And of course, Harper, who looks like she would rather be anywhere than at my front door with her life in bags around her.

I can’t help but laugh. “You could at least look like you are happy to be here.” I grab the first bag that Felisha had obviously been pushing.

“I’m not, so can you just move out of the way so we can get out of the corridor?”

Oh, this is going to be fun… not.

I step to the side with the suitcase in my hand and hold the door open for the girls, and Harper mumbles as she passes me. “Wipe that smirk off your face, it’s not fucking funny.”

Which of course only makes me laugh out loud now.

“Yes, Mum, that is Forrest’s laugh. I’m just here helping his… girlfriend move into his apartment.” He makes sure I’m paying for the phone call he just received.

“You prick!” I mouth at him as he passes by me at the door, flipping me the bird. I’m just thankful the girls didn’t hear his comment. But I can guarantee my phone is about to blow up with phone call after phone call from my mother.

“Oh, he didn’t tell you? Well, it’s new, and I’m sure when he is ready, he will share it all with you. You know how he is, such a private person. Anyway, I have to go, but yes, I will pass on to Felisha your offer to help with the wedding. You know it’s a girl thing, and I’m just happy with whatever she wants.” There is a pause and then he replies, “Love you too, bye, Mum.”

Felisha has already taken Harper down the hallway to the spare bedroom, which she knows where it is because she has stayed there before with Flynn.

“You’re an asshole, why would you do that to your elderly mother?” I ask, smacking him across the back of the head as I come up behind him.

“Ouch. That’s payback for being a dick and telling her to ring me.”

“Well, if you called her more often, she wouldn’t need an excuse to ring you.” It’s something I’m constantly reminding him, that they are getting older and we should be checking in on them more. But it shouldn’t have to be me all the time. I carried the load for the fifteen years he was in Australia working, so he could at least share the responsibility now.