“Becca?”
“So, did you know I can see sounds? They are like swimming itty bitty dots in my eyeballs. Some are green. I like the blue ones.”
“Is she fucking high?” Rian asked, his eyes wide.
“I feel sad.” Ashby rubbed his eyes.
“Baby, are you sad?” Aleks demanded, clutching his cell phone.
“I’m not, but my chest is. Well, not the parts you licked earlier this morning, you know when you wrapped your tongue around…”
“Becca!” Aleks blushed to his hairline.
“Well, if you’re not talking about the happy outside parts, then yes it’s like my inside heart is sad. Cool, the green ones are whispering to me.”
“What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with her?” Felix looked concerned.
Nic’s phone rang. He looked down and answered immediately.
“Yeah Kate, we know something is wrong with Becca,” he said immediately.
“I am a horrible mother! Oh my god, why did I think I could do this? I can’t do this! I can’t! There’s four of them. Someone is always hungry or wet or crying. I don’t have enough time to cuddle them all! I’m not enough for my babies!” Kate’s frantic voice worked its way up in octaves.
“You are an amazing mother. It’s okay, Katie Bell,” Nic crooned into his phone.
“I don’t like the red ones! Fuck off, red!” Becca screamed.
Aleks gripped his gun.
“That’s it. Becca, what in the hell is going on over there?”
“Since my human body can’t even feed my own baby, I realized I could have coffee again. I made myself a pot this morning.”
Aleks visibly relaxed. “Thank god, it’s just coffee.”
“Aleks,” Connor called from behind the counter.
“Becca, honey, why don’t you get some rest like we talked about?”
“No, I want more coffee-e-e-e-e.”
“Aleks!” Connor yelled slamming his hands on the counter.
Aleks covered up the mouthpiece of his phone with his hand. “What!”
“Did you guys buy a coffee pot?” Connor asked, looking worried.
“No, we only have that thing you bought her for her birthday,” Aleks said and Connor’s face turned from a sick panicked look, to one of terror.
“Aleks, I bought her an espresso machine, it doesn’t make pots of coffee! How many espressos has she had?”
Aleks looked down at his phone as if it were a live snake.
“I should just die!” Kate sobbed into the phone. In the background they could hear Bran and Caleb trying to calm her down.
“Stay the fuck away. Your penises did this. We’re never having sex again!” Kate screeched. Caleb and Bran were now frantically trying to soothe their mate.
“Becca, go upstairs and lie down, I’ll be there soon,” Aleks said as if he were talking to a ledge jumper.
