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“You’re crazy,” Cameron said. “She thinks you’re a joke.”
“No.” Curtis leaned into the table. “I want...and this is really
hard to verbalize.”
“Try,” Cameron said.
“I want to move in with Ada. And with you.”

*

Ada lay prostrate on the couch with laughter. “Poor Curtis!” she
said. “What did you say to him?”
Cameron fell across her, stretching down the length of her body.
Her laughter was infectious. He laughed too. “What do you think
I said?”
She roared. “Yes!” she screamed. “You said yes! We’re no longer
a marriage. We’re a menage!”
“He wants us to be his mommy and daddy.”
Ada’s hilarity ignited her immense energy and she pushed Cam-
eron off her to the floor. “You idiot,” she said, gaining control of
herself. “Of course, you didn’t really!”
“You hurt my back,” Cameron said. “Of course, I did. I couldn’t
help myself.”
“You didn’t!” She began to strike his shoulders with her small
fists. “I’ll hurt more than your back. I’m not ready to adopt. Anyone.”
She meant Cassiopeia especially.
“Watch your knee,” he said. He rolled into a fetal position.
“Say you didn’t,” she said. “I’ll positively murder you!”
Cameron was laughing, tickling her, teasing her, driving her
crazy. She pounced across his butt, snatched a pillow from the couch,
and pummeled his head.
“I didn’t.” He confessed, but he never surrendered. “I didn’t. I
really didn’t.”
“That’s more like it.” Ada stood up triumphant. “Curtis and
Cassie are both children, and we agreed not to have children.”
Cameron rolled over and unhitched the belt on his jeans. He
held out his arms to her. “We can change our minds,” he said.

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