tyler's mom pulls the minivan full of the sweaty soccer team up to maxx pizza. "i'll order you kids go sit or play," emily's dad shouts as the team files in through the doors. drew and suzy head to a booth to wait for henry who was placed in the second van.
emily slides in the booth next to suzy, "that last pass was awesome drew. you'll have to teach me sometime." drew nods, "yeah sure emily. maybe i can come over and you can show me how you pass the ball from one foot to the other! that move is rad."
emily nods enthusiastically and pushes her loose hair behind her ear. suzy stares at emily and clears her throat, "henrys here so we're gonna need this seat. sorry em."
"oh. okay, bye drew. see ya suzy," emily slides out of the booth and joins the group in the arcade room. suzy glares at her as she walks away then smiles when she sees drew looking at her.
"what?" suzy says, pretending nothing happened. "why don't you like her," drew asks slightly accusingly, "she's a perfectly nice girl and you hate her."
henry slides into the booth next to drew and puts his arm around his shoulder, "hey good game y'all. what'd i miss?" drew shakes his arm off his shoulder, "you smell. suzy hates emily for some reason."
henry nods his head, "yeah i know. and yeah i smell we just finished a game, you smell too by the way," he chuckles and pinches his nose jokingly. suzy giggles and shrugs, "i don't know. she's just so desperate, don't you think? it's like she begs to be accepted. kinda like your friend abby."
drew feels his stomach twist at the mention of abby, "some people feel like they have to beg to be accepted. it's not their fault, they're just insecure and scared of rejection. you shouldn't talk about people you don't know well." drew feels his face heat up when he realizes he had shouted.
suzys face gets pink and her eyes widen a little, "okay. jeez sorry." she gets out and walks to the bathrooms. drew puts his face in his arms on the table and let's out a sigh, "was i really mean?" henry scrunches his face, "i-i mean, a little. but i'm sure she's fine - just surprised."
drew sighs into his arms again, "okay." henry pats him on the shoulder, "dude you're not gonna believe who just came in." drew lifts his head to see abby, trevor, and oliver heading to their table.
"hey guys! what a coinky-dink! is suzy here too?" abby asks as the three of them slide into the booth bench suzy was sitting. henry nods, "she's in the bathroom. the whole teams here - hence the color coordination."
oliver laughs, "here i thought you were just in a really weird sweaty club." the table laughs and jokes around until suzy comes back. "oh, okay. hello, i guess you guys are joining us," she mumbles and sits next to henry.
trevor mumbles a half hearted apology for sitting down which makes oliver snort. pizza is finally served and the six of them joke around throughout the night.
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blurry nights
General Fiction"my skin is dark as night, but you're the one with constellations across yours"
