Brody just shrugs it off with a grin.
‘That was just the warm-up,’ he says.
‘Well, if you can save the main event until we’re not sharing a suite,’ Todd suggests. ‘You two certainly wouldn’t like it, if we were doing the same.’
Bold of Todd to think he could even put in a performance half as good (or half as long, to be honest with you) as Brody sounded last night.
Kelsey arrives just in time to save us from our awkward moment, setting her bowl of fruit and granola down on the table.
‘I left Neil over by the pancakes,’ she says, sitting down beside me. ‘Frankly, it was embarrassing, the number of pancakes he was trying to fit on one plate. If he looked at me with as much love and adoration as he does pancakes, we might actually stay married forever.’
I laugh.
‘A man after my own heart,’ Brody says. ‘Also, I didn’t notice there were pancakes, so that’s my breakfast dessert sorted.’
‘How do you eat so much and stay in such good shape?’ Kelsey asks him.
‘Ah, I work up a sweat, don’t I, Jessa?’ he says, pulling the end off a croissant and popping it in his mouth.
Kelsey looks at me and smiles.
‘We went to the gym this morning,’ I tell her.
‘Then, truly, marry the man,’ Kelsey replies. ‘I can’t even get you to walk past a gym.’
‘Because I’ll probably sign up out of guilt and then never go,’ I reply.
‘That was always your problem, committing to things,’ Todd chimes in.
‘Yes, that was my problem, Todd, of course, I couldn’t commit to things,’ I say sarcastically.
‘Did you all sleep well?’ Kelsey asks.
‘Not really,’ Todd says.
‘No, we have noisy neighbours,’ Nikki adds.
Thankfully they don’t tell Kelsey that their noisy neighbours are me and Brody.
‘What about you, Brody, you look a little uncomfortable,’ Kelsey says.
‘Yeah, no, I’m okay, just… an awkward position, I think,’ he tells her.
‘Oh, aye, I’ve heard that one before,’ Kelsey jokes. ‘Jessa, you need to lay off the awkward positions, you’ll wear him out.’
I practically choke on my orange juice.
‘Or at the very least, don’t break him until after the wedding,’ she adds.
‘I’ll protect myself at all costs,’ Brody tells her playfully. ‘No harm will come to me.’
‘Says the man on his third croissant,’ I tease.
‘It sounds like he’s earned them,’ Kelsey replies.
‘Can we please stop talking about… such things at the breakfast table,’ Nikki insists. ‘You’re putting me off my banana.’
There is such an easy joke to make there but thankfully I’m above it.
