Happy warmth bubbled up in her chest and her excitement started to rise. Yeah, she hadn’t even told Kate yet, but... Kate would understand. Lexie had gotten to her first, and she was Jake’s sister.

“Well, let’s see... Friday night he was a total dick - he said he talked to you about that?” Sharon asked, and Lexie nodded, still practically bouncing in her seated position next to Sharon. “I was a bitch too, so it kind of evened out. Saturday morning we talked and made up, but then we had to get over to the hotel and we didn’t really get any time together until the wedding was about to start. We may have snuck away during the reception.”

Sharon smirked as Lexie made an enthralled noise. She looked torn between asking for the gritty details and wanting to remain in the dark.

“Coat closet,” Sharon added on, making Lexie squeal with delight.

“Okay, I have to stop you there, just because he’s my brother, but holy fuck!” Lexie smacked Sharon’s arm. “At your cousin’s wedding too! Dirty girl!”

“Hey, he’s the one who insisted,” Sharon retorted. “I wasn’t sure, but he went all Captain Caveman on me and... Well, I went with the flow.”

Giggling, Lexie bounced again in excitement. “Is that his new nickname? Captain Caveman?”

“Yes, and it totally works. Your brother has the whole manhandling alpha male thing going on and it is hot.”

“I can agree in theory although not in specifics, since he is my brother.” Lexie laughed. “Patrick does the same thing sometimes, but since I’m so small compared to him it’s not like I’m hard to manhandle.”

“Exactly.” Sharon wiggled a little, not quite bouncing like Lexie was, but just her own little happy dance. She’d gone from feeling kind of wary about having to share with her friends, especially Lexie, to being able to really enjoy the excitement of officially being with Jake. “Anyway, so Saturday night went really well and then this morning at brunch he said we needed to talk. I totally thought he was going to say that when we got back here we should go back to just being friends, although we were never really friends exactly, but instead he said he wanted to make things official and be boyfriend and girlfriend.”

“Hey, he’s not a total idiot,” Lexie said laughing. “It might have taken him longer than it should have, but he realized he needed to lock that shit down.”

Sharon burst out laughing. “That’s almost how he phrased it too!”

Suddenly Lexie’s eyes widened. “Oh my gosh… I just realized, you have a magic vagina!”