physiotherapy | awsten knight

19: you'd be paranoid too

December 14th, day of the incident

Cosima was jumping up and down in the halls, as she got the results for her latest assignment. It had been a pain in the ass to write, and without Jawn's help she probably would've dunked it.

Excitedly, she shoved the paper into her saviour's face, as she plopped down next to him onto the grass.

"Oh! Congratulations!", he cheered and gave her a side hug. Otto and Grace were sitting with them too, and they high-fived her at the great news. Sitting together had become a regular occurrence after she had introduced them to each other.

"What do you say then, does it call for a celebration?", Grace suggested.

"Mhh,", Cosima thought it over for a moment, "Christmas market?"

Otto clapped his hands together enthusiastically, his head rested in his girlfriend's lap. "I'm in! I haven't been yet this year."

"Cool.", Cosima concluded. "You can bring Daphne if you want.", she said to Jawn, who nodded in agreement.

"Will do that. What about your boyfriend?"

Otto shot up from Grace's lap in surprise, "Her what?"

Cosima felt just about as irritated as Otto looked, "Yeah, Jawn. My what?"

Jawn only laughed, and slung an arm around Cosima's shoulder with a smirk.

"You know, the one that you introduced as your boyfriend to your relatives?"

Inside Cosima's head, the wheels slowly turned. She had in fact introduced Awsten as her boyfriend to some people, but as a joke obviously. An uncontrollable blush raised to her cheeks. She felt as if she got caught doing something naughty, even though it was far from that.

"We got tired of explaining it to people, and also, how do you even know about that?!", her voice raised an octave, as she defended herself.

Jawn smirked. "A little bird told me."

*****

Grace and Otto danced around Cosima's apartement, as their ears got treated with loud rock music. Meanwhile, Cosima had to put up her leg on her couch's armrest. But she was giving it her all, as she swayed along to the upbeat music exaggeratedly.

They were waiting for Jawn, Daphne and Awsten. The plan was to go to the Christmas market together, since it was within walking distance from Cosima's place. There, they were basically just going to have fast food, mulled wine and hot chocolate while they look at all the cute decorations. But it was quality time.

Otto started snacking away at a tray of cookies Cosima had made earlier, and she scolded him like he was a little child. However, he insisted that there was always going to be room for hot chocolate with marshmallows in his belly later.

At 7 o'clock sharp, the doorbell rang, and Cosima walked over to her door to buzz the people in, while dragging her foot a little bit.

"Are you sure it's going to be okay?", Grace asked from where she was sitting next to Otto and pointed at her friend's unwell leg.