cake oneshots || book one

Friday Night Date Nights

Credit: lukedancewithme

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Ever since the four had paired up double dates on friday were a tradition. And while everyone easily agreed to keep 6pm to 10pm open every week, deciding on what to actually do was not so simple. Ashton always wanted to go on some wild adventure that in some cases had aspects that were more or less illegal; Michael was good with just having a movie night and maybe some Chinese take-away; Calum would always want to do something hopelessly cliche like bowling or mini golf, and Luke wouldn't make a suggestion no matter how many times Cal kicked his shin and called him names.

This week the problem was solved with a drawing from Ashton's fedora. Michael refused to let it in his home, though, so he had to stand out on his porch and pick tonight's activity. When he pulled from the hat and opened the paper his eyes lit up, meaning it was either his suggestion, or someone else's caught his attention and for once the other three wouldn't have to hear him whine all night about being bored.
"Lazer tag!" He shouted through the screen and Calum squealed with excitement and slapped Luke's shoulder like a toddler while he stared down at him fondly. Michael just told Ashton to put that piece of shït hat back in his trunk or more preferably in the trash where it belonged.

Once Luke googled directions, the gang was off to the closest Lazer Quest. After some arguing, because Ashton is a shït driver, him and Michael were in the front where they could jam out to whatever music Mikey deemed acceptable while Luke was running his fingers through Calum's hair as he drowsily stared out the window in the back, he never could stay awake for car rides. Eventually Ashton pulled up to the building and swung the car into the nearest parking spot.

"Great job mate, really. I quite like the way you chose to park in between spaces."

"Oh shut up Luke for god's sake."
Michael snickered and gave Luke a high-five.

Inside the arena the couples split into two teams, Michael and Ashton against Luke and Calum. While the other two were off playing the arcade games, Michael and Ashton set up a game plan.

"Okay, we need code names, I'll be Goku and you-"

"Wait, Goku? As in the guy from Dragon Ball Z?" Michael nodded "You're actually an idiot." Michael glared for a second before pulling out some stuff from his bag. "Mike, what the hell? When did you put that in there?" Michael disregarded Ashton and continued on.

"Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupted, I'll be Goku and you'll be-"

"Ashton, I'll be Ashton"

"Whatever, here I grabbed some supplies while Luke was fucking around on the computer."

"You mean when Luke was finding directions to this place and actually doing something productive?"

"Will you just stop for a second? Okay so I got us some bandanas and stuff. You want black or red?"

"Red."

Ten minutes later, the four were on opposite sides of the arena; Michael and Ashton with their bandanas and eye black -Michael had brought some eyeliner to use as eyeblack; he said it was for intimidation- while Luke whispered lowly to Calum while he giggled on the other side. The countdown started over head and soon both teams were scrambling for cover amongst the plastic props throughout the terrain. The thing is, Michael gets quite competitive. Ashton takes things very seriously but Mikey is the one out of the two who refuses to lose, it leads to very one-sided game nights. So as soon as the round starts, him and Ashton are strategically moving around the arena, using hand signals and the whole bit. Ashton army crawls over to where Luke and Cal used to be and is met with a bare wall. He turns back to Michael and shakes his head, indicating to move on with their search for the enemy.