drunk...
Someone, grab Megan. Tobin, grab Megan for me please! – Skylar yelled out for my help from the dinning table.
I immediately ran to the back door and got Pinoe in my arms as she was about to collapse due to an unnecessary amount of alcohol intake.
- Please take her to the sofa, I'll come as soon as I finish cleaning up. – Sky said worriedly as she was gathering the dirty plates and cutlery in a hurry.
- Take your time, Sky. It's ok. – I told her.
- Thanks, Toby. – she said, let out a long sigh as she was balancing a lot of plates on her hands to deliver to the kitchen for Christen and Ali (two of the sober ones) to wash.
Christen can't drink. Sky's allergic to alcohol so she obviously can't drink. Ali only took a few sips because she knew even if she was out for just one second, this house would fall apart, so she had to stay alert and conscious all the time. Kameryn hates alcohol to her core, that's why she's stuck with Kelley for life, because it's in God's words: you marry what you hate. I was not even tipsy since I didn't drink much. Julie and Crystal have a to-the-grave rule that they don't let themselves drunk at any cost when their kids are around. Mellie can't drink at the moment because she's still breastfeeding the kids. And Alyssa isn't human.
- Are you alright? Need help? – Lyzzie asked while holding one of her children in her hands.
She was walking back and forth to help him fall asleep easier while Mellie was busily dealing with their daughter in the room. Their life with the twins had been basically every day is another battle. I don't even know how they did it without the idea of killing themselves.
- It's ok, Alyssa. I don't want this little shit to puke all over my nephew. – I slapped Pinoe's head real hard, which made even myself surprised.
- Ouch. – she said, trying to fight me back but her eyelids were so heavy that her eyes were practically closing so she couldn't see anything, so it made her miss a chance of hitting me back.
- You would be dead meat if Sky saw you almost made her wife's head explode. – Kameryn stepped out of the kids' room with a children's book in her hand.
She was responsible for taking the kids to bed after Kai and Hermie helped the youngers with showers, since they'd played all day and had been so exhausted. They all refused to go to bed at first, but thanks to our super mom Ali Krieger, they all listened to her obediently which wasn't surprising at all.
When I was about to throw her on the sofa so she could sleep next to Kelley O'hara who was by the way dying after drinking all the beer in the house by herself, Sky stepped out of the kitchen and asked:
- Me what? – she just barely heard her name when Kam mentioned her.
- Nothing. Here's your wife, ma'am.
I gave Pinoe to her, Sky then hugged Pi into her with such love and gentleness. It almost felt like she was afraid of breaking Pinoe apart she used anymore strength. I wondered what she would do to me if she found out I would have thrown her wife on the sofa if she didn't appear on time.
Skylar honestly handled her wife's drunk ass so neatly that it made me feel useless. She even helped her sit down on the couch so easily just like a bite of donut.
How could she do that? She's just a small person but she could hold Megan so cleanly, which was complete opposite of when Megan was in my arms, because her head was rocking back and forth and I couldn't even hold her up probably. Everything was just all over the place until Skylar stepped in. I guess love is another entire kind of superpower on its own.
I bent my knees to sit down next to the Rapinoes to rest for a little while since I just swept the entire house by a broom, because apparently I wasn't allowed to use vacuum cleaner since it was the kids' bedtime and the big ass sound of the machine might wake them up.
When I was about to place my butt on the comfortable cushiony sofa, a little human being tottering towards me with her eyelids half closed like the cutest penguin in the world that she is. I couldn't help but smiled like a crazy person and walked towards her instead to pick her up in my arms.
- Heather, what's wrong? You can't sleep?
She buried her nose into my neck and shook her head the next second.
- Huh? – I gently asked.
- I like your arms better. – she said with her sleeping voice.
- Ok. Sleep tight. I'll never let go of you.
I held on to her a little bit tighter and slowly backed myself until my leg could feel the softness of the sofa. I then slowly bent my knees and arched my back to sit down next to Sky.
I tried so hard to be as gentle and as quiet in each of my motions as possible. Poor thing was so tired cos she gave her all today, I would never wanna disrupt her sweet dreams.
- You know you could have just turned around and walked back here, right? Why did you even make things so complicated?
I grinned at Skylar instead of replying anything.
But she was right though. Why would I choose the most difficult way to walk back to the sofa? That was so stupid of me, but I was happy about giving my effort to this little girl.
- You know who you are looking like right now? – she asked.
I shook my head, and gently rubbed Heather's back to send comfort to her sleep.
- You're looking like Megan Rapinoe when Kai was at this age. – she smiled, the smile that I couldn't understand the meaning of.
- I love you, Toby. – she said all of a sudden.
