With six days before the family’s Mexico trip, anxiety has swallowed the women whole. Not for the reason that she regrets booking this necessary getaway. If anything, Geo’s been longing to get a moment to catch her breath, but importantly, relax due to everything that’s unfolded in the last few years. But embarking on a trip has brought an influx of worries capsizing her as the days begin to tick near. Does she have enough sunblock for the kids? Will they be able to handle the three hours on the plane, along with the three hours of waiting at the airport? Or does she have all of the essentials, such as emergency antibiotics, if someone falls ill? Causing one thought to circulate after another as it keeps her wide awake on this Monday.
Yet, each time as the brunette swears that she’ll call it an evening with packing and head to sleep, the tingling of agnoization alerts her to get back up and to take care of whatever may be the worry now. Thankfully, a text message from Nicole distracts and reassures her. Not only did her best friend land safe and sound back in the States, which the brunette has been counting down the days till they can reunite, but the other plans to drop over after dropping Noah and Harry off at home. It makes her beam because it would’ve been uncharacteristic for the women to wait until the morning. But, it does alert Georgina something must’ve happened on this trip. Twenty-so-years of friendship gives one permission to pick up on warning signs long before hearing the words escape from the other’s confines.
In lieu of Nicole’s impending arrival, she wandered quietly down the stairs to the kitchen to pick up two wine glasses and a couple of dishes. The action short in its mission of items to gather. Though, the mother did stop by Asher and Joanna’s room to catch the dreaming sight of her loves, including the dogs, deep in their slumber before finishing the trek back to her room. Just as she set foot back into the master bedroom, the multiple dings from her iPhone indicate Nic will be here before and enter the estate with the housekey and knowledge of disarming home security code without forcing her to head downstairs once again.
Rather than the best friend’s usual greeting: hugs, cheek kisses, and fangirling about seeing each other again like children, words dash into the atmosphere instead. Instant with her awareness, hazel optics widen to the size of spotlights cast in the inky sky above. “Wait… what?” Stunned, growing frightened silvery falsetto comes to life, making sure she heard the correct words from Nicole’s mouth. The last thing Geo had expected to hear is Lisa Thompson being in contact with Nicole, let alone access the infant and hold him in her possession. “H-how did this even happen? Did one of your nannies let her in?” A halt in her words permits her to think about another person in the equation. “How much does Harry know?”
Maybe she should have waited until morning for this, rushing out of the house the way she did, even if was not uncommon to have Geo as her first stop after a long period away, it didn’t felt right. But before she could turn around and decide against it, she was already inside her best friend’s room, vomiting the words she forced herself to keep inside during these last couple of days. Then, she knew why, she needed to be here now, and waiting until tomorrow might not be the brightest idea.
"No, no, it was my - my grandmother did,” she collects her thoughts, pinning the events in a timeline to make a sense out of it before she could fill in all the question. "We never planned to take Noah with us, because that’d be crazy, and it was, it was the longest plane ride of my life, we were also busy for the most of it...” Nicole was pacing back and forth in front of the bed at this point, either a flush of adrenaline rushing through her veins, jet lag, or the last drop of energy she had in her body before the imminent collapse of exhaustion. The words fell past through her lips like an avalanche before she could even process then, just wanting to lay the entire story out there. “And, of course, we did not want to leave him here alone for the first time with just anybody... She is used to Noah and he is with her, her house and she wanted to do it, ... It made sense to let him with her." And there weren't any incidents in the past, besides the occasional commentaries in the format of a joke about how much Nicole was exaggerating in the cares of her baby, but nothing she couldn't handle or hasn’t heard a thousand times in the last six, almost seven months since Noah’s arrival. More important, she trusted Marla to do this one thing for her. “But then, after the last party with the crew I went to pick him up so we could spend the rest of the week with him before we had to leave and then, cameras rolling, Lisa Thompson is on, everybody.”
“He knows.” She replies, finally, drawing a long sigh. “I mean, he knows enough...” Like everyone she allows in, they always knew what Nic lets them know, but the two exceptions for the rule were, the subject of this conversation and, the one she was having the conversation with. Geo knows everything, but there were still parts of her life that she did not share as a whole, perhaps because she buried them far too deep, left in a corner behind that it was almost as it did not exist and she preferred to keep it that way.
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