OF MARTINS AND MEN

OF MARTINS AND MEN [BL]

Empty wine bottles and laughter spread throughout the room. Jack-box was screening on the television as drunken fingers tapped away at their phones. Answers are shown as eyes occasionally scan the room seeking out validation.

"Oh, that is the wrong 'your', Emma definitely wrote that answer." Darilyn cold-heartedly states, quickly glancing at Emma to get her reaction.

The room once again bursts out with laughter.

"That's it, I'm calling my mom and going home. I fucking hate you guys." Emma pouts, laying her back against the couch, crossing her arms defeatedly.

"You're so cute." Darilyn and Kayleh gush in unison. Darilyn's eyes land on Kayleh sending her a quick wink followed by a smile.

"Ok fuck fine, I'll stay. But, I'm bored of this game let's do something more interesting." Emma uninterestingly replies, making it very obvious she wants to leave.

"Ok like what." Mavryck snaps at her with a teasing tone.

"Oh brother, I don't know. Let's go to Mars or something." Emma sarcastically responds.

"Oh fuck yeah, I'm trying to see Olympus Mons erupt." Kayleh responds, joyed by Emma's reply.

"What the fuck is that." Samantha questioned, tilting her head expressing confusion.

"You're just a dumb broad, hey? It's okay toots, at least you've got your looks." Mavryck stupidly responds, leaning back into his chair with a smirk painted across his face.

"Bars." Ben deadpanned.

"Bitch." Samantha mumbled, rolling her eyes.

"How much do you guys think it would be for all of us to fly to Mars and split an Airbnb?" Darilyn jokingly asked the room.

"A lot." Ben, yet again, deadpanned.

"Elon Musk would build Airbnb's on Mars." Halli blurted.

"Y'all think Uber would be available on Mars?" Darilyn commented.

As The Dark Sisterhood continued to converse about their silly ideas of Mars, Benjamin sat quietly in the corner of the room, glued to his phone.

"Ben get off your phone and pay attention to us." Emma yelled.

"I found coupons." Ben replied.

"For what big guy?" Mavryck asked.

"Ship to Mars." Ben replied.

"Of course you did." Kayleh laughed.

"Coupons for a spaceship to Mars?" Halli questioned, his eyebrows scrunching.

"Yeah." Ben replied.

"Let's see." Mavryck asked, intriguingly looking over at Ben's phone screen.

"Yo! No way. Only $17.38 for a ticket to Mars? Let's all go." Mavryck excitedly exclaimed.

"It only lets you do two at a time." Ben said with annoyance in his voice.

"You're not actually going to give this sketchy website your credit card information, right?" Darilyn asked Ben with slight concern.

"It has good reviews." Ben stated.

"Ok, whatever, don't come crying to me when your identity is stolen." Darilyn scoffed.

"Ok, I ordered them." Ben said.

"No fucking way." Kayleh grabbed Ben's phone. Kayleh let out a loud laugh and looked at Ben. "Dude, you ordered 2 tickets to Mars vinyl water bottle stickers made by some chick on Etsy."