- Sky. What now? – I let out a sigh while smiling at my sister-in-law.
She shook her head.
- Nothing. I just love you so much and I want you to know, that's all. – she said, then turned her head to look at Pinoe's sleeping face on her shoulder instead of keeping staring at me so empathically.
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It seemed like a 15-minute nap helped the drunk ones get back their energy so now they were partially awake and started to annoy the hell out of everyone else.
- Honey. – Megan's voice softly raised up.
- Huh? – Skylar fixed her wife's hair delicately while responding.
- I love you more than my fucking life.
My heart fluttered after hearing that from my friend. Even when she's not in her rightest mind, she's still crazily in love with Skylar no matter what. That's just purely some admirable shit in life.
- I know, Megan. I know. – Sky softly smiled.
- Do you love me? – Pinoe's drunk ass asked all of a sudden.
- More than my twenty hundred lives combined. – Skylar replied so lovingly.
- Really? – Pinoe breathed out the word.
- Yes. – Sky slightly nodded.
- Sky, I'm not drunk. You know that right?
I couldn't help but had to laugh.
What the fuck was Pinoe even thinking? She's literally dying on her wife's shoulder.
- I know you're not. – Skylar coddled her wife to the maximum.
Gosh, she's so patient towards Pinoe. How could she even do that when all Pinoe did was rambling the same shit on and on without any breaks in between?
- I love you, damn it. – Pi said, turned her head slightly to kiss Sky's shoulder.
- I love you, too. – Sky softly smiled and placed a kiss on her forehead.
God, I never intentionally want to watch people being cheesy and in love and shit right in front of me and so closely, but I was holding a sleeping child in my arms and couldn't move to anywhere else, so that's that.
- Oh my God. – I heard a familiar voice which wasn't Skylar's or Pinoe's or Kelley's or Kameryn's, so I looked over to see Christen freaking out of the fact that I was holding her daughter.
- Your hands must start to numb. Give Heather to me. I'll hold her. – she held her arms out to get her daughter.
- No, I'm ok. – I smiled and tightened my embrace on Heather.
I wanna hold her longer. I can even hold her forever as a full-time job if she doesn't mind.
- Are you sure? – she asked, feeling debated about it.
- I'm sure. – I nodded.
- Thank you. – she softly said, then sat down next to me which made my butt tense up for a few seconds and made me stop breathing.
Please Lord, don't let us make any physical contact, otherwise I would fucking explode.
- Is that Christen? – Pinoe asked while putting a big effort into lifting her head up from Sky's shoulder and turning her head to look for Chris.
- Yeh, it's me. What's that?
Chris ducked her head out since I was blocking her view of Sky and Pinoe, she also unintentionally leaned towards me a little bit to look at Pinoe, I guess. I completely panicked but had to hide it real good. I tried to lean back as much as I possibly could to keep the distance between us, because humans are ambitious and horny, I'm humans.
My cheeks started to blush, and I could feel there was this big fire that began to get even bigger and spreading inside out. I could even feel the sweat at the root of my hair just in a few seconds of her doing that.
Lord, don't let me do this in front of her child because it will be a fucking sin.
Pinoe just said something so slurry that neither of Chris and I could hear. I don't know about her, but I couldn't hear anything besides my own heartbeats right at that moment.
- What did you say?
She leaned in closer to try to get what Pinoe was trying to speak to her, and she was placing her hand on my thigh at this point, her face was right in front of me that freaked me the fuck out and I had to stop breathing, because if I continued, I would unfortunately have to breath into her face and neck and I DON'T WANT THAT!
- Aie. – Heather moved a little bit in my arms, which helped me realize my hand was squeezing her arm because of the pressure I had to deal, thanks to Christen Press.
I mentally slapped myself. Shit I hurt the child. Sorry, honey pie, your mom did things to me so we're blaming her for this.
But that's gotta be French, right? What the heck is "aie" anyway?
It's so embarrassing to admit this but as soon as she touched me, I shivered as the spinal cord immediately sent signals to my brain. Normally these shitheads of mine don't work this well together, but when it comes to matters like this, they're very unusually freakin fast and united, cos they only trynna fuck with my feelings.
- Babe, can I just talk to her a few words?
Pinoe just asked while she's comfortably enjoying her wife's company, but meanwhile, I was living in absolute hell and having to not taking my eyes off of that face in front of me because if I gave them a break just for a second, my face would spontaneously moved closer and my lips would meet that soft face at the result and I DON'T FUCKING WANT THAT!
- Sure, babe. – Skylar replied in her normally nurturing voice.
Pinoe tried to stand up on her own but her legs were so mushy so she couldn't; therefore, Skylar had to end up helping her.
