Chess: The Next Move

Chapter 3: Cheers, bitches

Do you know how hard it is defrost two chickens, cut some potatoes to mash them, make homemade chicken sauces, quickly drive to the store to buy gravy just in case Morgan gets extra hungry, put rice in the rice cooker, make a salad, and pop open 3 types of champagne bottles in only one hour and a half?

I did all that. I don't usually do that for dinner, but I did all that because everybody wanted to have dinner with Tyler Hoechlin to see if he's trustworthy enough to be Marissa's boyfriend, even though he already is.

It's actually impossible to defrost TWO chickens in only an hour and cook them in that half hour while doing 100 other things. So, if you get stomach aches for "undercooked chicken," not my fault.

It's dinner time, and we're all seated, waiting for Marissa and Tyler to walk in. Here's the seating arrangement the best way I can type it:

Me
Cherry Bea Bianca
Morgan Marissa
Empty seat Tyler
Audrey

Cherry, Morgan, Bea Bianca, Audrey, and I were patiently waiting for Marissa and Tyler to arrive, but then we started talking about how late they are when she literally picks him up at the front door!

"I wanna eat already, but they're not here yet!" Morgan feels the same way we do.

"Look at all this food." Audrey said.
"The temptation." Cherry stared at the food and glared at the front door.

"If they don't come in the next 5 seconds, we dig in," Bea Bianca declared.

"1.2.3-"

Marissa and Tyler come walking in, laughing about something couples usually laugh at but others don't Find funny.

As they walked in and looked at us, we all stared at them, hungry and angry.

"What's wrong?" Marissa asked.

"What's wrong?!" I said. "We've been waiting for, oh I don't know, 100 YEARS FOR YOU TWO SO WE CAN FINALLY EAT DINNER!"

"Who said you guys had to wait for me?"

"YOU DID!!" Cherry yelled. "You're all like, WAIT FOR ME BEFORE YOU EAT. REMEMBER!!?!"

"Sorry, I-"

Audrey interrupted Marissa.
"SORRY?! Sorry doesn't help an empty stomach."

"SIT DOWN BITCHES!" I yelled out. They quickly took their seats because I'm pretty sure even Tyler knows I'm not a nice person to mess with.

Almost all the food was eaten, mostly by me and Audrey.

Audrey noticed Tyler only has salad on his plate.

"Why aren't you eating? Afraid you'll get poisoned?" She was testing him.

Tyler responded.
"I had chicken for breakfast."

"Eat it again." Audrey threw a piece of chicken she didn't eat at his plate.

"Thank you." He said feeling weird withh a half eaten chicken wing in his hand.

We had an awkward silence moment. There are times where I like eating in peace and times where I don't.

"So how's life?" Cherry randomly said out of the bloom.