junky || Ciaran McDonald

10

One week had passed since the event, and I still hadn't forgiven Ciaran. I had spent most of my time hanging out with Emma and company. I had barely even been at the house. But tonight, we were having a get together and I invited Emma and James over. As I waited by the door, like a little girl waiting for her friends to arrive for a sleep over, I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. 

"Oh my god, Tavia!" I almost yelled. I hadn't seen her in awhile and it makes me so happy how much she makes Matt. As we embraced I heard the door open and saw Emma and James had let themselves in. I gave them each hugs as I introduced them to Tavia. 

"Hi, you are like gorgeous." Emma said giving Tavia a hug.

"Aw, thanks girlie. So are you. And your makeup is on fleek. Does anyone even say fleek anymore?" She said giving James a hug. She turned towards me and whispered, "do they know about the Ciaran thing?" I nodded before we all joined back together in conversation. "When are you going to forgive him?"

James looked confused. I didn't want to discuss Ciaran, but we lived in the same house. It was inevitable. "I don't know. He almost ruined one of my most important friendships." I said dragging out the sentence. 

"Hon, I went out with the boys two times in this past week and the first time he got wicked drunk and said he would only listen to us if you forgave him, and the other he was fucking miserable. Merlyn has forgiven him!"

"Really, he was asking for me?"

"Hey," Emma intervened, "Cleo, only forgive him if you want to." I thought between the two options weighing pros and cons. Why shouldn't I forgive him? I really liked him and it seemed like he liked me.

"I'll forgive him. Okay?" Tavia looked super excited. 

"Oh my god, only the third best ship."

"Third?" I said with a laugh.

"Yeah, Matt and I, and Robearto." I laughed so hard I snorted. While Matt was walking down the stairs. He walked up and wrapped his arms around Tavia and rested his head on her shoulder. 

"Hey Emma, and..."

"James Charles." James pipped up excitedly. 

"And James. So glad you could make it. We're going to start watching the movie when everyone gets back in like twenty minutes." He clearly had just woken up from a nap and was still tired. He was closing his eyes and literally falling asleep on Tav. 

"Hey Sleepy-head. Don't fall asleep." Tav said before flicking his temple. He mumbled something, assumingly about not falling asleep. "We decided on Ghostbusters." Tav said facing towards us as we all walked into the living room and spread out. A lot of people were coming and there definitely would not be enough couch space. The idea popped into my head out of nowhere and I knew, It would work. Leaving everyone behind in the living room I went up to the closet that had air matresses inside. I pulled out the there in there and threw them down the stairs and walked down with the pump in hand. 

Before anyone could ask any questions I started blowing them up and moved the coffee table out of the way and placed the three on the floor. 

"Nice idea," Tavia said from across the room. I heard the boys start coming in and one by one I heard their voices. As soon as we spotted Ciaran, Tavia got up. "I'm going to give the boy the good news."

As she approached him he started talking, "No, I'm just going to my room. I don't care what you say."

"Not even if I say that Cleo forgave you. You're welcome by the way." Ciaran looked from me on the couch to Tavia to see if she was lying. Emma and James were on their phone watching something and didn't  notice what was happening. Tavia walked back to where Matt had placed himself, and cuddled up into him as Ciaran stood there dumfounded as the room filled with Brockhampton and their partners. As Kevin, who I had yet to get to know, started walking towards the spot Ciaran basically pushed him out of the way to come sit next to me.

"So is it true?" He said not having too much hope in his voice. I nodded before pulling down my sweatshirt to keep me warm. As I did that a smile grew on his face as Romil threw a blanket at us. "BROCKHAMPTON PROMOTES CUDDLING!"  I threw the blanket over my body and cuddled into Ciaran. 

"Hope you don't mind, I'm freezing." I said referring to me cuddling him. He didn't answer, instead he put his arm around me as the movie started. He was so comfy and his body was warming me up, inside and out. The hand that was on me started rubbing my shoulder, I felt bliss.