help me do this - Aaron Carpenter FF

Chapter 19 - popeye's

After a while I hear her stomach growl.

I chuckle a bit "You hungry?".

"Yeah.."

"Then let's go." I say.

"Something fancy?" she asks.

"Would you like something fancy? Italian or Steakhouse, Sushi whatever you want."

"Nah, actually I'm okay with Popeyes." she replies.

"Cool, let's do that then." I get up.

She turns off the tv and we get in my car.

"Are we just going for the drive thru or we gonna eat there?" Lisa asks me.

"I thought about the drive thru and chilling at the beach while eating." I tell her.

"But... I think it's gonna be really cold at the beach and I don't wear the perfect clothes for coldness." she says.

"You'd rather go watch a movie?" I suggest, when suddenly my phone rings.

"Yeah?" I answer the call and turn on the speaker to put the phone next to me.

(a/n: cause don't phone and drive! haha..)

I hear a sniff "Aaron we.." I recognize Nashs voice and he sounds really upset, almost as if he's crying, "Lacey and I b-broke up." 

And now we hear how he's starting to cry.  I quickly look to Lisa, but she obviously doesn't know what to do either.

"Um, we're just driving to Popeyes, we can get you something too and swing by." I look at Lisa with a questioning face expression and she just nods. 

"Alright, th-thankyou." he stutters and hangs up.

"Damn." she whispers. "I gave him some wrong advice..."  

"No, I knew this was going to happen. It was kinda complicated within the last months between them." I mumble.

"I'm sorry your movie idea doesn't work now.."

"Who said that? When we come back from Nashs house, we could still watch a movie." she smiles.

"Yeah. So what do you wanna eat?" I ask Lisa when we arrive at Popeyes.

"I'd like... 5 Tenders and a coke." 

"Fries?" 

"Yes, please." she replies.

I order at the drive thru and soon we have our and Nashs food.

"You are often here with Nash?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" I answer, kinda suprised.

"You exactly know his order." she laughs.

"I guess, we've been here one or two times.." I joke and laugh with her.

Soon we arrive at Nashs house and Lisa already knocks, while I'm locking my Range Rover.

Nashs mom opens up and quickly I join Lisa.

"Hey Mrs. Grier." I smile friendly at her.

"Hi Aaron and um sorry who are you?" 

"My name is Lisa, I'm a friend of Nashs as well." she says polite.

"Nice to meet you, come on in. Can I bring you anything?" she offers.

"No, we're fine thanks." I say and we go to Nashs room.

I knock and carefully open the door.

Nash sitts on his bed and stares at his phone. He looks up at us "Hi.." his voice cracks.

"Hey, what happened?" I ask him and Lisa and I sit down next to him.

Nash keeps quiet and hands me his phone.

I hold it between Lisa and me and we read the messages:

From: Lac💟

Nash, I don't think this is working.

To: Lac💟

What you mean?

From: Lac💟

We need to breakup. I'm just not happy with you.

To: Lac💟

Don't you think we could try it one more time?

From: Lac💟

No. I'm sorry. 

From: Lac💟

And please, don't text me anymore.

"6 fucking months. And she breaks up with a text?" I start to get in rage.

"Calm down." Lisa whispers in my ear.

"That's what I thought." Nash murmurs.

"It's okay, a guy like you will find someone else soon, trust me." Lisa speaks up.

"But I want Lacey..." he sniffs.

"Your brain wants Lacey, your heart doesn't want her." gosh, that sounded cheesy and I'm sure I've heard that in a movie, but if it helps him...

"You told me it wasn't the same as it was before. So maybe you just remember the past times better than they actually were." Lisa says.

"Whatever... You brought food?" he is still sad but I guess we should just distract him.

"Yeah, the usual for you" I grin and we open the hot bags.

Now the whole room smells like chicken and before I start eating I put on Netflix so we can watch an episode of Friends on Netflix.

Nash seems to be more relaxed now and he doesn't feel as upset as before anymore.

"I'd give you some advice on her, but it seems I'm not good at girls." he chuckles quietly so Lisa doesn't hear him.

I grin too, because he doesn't know what happened obviously.

"I think I don't need advice at the moment, bro." I laugh a little.

"What you laughing at?" Lisa asks me from beside.

"Nash." I answer short.

He rolls his eyes, I can tell he still hasn't got it. 

"Didn't know he was that funny." she jokes and we both laugh.

Nash pouts at first, but then he laughs with us.

After a while, Lisa gets tired and we go home.