Partners in crime~ C.C

Chapter 9

"Just flip again, Vern! No one believes all that shit about moons and goochers because it's baby stuff!", I breath out of frustration while Chris snickers.

Vern shakes his head rapidly, trying to get us to believe him, "No guys, this is seriously bad!", Gordie sighs, "Vern, if you don't wanna flip again, then you can just go to get the food.", we all nod our heads but Vern protests.

We finally get him to flip again and this time, when we lift our hands, there are 4 heads and 1 tails.  The 1 tail belonged to Gordie.

"OoOoOo Gordie just screwed the pooch!", Teddy said with his signature machine gun laugh. Gordie rolls his eyes as he stands up with his bag,

"Does the word retarded mean anything to you?", Teddy snickers and shakes his head, "Go get the provisions you, morphodite!"

Gordie turns and stomps his foot, "Shut up!"

Silence chimes in as we all look at each other with grins on our faces,

"I don't shut up, I grow up, and when I look at you, I throw up! BLAHHHHH", we all bust out in laughter as Gordie rolls his eyes then smirks,

"Then your mother comes around the corner and she licks it up!", Gordie does a little hair flip and continues to sashay away.

We all let out some "OoOoOo", not really directed at anyone.  A few seconds after Gordie left, we begin to wrestle and roughhouse. It started out as Vern and me, then me and Chris, now it's me and Teddy.

Teddy had pulled an "illegal" move so I started laughing because he looked stupid when Chris had stood up and stormed off.

I furrow my eyebrows and turn to Vern, "did you win?", Vern shakes his head, "No, I actually tapped out...", we all shake our heads confused as we sat back against the old cars, I clear my throat, "he looks upset... someone should go talk to him.",

Then I feel two sets up eyes on me.

I look up and start rapidly shaking my head, "No, no way am I talking to him!", Vern and Teddy both shake their heads and start pushing me forwards.

I finally give in and walk over to where Chris was sitting on top of a beaten up Ford pick up.

I awkwardly stand in front of him, "hey... what's up?"

No response.

I tilt my head to the side and take a step closer. His eyes and nose were sorta red, "Chris...?".

He jumps off the hood of the car and starts walking past me. I turn around and grab his shoulder, making him face me, then I step in front of him,

"Chris, what's wrong? Did Vern hit you or something? Did he say something? Wait, was it Teddy? Or... Me-?", he rolls his eyes and has a look of pure frustration,

"No, Mary. It wasn't You, or Vern or... or Teddy, alright? Now can you just leave me alone!?", he storms past me and bumps into my shoulder, causing me to shutter back a little bit.

I turned my head to look at him before starting to walk back to the guys when I stopped. I jolted myself around and stormed up to him. I kicked the bottom of his foot,

"Hey! You don't get to do that! You don't get to just dramatically storm off and bump into me just because you're in a bad mood! I don't know what the fuck happened, but it needs to be fixed because this isn't fun. It's not fun seeing my best friend upset about something that I don't even know about. If it's something that I did then I just want you to tell me so I can fix-",

"No! It wasn't anything that you did, alright? Can you just stop blaming yourself for every little thing that happens."

We both just stood there for a second, both our gazes flaming hot. We looked each other in the eye, and like we were in sync, our gazes softened.

I took a breath,

"I just... I just wanna make you happy.", Chris's smile grew,

"You do make me happy, Mar. you make me so happy. You're all I got. That's why I get upset when I see you with other dudes and-", he stopped and my face twitched a little bit.

With other dudes? What is this bitch on?

I stitched my eyebrows together, "What do you mean with other guys? Chris, is that what you were upset about? I already told you I didn't like anyone..."

He sighed and grew a little smile again, "it's not that, Mar. And, I know you don't like anyone...", he said the last part like it was painful to say.

I stayed silent, trying to think of what he meant when all of a sudden, it clicked.

I burst out laughing. I was bending over holding my stomach because I was laughing so much, "YOU- YOU DONT THINK I LIKE TEDDY DO YOU?!?!?", I laughed out as Chris threw his hand over my mouth and looked at me like I was crazy.

"Can you not shout that, please??"

I couldn't stop laughing at this idea he had. A good minute passes before he could remove his hand from my mouth and we could talk.

I look at his face, which looks hurt, "Chris... You didn't actually think-", he sighed,

"Yeah, I did, Mar. I know it's dumb to think, but I don't think it's a totally outlandish idea."

I look at him with confusion on my face. He switches his weight to his right foot, "Well, you guys are always hanging out. And, whenever you're with him, you always seem to be really happy, happier with him than any of us other guys...".

My jaw drops at this statement, "Chris, I don't like Teddy. I've never liked Teddy like that. I laugh with Teddy because he says the weirdest shit that I don't always know how to respond to. I'm not happier with him than I am with any of you.", my tone seemed a lot more aggressive than I wanted it to be, and I guess Chris picked up on that because he looked like I was yelling at him even though my voice was even.

His eyes looks like they're becoming redder, "Are you mad at me?"

I giggle at his thoughts, "I don't think I could ever be mad at you, Chris...".

A few more seconds pass of comfortable silence before we hear the rattling of the chain link fence and see Teddy and Vern of the other side...

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