I managed to get back into a rhythm with work, but Angie loved the concept so much that a few weeks later we took another week off. Halfway through she got a call from her sister, telling us she was coming over.
We debated how to handle it, and decided to not put any effort into hiding our relationship from her.
When Victoria arrived I let Angie answer the door for her.
She walked in and stood awkwardly in front of me.
"Hi," I said lamely.
"Hi," she answered.
She turned to the side, giving me her profile.
For the first time, the girl had a gut.
"Dan, I'm pregnant."
Angie's face dropped.
"What?" I asked, even lamer.
"I found out yesterday," she told me. "I didn't know what to do."
"Is it mine?"
"Yes. Definitely."
"How do you know?" I asked.
"Because you're the only guy I've ever slept with," she told me.
"You mean.. .without a condom?"
"No. I mean at all."
She sat down on the couch across from me. "I'm so sorry for leaving," she told me. "And I went on a few dates. One with a coworker, one with a customer, and one as a blind date. And I didn't like any of them."
I looked over and Angie. She was surprisingly quiet.
"They all wanted to have sex with me, right away. That was all I was to them. But you, you waited six whole months to be with me," she said. "You loved me."
"Yeah," I affirmed. Still lamely.
"And I screwed it up! I didn't want to screw things up, so I was afraid, and then I still went and screwed up everything anyway!"
"No," Angie spoke up. "You didn't."
"What do you mean?"
Angie looked at me. "He still loves you."
"You do?"
"Of course," I said. "But-"
"I have to know," Victoria interrupted me. "Did you guys sleep together?"
Victoria looked at me. I looked at Angie.
Angie had the saddest expression I'd ever seen from her. And in an instant, she removed it and replaced it.
"We did sleep in the same bed," she told her sister. "But we never hooked up."
"Really?"
"Of course not, sis. Dan is like a brother to me now. That would be too weird."
I looked at Angie. I tried to grab her attention, but she ignored me.
"He loves you, sis. He hasn't been on any dates or talked to any other girls beside me."
"Really?" Victoria ran over to me and threw her arms around me. "You're amazing. I don't deserve you."
"You should know, though, that I have some of my stuff in the master bedroom because I was sick and tired of that futon."
"That's okay! You can still sleep in the bed! I don't mind at all!" Victoria kissed me, and I found myself kissing her back.
"I love you!" She told me as she gave me the biggest smile I'd ever seen.
"I love you too," I said, lamely.
And then she said something that I knew Angie didn't expect.
"I'm taking time off work," she told us. "I don't want to expose my baby to covid."
She paused, and looked at me again. "Our baby."
I nodded dumbly.
"I'll collect unemployment, so I can help pay for everything."
"That's good," Angie told her. "Because mine is about to run out."
Everything changed, just like that. We went to the storage unit and got Angie's bed, replacing the futon with it so that she would have a more comfortable bed to sleep in. Victoria moved back in, and we resumed our former roles, this time with the exception that Angie and I had zero time alone together.
In the first week, I snuck off in the middle of the night and fucked her in her new bed, but it was impossible to keep her quiet and we both worried that we had given ourselves away.
"I have an idea on how to make money," Angie told us one day.
"Tell us!"
"I'm going to start an Onlyfans account."
"Ha!" Victoria laughed. "Good one."
"I'm serious," Angie said. "I have a decent amount of photos laying around, and it turns out that a lot of guys love watching a girl's boobs grow. It's called breast expansion. And there's ass expansion, which you know I got goin' on for me."
"You're serious?" I asked.
"If that's okay," she said timidly.
"Absolutely not," Victoria said.
"I won't show my face," she told me. "Just my body."
I shrugged.
The girl's mom came to visit after hearing about the pregnancy. She lived several states away, so this would be my first time meeting her.
"She's super chill," Angie told me. "I talked you up to her."
"Plus, she knows that you take care of me," Victoria affirmed. "She's going to love you."
Because she was going to stay over for a few nights, Angie would give her the bed in the office and sleep on the couch, sometimes in our bed.
Finally the day came and I was greeted with a hug by a very pretty woman who seemed much younger than I was expecting.
Side by side, the girls all looked like they could be sisters. At first glance, she reminded me of Sophia Vergara from Modern Family, only ten years younger. She had great curves while still appearing to be in good shape.
"So you're the man that has been taking care of my daughters during this global pandemic!" She greeted me with a hug and a kiss on a cheek. "I'm Maria."
"They are the ones taking care of me, I assure you," I told her as I led her inside. "I don't know what I'd do without the home cooked meals."
"Probably cook them yourself. You're a better cook than we are!" Angie talked me up as promised.
"They are good girls," Maria said with pride. "I raised them to know how to run a household."
I gave her a quick tour of the place.
"This is it?" She asked. "I mean, it's very nice, but it seems like a small place for three people."
"You have no idea," Victoria told her. "But we've gotten used to it."
For dinner I was asked to cook my jambalaya and told that Maria liked things spicy. I decided to play it safe and only had the usual amount that I used with the girls that was far less than I would use for myself, offering hot sauce and seasoning on the side. This proved to be the right choice as Maria started to cough after eating her first bite.
She made a fuss about taking care of Victoria who was already the baby of the family and put her to bed early while the rest of us chatted and got to know each other.
The next day I got to learn more of the family's customs, including more Spanish soap operas, a game of dominos and a fondness for desserts. I took them out for another hike, this time cut short by Maria as she fussed over her youngest daughter.
This time Maria cooked us dinner, making enchiladas that competed with my own. Once again we sent Victoria to bed early as the three of us stayed up to talk.
"Isn't my mother beautiful, Dan?" Angie asked me.
"Absolutely," I replied, trying to be conscious of the fact that I had my third glass of wine in hand. "If they had told me that you were their sister, I wouldn't have questioned it."
"You flatter me," Maria said with a smile. "But it is true that I had the girls very young. I was sixteen when I had Angela."
"Wow," I said. "So that makes you only-"