"You know, you remind me of a quote."
"And what is it, Dayl?"
His eyes gazed in to mine, before saying. "There is something secret burning in your heart and I can smell the smoke."
It's been two days since the incident and I still haven't gathered the courage to call Mordecai. What if he's still mad at me? My biggest fear is being rejected. I really like him and don't want to ruin what we have. Not that we were like, an official couple or anything. But it was bound to happen soon. And the fact that I just ruined what was so close makes me so upset. Dayl, Cian, and Cherry are supposed to come over later on for a game night. Hopefully that will get this mess off of my brain.
It isn't long before they show up. I let them in, Cian and Dayl greeting me with a hug as I notice Cherry setting some grocery bags on the counter. I walk a few feet to my kitchen to investigate, my eyes widening at the sight of all the ice cream in front of me.
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"We didn't know which flavor you'd like, so we kind of got a ton of them...", Cherry grins shyly. I pull her in to a hug, giggling at the sweet gesture.
"You guys are the best. I'll get the spoons and meet you on the couch. We're all sat down enjoying our ice cream, when Cherry pulls out her phone and squeals in excitement "hellostaychic uploaded a new video! Let's watch!" We all huddled around her phone as she pressed play, and we watched the vlog together. After watching several related videos, we made it to a compilation of condom challenge videos, making us all burst out in fits of laughter. "This looks so funny, imagine trying it?!" I laugh. "Got a bathtub?" Smirks Cian as he pulls a small accordion of condoms out his front pocket. My eyes widen with shock as I wasn't expecting that, but soon enough there was all of us cramped in my little bathroom, filling a condom with water. We all look at each other, neither of us wanting to be the victim of this prank. "NOSE GOES!" Shouts Cherry, making all of us touch our fingers to our noses, meanwhile Dayl looks at us like we're from another planet as he slowly raises his finger to his nose. "What the hell is this?" He asks. "Last person to touch their nose when someone says "nose goes" has to do the undesirable thing, and you were the last one to touch your nose. Sorry bro, in the tub for you." Says Cian as he pats Dayl on the shoulder. "Oh, you slippery slime!" Dayl exclaims with a high pitched voice. He takes off his shoes in defeat and sits in my bathtub.
Cian rolls up his pant legs, then gets in the tub and stands behind Dayl. I immediately whip out my phone and start recording. Dayl is sitting there pouting like a sad puppy, while Cian has a stupid excited grin on his face while looking in to the camera.
"Babe, will you read me the instructions, please?" Cian chuckles.
Cherry clears her throat and reads off the wrapper, "TO USE CONDOM: PLACE ON HEAD".
"Well if you say so!" Laughs Cian as he suddenly plops the perverted water balloon on Dayl and hops out of the tub to see his face. The four of us are laughing our asses off, when the water bursts out of the condom and soaks poor Dayl, which makes us laugh even harder, especially Cian. His knees give out and he falls to the floor, accidentally hitting his head on the sink on the journey down. The lighthearted atmosphere is suddenly cut when Dayl exclaims "OH SHIT, HE'S UNCONSCIOUS!" I stop recording and open the medicine cabinet to get some painkillers, while Dayl and Cherry work on taking Cian to the living room couch. Cherry is holding a pint of ice cream to her boyfriends forehead, and Dayl is fanning him with a magazine.
"Dayl, why don't you go dry off in my room? Your hoodie I borrowed is in the closet. I'll take care of this." He hands me the magazine and goes off to my room, where I can hear the closet door opening. Cian regains consciousness and slowly opens his eyes and lets out a soft grunt in confusion.
"Hey, baby" Whispers Cherry as she gently kisses him on the forehead and strokes his hair.
"What happened?" Cian groans.
"You were laughing at Dayl so hard that you fell over and hit the sink." I reply.
"Oh, heh" He chuckles, making light of the situation.
"So I see sleeping beauty is awake!" Dayl teases as he walks back in to the living room, with a dry hoodie and jeans still soaking wet.
"This is your fault Cronin!" Cian taunts.
"You guys, I had so much fun this evening," I say. "But I really think you should get Cian to an urgent care clinic just to be sure he's okay, and I don't think Dayl is very comfortable in his clothes at the moment."
"You're right," Says Cherry. "We should get going. But I'm really glad we were able to get your mind off of you-know-who for a while." She stands up and pulls me in to a tight hug. "I'll see you soon girlie".
She lets go and within a second Dayl now has his arms wrapped around me, lovingly squeezing the air out of me. "Thanks for my hoodie, I'll text you if anything happens with Cian."
It's not long before I'm alone in my apartment once again, the only source of noise being the cars rushing by on the street. It's strange how I didn't mind the silence before they arrived, but now that they're gone, the atmosphere feels empty. I take advantage of the silence and use this time to study.
Nose deep in a textbook, the sound of my phone startles me. The first thing I notice is the time. How is it past midnight already!? The next thing I notice is the text from Dayl.
NEW MESSAGE FROM: DAYL
Sleeping beauty is gunna be okay. Just needs 24 hours of bed rest and he'll be grand :)
A/N: YO YO YO GUESS WHO'S BACK This chapter literally took months to write lmao WRITERS BLOCK GAME IS STRONG AF. PS I'm wearing a shirt that says "USE CONDOM SENSE" in giant letters lolokaybye
