Road to Rockdale

Chapter 4 - Consequences

Skye, being the angel she is, was nice enough to sacrifice her phone for the sake of love, so I've been texting Liam nonstop since lunch started. Our conversation's been flowing surprisingly well, and the more I talk to him, the more excited I get. I still can't fathom how this is real.

Skye sits down across from me with her boring salad while I snack on some dope cheese fries.

"Want one?"

I hold up a fry.

SKYE: Hard pass.

"Come onnnnn, spice up your life a little. You eat the same uninspired bowl of lettuce like every day."

SKYE: I love my uninspired bowl of lettuce, thank you very much.

"You're a weirdo. At least douse it in ranch."

SKYE: Ew, no, I'm good, and at least I'm a healthy weirdo. This is literally the only thing they serve here that has any sort of nutritional value.

"These cheese fries slap, though."

SKYE: You know nacho cheese sauce is real sketch, right? It's, like, some kind of synthetic lab-produced garbage probably not meant for human consumption.

"But it's so. freaking. DELICIOUS!"

I stuff a few cheese coated fries into my mouth as Skye gags.

SKYE: Gross.

Connor shows up with a tray of food and plops down next to me.

"Connor, please tell Skye that she's a lunatic for dissing cheese fries."

CONNOR: Nah, I'm with her. We serve that sludge at our snack stands at SplishSplash and I'm pretty sure the dispensers never get cleaned. I saw a roach crawl out of one once. Yummy yum.

I drop the fry I'm holding.

"You just had to ruin cheese sauce for me, didn't you?"

CONNOR: I'm telling you this for your own good, man.

He steals a fry and pops it in his mouth.

SKYE: Yet you're still eating it??

He shrugs.

CONNOR: I won't deny the tastiness.

Skye and I gag and I pass my tray over to him.

"You can have them, I've lost my appetite."

CONNOR: Works for me. Have you talked to Liam yet?

Skye and I exchange smiles.

"So, I have some news."

CONNOR: Hit me with it.

"Not only is he coming tonight, but he likes me back."

Connor's eyes grow big and he excitedly high-fives me.

CONNOR: NO FREAKIN' WAY!! I'm so happy for you, man!

"Thanks, bro! Yeah, so, I haven't talked to him IRL yet, but he texted Skye since my phone's in jail at the moment."

I show him her phone before he snatches it from me and starts scrolling.

"Hey!"

CONNOR: I'm so reading all of this juiciness.

"Ugh, fine."

Out of the corner of my eye, I notice someone walking towards our table. Suddenly Chase is standing over us and giving me an intense look. He's still covered in glitter, but doesn't smell like a sewer anymore.