Best Friend’s Brother: Best Friend's Brother Romance by Rémi LeBeau

said.
     
    “No.  The second I found out I just started crying and walking over here.  I’ve been on autopilot for the last half hour.  I don’t know how to tell him.”
     
    Lauryn put her face in her hands.  She pushed her black bangs out of her face.
     
    “I should probably call him.”
     
    “Or surprise him.  Wait til he comes back next week.”
     
    “Yeah, but what if he doesn’t want this?”
     
    “Do you?”
     
    Lauryn, fed up with pacing, collapsed onto the lawn.  She lay flat on her back and looked up at the sky.
     
    “It’s not something I thought about.  But I’m excited...but terrified…  I don’t know if he wants this.”
     
    “I love you.  So I’m here for whatever you need and whatever you decide,” Zooey sat down on the grass beside her.  She ran a hand through the blades, collecting droplets of dew.
     
    “What do you think I should do?”
     
    “I think you should talk to Ryan.  I think he’s going to be thrilled about this.  And look at all the money you’ll save on your kid’s doctor bills.  You won’t have to pay Ryan a thing.”
     
    Lauryn laughed at Zooey’s joke.
     
    “Thank you, Zoe.”
     
    “No problem.  It’s what I’m here for.
    Chapter Eight
     
    Lauryn didn’t call Ryan.  She said it was because she thought it was better to wait to tell him face to face.  The only other person she had the courage to tell about her pregnancy was Jakob.  Jakob was of course supportive, but asked Lauryn to consider telling their parents.  She told him that she would wait for when Ryan was back. He was in upstate New York at a new clinic.  He had been offered a job, and he was there early to get acquainted with everything.  He already asked Lauryn to come with him once everything was settled.  She agreed to join him at the start of the next year.
     
    Zooey was considering moving to New York as well.  Her mother had 2 younger sisters who lived in New York.  Moving would be a chance to work on her music, and to maybe kick start her career.  Being close enough to her best friend to be able to visit, or help out with the baby would be an added bonus.  She had some experience when her brother was born.  She was still sometimes responsible for him.
     
    “What about NYU?” Jakob was looking through a brochure online.  He, Lauryn, and Zooey were at the Savage house.  Zooey was helping Jakob look at schools.  He wanted to finish his last 3 years.  NYU would be more fast paced than the college he originally went to, but being a war veteran, he could handle that kind of pressure.  Lauryn had her heart set on Columbia.  She figured since a scene from Ghostbusters was filmed there, it gave Columbia a significant advantage over any of the other schools in New York.
     
    “NYU looks good,” Zooey looked over his shoulder at the screen of the tablet he had in his hand.  He skimmed through with his finger, and Zooey followed with her eyes.  She noticed he had only been looking at colleges in New York, but she didn’t make mention of it.
     
    “I still say Columbia,” Lauryn perused perfunctorily through a tablet of her own.  She wanted to look productive, but she was actually on Pinterest looking at baby nursery ideas.  She didn’t want to admit that she was more excited than she realized.  She was still afraid, but whatever Ryan decided, she knew where it was she stood and what she would do if things didn’t turn out her way.
     
    “It’s probably not gonna be Columbia,” Jakob said honestly.  Lauryn held up one hand in surrender.  She said she wouldn’t make the suggestion again.  Zooey and Jakob breathed simultaneous sighs of relief and thanked her.  She squinted her eyes in a glare, and Zooey had to look away so Lauryn couldn’t see she was laughing.
     
    “I’ll have you know that Julianne Moore’s in a movie where she’s a professor at Columbia.  There’s Oscar buzz because of it,” Lauryn was putting her film history and pop