𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞//𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐬

When You're Sober

𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬:
•𝐒𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭

The two Higgins', Alex, and Owen all changed into fresh clothes, Alex had taken a shower as well claiming he felt dirty despite jumping in a lake full of water.

Talia had thought the boy was being ridiculous but didn't say anything. She and Owen were sitting in the living room, Owen playing a game of Go Fish with Andre, Keithie, and Greg at the table and Talia sitting on the couch surrounded by Donna, Charlotte, and Becky.

"You're so pretty," Donna compliments as Talia moves her fingers through the girl's hair, making a small braid.

The older girl smiles "Thank you, you're pretty too," she compliments her back.

"What's this for?" Charlotte questions as she pulls an eyelash curler from Talia's makeup bag. Talia had let her go through it as she was very curious.

"It's to make your eyelashes look longer," Talia explains, Charlotte nods and puts it back, beginning to dig through the bag again.

"Can you do our makeup?" Becky questions, Donna and Charlotte squeal at the suggestion.

"Please," Donna asks.

"We'd look so pretty," Charlotte adds causing Talia to chuckle.

"You're all already pretty and you have to ask your moms," Talia says.

All the girls jump from the couch and run to find their moms causing Talia to grin. "They seem to love you," Owen comments before looking at Greg "You got a four?" He questions.

Greg shakes his head "Go fish," he tells the blonde who mutters a swear word under his breath before pulling a card from the deck.

"Yeah, it's weird," Talia speaks up "but it's nice," Owen nods at her words and Alex comes out from the room he shared with Talia and Owen, freshly showered and new clothes on his body.

Talia glances him up and down before looking away, Alex notices this and smirks as he walks past the blonde, sitting in a chair next to Keithie and Andre. "What are you guys playing?" He questions.

"Go fish- Damn it, Greg!" Owen exclaims as they count the pairs of cards they had, Greg had the most so he had won.

The boy smiles cheekily at the blonde as Owen picks all the cards up and starts shuffling them, muttering to himself.

"We can deal you in if you want," Owen tells the brunette glancing up at him as he deals the cards out.

"Yeah sure," Alex shrugs, Talia smiles as she watches the boys get along, it feels right, all of it, being here with all these people, like one big family.

——

It was late, around 7:00 when everyone left the lakehouse. They now were getting settled into seats in a local diner called 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝑬𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. Lenny, Marcus, Eric, Robbie, and Kurt had assured everyone that this was the best place in town.

Talia sat beside Donna and Charlotte who had insisted on sitting next to the blonde. The two young girls and Becky all had light makeup on their faces and their hair was in French braids, that was Talia's doing.

"Hey Lenny, remember we used to come here in high school late at night after we got wasted," Marcus speaks up as the waiter sets down menus.

Lenny shushes him and Talia gives her father a look, kicking his leg under the table as she is too far away to hit the back of his head.