“Get out!” she shrieked. “Go…go now…go do your manly things you must discuss.”
“France?” Grant asked, his shoulders shaking with laughter. “What’s this?”
“There was this beach—” I started.
Lindsay rushed to the other side of the counter and glared at me. “And we went swimming. End of story.”
I stepped back, out of my sister’s reach. She could go crazy with the snap of her fingers, but I couldn’t stop myself. Glancing at Grant, I nodded toward the direction of the office and pushed him out the door. “You see, Grant, there was this beach and we went swimming—”
“I’m going to kill you! I will share all your embarrassing stories with Camden if you don’t shut up!”
I laughed harder. “And she was naked—”
“I thought it was a nude beach!”
Grant’s shoulders shook as hard as mine. “Except it was a family vacation spot, so why she thought that—”
“Hey Camden,” I heard, right as Grant and I turned the corner. “Did you ever hear of the time David went streaking at the high school football game?”
Her laughter rang out, vibrating along the walls through my mom’s house until Grant and I were in the office.
“She will kill you for that, you know.”
“Who cares. She can tell Cam anything she wants about me—I’m an open book.” I was now, at least. There were no more lies and no more secrets, at least not from me.
“Your sister stripped at a beach thinking it was a nude one—are you shitting me?”
“No.” I shook my head. “She was also like, twelve, so it’s not that big of a deal, but I’d never heard my dad shout so loud when she came out of the ocean without her swimsuit on.”
Grant laughed, crossed his arms over his chest, and shook his head back and forth. “Your sister has always been a bit nutty.”
“And you married her.”
He shrugged it off. “Normal is boring. I like her brand of crazy.”
I made a face and lifted a hand. “Say no more, please…say no more.”
“I wasn’t going to.” All joking vanished from his features and he dropped his hands to his side. “So, what do you want to talk about? Make it quick, because your mom’s pie is the best, and that frosting on those cupcakes really is the shit.”
