Chasing You ↠ Jonah Marais

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September 1, 2017

Jonah's POV

Once they left the kitchen Daniel turned to me. "Dude, what are you talking about, the only thing you can cook is eggs."

I just looked for a second before I replied, "Okay well they don't know that, let's just get this done. I'm thinking we do a mix in and then just plain popcorn, to get a variety. We can mix the kisses and popcorn with some peanuts and chocolate drizzle. And for the other one we can just dump in some cheez-itz and pretzels or something. I'll do the sweet and you can do savory." I pulled out two large bowls and took four packets of popcorn from the box.

Daniel raised his eyebrows at the two bags in each bowl. "Are you really going to eat that much popcorn?" he asked, picking up one of the bags and throwing it in the microwave.

"There's 8 movies, Daniel. Plus, you guys will probably eat some before you leave for the Grove," I pointed out as he ripped open the bag of kisses and started unwrapping them.

"True." Daniel flung open the cabinet and dumped a bunch of cheez-itz into the bowl. "That should be good."

I paused and looked up from my unwrapping, "How do you know? You didn't even put in the popcorn yet."

"Well yeah but I just know." Daniel shrugged.

I continued my unwrapping while Daniel dumped some pretzels into the bowl, mixing it around by tossing the bowl up. The microwave signaled the popcorn was done. Dani pulled out the packet by the corners and carefully dumped its contents into the bowl. "At the rate, I'm going to finish so much faster than you."

"Well then you can help me."

"Fine, I have to wait for the popcorn to pop anyway." Daniel groaned, picking up a kiss and unwrapping it before throwing it in the bowl. "Score."

I took a shot at the bowl, the kiss hit the outside edge and rolled away. "Dammit, I'll get it next time, just watch," I said over Daniel's laughter. I quickly unwrapped another kiss and threw it in the bowl. "See, did it," I said triumphantly.

"Yeah, after you failed."

"I got close." I laughed. I gathered the unwrapped kisses and started tossing them in the bowl. "Look now the first one was just a fluke."

"Yeah, sure." Daniel smirked. The microwave let out a loud beep. Daniel dropped his kiss and flung he bag out of the microwave and into the bowl. After giving it a final stir, he dropped the bowl on the counter behind him. "Okay, 2 down, 2 to go."

"You know what, this is taking too long, let's just dump in the other stuff first and go build the fort, we can get the other guys to help us later." I dropped my half-unwrapped kiss on the counter in defeat. I wrapped the finished bowl of popcorn in cling film to prevent it from going stale. "C'mon let's go." I padded up the stairs to my room, gently opening the door.

"Okay, so this pillow has to go here and you need to balance it so the blankets can stay up. You've both seen the plan it's gonna be up there anyway." Corbyn dropped his marker and turned to the door. "Hey Jonah, are you done already?"

"No, I was thinking that we could just all work on the fort together and then do the food later."

"Okay, well there's our plan. Follow it exactly or the fort will collapse." Daniel pulled out his phone and played music. "Whistle while we work." Taking You blasted from the small device now sitting on the dresser.

"Oh, I love this song, I forgot who it's by though," Zach said.

"What a shame, I hear their other music is great," Corbyn added.

I shook my head and chuckled at their idiocy. "I think it's by some boy band."

"Pfffftttt, how lame, a boy band," Jack scoffed.

They all shared a laugh as they stacked pillows, singing while they worked. A few songs later, Made For started playing. "This song is great, I especially love the runs at the end," Jack mused. The rest of us rolled our eyes in response.

Near the end of the song Jack dropped a pillow on the ground and stood up slowly as he burst into song. "THAT'S WHAT ITS MADE FOR, THAT'S WHAT ITS MADE FOR, THAT'S WHAT ITS MADE FOR, THAT'S WHAT ITS MADE FOR, THAT'S WHAT ITS MADE FOR."

I laughed as Corbyn dropped to his knees and started screaming like a fangirl. Daniel,

Jack, and Zach followed suit. Indeed, the three different screams of a fangirl could be heard from the small crowd of three teenage boys fanning themselves. I smiled in amusement before I joined them in finishing the song.

We continued our construction of the fortress, wall by wall, support after support, stack after stack, pillow after pillow. Humming while we built, occasionally pausing to host a 2-minute concert of a certain song, complete with dances and invisible microphones. Us five boys stepped back to admire our work.

"I would say, this is a marvelous fort, look at the architecture. It's so beautiful, I'm gonna cry." Corbyn wiped a fake tear from his cheek and sniffed.

"And time for the finishing touch, the lights." Daniel held up a coil of LED lights. We helped Daniel outline the fort in lights, they hung from the entrance, dripping down like fallen stars.

"Ahhhh, the aesthetic," Corbyn sighed. "Let's do a mini photoshoot. It's the perfect place."

"Well we got an hour and a half left, so make it quick." I responded as the boys cheered happily.

Corbyn dashed to his room to grab his camera and photographed all of us sitting in the mass of pillows with a far off look on their faces. One group photo was taken with all of us surrounding the structure, excitedly pointing at our creation.

"These are keepers, I'll edit these later with August or something." Corbyn looked through the pictures, the others peeked over his shoulder. "It's about time for me to go pick up the pizza, I'll be back in 20 minutes." He trailed to his room to drop off the camera before bounding out the front door with a few lazy goodbyes from the rest of the boys.

I clapped my hands once. "Okay, food time. And yes, you can have a little bit when we are done." Jack and Zach erupted in cheers before running down the stairs.

Me and Daniel shared a look before following them downstairs.

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Sorry for not uploading yesterday, i couldnt get Wattpad to let me upload. But tomorrow is my last day of school so ill try my best to keep doing daily uploads! Im hoping to have this one finished and my new fanfic started by the end of June, so well see how that goes