Inseparable

Chapter 6

Ding.

"Our floor!" Ross happily announced. "The others are already here, we're late 'cuz someone was being a little sleepyhead!" He was teasing me again.

"What? Well it wasn't this fair maiden!" I giggled and played along.

"Why, of course not! My fair maiden is the most elegant of all." Ross put on an obviously fake British accent. 

I giggled and walked with him to their hotel room. 

"Room 555, here we are!" 

"555? Why, 'cuz you're R5?"

He laughed. "Maybe!" He said and winked at me. "Oh no, locked out. Anybody in there?" He yelled at the door while knocking ferociously. 

"Oh my gosh Ross, you should've woken me up when we were almost there, not when the tour bus was parked!" 

"Oops, my bad!" He said, laughing. I knocked on the door with him, yelling "Anybody home?"

"Whatsderpasswerdd?" a voice said from behind the door.

"Riker, come on, we know it's you!" I said. I heard giggles behind the door. Riker was just being his silly self. "What movie?" He yelled over the laughs.

"Tangled!" Ross yelled back.

Riker’s giggles came through the door as he opened it a crack. Ross pushed it gently, but Riker pushed back. “Come on Riker” they were both laughing. Ross pushed harder this time and BANG!

“Agh aww ow ow ow ouch!” Riker was clutching his nose and stumbling into the room. Just like in the video of them hanging out in Ross’s dressing room on the Austin & Ally set. Riker collapsed onto the couch and his face was red, obviously from trying to hold his laughs in. Ross laughed, motioned for me to enter the room, and followed me inside.

“Riker…Riker…yo Rike! Rike-a-bike! Come on, bro.” Ross said, in between laughs, as he nudged Riker with his hand.

“Ross, leave him to be.” Rocky said dramatically. Was he really starting another improv session?

“He needs a band-aid! Stat!” I said.

“Allright, hold on hold on, doctor here. Move aside, Nurse Rocky.” Ratliff said, pretending to hold a stethoscope to Riker’s chest. “Hmm…” his hand nuzzled his chin as he thought deeply about who-knows-what. “Allright, step back. This might hurt just a little, patient.”

“Who are you?” Riker aloofly asked.

“Why, I’m the doctor.”

“Doctor who?”

"Precisely! I'm doctor who!"

Everyone burst out laughing. “Clever!” I shouted out, in between giggles.

“CLEAR!” Ratliff shouted over our laughter. He rubbed his hands together and clasped them onto Riker’s chest, and pretended to electrify him. Ross, Rocky, Ratliff, Rydel, and I chanted behind him, “1…2…3…CLEAR!”

Riker suddenly sat up. “I’m so much better! Thanks, Doctor who!”

We burst out laughing again.