Amongst Friends

Chapter 3

"I'm never going to find someone out there that'll pose for the selfie, much less love me and date me." I said, in the middle of season 1 episode 3 of Sherlock Holmes.

The second Jason heard that be placed a hand in my shoulder, patting it.
"I think you're brilliant and perfect."

I sighed dramatically "Alas, if only the female population of this world thought just as high of me as you, old friend." I turned back to the telly to finish watching the episode.

Even though both of us had seen Sherlock Holmes a million times already we kept coming back for it. Plus we were doing something studious, you can learn a lot from watching Sherlock. 

We made an unlikely pair, Jason and I. Apart from the 2 year age gap we were as different as night and day.

Jason had brown hair with blue eyes that never lost the twinkle in them, tall, lean and he had a swimmers body. He was clever and active, and has a deep-ish voice.

My hair was bleached blonde from when I had decided to die my hair blue in the Summer, I had boring brown shit coloured eyes, average height, average build and no muscle whatsoever apart from my arms. I also wasn't active, the most I did was sing in a choir on Saturdays and play around on my guitar.

Bang!

The front door was slammed open, a wet Robin panting at the entranc, the wind howling like a crazed wolf. It was cold for an April's day.

"I'm hungry." He uttered after dumping his school bag down on the floor and walking towards us.

"I'll make you something, we'll just finish this episode. Go up and get out of these soggy clothes."

Robin walked upstairs and out of sight.

"You know what I think will be a really great meal?" I asked Jace with a small smile on my face.

"A cheese sandwich?" He guessed without so much of a pause to think.

"No dumbass, it's too cold, and the weather just doesn't suit a cheese sandwich. I'd say a cheese toastie." Jason shook his head, before standing up and turning off the Tv, although we were only at the part where John walks out with am explosive vest on.

"Why do you have such an obsession with cheese? I should have never given you that toastie to try." I gave him a fond smile, remembering how am those years ago he was the one who introduced me to cheddar cheese.

"Come on, cheese is good, in fact it's the food of God's. Sit down, I'll make them since I've perfected the art of toastie making.

Jace sat down without a complaint and I could feel him watching me. Probably wanted to make sure that I didn't rade his whole fridge of cheese. I put all the ingredients on the table before crouching down to get an oven tray from a cupboard, feeling my knees crack when I did so.

"Jace I think I'm turning into an old man here." I called, my head still inside the cupboard rummaging around for the tray. I heard foot steps behind me before I felt hands on my waist dragging me out.

"The oven tray isn't there. It's already inside of the oven." I glared at him playfully.

"You could have told me that from the start, genius."

I hummed a song that I had heard on YouTube, whilst I grated the cheese. Robin came thundering down the stairs and when he saw me in the kitchen he groaned.

"What cheese filled gourmet are you cooking this time." I grinned up at him, piling a generous amount of cheese on the toast break.

"It's cheese toastie, little munchkin."

"Don't call me that and if you are going to make toastie at least do mine with ham." He retorted before sitting down on the couch. I put the first toastie in the oven before turning round to him.

"What does a couch say to the other couch across the room?" Jace was muffling a laughter. There was nothing that annoyed Robin more than my hilarious jokes.

"Don't you dare sa-" He began but was interrupted by me.

"We're sofa away." Jace and I burst out into laughter while Robin gave us a scornful look.

"So funny, you're a genius, William." He knew I hated my full name, he was goading me. Luckily I had a perfect response to it.

"Come on that was sofa king funny." He groaned before burying his face into a cushion. "By the way Jace, I need to bring in that wig, but it needs to change from blonde to black, so could you buy some black hair spray."

"Sure, I need to go to Jack's house anyways, so I'll buy it on the way. He said that Emma needed some help with some algebra." At that moment the penny dropped.

"Oh my fucking God, I'm so stupid!" Robin and Jace looked at me strangely after my sudden outburst.

"That was mature of you to admit." Robin said after a little pause. I flipped him off before grabbing my phone. "I can just ask Emma to do the selfie with me!"

I dug into my jacket pocket before finding my most treasured posession: my phone.

"I'm going to give her a ring."