𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒- Chris Sturniolo

ep. 5

*Chris's Pov*

"I don't think we have an umbrella in here Juls." I sighed as I moved some boxes in the back around, "and of course we had to park all the way in the back." She rolled her eyes. I started the car back up, "what are you doing?" She asked, "I'm dropping you off at the front then I'll park and walk up." She just nodded and pulled her phone off my aux. I pulled up to the front and let her out, "just wait for me here" I said before going to park the car.

I parked and got out, I quickly pulled my jacket over my head and ran to the entrance. By the time I reached Julia, I was soaking wet, "How does it feel to be dry?" I asked her and she began laughing. Even though the situation wasn't really that funny, I was giggling, her laugh was contagious for sure. After we calmed down and I rung my hair out, we went to look for tables.

"Oh Chris can you get me a monster?" She asked me and I looked at the Ultra Violet monster in her hand, "Not that flavor."
"Why not?!" She sounded almost offended, "Because it's the worst one!"
"Is not."
"Is too."
"No it's not christopher!" She looked at me with her big, pleading green eyes, "Fine."
"Thanks you chris!" She smiled. I just shook my head and put my hands in my pocket. As we were walking I felt her loop her arm through mine. I looked down at her and she was still smiling at her monster.

"So where should we look?" I asked, "uhh.. " she thought for a moment, "maybe in the back where all the chairs and stuff are?"
"Smart."
"I know I am." She pulled her arm away and put her hands under her chin, flashing a smile as if there was a camera. When she moved her arm my body felt cold, like a blanket had just been pulled off me. We walked a few minutes in silence before I saw someone I knew from high school, she waved and I waved back, please don't walk over! Please don't walk over! I silently begged. But alas, she walked over, "Oh my gosh! Christopher?"

*Julia's pov*

"Oh my gosh! Christopher?" Asked the blonde lady who had just approached Chris and I. He nodded, "Yep! How have you been Emily?"
"I've been great actually! I just started my own business!"
"Wow that is awesome Em!"
"Thank you! We launched in May first! So it'll have been open a month two days from now! We sell candles and jars... "

My god. This woman went on and on about how to make candles and how she gets all of her ingredients from America. I could have sworn she would never shut up and Chris just stood there nodded and saying the occasional, "Uh huh," or " wow!"

After about 10 minutes, Chris looked down at me who was clearly bored with the conversation and interrupted her, "Oh god sorry Em! I didn't introduce you to my friend, This is Julia!" Emily looked obviously annoyed at the interruption, "Hi I'm Emily." She said dryly, "And I'm Julia!" I said with as positive of an attitude I could, "Yeah I know." I was taken aback by her sudden rudeness and Chris gave me a look as Emily kept talking, "Anyways Chris! We should definitely meet somewhere and catch up sometime, I just moved back and would love to hang out!" Chris pleasantly smiled, "yeah for sure! Just DM me and we'll talk! But I really do got to get going, we here trying to find tables for a party later-" Chris stopped himself, he had said to much, "oh a party?! Can I come?" Chris hesitated, "well it's kind of just for close friends and stuff we're trying to keep it small... "
"You're funny Chris! Look at how small I am! I'll barely take up any room! I mean Jessica here, " she pointed at me, "clearly takes up more room than I do and I assume she's going?" Was this bitch serious? I mean like actually? I was about to say something when Chris spoke up, "well you assumed right Emily. Julia is coming. Because Julia has been a better friend to me in the last 4 hours than you were for four years. And if you wanna talk badly about Julia then you sure as hell are not coming to our party." We both stood there stunned, "Have a good day. Let's go Juls." He grabbed my hand and walked away.

As soon as we turned the corner we both began laughing. We must have looked crazy to everyone else, but it didn't matter. I was holding onto Chris as if for dear life so I wouldn't fall over, my legs were weak from laughter. It must have been more than 3 minutes before we could actually get words out of our mouths, "What the-" Chris still couldn't price together a sentence, "okay, okay calm down!" I took a moment to breathe, " 'but I'm so small Juls! '" Chris mocked and we began laughing again.

We must have been I'm Walmart for an hour before we even decided to look for tables, we looked at everything else though. Smart TVs we knew we couldn't afford, Nintendo Switches, Lego sets and even stuff like baby clothes. We had another laughing attack when someone in the baby section told me Chris and I were a cute couple and asked how far along we were, Chris responded with, "oh ma'am I'm not the father, that would be my grandfather, he just can't drive so he asked me to take Mary here out for shopping. She is a beaut though, I mean maybe is she wasn't my cousin I would've married her!" The woman politely nodded and kept walking. Once she was gone we burst out.

It was probably 2:30 when we left Walmart with the tables, it had stopped raining but the air was still Chilly, "God dammit!" Chris slammed his hand of the dash bored, "why doesn't this fucking heater work?!"
"It's okay Chris! I'm not that cold!" I felt bad now for complaining, "You're shivering though." It's true, I was. He began to take his hoodie off and he handed it to me, "Here."
"But you're wearing a short sleeve" he shrugged, "it's alright, I'm used to this car. But it's weird! I mean it's the first week of June! Why is it still this cold!" I shrugged as I put his hoodie on. It was obviously way to big for me but it was still warm from Chris's own body heat and smelt very good, "we better get back before Nick send our a search party for us huh?" I giggled as I cozied up in Chris's hoodie and leaned my head against the car door. About half way home I realized something, "wait chairs can we stop at my house of the way home? Just quickly?" He smirked, "I mean... It doesn't have to be quick?" I slapped his shoulder, "Chris what is wrong with you!?" I buried my face in my hands, but not because I was disgusted, but because I could feel heat rising to my cheeks, "Okay, okay we can stop." Chris sighed.

~AN~
So I actually really liked this chapter and maybe Emily will come back? Who knows... 😉
Also I want a monster so bad rn 😭😭😭
Sk