Cabin of Dreams

chapter 11

Day 6: Saturday

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"This was such a cozy idea.", Arizona cheered. The group had decided on playing games and ordering pizza for lunch instead of doing something exhausting. "So, who's playing Monopoly with me?", she questioned excitedly.

"Not me. I wanna play Life.", Jackson announced, causing most of the others to either join him or the blonde. Derek grabbed Nelly's leash and put it on her to take her for a walk, not in the mood to play yet.

"Come here, Owen.", Amelia begged. She had decided to play Life with Jackson, Alex, Callie, Jo, and Lexie. "We could play together.", she suggested, knowing very well that her boyfriend wasn't a game-person.

"No, thank you. It's fine, I'll just sit down here. Can I read your book?", he wondered since he had forgotten his own at home and she was reading some murder mystery. His girlfriend just pouted. "Honey, I am fine. I just don't wanna play board games.", he explained.

"But you're all by yourself then.", the brunette whined, feeling bad for him. "You can use the book, just don't take out my bookmark.", she finally allowed it, but still pouted, hoping he'd change his mind.

"I know you don't believe me, but I promise you, I am good.", Owen reassured his girlfriend and pecked her lips on his way back to the couch after he had gotten the book from upstairs. "Have fun."

"You two act like you're not seeing each other for years or something.", Alex chuckled. "He's like six feet apart from you, I strongly believe you'll survive it, Amelia.", he said, causing her to throw a cube at him. "Hey!"

"You deserved it.", Jo meddled, shaking her head as she looked at her own boyfriend. Sometimes he was way too direct. And it wasn't like their friends had been a couple for very long yet, meaning they were still in the phase where spending even a second without the other was rather painful.

"Guys, do you think five party pizzas are enough for us?", Mark wondered, figuring it would make sense to order lunch already, so they could set the delivery time for when they would want to eat.

"Of course! Maybe even three are enough.", Callie said. "I think if we order five huge pizzas, we won't finish them.", she pointed out, looking at her friends, who were listening to the conversation while they kept playing.

"No, let's just order the five pizzas and if we have leftovers, we can have them either for dinner later or sometime tomorrow.", Andrew explained, causing the others to agree with him.

"Okay, I'll order. They're on me.", Owen announced. "Which pizzas do we wanna order?", he questioned. "Let's make two of them veggie.", he added because some of them didn't like meat.

"Can we order one with ham, jalapenos and olives?", Mark suggested, causing everyone else to nod, meaning he didn't have any other wishes because this kind of pizza was his favorite.

"For the vegetarian pizzas we could order one with different vegetables and one with tomatoes and cheese.", Meredith figured, and nobody had a problem with that either. "And the remaining two?"

"One with salami and bell pepper and one with tuna and onions?", Maggie replied with a question. Again, nobody had anything against it, so Owen started ordering the pizzas. "Are you sure you don't want any money back?"

"As I said, this is on me.", the redhead smiled at his friends. "Order is sent. They'll be here in an hour.", he announced. Suddenly, Derek came back and interrupted them. "Oh, hey. We've just ordered five party pizzas. One with ham and jalapenos, one with tuna and onions, a cheesy one with tomatoes, one pizza with several kinds of vegetables and a simple salami one. Does that work for you?"

"Sure thing. Everybody should like at least one of these. And I for one will try all four pizzas but Mark's suggestion.", Derek answered, very aware of his best friend's confusing taste.

"Hey!", Mark complained. "My choice of pizza is the best one.", he challenged. "You are just super boring, Derek.", he mocked him back. "Amelia likes my favorite pizza toppings, I'm the better big brother."

"You're the fake big brother.", Amelia chuckled. "Still, you are kinda right. There's something about ham, olives, and jalapenos together.", she agreed with Mark, hearing her real big brother scoff.

"Leave her out of it, you two.", Lexie meddled. She had met her boyfriend through her best friend at one of the Shepherds' house parties, where Amelia had introduced her to Mark. Meredith and Derek had already been a couple back then. "You're so childish."

"I mean, I am happy as long as they only fight about pizza.", Jo told the others. "Because we cannot deal with more serious fights on this vacation.", she added an explanation.