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I can't be like him

Jeremwood
Word count: 3280
Chapters: 1

"Ryan! Ryan, wake up!"

Ryan groaned as someone yelled his name repeatedly, then swatted tiredly at their hands as they tried to shake him awake. He felt his blanket be yanked off of him and his eyes blinked open slowly to see four out of the five other members of his crew standing over him. Geoff, the leader, was tapping his foot impatiently.

"It's almost noon, asshole, you should be awake by now. We have shit to do," he said in an annoyed voice.

"Why the fuck are you all here?" Ryan groaned, trying to grab at his blanket to pull it back over it shoulders.

"Really, Ry? You should know what today is," another one of his crew members scolded, pulling the blanket further away.

"Probably something I don't care about," Ryan muttered in response, running a hand through his messy hair.

"Gavin is right for once, you should know what's going on," Geoff snapped.

Ryan sighed and threw his hands up in the air in defeat.

"Well I don't, so what is it?"

"It's the one year anniversary of Jeremy joining the crew!" the only female crew member, Jack, answered.

Ryan scrunched his noise in annoyance as he finally managed to snatch his blanket back.

"It's not like we throw parties for dumb shit like that, so that still doesn't answer my question about why you're all in my fucking room."

The last person in the room, Michael, finally spoke up.

"It's just a reason for us to all get drunk and to see what Jeremy is like drunk. Can you believe he's been here a year and still drinks alone? It's just sad."

"Great, I love getting drunk," Ryan muttered sarcastically, "especially when it's in celebration of the only other person who wouldn't have gotten drunk being replaced. Hooray. I can't fucking wait. This day is going to be ah-may-zing."

Geoff groaned and hit him upside the head.

"You're really still upset about him taking over Ray's spot? Get over it, man, I know you miss Ray, we all do, but Jeremy is part of our crew now and Ray isn't coming back."

Geoff turned and walked out of the room dramatically, causing Jack to roll her eyes.

"Just come out of your room by 12:30," she said.

She walked out after Geoff, followed closely by Michael and Gavin. Once they had gone, Ryan let out a loud groan as he summoned enough strength to roll out of his bed. Once he was on his feet, he rummaged through his dresser and threw on a plain black t-shirt and a pair of jeans, then headed out to talk to the others.

Unsurprisingly, Jeremy was also out there, chatting with everyone happily. He was the first to notice Ryan, who was looking at him with an expression that was void of any emotion. Ryan watched Jeremy stiffen and fall silent, clearly trying but failing to maintain his happy demeanor. The other crew members quickly noticed and Geoff beckoned Ryan over, giving him a stern look warning him to not say anything stupid.

"So, as you all know" Geoff began to speak, "today marks a year since our dear Rimmy Tim joined the Fake AH Crew. Basically, our plan for the day is to relax with some video games, drink some alcohol, and go out to drink some more at night. No illegal stunts for today. Any questions?"

Ryan opened his mouth to speak, but Geoff noticed and quickly added,

"From anyone but Ryan?"

Ryan rolled his eyes and turned to walk toward the kitchen to grab a diet coke and some leftover pizza from the night before. He felt Jeremy's eyes following him and could tell that his crewmate wanted to talk to him but he ignored it. It was nothing out of the ordinary, Jeremy seemed to always want to talk to him. Ryan always ignored him, though, because even though Jeremy had been nothing but trustworthy for the past year, Ryan still got a weird feeling in his stomach anytime he was around.