Writing Prompts

Awkward Arrangement 3

In collaboration with my brother, RBTrain

Luke was left alone in the living room. "Guess I'll be sleeping on the couch tonight," he said to himself. He turned on the TV and flipped through channel after channel. A nature show caught his eye and stayed on the channel. The narrator is apparently talking about cheetahs and how fast they could go. Damn! I forgot my laptop back at the hotel, he remembered. He kept thinking back and forth about his program, debugging it with his imagination. Sleep finally caught him unawares. Just then, Scarlett went out her room and happened to glance at Luke. She went back in her room and brought back a blanket and draped it on Luke.

When morning came, Luke woke up from the smell of bacon wafting from the kitchen. Still droopy from sleep, he waddled his way into the kitchen and sat down by the dinning table. "Can I have some eggs with that bacon please?" Luke said groggily. The cook turned around with an angry expression on her face. "This food is for me. ME." The cook snapped. And with that statement, Luke was rudely awakened and reminded of where he was and what situation he was in. Barbarian, he thought. Scarlett looked at him with obvious anger. "Did you just think that I'm a barbarian?!" She asked angrily. "N-no I didn't!" Luke said in defense. "Moooorning~," said a sleepy Maggie. She was wearing pink pyjamas, still rubbing the sleep off her eyes. "Seriously Scarlett? Bacon? Again?... barbarian." She quipped. "H-hey! Shut up Maggie! Or I wont give you any bacon!" Maggie just chuckled at the flustered cook. "Fine fiiine~ where's Sandra?" Maggie asked. "Oh you know her, she left early for work." Scarlett replied. A few moments later another groggy girl went inside the kitchen. When Luke turned to look at Gwynne, his face turned beet red and looked away in the blink of an eye. When Scarlett noticed Luke's reaction, she looked at the source of Luke's embarrassment. "GWYNNE!!!" Screamed Scarlett. "Hmm?" Said the sleepy girl, not noticing her attire. She was wearing a loose tank top and nothing but her undies to hide what the top couldn't hide.

Scarlett quickly turned off the stove and rushed to bring Gwynne outside the kitchen. "Sorry bout that. Gwynne's not what you call a morning person." Maggie laughed.

Scarlett led Gwynne back into one of the rooms. She put her hands on her hips. "What the hell, Gwynne?"

Gwynne smiled cheekily. "Jealous?"

The latter blushed. "What?! No! Never!"

Gwynne shook her head in amusement. "No need to get so defensive."

Scarlett rummaged through the drawers and found Gwynne a pair of shorts. "Put those on."

"Why?" Gwynne groaned.

"Well, you heard Luke last night. He's never had a girlfriend. I doubt he's even seen more than what you showed him today."

"Planning to show it all in the honeymoon?" Gwynne teased.

Scarlett flipped her the birdie then went out to leave Gwynne to get changed. She continued cooking until she saw Maggie with her hands on her hips. "What?"

"You're cooking food enough for the three of us." Maggie pointed out.

"Well, yeah." Scarlett agreed not knowing what to say.

"And Luke?" Maggie raised a brow.

Scarlett shook her head. "No way." She went back to her bacons. "If you like him so much, why don't you marry him?"

"Sadly, he likes you." Scarlett could tell Maggie was smirking as she said this. "Barbarian."

Scarlett glared. "Stop calling me a barbarian."

Maggie chuckled. "Well, you sort of are one. You're rich, and yet you eat like you've been deprived of food for days."

Scarlett's face went dark. "You don't know half of it."