Easier To Lie

“I told you it would be okay,” Garrett panted as he fell down on the bed beside Mallory.

“Everything’s okay right now, Garrett.” Mallory spoke in a daze after she had busted at least four times. This was a case where being pregnant was better than amazing.
Garrett laughed at his girlfriend, but she just looked over at him exhaustedly. Mallory reached over and grabbed his hand while he rolled over to face her.

“Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?” Mallory told him, and Gare blushed a light red.

“I think you’re more beautiful than I am, ma’am.” Garrett leaned in to kiss her nose.

“I love you,” She whispered; while he smiled and leaned in to kiss her full on the lips before they both dozed off to sleep.

-

In the morning, the pair woke up and went downstairs. With Kennedy was Jared on John, just how Mallory wanted to start her day. Garrett took note of her stress and grabbed her hand reassuringly.

“Hey,” He greeted while entering the room.

A few grumbles were given before Kennedy looked away from the T.V. “I’m trying my hardest to assume that you two have a terrible case of bed head, but please go comb it before another thought settles into my head and I jump Garrett.”

“I think Mallory already did,” Jared murmured and Kennedy shot him a disgusted look.
Mallory and Garrett looked at each other while giggling and turning red. John’s face though, well, he was pissed. The relationship Garrett and Mallory had was definitely not improving John’s chances of stealing her away, or helping his feelings subside.

When they went to go spruce themselves up, they couldn’t help but to laugh.

“Did you see John’s face?” Mallory tried to get out between giggle fits. Garrett nodded in his own laughter.

“Jared looked like a tomato though; I just wanted to eat his face.” Garrett commented. Mallory stopped laughing and a moment later, Garrett did too. They looked at each other for a moment before starting to laugh again. For some reason, Mallory suddenly couldn’t help but want her lips on Garrett, on his lips, on his neck, on his collarbones, just everywhere… Not that he was minding.

“What’s gotten into to you?” He asked through the rampage of kisses he was receiving.

“I don’t know,” She moaned but didn’t stop. Before she could help herself, she was on her knees with Garrett’s pants around his ankles.

Unfortunately, Mallory was too horny, and Garrett was too distracted to notice the door was open. And by the time they noticed, it was because an audible gasp came from the hallway. Gare opened his eyes to see a stunned John in the hallway.

“Shit,” Mallory mumbled and stood up while Garrett fumbled to get his pants back in their appropriate place. John didn’t say anything, nor did Mallory or Garrett. Finally Mallory mustered up enough courage to say something, even if it wasn’t the brightest. “Will someone just say something?”

Instead of saying something, John just stomped off, and the sound of the front door slamming could be heard. Shortly after, Kennedy was in the doorway.

“What just happened with him?” He asked while pointing his finger in the direction of the door.

Mallory just looked down, a blush reddening her face, and Garrett looked at her, trying to cover his crotch.

“Don’t worry about it,” Mallory finally said, biting her lip at the end. Kennedy got the hint though, and rolled his eyes.

“Listen you guys, I’m okay with you two dating. I’m still getting used to the fact that my little sister is having sex, and is pregnant for that matter, so to make everything easier on everyone, can you please wait until night, or at least when it’s semi-private?” He asked of them.

They both nodded in agreement as Kennedy shut the door before stalking off. As soon as the door was shut, Mallory couldn’t help but giggle a little bit. She looked over at Garrett who had a guilty smile on him.

“They’re such cock blocks,” He whined and put Mallory’s face between his hands and kissed her lightly. “Let’s watch a movie,” He suggested and went to pick one out while Mallory lay down on the bed. Garrett joined her shortly after.

“It seems weird doing this on a Thursday.” Mallory commented as the beginning credits played for the movie The Roommate started. Mallory made a noise of disgust. “You would choose this, Nickelsen.”

“It’s the scariest movie you own, and it was technically my turn to pick.” Garrett retorted and Mallory just rolled her eyes at him.

The beginning of the movie started, and Mallory looked like she was already about to crawl out of her own skin, so Garrett put a comforting arm around her shoulders, and she just rested her head in him. As the movie went on, Mallory could only clutch Gare’s hand harder and harder. He just laughed and sent her soft kisses.

Once the movie was finally over, and for Mallory, it seemed like forever, the duo went out for a nice dinner with each other.

“So you know that the picture of us kissing is everywhere,” Garrett told Mallory as she took a bite of her salad.

“I know, I’ve been seeing it all over on Tumblr.” Mallory smiled at the adorable picture.

“You track our tags?” Garrett asked with an amused grin. She just nodded nonchalantly.

“And I’ve gotten a lot of new followers since last night,” She added.

“You’ll probably find that they like to ask a lot of questions.” Gare warned her. “Don’t answer them if you don’t want to.”

“I know, Gare, I don’t think we’ll have any problems.” Mallory reassured him with a smile and a kiss.

Dinner went by too quickly for Mallory’s tastes, but Garrett had to be getting home. So Mallory found herself on her computer, waiting for her brother to get home.

Garrett was right; she had a lot of new messages on Tumblr, and some of them being anonymous hate. She discarded those ones and answered the ones she felt were appropriate to answer. Most being simple questions like her ‘favorites’ and info about her.

Finally, Kennedy came home and told her about a show tomorrow night, which he wanted her to go to so that she could see them perform new songs. Mallory didn’t decline, because she loved going to their shows and hanging out with Vito.

“Are you getting a lot of hate?” Her brother asked when he noticed the familiar message screen on Tumblr.

Mallory shrugged. “A little bit, but I just ignore it.”

“If it gets too out of hand, I want you to stop anon messages.” Kennedy advised and Mallory just snickered.

“Okay Kennedy, I’m going to go call By, I don’t think I’ve talked to him in a couple weeks.” She excused herself to go call the other Trotter.

“Hey baby sis!” He greeted right away.

“Hey Byron, how are things up there?” Mallory wondered honestly. She missed Minnesota. Well, mainly the Mall of America.

“Not bad kid, how are things down there?”

“By, I don’t think that’s appropriate for a brother to be asking his sister.” Mal joked and she heard her brother laugh too.

“Very funny, Mallory.” He said sarcastically, but Mallory knew he thought it was funny.

“Things are going so well. My baby’s cooking really well, Garrett and I are amazing, and Kennedy’s just… Kennedy.” She told him and then looked at her belly. “Byron!” She exclaimed.

“What!? Mallory? What’s wrong!?” He asked with worry evident in his voice.

“The baby! It kicked!” Mallory was smiling ear to ear and Kennedy burst through the door.

“Really!?” Both of the brothers said at the same time.

Mallory nodded and Kennedy went to hug her as Byron wished he could be there.

“I’m so coming to visit soon. It’s so dull without you here.” Byron informed her and then goodbyes were said.

Mallory decided to just send Garrett a text about the situation since he was most likely playing video games. Kennedy went downstairs to fix them a bowl of ice cream, and pickles, upon Mallory’s request.

Garrett replied shortly after with a ‘Really!? :D’ It’s simplicity, and Garrett’s excitement made Mallory giggle the girliest of all giggles.

Kennedy came out with mountains of ice cream topped with hot fudge and chocolate chips. Mallory licked her lips at the sight.

“To the little one’s first karate kick!” Kennedy toasted and laughed after, as did Mallory.

They clinked spoons and then dove in to the dessert.