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“You had to be there, Alexis,” said Stevie, gasping for breath as she continued laughing so hard tears were streaming down her face.
“Unhhh, but I wasn’t there because it was just the two of you, wasn’t it?” whined Alexis back at her friend. Her friend. But not her best friend. Because Stevie was David’s best friend.
Alexis watched Stevie’s face get redder and redder the more she laughed. And she watched her brother trying desperately to hold in his laughter, squinching his lips so far over to the side of his face they were practically touching his ear. She could tell he was about to crack, though. And that was nice. He rarely let himself go, hardly ever let his guard down. But he trusted Stevie, and he loved her more than—well, maybe more than her?
No—he couldn’t love Stevie more than her, his sister! Just then it finally happened, and the belly laugh David let loose knocked him over into Stevie, pushing her off-kilter, which led to a beat of silence. And then they both started in again, laughing even harder than before, if that was even possible.
Alexis shook her head, rolled her eyes, grabbed her bag, and left the lobby to head back to the room. She looked over her shoulder with a glare as she opened the door, but if either David or Stevie would have actually looked at her as she “stormed” out, they would have seen a soft smile light up her face as she slammed the door for good effect.
Those two deserved each other.