you?” Isaac and I said in unison.
    “Woman, please.” I shifted onto my side, mirroring Isaac. I trailed a fingertip over her breast. “I seem to recall you kissed me first.”
    “After you started feeling me up,” she said.
    “I wasn’t feeling you up.”
    “Oh, you were too,” Isaac said.
    I rolled my eyes. “If I was feeling her up, I wouldn’t have had my hand on her leg .”
    “Hmm, he’s got a point,” Isaac said. “Don isn’t exactly known for subtlety when it comes to these things.”
    “Don?” She put her hand to her chest in a theatrical gesture. “Not subtle? Oh, I’m stunned.”
    “Wonders never cease,” I said.
    Isaac rolled his eyes. “Christ, this kid is going to be raised by the Trifecta of Sarcasm. The world is fucked .”
    All three of us laughed, but the sound quickly faded to an uncomfortable quiet. There it was. Reality. The kid. The baby. The reason Carmen was here tonight, the result of her being here a few weeks ago.
    No one spoke. I didn’t have to ask or read their minds to know we were all on the same page. For a brief, passionate moment, we’d locked the rest of the world out of the room and reconnected. But when we unlocked that door, the world would be waiting, and facing reality as a united front didn’t negate the fact that we had to face it.
    She chewed her lip. His brow furrowed. My own gut tightened with that unmistakable “what now?” feeling.
    I put my hand over Carmen’s lower abdomen. “Okay, without making myself look like a total sap, here…”
    They both raised their eyebrows and exchanged smirks before looking at me again.
    I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway…” I hesitated. “Look, this whole situation is going to be stressful, and it’s going to be an adjustment for everyone, but there’s no reason we can’t be happy about this either.”
    Carmen blinked. So did Isaac.
    “Come again?” Isaac said.
    “Think about it. It’s a shock right now, it’s downright terrifying, but…” I shrugged. “Jesus, you guys. This doesn’t have to be a crisis. Nobody’s dying. We’re having a baby, for God’s sake.”
    Carmen put her hand to her lips to mask a grin. “Aww, Isaac, did you hear that?” She wiped away an imaginary tear. “I think he’s gone soft on us.”
    I laughed. “Oh, shut up.”
    “I didn’t think you had it in you, Don.” Sniffing theatrically, she wiped another tear. “You’re almost—” She looked at her hand. “What the hell?” She wiped her eyes again.
    Isaac snorted. “Did you actually make yourself cry?”
    “Damn it, I think I did.” She stared at her fingers and her eyes widened with horror. “Oh my God, I did. What the fuck?”
    “And it looks like the Hormone Fairy has arrived,” I said.
    Carmen smacked my arm. “Fuck you.”
    I chuckled. “Just wait until you start crying during a diaper commercial.”
    Her eyebrows jumped. “Tell me you’re joking.”
    I shook my head. She groaned and put a hand over her eyes.
    Isaac laughed. Then he turned more serious. “He does have a point.”
    “What?” she said. “That I’m turning into a hormonal psycho already?”
    “Well, that, yes.” He ducked the hand that had already hit me. “I meant about the baby. This isn’t going to be an easy thing to adjust to, but it isn’t exactly the end of the world.”
    She scowled. “Says the man who doesn’t have to break the news to my mother.”
    “Or my dad,” I said. “But really, even if other people get their noses out of joint over it, we can make this work.”
    “True,” she whispered. After a moment, she sighed and said, “Damn it, I think those hormones are kicking in again.”
    I pretended—sort