23 - The Big City Girl
Part 24
It’s About Time
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Couple months after graduation
“Need a hand?” Stepping inside the laundry mat that Connie had recently opened up, I recognized Georgie’s voice instantly. I leaned my back against the wall watching him go over to a short blonde girl who was having trouble with her machine.
She sighed slightly annoyed. “This thing ate my quarters and now it’s stuck.”
“That tends to happen with number 7. What you wanna do is a push pull.”
She chuckled after he showed her what he was talking back and the machine started working immediately afterwards. “And here I was just pushing like a damn fool.”
“I ain't seen you in here before. “ Georgie tilted his head to the side.
The blonde tucked hair behind her ear. “Oh, I just moved back from San Antonio.”
“Oh, big city girl.” Georgie sent her a cheeky smile.
She shrugged her shoulders. “Well, now I'm "living back with my parents" girl.”
“That's all right. I lived with my folks not too long ago.” My boyfriend somewhat lied to the new girl.
“Isn't it weird? Whenever you live at home, no matter how old you are, you feel like a teenager.” The new girl began to rant to him not knowing she was talking to a teenager.
Georgie extends her hand out to her. “It did feel that way. I'm Georgie.”
“Mandy.” She shakes his hand turning back around to do her laundry.
“I’ll see you around, Mandy.” Georgie chuckles finally seeing me waiting by the doorway where he crossed the room. He takes my hand and leads me inside the broom closet so we had some privacy. “Hey baby, I thought you’d be working at Dale’s store.”
“I planned to but I woke up this morning with horrible back pain so I called in. And I didn’t feel like simply running the cash register. It’s gotten boring already and it’s only been two weeks since the doctor put restrictions on me.” Running my hands down my face I groaned staring down at my very obvious pregnant belly. The doctor's theory was that we would be having twins but it hadn’t been confirmed yet.
Georgie stepped closer to me, putting one his hand on my swollen stomach. “It’s only two more months.”
“Okay then I’ll go back to living my life carefree for nine months and you can raise the little one all on your own. How does that sound?” I teased him since he didn’t have to deal with a tiny human pressing on his bladder.
Georgie raised his hands up in surrender. “What can I do for you to throw me in the deep end?”
“Just keep being who you are and take me to dinner when you can slip away from work.” I sent him a tiny smile.
Georgie nodded his head in understanding, opening his arms and wrapped me in a comforting embrace. “I’ll pick you up at my memaw’s house later tonight. I promise.” Laying my head against his tea shirt I closed my eyes enjoying the simple moment between the two of us.
Kicking opened the door of the Cheesecake Factory. I was leading my twins outside to Penny’s car. I needed to be somewhere else hut around my ex boyfriend. Penny helped me put the kids in the backseat of her car after she had offered to take them home. She turned around to me, motioning her head towards the doorway of the restaurant she worked at currently. “I can come back and pick you up from wherever. Just text ne later okay.”
“Yeah. Just put them down for bed for me. I don’t want them to hear us fight.” I crossed my arms over my chest glancing over in the direction of her red car.
She nodded, getting in the driver's seat driving away and leaving me alone with my best friend. “Good luck with him. And remember if he’s being an asshole remember how I taught you we handled things in Nebraska.”
Closing my eyes I thought back on that brief two weeks me and my girlfriends had gone down to her family's place after I had given birth to the twins. Connie had agreed to watch them for the weekend. While we were down there I told them all what had happened between me and Georgie. Penny decided if he ever came around me again with some crap excuses I should hit him where it hurts.
Footsteps came up beside me when I sat down on the nearest bench outside the restaurant yet I didn’t dare glance in his direction. “Can we talk?”
“I didn’t leave with my kids and Penny did I?”
He weakly replied. “I thought they were our kids, Y/n.”
“So now you’re considering them you’re kids huh.” Forcing myself to stand up from the wooden bench I clutched my hands into fists at my sides. “Where was this George Jr when you met the girl at the laundromat!”
He lowered his head, staring down at his boots. “Nothing happened between us. How many times do I have to explain this to you?”
“It doesn't matter how many times you try and smooth talk your way out of this. We're not getting back together!”
Georgie raised up from the bench grasping my hands in his own so I had no choice but to look into his familiar gaze. “Y/n, I know you think something happened between me and her but I swear nothing happened.”
“Even though you hung out with her almost every weekend after the kids were born. What's your story for all those times?” I snapped back at my best friend.
Georgie opened his mouth to speak but paused trying to come up with a good enough response. “She needed help moving in her apartment and refused to go back to living with her parents. I didn't want to leave her to do all of that by herself.”
“Pfft more lies. Why aren’t you with her?” I scoffed under my breath.
He throws his hands up in the air. “Cause she told me she was 29 after we had met and she saw you talking with my memaw. You were pushing around the twins in a stroller.”
“Georgie, just stop. Just stop with the lies. I know what I saw that night at the restaurant. You and her were cutting it up and you weren't thinking about me at all. When your memaw’s business went under that girls father gave you a job. I know you’ve been sleeping with her.”
My ex boyfriend grabbed me by my shoulders forcing me to look him in the eye. “I took the job her father offered to provide for you and the twins. But I have my own tire stores now. I swear on my memaw’s brisket that I'm not lying to you darlin’.”
“I wish I could believe you but - I've seen you go through a lot of girls before you knew I liked you. So I just - I've decided I need to assume you're gonna do the same thing now regardless of us having kids together or not.” I pushed my hands against his chest forcing him away from me while tears began welling in my eyes.
Georgie stumbled backwards reading out for me. “Y/n, I'd never do something like that to you. We're best friends.”
“I don’t want to hear anymore lies from you. The only way I'd ever get back together with you is if you can prove you never had any romantic feelings for her.” I growled, getting up in his face taking out my phone and dialing Penny to come pick me up.