I breathed out in relief when Chris adjusted her body upright and her face away from me as she lifted her head to look at Pinoe. Finally, I could survive at last, cos seriously I would die if I had to hold my breath in any longer.
Once Megan Rapinoe faced Chris with her half-opened eyes, her slurry words started to flow:
- Christen. Let me tell you something. I've kept this in my heart – she placed her hand on her left, then switched it to the right, then the left again and finally decided to keep it on the right side while keeping her sentence going – for seventeen fucking years and I really want to just let it all out.
It seemed like Skylar could guess what her wife was about to say, so she immediately attempted to stop her:
- Ok, baby, that's more than a few words. That's enough.
Pinoe pulled Sky's face closer and strongly pressed a drunk kiss on her cheek as she spoke:
- No, hold on.
Sky helplessly let out a sigh and decided to just let her wife be.
The way Pinoe looked straight into Christen's eyes with those eyes barely opening, but still could show the determination in the way she did it, scared me.
Is this some freakin metaphor? Is this gonna be something to do with me, cos my whole body was shook for no reason? Or is it just the post-effect of Christen Press being illegally physically close to me a few seconds earlier?
- Tobin Powell Heath can't fucking live without you. There. I said it.
I bunched my own forehead as soon as she started the sentence by my name.
Fuck, it's metaphor.
Megan, stop.
- She has been so miserable every day since the day she started to grow feelings for you. However, she can't cry or can't show emotion in the best way to free herself, so there's that. Feel free to feel guilty because honey, you hdhjdkkfjjrgdjjfkrghskidgbck...
She sounded like that because Sky had already put her hand across her mouth to stop her from talking.
- Ok, that's enough. - Sky then dragged her out of my and Chris's sights because she felt sorry which she shouldn't be.
The whole world suddenly became so quite for one second, which felt like ten thousand years, as everyone besides Pinoe went "oh, fuck, no she did not" at the same time.
Good job, Pinoe. For exposing me about something that everyone avoided so hard in years just so I could be alive today.
After being all serious and drunk for one whole minute, her dorky ass immediately switched back to being all silly and drunk without wasting any time of being once Skylar took her hand off of her mouth:
- Ok. I'm done. Anyone else?
- BEER!!
I almost jumped and dropped the sleeping child out of my lap.
- What the fuck, Kelley?! – Crystal tossed a pillow at Kelley O'hara who was resting her head on her wife's thigh.
Pinoe laughed her butt off once she figured out who was shouting for beer, as Kelley herself stupidly smiled at Crystal and started screaming again:
- I WANT MY FUCKING BEER!! DOES ANYONE HAVE MY BEER?!
- Baby, wake the fuck up. – Kameryn embarrassingly slapped Kelley gently on the cheek.
These motherfuckers seriously should be banned from having any kind of relationships with alcohol, I swear to God.
- I've already told you guys don't get her beer but you didn't fucking listen! – Kameryn blamed whoever that got Kelley her beer.
Spoiler alerts: it was Alyssa Naeher who got Kelley her beer when she picked up peach juice cans for her wife at the convenient store.
- Beer is the love of her life so come on, don't be a dick, Kameryn. – of course Pinoe had to say something to defend her partner in crime.
- Ok, great. Now you go and sleep in the same bed with this stinky whole thing, Pinoe. – Kam rolled her eyes.
- No, she can't. I can't sleep without her. – Sky suddenly inserted.
- Sky. Really? – Kam felt like she was being betrayed by her sober sister.
- What? It's true. I can't sleep without my wife and I refuse to be sleepless. – Sky innocently said as she helped Pinoe fix her hair.
- Jesus, Sky. – Kam couldn't be pissed anymore but let out a chuckle.
- Hey. I'm sorry, you guys. She's so drunk, she isn't knowing any better at the moment. – Skylar looked at me while talking and then protruded her head to mean the same thing to Chris.
- It's ok, Sky. I don't mind. – Chris and her goddamn angelic smile said.
- Yeh, same. I don't mind either. – I shrugged.
You're just pathetic if you get mad at a drunk. I mean come on, they're drunk, they are not in their right mind and cannot control all the things they say or do, which is why they're not allowed to drive.
And about Pinoe exposing me is totally fine to me, that's why I 100% allowed her to use her drunkenness as an excuse. I don't get embarrassed because of it, I don't get shy when talking about it anymore, my cheeks have stopped blushing for a long time if someone ever mentions about Chris and I together in the same sentence. And also, everyone who knows us has already known, so why do I have to get all worked up just because of someone bringing up something that is so true?
I'm a machine, remember? Making me upset is a challenging job.
- It's not true anyway. Right? - Chris looked right into my soul with those clear brown eyes.
