all we have is now / feral boys fanfiction

~16~ counters

It's Karl and Alex's last night in Florida, and we plan just to chill at the boy's house for a bit tonight.

I'm sitting with Karl in one of the guest rooms catching up. George, Alex and Nick are all downstairs doing something. Clay had to be at his family's for a bit tonight.

"No, you totally did that when you were younger," Karl giggles, leaning back a bit before coming forward again, "You can't explain where my legos went if you didn't eat them or hide them or something."

"Eat them?" I ask. That was not in the original argument, "I may have hidden them, but I never ever ate one. What kind of a person do you think I am?"

He swallows once while looking at me. I swing the pillow closest to my right hand and swing it towards his face. He's able to catch it, giggling once again.

"You're a dick," I tell him.

"Mhm, sure."

We talk for a little bit before he decided he can't wait anylonger.

"Soo," he leans forwards onto his elbows dramatically as he looks innocently at me, "You and Nick, huh?"

I roll my eyes. "There is no me and Nick."

"Yet."

I blush. "Yet," I correct myself, "He just asked me out on a date, and we'll see where it goes from there."

"I think that's reasonable." Karl nods, "Just don't break his heart, okay?"

"Are you calling me a heartbreaker?" I ask, laughing.

"I'm just saying," He puts his hands up, "Charlie McDonald cried in the school cafeteria. Rumor has it that they were broken up with by someone."

My mouth pops open. "Are you insinuating?"

"That's exactly what I'm doing," Karl nods with a grin.

"I hate you."

"I love you too, sister," he says sarcastically as he pulls me into a hug. I let out a frustrated sigh. We jokingly have called each other 'sister' and 'brother' for as long as I can remember. We thought it was really stupid when TV show characters did it, but then it was accidentally added to our vocabulary. The irony.

There's a quiet knock on the door.

"What's up?" Karl releases me from my embrace.

Alex peeks his head into the room. "Hey, Taegan, I was wondering if you wanted to go for a drive? Karl you can come too if you want."

I laugh for a second. "A drive? In whose car, Alex?"

His face flashes red. "I was hoping we could take yours."

"Lydia?" I say with a fake gasp, "You want to take the car that everyone flames me for having? That car?"

Alex sighs in defeat.. "Was that a yes or a no?"

"I'll grab my keys."

Alex for some reason thinks that he can walk up to the drivers side of the car.

"What are you doing?" I ask as we both reach for the handle.

"I thought I would drive," he shrugs.

"Um, no," I snatch the keys away from him, "My car. My drive."

He rolls his eyes but reluctantly goes to the passenger side.

"You seriously have duck taped your mirror to the door," he says as he buckles up. "How on earth did you do that?"