My Love Spiral

Firewood Jealousy Spiral

"Omg, Hearty, look, this bunny can like, turn evil," Gianna said, showing Heart one of those plushies that look cute, but you can switch it to a scary face. "Oh god, pure nightmare fuel!" She joked, snatching the plushie out of Gianna's hand.

Everyone was in Emilio's big backyard, for a bond fire. They spend most Friday nights together, just making memories and having fun. Gianna was rummaging through her mother's old things, seeing if anything was worth keeping. She figured she might as well give anything she didn't want to her friends, and show all of the wonky stuff her mom had to them. "Is that an 80's cheerleader uniform?" Luna asked, eyeing a pink cheer uniform, with the letters OHS written on the top. "Mhm! It says OHS, aka Otter High School! Where my mom went!" Gianna exclaimed. "Otter... High School?" Sofia questioned, laughing hysterically at the name. "What's so wrong with that?!" Gianna complained. "Why otters? Was the mascot.. like, like-..." Sofia couldn't seem to contain her laughter, until she could finally say her joke: "Otis The Obese Otter?" Her joke made Luna to begin to hysterically laugh as well, so they just laughed together, for.. a very long time.

"I got some logs!" Emilio yelled, running into the backyard with four logs in hand. He threw them in the fire pit, brushing off any remaining wood on his hands afterwards. "Do you want any help?" Heart asked, "I'm not that strong, but I can carry a log or two." Emilio grinned to himself, "I'd love your help!" He said.  "Okay, let's go!" Emilio led Heart to the shed in his backyard. It was an awfully odd and small shed, but it contained a countless amount of firewood. Emilio shut the door behind him, as  Heart grabbed two log, two big ones. It was so heavy she could barely lift it up past her waist, it was more-so at her knees.

She grunted, and groaned, trying to keep herself steady. "Woah, need some help there?" Emilio asked, "Ah.. could you maybe just open the door for me?" She requested. "Of course," He said as he went to open the door. The door knob wouldn't budge. He awkwardly laughed, looking at Heart's concerned expression. He tried more and more to open it, but it just wouldn't budge. "H-Heart..." He stuttered, "I think I locked us in.." He confessed, anxiously sitting down. "Wait what?" Heart was so shocked that she dropped the firewood, directly onto Emilio's foot. "OUCHH!!!!!!" He screamed. His scream echoed through the shed, causing Heart to panic. "I'm so, so, sorry! Uhh..." Heart quickly looked inside of her handbag, and she ended up finding a bandaid. "Here, if you think you need this! I really didn't mean to!!" She squealed. "It's okay, it's okay. I didn't mean to.. lock us in here like that. That's the only reason you dropped the firewood in the first place." He said."Yeah.. well, can the others open the door for us?" Heart questioned, "Nope.. Double-sided lock.." Emilio responded. "Really?" Heart was  in disappointment, extreme disappointment. "Gah, everybody's gonna think we're, like..." Emilio stopped himself, seeing Heart's grossed out expression. "They better not..."

"What's taking them so long?" Luna questioned, stressed out. "Taking who so long?" Sofia said, "Emilio and Heart. They went in the shed to get some more firewood to finally start this fire." Luna replied. "What?! Why didn't anybody tell me? They're probably..." Sofia covered her mouth in horror and... envy. "Kissing? Sounds like you are a tinsy bitsy jealous there, Sofia!" Gianna commented. "WHAT! I'M ANYTHING BUT JEALOUS! EMILIO'S A WEIRDO ANYWAY!" Sofia exclaimed, glaring at Gianna. "Jealousy~" Gianna sang teasingly, glaring right back at Sofia. "Guys, guys, won't everybody calm down? They probably are just getting extra firewood or something." Stated Luna, "See, I'll go check on them."

Meanwhile, with Heart and Emilio, they tried to stay calm, just talking about their similar music tastes. But soon, out of pure nervousness, Heart began to explore the shed. Looking at all the different tools there was. Then, she came across a box full of pictures. "Ehh?" She dumped them out on the floor. There was a baby photo of Emilio, and a bunch of his siblings as well. "Oh, don't look at that stuff! That's embarrassing!" Emilio said, still sitting down. Heart got up once she put all the photos away, giggling. Suddenly, seemingly for no reason, Emilio turned bright red. "You okay? Is this shed warm or something?" Heart questioned, and Emilio simply replied, "You're wearing a skirt... and I'm sitting down." Heart out of the blue began knocking on the front door, all of the more desperate to get out. "Sorry-!!!" He exclaimed, but Heart didn't answer, she just pounded at the door as much as she could.

All of a sudden, both turn their heads toward the window, after hearing a loud noise. It was Luna, whom had just thrown a rock at the window to get their attention. "Luna!" They both said in unison. She approached closer to the window, opening it as much as it would budge. "You guys okay?? You looked really scared!" Luna asked, genuinely worried. "Welp... The door's locked, we just really need to get out of here. Like now." Heart answered. Luna wondered what exactly did happen, but she didn't ask, she just opened the window a little further so Emilio and Heart could slip through. "Thank goodness you came, Lulu!" Emilio thanked. "It's nothing, really! Besides, Sofia was really worrying about you!" She responded, "And.. I was too.. but, mainly about Heart!" Luna joked, which actually made Emilio smile.

"Wait, let me get some wood real fast!" Heart said, running toward the shed. "Be careful!" Luna yelled after her. "Jeez, what happened in there anyway? Heart's, like, shaking." Luna asked Emilio as they were slowly walking back to Gianna and Sofia. "Well.. let's just say, I saw.. under Heart's skirt." He replied bluntly. For whatever reason, he felt comfortable telling this to Luna, maybe because he knew that she probably wouldn't tell anybody. "Oh... wow...." Luna fantasied about Sofia's reaction to this, and promptly decided not to tell her in her head. "We're back!" Luna chimed as they finally arrived back to Gianna and Sofia. "Did you miss me?" Emilio teased. "I didn't, but Sofia did! She's jealous of Heart~" Gianna answered, glaring at Sofia with a huge smile on her face. "WHAT? NO I'M NOT!!" Sofia jumped up and stared at Gianna with a cold smile. "I could tell Emilio and Luna all about the incident." She whispered, loud enough for Gianna to hear. "D-Don't!!" Gianna yelped in fear. "Hmph!" Sofia exclaimed, quickly going back to her seat next to Luna. The order of the seating was Sofia, Luna, Emilio, (empty chair), Gianna. That empty chair was meant for Heart when she returned.

And, she did. With three pieces of firewood. "W-Woah, are you, superwoman??" Emilio questioned, almost forgetting about the.. accident from earlier. "No.. Just.. Determined.." Heart groaned. She threw the firewood into the fire pit, taking deep breaths of exhaustion. "What a work-out!" She said. After seeing that the only chair left was next to Emilio, she gagged, and scooted her chair all the way around next to Sofia. After seeing that Heart had gone to the other side, Gianna took her chair all the way next to Heart. Meaning, the order now is Gianna, Heart, Sofia, Luna, and then Emilio.

The sun began to set, and Gianna began to set the fire wood on fire for warmth, as the air got colder and colder.