xi - joanna

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"That's the same type of car Sel drives," Arya said through a mouthful of Hawaiian BBQ. "The one Edward's driving."

"No fucking way," I said through a bite of my own.

It was now around 8 PM, and we were on our fourth Twilight movie of the night. After leaving Ren's this afternoon, the girls and I went on a Big Tesco's run for a haul of junk food, and of course, after Jade's break-up, we knew crappy Hawaiian BBQ would cheer her up at least a little bit.

"This movie watches like a fanfiction reads," I said matter-of-factly. Jade wasn't a reader, but even Arya could enjoy some poorly-written one-shots. "I can't fucking handle it."

"Can't handle what?" Arya smirked. "Bella's deep, mysterious orbs?"

"That is precisely what I cannot handle. They are just too mysterious," I shrugged. "What do you think of my orbs?" I turned to look at Arya.

She hummed in consideration. "Your orbs are particularly piercing today. What about me? Stare into my orbs, Jo."

I leaned my forehead against Arya's. "They look rather... steel blue. Like windows to your soul."

"Let me join," Jade said, getting up from her seat at the chair and plopping down on Arya's lap. She leaned her forehead against ours.

"We are all looking into each other's orbs right now. We are literally getting adopted by One Direction," Arya announced.

"Wrong fic, Ar. We're being adopted by Carlisle," I corrected.

"CARLISLE!" Arya's impersonation set Jade and me off, trying to compete at who could most accurately sound like Edward Cullen.

At that, the front door opened: Sel and Ren.

"This is not fair! You can't have piercing orbs AND the best 'Carlisle' impression," Jade complained. Sel looked bewildered.

Jade and Arya continued shouting 'Carlisle' back and forth to each other, but I paused the movie and stood to greet the boys.

"What is going on?" Sel said, wide-eyed, as I kissed Ren on the cheek.

"Don't question it. This is normal here," Ren said nonchalantly.

"We're on hour eight of Twilight movies," I answered, rolling my eyes at Ren. "Anyways, how was the lab?"

"It was great! My term project's finished, for starters. But also, Sel here knows his stuff. He's like a whiz in there."

"Really? I didn't know you were a science kind of guy, Sel."

"I'm not really, I just paid attention through Secondary school. It's nothing."

"Don't listen to him," Ren smiled. "He helped me out a lot, got it done way faster than I anticipated."

"Anyways," Sel chuckled awkwardly, eager to change the subject. "Eight hours of Twilight. This is what you've done all day?"

"Well, we paused after movie number three to order Hawaiian for dinner. But pretty much, yeah. Ar's been begging us to watch all five with her for ages, and a movie night is kind of what we figured Jade might need after... you know. But a Twilight movie marathon was kind of the happy medium. I'm just happy to spend a whole day with the girls. It feels like we haven't done so in ages."

When Jade and Arya finally stopped goofing off, they stood and made their way towards the boys and me.

"Good day, Selwyn. Warren," Jade said in a bad British accent, coming in between the two and patting them each on the shoulder. "What brings you to our humble abode?"

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