Apéritif [ Carmy Berzatto || THE BEAR FF ]

Chapter 8 - Apéritif

You stood in front of your closet mirror picking apart each outfit you've tried on in the last 40 minutes. Your poor roommate was already over it and wanted you to find an outfit already.

Adina groaned before plopping backwards onto your bed. "You're never going to get there on time." She sighed.

"Don't say that Adina!" You said frustratedly because you knew there was some truth behind it.

"What is the dress code we're going for anyways? Chic, casual, cute...sexy?" She smirked lifting her head just enough for you to make eye contact with her through the mirror.

Frowning you said, "I don't know Adina. I want to look good, but not like I'm trying too hard. This is barely a date." You pulled on the hem of you skirt. A skirt that may have been too short for the occasion considering the denim fabric rode up anytime you had too good of a meal.

"It's a date."

"Think so?"

"He asked you out! He even told you to wear something 'nice'." Adina brought her fingers up into an air quote.

"Well yeah, but he's a guy you know. That could mean anything."

Adina rocked her feet over the bed before swinging herself up. You watched her as she pulled out her phone and the screen lit up to read 3:37pm

"Looking at the time. I think you should just go with what you're wearing Y/N."

Wide-eyed, you swung your jacket over your shoulders and frantically started getting ready.

"Fuck! I'm going to be late."

"Who would've saw that coming?" Adina shook her head before plopping down once again on your bed.

In a quick motion, you frantically looked for your purse, put on an extra spritz of perfume, stumbled over a few pair of shoes that didn't make the cut for todays outfit and patted yourself down for a few seconds in search of your phone. You rushed to the door and abruptly made a U-turn. Bursting back into the room startling your roommate, you rummaged through the drawer of your vanity.

"Holy shit you're breaking a sweat!" Adina sat up with her hand over her heart as she watched you dig through your bounty of makeup.

"What are you looking for ?!?"

You turned around and held a lip pencil in one hand and a gloss in the other. "The emergency lip combo!" You shook the products in Adina's face before sprinting out the room. You could hear her burst into a fit of laughter as you unlocked the front door.

"Love you!" You yelled out.

"Uh huh! Have fun but not too much!" The door shut behind you as you rushed down the hall for the elevator. You felt your body heat rising and that too familiar feeling of your stomach turning in on itself. You took a deep breath in before the elevator doors opened.

Going down~

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"Dude you wore that shirt already, you don't have any other shirts?" Sydney's voice rang through the speaker of Carmys phone as it sat across from him on the kitchen counter.

"Syd, what the hell are you talking about?!" His brows furrowed.

"No way you don't remember. You wore that on a date with Claire."

"Oh fuck." He whispered, still loud enough for Sydney to hear and roll her eyes in response.

"Yeah, I mean she won't notice. But kind of weird, no?"