Words got stuck in my throat as they needed a few seconds to get out.
- Y-yeh. You're right. People move on.
That's probably the biggest lie I've ever told in my entire life.
And why was it hurting like that? I am a machine. I am a machine. I don't feel pain. I don't feel pain.
- You know what the only demerit of Megan Rapinoe is? – she asked by almost whispering while leaning towards me a little.
I shook my head after turning over to look at her.
- She talks too much when she's drunk. – Chris bursted out laughing after her own sentence.
The sound of her laughter was so pure to put into words. If I had a jar right there, I would definitely catch that sound and would listen to it little by little every day like a bedtime story before I went to sleep.
- It's not like her mouth would shut up when she's sober anyway. – I whispered back.
- You guys know her wife is literally sitting right next to you and is offended, right?
Christen slowly glanced over to look at me while I was biting on my lower lip, looking back at her when I couldn't stop smiling.
- Oops. – I whispered, dying to hold the laugh.
- Sorry, Skylar. We love your wife. – Christen playfully said while ducking her head out to look at Skylar's pretended to be pissed face.
But she just said "we" regarded to us, though. I couldn't help but melted.
- And I can't even be mad at y'all cos you ain't wrong. – Skylar's confession cracked us up.
Skylar then looked down, which made my eyes follow hers. When I realized what she was looking at, my lips spontaneously bloomed a smile.
- Heather is such a good sleeper. I mean we're so noisy but she just hasn't flinched one bit. – Skylar gave Heather's head a cute little rub.
- She's like me. I'm a dead body when I sleep. – Christen's trait is just strong in the family.
That's really cute, because Heather is literally a mini Christen. Even their looks are so alike. Their laughs sound almost identical and also their soft voice while speaking, so it makes perfect sense that they run the same blood.
- Kai's nothing like me, or Megan. – Skylar shrugged while chuckling.
- We know it. He's Ali's son inside out. – I said.
Skylar stuck her tongue out and guiltily laughed.
- That's why Ali needs to thank me and Megan more often. – Sky joked.
- Really? Why? Why is he Ali's son? I don't understand. – Christen being all confused which made me and Sky look at each other and giggle.
- In case you don't know, Kai's room at home is now made into a mini gym for Megan and I since he isn't at home as much anymore, and here, Ashlyn built a whole room for him and Ali was responsible for the decoration part. They are just a happy family of six if you include the doggos.
- Well, that's very fucked up as a parent, Skylar. – I kidded.
- Well, you know. He loves Hermie and the dogs, he says Ashlyn is so cool and he loves Ali more than his life, while Meg and I being boring all day all year, so. – Sky brushed her hand side to side.
Pi and Sky don't even feel bad about it, that's why it still makes me laugh about the fact that Kai practically lives with Ashlyn and Ali.
- No way! – Christen's reaction is so precious as she covered her surprised face by her hands.
- It's really boring and plain for a kid to stay at our house, and also Megan and I work all day all year, so living close to the Kriegers really helps a whole lot. – Sky was so fucking grateful for Ashlyn's and Ali's existence that it showed so clearly on her face.
There are so many reasons for Sky and Pinoe to be grateful for Ashlyn and Ali, so the A Team treating Kai as if he's their own child is only one of them. To be honest, Ali is considered to be the second mother to Megan Rapinoe by all of us and Pinoe herself. It sounds weird as fuck but it is also true as fuck. Pinoe loves Ali so much that one time Reign Seattle played against Orlando Pride back in the day, Ali and one of Pinoe's teammates collided which got both of them in temporarily extreme pain on the field. Instead of helping her teammate out which is more understandable, Pinoe wearing her navy club jersey, stepping over her teammate's almost dying body to go over and check on Ali Krieger in the purple jersey instead. And you bet she would come back to her teammate after making sure Ali was fine? No, she did not, she just kind of went back to her position after Ali got up on her feet. Deadass. That's what family are for.
- What? – she asked all of a sudden while looking straight into my eyes.
Who? Me?
Her voice was so soft but it still startled me because I got caught right on the spot.
Since when had she looked at me? I swear her eyes were on Sky earlier.
I gulped as I realized I was intensely looking at her with a stupid smile across my face the entire time without even realizing.
Lord. What should I say now?
- I look really old, don't I? – she slightly touched her face as she asked, which made me smile.
She really got me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Shit, why did she do that to me? I nearly peed my pants!
- You haven't aged one bit. – I breathed out of relief and replied in hidden panic.
- Phew. Thank God, cos I really haven't slept much since Heather.
Right. She has had a whole baby for herself. But she even looked prettier than she used to be, so apparently breastfeeding and shit really helps huh? It isn't just bullshit rumors.
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