Afterwards they headed off to Willow’s room and we sprinted into ours. “What the fuck.” I exclaimed. Jennifer, “I know, I know, what are the odds of that, of all the people in the world she could meet and fall for, oh my God, oh my God, she might be fucking her brother.”
Me refusing to pull my head from the sand.
“Are you sure? They might not be doing that yet.”
My wife looked at me, “Seriously!? She tells me everything.
I normally shelter you from this because you can’t handle it, but we’re gonna have to grow up to get through this. She’s just like we were in college. They’ve been doing it since the first date, he’s far from her first.
I need you to quickly come to terms with this.”
I am actively pretending I didn’t hear anything she said, my head is going back in the sand when this is over. We realized, we can’t just demand she breaks up with him. She will absolutely question that.
Also, we know she really likes him, maybe in love with him. She’s getting towards the end of college and that’s when life decisions get made, we can’t just sit here and hope the relationship runs it’s course. Now we have to make decisions.
We realize we need to get that paternity test. This will also raise questions. So we have to talk to Willow, and tell her the reality of the situation, because she is a strong willed person and is not going to just go along with anything without answers.
We talked her into sending Woody on to his grandparents a half day early. It was an awkward day and half for us, but we did our best to not let them notice. Then we told her the whole deal, as discreetly and non-traumatizing as possible, about the Hall Passes, and Wes, and our decision to not get a paternity test.
Willow looked like she wanted to throw up. She was so mad and disgusted. I can’t blame her.
All in one moment she found out she may not know her biological father but also that she may be in a sexual relationship with her half brother. We got the test done and are now waiting the 5 or so days to get the results back. Willow is faking an illness to avoid visiting Woody and keeping him from coming back here.
They are still talking, but she seems sad, her somber tone is helping with the sick ruse. She is just hoping that the tests comeback with me as her father. I’ll update when they get here and everything is settled.
