Tic-Toc

Chapter 12

I woke up before Riley, that was quite a surprise. She's usually an early bird. She must have had a long night last night. I walk into her room to go gently wake her up. As soon as I open the door I see two people in the bed. One of those people happen to be Riley but the other was Flynn. I wasn't very surprised. However, what surprised me is she almost naked. I've scene her get drunk and try to strip so again not seeing anything new. It was just a lot for my pre-coffee brain to take in. Like any normal person would react I pushed Flynn off the bed and proceeded to gently wake up Riley for school. As soon as Flynn hit the ground it was quite a loud thump, she shot up and saw me, she had to look again to see if I was really standing there. I heard Flynn groan on the ground, but I ignored it.

I pointed at the door, "School," I said in the most odd way possible. I even extra pointed at the door to further my point.

With that I slowly retreated out of her room. I hurried to get ready. Today I was driving Riley and Blake to school. Flynn is picked her up from class, so then it'll just be me and Blake. Once I was showered and clothed I went to go see if Riley was ready. Before I went in I knocked on the door.

"Come in"

I walked in and Riley was ready. I motion towards the door like a caveman and she seemed to understand what I meant. We left the apartment and arrived at Blake ten minutes early then we thought we would get there. I was not in a good mood. I just wanted to have something to eat and then to go back to sleep, but I actually had shit to do today. So that plan was a no-go. We got to his apartment and I just started to relentlessly pound on his door. He answered in just a towel.

"Well someone looks like a happy camper this morning, who pissed in your cheerios?"

"I will punch you in the balls."

"God, not my children, I need those." He then wisely steps aside so I can go lay on his couch.

I hear Blake whispering to Riley.

"Less whisper more getting ready." I shout to them

He practically ran to his room. After five minutes he came out looking nice. I walked over to him and just hugged him.

"You smell nice," I had tight lipped smile on my face, "You're also warm."

Blake let out a chuckle and just rubbed my back.

"Come on people we have to go." Riley opens the door and starts to walk out.

After loading up and grabbing starbucks we get to class surprisingly on time. After a pretty interesting three hours its time to go. I say my good-byes to Riley and walk to my car. Blake follows.

"Hey want to just come with me today? I'll just be working out and then going to work. We can do something afterwards."

"Of course, today will be fun."

We both head to the gym, turns out Blake works out there too. Thankfully, he had a locker with workout clothes. My mood improved significantly after starbucks. I no longer wanted to punch as many people as I did before. I decided to go on an elliptical machine while Blake went on a treadmill. We were only there for thirty minutes so it was just a quick cardio work out for both of us. I needed to go to work and we both needed to shower, so we speed back to the apartment at the speed of light. Once were back I take a record breaking shower. Only 4 minutes. Then Blake does the same and I have 7 minutes to get to work. Since its normally a 15 minute walk I could make it into a 7 minute jog. Blake had no problem keeping up with my pace. Once I got there I hurried to get my apron on and behind the counter. Today wasn't a bad day. It was only for 3 hours and like usual Marcel was there. I got started right away filling orders, after around 30 minutes it started to slow down. I went over to check on Blake. The was a convenient bar-like section where we make the drinks. Few people usually sit there, but today Blake was planted there typing away on his MacBook. I walk over and lean over just far enough to kiss him on the cheek. He looked up and smiled. I made him a latte and just placed it next to him. He noticed me doing so and said thank you. He got up and walked to the cashier to go pay but I told her not to let him pay for it. He sulked and went to go sit back down.

While I was making the next order I look at him and say, "Thank you for coming, I'll keep the coffee coming, it's on the house."

I quickly finish the order and call out the name. Marcel runs over and whispers to me " Is that Blake!? He's a cutie."

"Yes, want me to see if we can all do a big dinner with us and a couple more friends?"

"Oui, belle!!"

I chuckle and continued to make coffee and check up on Blake til the end of my shift. Once three rolled around I dragged Blake out of there, not before telling Marcel I'd text him later.

"Blake I have an idea of what we can do tonight!"

"What might that be?"

"Lets go to dinner or the bar with some friends."

"Who would we be going with?"

"We should go with Riley, Rose, Marcel, maybe Flynn. If you'd like you could ask Andrés to come to catch up with him," I took a quick breath, "ooh you can ask Jesse too!"

"That sounds like fun, but why don't we get fast food and just all hang out at my place. I cleaned yesterday and it's surprisingly still clean. I'll just have to ask if Jesse minds people being over. Let me text him."

We started walking in central park just to relax. Soon I heard his phone beep.

"Jesse said it's fine if we have people over, he also asked where are we getting the food from because he could go pick it up."

"What about tacobell? I haven't eaten there in awhile. Just tell him to get a shit ton of tacos," I pause and think for a moment, "ooh, and get a grilled stuffed steak burrito."

"I will."

"You should probably text Andrés too."

He nods and starts typing away on his phone.

I send out all my texts and everyone is on board and will be there at around 7:00pm. Not everyone has met each other, so I'm excited to see how that goes. I'm also really excited to introduce Marcel to Blake. After a couple minutes of me staring off to space and thinking Blake speaks.

"Is it okay if Andrés brings his boyfriend?"

Authors Note: I wrote all of this 4 weeks ago the night before one of my finals. I just thought y'all should know that. Ye-haw