just friends

lights out

       

Real life

"Diegooooooo, man." Ethan yells, walking up to Diego embracing him into one of those bro hugs.

"What's up man?" Diego replies, then turns to me, "Hey pretty girl."

"Hi Diego," I say, "So what are we doing today?"

"I was thinking smoking and a movie marathon, I'm home alone today." He ruffles his hair, looking down at his feet.

"Damn, you were really trying to hit it today, weren't you bro?" Ethan laughs.

"Yeah, uh that works for me. Can we watch horror movies though? They're my favorite" I say as we walk into Diego's place.

"Yeah, I'm cool with that, do you guys want to order some food?" Diego asks, leading us to his movie room. It was a large room, wrapped in velvet covering, with couches lined up and some love seats scattered around the room. The screen was as big as a small movie theater screen.

"Wow, this room is amazing. And yes please! Veggie Grill." I squeal, excited because I was craving my buffalo mini wrap.

"Mel, really veggie grill again? We got that yesterday." Ethan groaned, sitting on the couches, patting the spot next to him.

"Anything the lady wants." Diego says, smiling at me as he sits on the other side of me, handing Ethan a blanket and wrapping the other around him and i. "Here you, order what you want Melissa." Diego hands me his phone, opened to the postmates app, I quickly put in my order and hand the phone to Ethan who get his usual.

"Do you guys have any recommendations? I've never eaten there before." He asks, as he puts his arm around me.

"Oooh get the Santa Fe Sandwich! With the sweetheart fries!" I say, grabbing his phone and typing in his order.

"You just want him to order that, so you can steal some." Ethan says, looking up from his phone.

"Shut up Ethan, I'm just trying to get some food boy." I say lightly smacking his shoulder.

"Its cool, you can steal whatever you want from me." He smirks down at me, a bing comes from his phone, that is still in my hand. I tried not to look down at the text, but I caught a "daddy" and a contact name that was not Jessica.

"Uh here you go!" I basically toss his phone back to me and scoot towards Ethan.

"Thanks..." He presses some buttons, "Alright foods ordered, should be here soon. What movie should we watch?"

"Let's watch Lights Out! I heard it was good!" I say excited to watch a scary movie.

"Alrighty then." He says playing the movie.

"Holy fuck!" I yell as I hide my face into Ethan again.

"For a girl who loves scary movies, you sure do seem to scream a lot." Diego says, laughing at my reaction.

"Shut up." I whine, throwing a pillow at him, he caught it and threw it back.

"Make me." he smirks, he licks his lips and I roll my eyes.

"Oh shit, I got to get to set right now, late night shoot." Ethan says, scrambling to grab his things, "Yo Diego can you drop Melissa off at home? I really got to go."

"Wait what?" I say looking up at him.

"Yeah, no problem, I don't mind." Diego says, putting his arm around me.

"Please Melissa, I'm going to be late if I don't head straight over there!"

"Yeah, okay fine." I say, I get up and hug him bye, pecking his cheek. "See you later."

"Alright bye guys, see you later!" He calls out, running out of the house.

"So, it's just us," Diego says turning towards me, "Jess is out tonight, you can stay. I know you said just friends, I have an extra room you can stay in."

"Uh well we can finish this movie, then see how late it is. If its super late, I'll take you up on that offer." I smile, getting comfortable on the couch the watch the rest of the fourth movie in our horror movie marathon.

"Alright, sounds like a plan."  Another scary part comes on and I jump and hide my face into Diego's side.

"You're so cute when you get scared," laughing at me.

"Shut up Diego." I say groaning, still hiding half of my face.

"Only if you're going make me, babe." He pulls me closer. I roll my eyes, and refocus on the movie.