𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚣𝚘𝚗𝚎 // 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚗 [𝟷]

1.13

I look over and see Ricky.

"Hey, Ricky," I mutter awkwardly. "Nice hat."

"Oh, thanks. It was a gift," He chuckles. "I didn't know if you'd make it."

"Oh, yeah. My parents are out of town... again," I sigh and look down.

"Again? I'm so sorry, Thals," Ricky sighs and looks at me with his signature puppy dog eyes.

Then Nini comes in.

"Nini, you're here too?" He asks.

"Oh, yeah. My moms are watching the dog competition and, uh, Kourtney is out of town," Nini nods. "So I thought I'd come check in on all my... buddies."

"Nice. We heard a rumor that Carlos went off the deep end, and we did not want to miss it?" Ricky mentions.

"I'm sorry... we?" Nini asks. She then looks at me with a questioning gaze.

Oh no.

Gina comes through the door. She's holding a pan of turkey cupcakes.

"Hi, Nini," She smiles.

Wow. She's ignoring me now.

"Happy Thanksgiving," Gina adds.

"Turkey cupcakes. Gobble gobble," Nini chuckles awkwardly and then looks at me for assistance.

"It's a gluten-free cupcake recipe I made from scratch," Gina states. "From Youtube."

"Again? With you and Youtube," Ricky chuckles and the two break into a fit of laughter.

Nini and I look at each other, again, and back at the two.

What's going on?

Nini and I start awkwardly laughing.

They have inside jokes now? They're a "we" now?

"I'm gonna head back," I announce a little too loudly.

I go back and sit with the Wildcats instead, I do not want to be on the same team as Ricky right now.

"Okay, people! There are four basic categories!" Carlos explains. "The Getcha Head if the Frame Trivia Challenge, The Bop Till You Drop Dance Challenge, Sync to the Status Quo Lip Sync Challenge, and Looking For Glee, which I thought would be a fun name for the singing challenge because when I was a kid I was obsessed with the show."

Everyone chuckles.

"Hey, it still holds up," Ej chuckles.

"Oh, good. I thought you guys were gonna judge me," Carlos laughs.

"We'd never judge you, Carlos," I assure him and pat his back.

"Okay, so Knights, you won the coin toss, so you get to pick the first challenge," Carlos tells them.

" 'Looking For Glee'," Big Red suggests.

" We've gotta do 'Looking For Glee'," Ricky agrees.

"You want to?" Ashlynn asks.

"Come on," Ricky nods.

"Okay, alright, we're gonna look for Glee," Ashlynn tells Carlos.

"Excellent!" Carlos exclaims. He picks a card and clears his throat. "As fast as you can, please sing the lyrics
to What I've Been Looking for to the rhythm of Getcha Head in the Game. Go!"

They start to all sing their own version. And they all clash. I start to laugh.

"No no no no, that's not it," I laugh.