Love Squared to the Second Power

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

The Agreeance

I decided I needed to tell the guys about each other. That I wasn't sure of my feelings but that I had been seeing both of them. They just deserved the truth even if I wasn't sure how I felt. So, I took a deep breath, picked up my phone and called Jayson. When he answered I took a deep breath and told him I needed to talk to him for a couple of minutes. Right after I hung up, I decided I better just call Jayden. He picked up and my nerves were on edge. I simply blurted out the same thing I had told Jayson. I had set times up with both of them to avoid them running into each other. Neither of them showed at the times we had planned. Then around six at night I was just about to sit down to dinner with my siblings when the doorbell rang.

I answered the door, low and behold there stood both of them. They had been talking on the porch, as if my life wasn't in enough of a frenzy. They apparently knew each other very well. They were stepbrothers, something I couldn't have known since we really never met each other's families. Even from when we had dated before. My stomach dropped. I thought I was going to die. I invited them in and took them to the study. Then I excused myself for a minute, ran to the kitchen and downed a glass of wine. My siblings came into the room.

Halena asked what they both were doing here. As I filled them in on how they were stepbrothers and how I didn't know my brother Melkon burst into laughter and said only this could happen to you Maleaha. I punched him in the arm. Hayden asked what I was planning on doing. I explained I was going to finish this bottle of wine then go in there numb and let them know what's going on.

My sister took the bottle out of my hand and said that's not a good idea. Then she hugged me and said just do it. You're not doing anything wrong, it's not like you entered a committed relationship with either of them. I knew what she was saying was true, but it did not make this any less awkward. I did not know if I really could go through with it. Part of me just wanted to tell them I could only be friends with them while the other part did not want to lose either connection.

I took a deep breath and headed to the study. I went in and sat in my reading chair, looked at them and just let it all out. I said “look guys I’ve apparently been seeing both of you and have feelings for you both though I didn't know how strong or deep they were. They looked at each other with a bit of shock on their faces then looked at me.

They actually ended up being fine with the whole thing. After a long nerve wrenching discussion, they agreed that we should just have fun and enjoy life that we did not need to make a big deal or commitment we were young, and I was going through a dumb drawn-out divorce right now. That should either party get stronger feelings they would let me know or vice versa and one relationship would end.

They each gave me a hug and a kiss then we parted. My siblings, all too eager to know what happened, were in shock at the whole thing. My brother Melkon said it was a horrible idea because someone was going to get hurt and he was afraid it was going to be me. I shrugged him off and headed up to bed, making a small detour to the kitchen to grab another bottle of wine and down it before passing off to dreamland. I had enough for one day and my emotions were all over the chart.