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month and when they’d been seated, Manny had walked right out of the kitchen, up to their table, barely said hello to them, and had taken off with Everly. Allie then told us that he’d done the same to them two weeks ago when she and Jackson had come in.
    I wasn’t surprised; we’d been coming to Manny’s since we were all kids and Manny and his wife, Gia, absolutely adored kids. Seriously, they had 7 of their own.
    I took a sip of my sangria as Chloe asked, “So when are we wanting to do this? Allie, are you stocked up on everything?”
    “I actually did a party last week and refreshed my supplies then, so I should be good. But you know the drill, anything I don’t have on hand, you’ll still have it in a week or so.”
    “I know,” Chloe said with a twinkle in her eye. “But there’s some stuff I was hoping you’d have and I wouldn’t have to wait!”
    Allie rubbed her hands together with glee and waggled her eyebrows crazily. “Yay! I love it when I get to have a party with friends that makes me money!”
    Emma quirked an eyebrow at her and said, drolly, “What money? You always use up your revenue replenishing your stock or buying your own goodies.”
    “Duh,” Allie replied. She winked at Emma, who just shook her head.
    I spoke up. “Why don’t we give it a couple weeks or so to make sure we get the invites out. Where do we want to have it?”
    We hammered out the details and then just sat and talked with each other, even long after the food was gone. Emma’s phone rang, breaking into the conversation, and I looked at my watch to see that it was already seven and I hadn’t even ordered anything for Ian, yet.
    As Emma answered her phone, I waved our waiter over and ordered some chicken marsala with a side of fettuccini alfredo for him, which then reminded Allie and Chloe that they needed to do the same. I kicked Emma under the table and motioned, asking silently if we needed to get something for Luke.
    She spoke into the phone. “Do you want me to get you something from here?”
    She paused. “Uh-huh. Nope. Yep. Okay, I know. Honey, I just asked you a question, is it that hard to answer?” More pausing. “Fine. Love you…yeah, yeah, yeah. Love you, bye.”
    She hung up and quickly added two more meals to the take-out orders we’d already placed.
    “Damn,” Allie said, looking at Emma weirdly. “Is Luke eating for two or are you hungry again?”
    Emma laughed. “No, it’s for T.J.”
    Chloe’s face got soft and then worried at T.J.’s name. “Have you talked to him lately?”
    “Who? T.J.?” Emma asked. Chloe nodded and she continued, “Yeah, he comes over quite a bit when he’s not over at your house. Why, what’s up?”
    Chloe shook her head, almost sadly, and shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m just worried about him. He’s got so much going on in his head all the time, and I swear, anytime a phone rings anywhere near him, he’s jumpy as hell. But, he just blows it off, says everything is fine.”
    Allie broke in again. “So what was all that other shit, then?” she asked Emma.
    “Oh, you know. The usual. Am I coming home soon? Did I miss him? Which, of course, I lied and said nope, but we all know I always miss him,” she broke off, giggling. “Are we having fun? We need dog food, so I have to stop at the store.” She shrugged. “No biggie.”
    I knew my sister too well, and so did Allie because she called her out right away. “Nope. That’s not all. What was the yeah, yeah, yeah for after you said I love you? Hmmm?”
    Emma blushed, which was the exact reaction we all knew we’d get. “Nothing!” she exclaimed.
    “Emma,” I said, my voice low with warning.
    “Jesus, he just reminded me I owed him, okay?” she finally said, breaking after I stared her down comically.
    Chloe held her hands up. “Nope! We’re good! No more details!” she cried, laughing.
    Emma grinned devilishly, opened up her mouth, and proceeded to tell us, in detail, why she owed him, no