Night On Set ❁ COLIFER

Chapter 21 ❁ Nothing a bathroom party can't fix

Jen's POV

Three minutes and twenty seconds later, I've changed into my pajamas and I'm sliding back to the hallway on my ski socks. Colin is waiting for me, his phone in his hand and a grin on his face. He's wearing the other pair of ski socks.

I guess they're officially his now.

"Okay, what are we doing?" I ask.

"I have a question first. How are you feeling right in this moment?"

"Uh..." I blink a few times. "I don't really know. I feel weird. Because I don't know when I'm going to see Seb again, and the entire date just felt weird in general."

He nods, one corner of his mouth going up in a smile. "Okay, I promise you this will work. Grab your phone. And earbuds."

I run back to my room to get it, and when I'm standing in the hallway again, he pushes both of our doors open until they can't go any further.

"Okay, now pick a song you like, but think too hard about it." His thumbs are already hovering over his own screen, but he waits until I've picked one.

I show him the song.

"'Fallin' from Alicia Keys?" He raises both of his eyebrows at me.

"Hey, you said I didn't have to think about it too hard!"

"Okay, it's fine." He grins down at his screen, and a second later he looks back up. "When I say 'PLAY!', you press play."

"Sounds obvious. And what are we doing after that?"

"Brush your teeth, run around, I don't care. But you dance, and you don't stop, even if you feel like it gets awkward. Ignore the awkwardness, it's just the two of us on this floor. Okay?"

He's looking at me with sparkles in his eyes now, almost bouncing up and down, and I can't help but get infected by his enthusiasm. So I nod, grinning as well.

"Okay," he says. He starts walking backwards, back into his own apartment, and I watch him until he's almost at the bathroom. Then I decide it's better if I take this to my own bathroom too, because he can say what he wants, this is still going to be awkward.

I've reached the sink when I hear him calling.

"PLAY!"

I hit play and I start moving, slowly at first, because that annoying little voice in my head is still reminding me how stupid this looks. It's almost midnight, I'm dancing on my own in front of the mirror and the only thing that's muting my footsteps on the tiled bathroom floor is my socks. But I keep moving as I grab my toothbrush, because that's the thing: I'm not alone. 

I know Colin's doing exactly the same on his side of the hallway.

And then I get into the song. I brush my teeth at the same time, somehow managing not to spill toothpaste all over the bathroom, and I move my body in ways that make my neck and back crack, but in a relieving way.

Louder. I turn up the volume, still soft enough to keep my eardrums intact, and I'm moving out of the bathroom before I realize it. I shimmy my way across the living room; on the other end of the hallway, Colin is doing exactly the same.

Now I'm smiling with the toothbrush still in my mouth. He makes a weird face at a high note and does a booty dance in the middle of his living room, making me laugh even harder. Buckley is watching him from the kitchen floor, but he looks very confused about what's happening.

Ava just jumps around my legs, wanting to get in on the fun. I mouth the lyrics of the song, using the toothbrush as a microphone and closing my eyes as I turn around, but when I open them again it's not Colin I'm looking at.