The Switch / Shourtney

Chapter Five: The Pizza Incident

Chapter Five: The Pizza Incident

September 15th, 2017

Well, it's in the title, so let's get right into it. It was a Friday in mid-September and we were all going a little stir crazy in the smoffice. Noah and Keith were arguing about something or other, Olivia was sitting cross legged on top of her desk typing furiously on her phone, and Courtney and I were lying lazily on the bean bags in the corner of the room. We were waiting for Sunny to come talk to us about next week's schedule and had started making up stupid games to pass the time.

"39, 102, 67, GO!" Courtney yelled before tilting her head back and balancing a cup of water on her forehead. I mimed throwing the jelly bean that was in my hand into the cup for a second before putting it down, grabbing the cup and pouring its contents on top of her.

"Shayne!" she sputtered, water dripping down her face, as I wheezed with laughter at her. She leaned over her bean bag and started hitting me which just made me laugh harder. I rolled away from her onto the floor.

"You guys are literally ridiculous" Keith rolled his eyes at us but he was laughing too.

As Courtney was about to chase me, Sunny walked in on the chaos that I had created. He looked from Courtney's soaking hair to my grinning face and shook his head.

"I'm just going to ignore whatever the hell is happening here... let's go over the schedule guys and then you can get out of here."

Once we were done going through the work week, we all packed up and made our way down to the parking lot. I was walking out of the building with Olivia and Courtney when the latter said.

"Oh god, I could so go for a pizza right now, you guys down?"

"Weren't you going out with Wahlid to that thing at his friends place tonight?" Olivia asked confused.

Courtney looked at us, slightly flustered "Oh what? No, in the end I'm not." Then she quickly added, "But pizza, do you guys want to go?"

"I'm meeting up with James," Olivia said somewhat sheepishly, she was still trying to be sensitive about the Dee thing, and she had also been ditching us for him pretty often recently and we could tell she felt guilty about it.

"Hey no worries," I quipped "we'll just hold this against you for ever."

"Ughhh" Olivia let out a high-pitched groan.

Courtney rolled her eyes at me and put an arm around her friend. "Don't worry Liv Liv, you and James have fun, more pizza for us," She grinned at me.

We ended up driving to my apartment complex and walking to the pizza place around the corner. It was a decent pizza shop with large tables and amazing spicy fries. We ordered a small pie and fries to share and went to sit down in the corner booth.

"It's been so long since I had good pizza" I said, settling into the seat across from Courtney.

"Well you've gotta keep up that body," She joked. "What would we do without our resident beef cake?"

"Oh I'm sure you'd all survive" I grinned.

Courtney fake pondered my statement for a second before nodding "Ya, you're right,". I flicked a sugar pack at her which she easily dodged.

"Thanks a lot," I said sarcastically. "I would never trade out a squad member."

"Really?" She asked, "not even for Damien?"

"Especially for Damien" I laughed, "Could you imagine? We would never get anything done. Its already hard enough for me to keep myself in check".

"Is that what you've been trying to do so far?" she joked.

"Stopppp," I replied, looking up at the ceiling and shaking my head.

"I like to think that its character building, working with you."

"Right back at you."

"One Pizza, One Spicy!" an apron clad teen behind the counter called and Courtney jumped up to get our order.

"Yesssss," she moaned as she placed the tray between us. "Come to Daddy."

She eagerly cut the pie in half and grabbed the bigger slice off the tray but she fumbled with it on the way to her mouth. The pizza slipped out of her fingers and fell onto her chest, slipping down her white T-shirt and landing in her lap.

There was a small pause where I looked at Courtney's shocked face before we both burst out laughing. Courtney's head was thrown back as she erupted into a fit of giggles, her sauce covered hands still held up in the air. I bent over in my seat clutching my stomach and trying to stop the belly laughs that were escaping my lips. People were definitely staring at the pair of us.

"Ohhh - my - goddd," I got out between laughs as Courtney managed to lift the slice off of herself and dropped it back onto the plate. She wiped at her chest in vain, only smearing the sauce and cheese further across her shirt.

"You are having quite a day" I laughed, "first the water... now this."

"Oh and who's fault was that?" she shot back. She gave up trying to save her shirt and wiped her hands on a napkin. Then she picked the offending piece of pizza back up.

"You're going to eat that?" I asked her a little surprised, I assumed that she would just want to leave the restaurant and change. "We can take it to go you know."

"No. We came here to eat pizza and God Damn it that's what we're going to do!" she said with an overly determined expression on her slightly tomato sauce speckled face. She nodded towards my half of the pizza, "Ready frog legs?"

I shook my head her, "You are an absolute psycho Courtney Miller. And there's hardly any cheese even left on yours." but I grabbed my half of the pizza anyways. Something about her expression warmed my insides.

"Bottoms up" She sang, putting on her signature baby voice, and grinned at me over the pie before taking a large bite.