48|Extra Careful

~Kai~

Sundown blanketed the blue sky with pink, orange, yellow, and red. It made the clouds beautifully dark. I wish I could also call dark clouds looming over my head a beautiful splendor, but no. I don’t believe half of the shit I’d seen with Benny.

Nursing my sixth refill of Macallan, I eyed her as she laughed with the girls at the poolside.

Confused? That would be the biggest fucking understatement of the century.

After the cutting of cakes - done by Rylee and Klaus holding Mikael and Ramona - the pastries were gone before I could even snatch one, the kids enjoyed the parlor games Rylee and Rain planned.

Before five o’clock hits, the cleaners expunge the evidence of the party. All that remained in the pool were Klaus and Rylee’s inner circle. Evan and Devin’s kids were already knocked out from playing the whole day. Even Griffin - who had the energy of a man twice his age - was already snoring before the sunset.

‘Adult time,’ as Klaus called it, started. The girls move to the pool