A Good Night Full Of Mistakes

Ch. 5

It's 11:18pm.

It's been three days since The Incident - as Scott now thinks of it.

Things are weird.

Things are really weird.

It's only been three days, though. Really, if you think about it logically, they've had less than 72 hours to process everything. It's to be expected. It's just a matter of time - probably just another few days - before everything is back to normal.

That's what Scott keeps reminding himself as he lies in bed after a borderline-disastrous Superfruit filming, anyways. After shooting for over an hour, they might have five minutes of usable content. It had started off fine, maybe slightly awkward as they made sure to keep a little space between them, but things went downhill about halfway through. Scott's not even sure why he said what he said, which, admittedly, wasn't the kindest comment, and he's just as unsure as to why Mitch got so upset about it.

"I really don't know. I'm the wrong person to ask, uh, for love advice, I'd say," Mitch had responded during the Q&A.

"You're...with a boy every day," Scott had shot back. He'd intended it to come out more lighthearted than the deadpan that actually emerged, and, like it was happening in slow motion, he watched Mitch's easy smile disappear. The joke hadn't gone over well.

"Whoa," Mitch said, offended. "Whoa, whoa, whoa."

Scott chuckled nervously as fire glinted in Mitch's eyes.

"I'm not a whore," Mitch said, brows drawn. "Why the fuck would you say that?"

"I - no, that's not what I meant," Scott protested. "It was a joke, and..."

"It wasn't fucking funny." 

While it wasn't the angriest he'd ever seen Mitch, the next twenty minutes was, by far, the most anger Scott had seen directed at him.

And Scott knows that it wasn't the nicest thing to say. It wasn't even true, but even if it was it doesn't mean he thinks Mitch is a whore. He spent ten minutes apologizing repeatedly and another ten feeling a mix of guilt and irritation as Mitch railed at him about slut shaming and being disrespectful. Even though he thought that maybe Mitch was blowing this a little out of proportion, he really didn't mean to hurt his best friend's feelings.

Once Mitch's fire had run out, they'd finished filming with smiles plastered to their faces and as soon as they sang their goodbyes Mitch was off like a shot to a bath and hopefully a good night's sleep.

And as the clock nears midnight Scott can only hope that there's enough editing in the world to make that episode work and that he and Mitch can get past this weirdness really soon.

This sucks.