MOMENT OF TRUTH¹ eli moskowitz

playing with fire

Amara was over at Diaz's apartment as Miguel had made breakfast for everyone. She walked out of the bathroom from washing her hands before breakfast. She walked back into everyone else to see Johnny sitting at the table.

Amara walked around and sat down beside Johnny and across from Carmen. "Well, this looks different." Johnny said, as he looked at the pancakes on his plate.

"Yeah, I made it." Miguel said, "Oh, I forgot the orange juice. Uh, one second."

Amara watched as Miguel walked over to the fridge as Carmen glanced over at Johnny, "Everything ok with you and Robby?" She asked.

"Yeah, really good." Johnny spoke. "He and Amara are getting along. It's like they've known each other from the start. The ride home was a little quiet though. I think things between him and Miguel are gonna take some time."

"Well of course they are." Amara said, "Robby kicked Miguel over a railing and then Miguel stole his girlfriend who was his ex-girlfriend."

"Ok, orange juice." Miguel said, as he brought OJ over to the table.

"Oh, Miguel, ¿vas a visitar a tu novia?" Rosa asked him. "Apuesto a que te extraña"

Translation: Oh, Miguel, are you going to visit your girlfriend? I bet she misses you.

"Yeah." Miguel answered, "I think I need to make an apology meal for Sam too."

Carmen immediately stood up from the table. Amara could tell something was off about her as she ran to the bathroom and began to puke.

"Maybe you guys should order in instead." Johnny said to Miguel.

"Yeah." He agreed, as he smiled slightly.

•♪~†~♪•

Amara had got her nails and hair done that evening and was meeting up with Hawk over at his tattoo parlor next door. She walked in to see Hawk with Miguel and Demetri all talking in a puddle.

"Eli!" Amara questioned as he walked over to the group of three. "What did you send an SOS for? I was right next door." She glanced over to see the bow and arrow heart with her name gone off his chest. "You got rid of my name? Seriously?"

She looked over to see the lotus flower now on his chest. "A lotus flower? I love it. It's you. It's unique." She smiled. "Now why the hell did you send an SOS text?!"

"Miguel got a text from Sam saying, 'We should talk tonight.'" Demetri explained, "And he doesn't think it means 'I want to break up.'"

"I told them you were big on communication." Hawk spoke, "Maybe Sam does just wanna talk?"

"No, no. We need more information." Demetri said, taking Miguel's phone as he began to type as Miguel "Uh, we should send a trial balloon. Something that puts the ball in her court. 'Can't wait to see you tonight.' Uh, 'How are you?'"

"That's good." Hawk said.

"Right? Yeah."

"Yeah."

"No." Amara finally spoke up as she exhaled with a deep sigh. "Miguel, I'm sorry to say this, but you're in deep shit."

"What?" Miguel began to freak out.

"It's gonna be fine, man." Demetri said, "We're fine. It's fine."

Miguel's phone dinged as everyone huddled around it. "'I'm okay.'" Amara read aloud.

"Dude, that's bad." Hawk said, "There's not even an emoji."

"Yeah, man, she is not ok." Demetri said, "You need to do something to turn this around stat."