“Lucas, they’re going to love you. Don’t even sweat it,” Jackie swears but Lucas still looks worried. I squeeze his hands and he looks over at me. I smile at him and it seems to help calm his nerves a bit. “Oh, also your brother was able to get on the same flight so everybody is coming in together,” Jackie grins painfully as she dumps this new information on me.

“What? Why didn’t you tell me sooner? Why didn’t they tell me?” I start to panic, thinking about if we ...