"do you guys want to borrow some sweats or something? you can use some of my brothers."
i ask them, carrying a bowl of popcorn into the living room, jack following behind with another. they all nod as jack and i set the bowls down, standing up and following me to charlie's room. i flick on the light, revealing his messy room. clothes scatter the floor, and his bed still isn't made. i make my way to his dresser, pulling out five pairs of sweats. three of them grey, one white, and one black. i hand the grey ones to corbyn, jonah, and zach, the white one to daniel, and the black one to jack. they all say a small thanks after i hand them their sweatpants. "alright uh... you guys can change in here, there's a bathroom right next door, and my room is down the hall to the right. i'm gonna change so if anyone's gonna use my room you gotta wait." i say, exiting the room. i walk into my room and flick on the lights, causing my string lights that are hung all across my room to turn on. i walk towards my closet and pull out a pair of joggers, underwear, a sports bra, and a black shirt. quickly changing, i open my door only to be greeted by zach. "i uh- i need to change." he says quietly. i laugh at him, nodding and pull him into my room. my bedroom is completely different from charlie's- mines clean and organized. zach's eyes wander around my room, following the twinkling lights. "do you play?" he asks, pointing to my keyboard. i nod a yes, about to leave the room and close the door. "you'll have to play for us some time." zach smiles, right before i close the door.
i sit down on the couch between jack and corbyn, jack on my left and corbyn on my right. brook is in the chair next to us, daniel laying on the floor in front of the coffee table, and there's one extra seat on the couch next to jack for zach. the two bowls of popcorn are on the coffee table, within reach for everyone. soon enough, zach walks out of my room and sits next to jack. "alright, everyone ready?" brook asks, getting out of her chair and grabbing the remote to start the movie. everyone except me yells a yes. "no, no i'm not." i say, earning an eye roll from brooklyn and laughs from the other boys. brooklyn presses play and the movie begins, starting off with zooming into a house. the mom was doing fortune telling, "contacting" the spirit of someone's father or grandfather. the music begins to get really intense, as curtains begin moving. the camera zooms in on the curtains as a shadow appears behind them. things start moving on the small desk behind the fortune teller. the pair that were there contacting the spirit with the fortune teller quickly pay her and leave. the music is still intense, and i can feel a jump scare coming up so i tense up. my breath hitches and i squint my eyes closed right as i hear the jump scare. i jump slightly at the loud noise on the screen and instantly feel shivers go down my spine- causing goose bumps to form on my bare legs and arms.
it's been about an hour into the movie, an hour full of jumps and gasps. we're at the part of the movie when they boy has gone missing, and the older sister is looking for him. she's standing right in front of the stairs, flashlight in hand with her mother by her side. in one quick motion the boys body drops from the ceiling, hanging in a noose. i jump up onto the top of the couch, more goosebumps rising. "someone come with me to get a blanket." i say quietly, looking around at every one- who are now all asleep. that is, everyone except jack. "c'mon, we'll get blankets for the others too." he says smiling, standing up from his seat and stretching. i nod, and move from where i was sitting- shaking with fear. jack moves away from me so i can get through the area between the couch and coffee table, and places his left hand on the small of my back as we walk towards the closet where we keep all the spar blankets. i turn on all the lights i could as we walked there, earning a laugh from jack. "c-can you open the closet?" i say quietly, shaking with fear. jack laughs and nods, opening the closet door and grabbing five blankets. we walk back to the living room and i sit down while jack places blankets over all of our sleeping friends. when he's finished with that, he walks back over to me and sits down, placing a blanket over the two of us. "thanks." i say, smiling. he nods, focusing back on the tv. "hey um, do you think we could put on a disney movie? i'm getting tired but i know i won't be able to sleep if we turn this off." i ask him, hopingly. thankfully, he laughs and says yes before walking over to the dvd player and switching the movie to moana. jack sits back down next to me, sighing. i lay my head on his chest, and he wraps his right arm over my shoulders comfortingly. that's when i feel myself slowly drifting off to sleep.
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