amusement. Either way, it annoyed
me.
"Yeah, I’m fucking joking."
With an exaggerated roll of my eyes, I put the beer bottle to my lips.
It hadn’t taken long for Oscar, James
and Dixon to start their unfunny jokes about my predicament. Everyone
had an opinion, a suggestion or a snarky comment. My family was desperate for
me to not fuck all their lives up, so that meant that everyone had someone
‘great’ they wanted me to meet and now even my friends were trying to help .
"Well I could set you up with a
friend of mine, she is single and she’s cute. She lives—"
"Look, I don’t even know what I am
going to do. Seriously, how am I going to make this work?" When I heard
James snort, I looked at him. "What?"
"Oh come on you big fucking baby!
So you have to get married, big fucking deal. It’s not hard to find someone who
will marry you, just go back through your little black book and pick your
favorite ex. Problem solved." He shrugged and took a drink of his beer.
"He has a point," Oz offered
up from the other side of me.
"So you don’t think that I should
attempt to find someone that I could actually stay with?" They all bursted
into hysterics. "What?"
"Did you just really try to put you
and a serious long term relationship in the same sentence?" Oz barked out
in laughter.
I punched his shoulder.
"Screw you," I growled.
"Oh come on, Aidan. We’ll help you
out. Let’s see, Oz help me with the ex girlfriend list." I was about to
object but then we heard the door of Dixon’s apartment. We all turned as Lilli
walked in.
She was in a pair of baggy jeans, a
large sweatshirt and her hair was in a high ponytail. She must have realized
that we were all looking at her ‘cause she slowed her pace and looked over to
us.
"Umm…hi," she waved "Just
ignore me, I’ll be out of the way in a second." She smiled, went to the
fridge and then disappeared down the hallway.
"She’s ridiculously hot."
James stared after her, leaning off the couch to look.
"Quit ogling my roommate
asshole!" Dixon threw a pillow at him and we all started laughing, even
James.
"Claire?" Oz shouted. We all
looked at him.
"What?" Dixon wore a perplexed
expression.
"You remember Claire don’t you,
Aidan? She was nice and she was a lot of fun." Oz nudged me and I nodded.
"Born again Christian," James
announced and took another sip of beer.
"What?" I asked.
"She got all religious and became a
born again Christian," he said again.
"How do you know that?" Oz
asked.
"Her father is on the board of
directors at AIS, idiot," he directed the derogatory comment toward me.
"You should really pay a little attention to the chicks you screw around
with." He chuckled.
"Okay, how about Leann, she was
always chasing after you in college" Dixon offered.
"Lesbian," I shook my head.
"And that’s a deal breaker?"
Dixon laughed.
"I have to have kids with her and
don’t think she wants the equipment I can offer," I snorted.
"Hmmm…" James sat thinking.
"What about that Amanda chick you actually went out with more than once?
What happened to her anyway?"
"She was a tad too shy," I
winked and he shook his head. "She’s married. I got an invitation to the
wedding a year or so ago." Sighing, I sat back in the couch.
"What about Channa?" James
beamed proudly.
"She was decent. Though, I wonder
how she will react to the conditions."
"You're going to tell them?"
Oz asked incredulously.
"Um...yeah. I think I have to so
they don’t think I'm insane for instant marriage and baby." I sat quiet
for a minute. "Oh God, I have to get married and have kids." Tipping
over onto my side on the couch, I felt no shame for whining.
"What’s the matter, feel like you
are getting up there in age, Aidan?" Sitting up quickly, Lilli's brows
teased me with the way she arched them over her eyes.
"Not exactly," I groaned. She
just laughed. James eyed her in her work clothes. I threw a pillow at
him. "Focus, James."
"I say we try Channa. I mean it’s
the only positive