Everything Will Be Alright ↠ Henjei [ COMPLETED ]

"What Number Is That?" Pt. 17

- Saturday, 15 minutes into the reunion

    I had been at this party for 15 minutes and the whole time had been catching up with Julie, the director of SKAM. We talked about how the past year had been since we stopped filming, and what cast members we stayed in contact with.

    She even asked about Henrik, I obviously wasn't going to tell her about the last month because that's just... weird, so instead, I said there had been a couple times we caught up but that was it, no description.

    After that conversation, I found myself in the kitchen, beer in my hand as I leaned against the kitchen counter and Lisa, who played Eva was walking up to me.

    "Hey, Tarjei! It's so nice to see you again." Lisa beamed and wrapped her arms around my neck.

    "There you are!" I replied and smiled, engulfing her in a tight hug. "Look, the OG bestfriends have been reunited."

    We both laughed and she pulled back to look at me. "Yes, Eva and Isak!"

     "It's crazy..." I started, my eyes scanning around the room, "seeing everyone together in one place again, well, mostly everyone."

    She sighed softly and followed my gaze, "I know, brings back so many memories, huh?"

    I nodded and let out a light chuckle, "Yeah. So many." I took a sip of my beer.

    She hummed and drank some of her own beer as well. A comfortable silence filled between us as we watched tons of people from the set of SKAM greeting each other, hugging, laughing, etcetera.

     "Oh my God, yes!" Lisa squealed, setting her drink down and hurrying over to someone.

     I couldn't make out who it was because she stood in front of them, but the second she turned around- my heart dropped.

    Once my eyes landed on Henrik, I immediately looked down. I knew we were going to have this awkward interaction at some point of the day, it's not like I could just avoid him forever- but i wasn't prepared!

    I knew he was staring at me. I could feel it.

    "Tarjei!" Lisa exclaimed and I could hear her footsteps getting closer along with someone else's. I looked up, meeting Henrik's eyes. "Your on-screen boyfriend is here, Evak is together again!"

    I forced a smile, "Hey, uh- Henrik, how are you?"

    He smiled back, no sign of awkwardness or hesitation- he acted like everything was completely normal. "Good, and you?"

    "Good..."

    Lisa looked back and forth at us weirdly, then placed her hand behind both of our backs and pushed us together. "What are you guys doing? Hug!"

    I laughed nervously and snaked my arms around Henrik's torso. To my surprise, he hugged me back tightly. It probably would've the best hug we've had if it wasn't for the circumstances.

    I took in his scent while I could. Geez, I didn't realize how much I had missed it until I got it again. It was like a drug, but it didn't last very long.

    My whole body was stiff and I genuinely didn't know what to say once we pulled back.

    "I know it's been awhile but you two need to stop being so shy- it's not like you guys are strangers!" Lisa teased with an oblivious grin on her face. "I'll leave you two to it."

    I wish she hadn't left. Now I was stuck in this uncomfortable situation with Henrik and had no clue what to do. I sucked in a sharp breath and looked off into the distance, avoiding eye contact and any interaction with him at all.

    "What number is that?" He asked as I downed part of my beer.

    "Huh?"

    "Your beer. What number is that?"

    I knitted my eyebrows together in confusion and looked down at the bottle, trying to figure out what he meant. Once it hit me, I felt like an idiot. "Oh."

    He raised his eyebrows at me, a small smirk on his lips.

    "My first." I replied bluntly, not in the mood to get into a conversation with him at the moment.

    There was no doubt about the fact that I was annoyed with him.

    "Look, Tarjei-"

    Henrik was cut off when a female voice spoke up over the crowd, "There you are babe!"

    My eyes darted up to the woman, and just to make this whole thing even better- there stood Lea, eyeing both of us in a questioning way; but that expression was soon replaced with a happy one, an obviously fake one, might I add.

    Seriously? He just had to bring Lea? This is a SKAM cast reunion party, not a SKAM cast and Henrik's girlfriend party.

    "Hey, Tarjei..." she said and flashed an awkward smile. I barely put my hand up as a small wave in response, not bothering to say anything. "Um, Henrik- i was just gonna ask if you wanted to dance, but if you're busy-"

    "No, I'm not busy." He replied and I looked to the opposite side of where they were standing to roll my eyes.

    I heard them shuffle away, not even bothering to say goodbye, I could care less.

    The rest of the night went on like that. Drinks after drinks, small talk with the former cast, the whole thing was pretty chill. Even though I was with a crowd of people, I felt pretty lonely. That was, until Marlon, David and Sacha showed up out of nowhere.

    I finally felt comfortable for the first time all night, these guys were my friends in and outside of SKAM.

    "A reunion party almost 2 years later. Who would've thought?" David, who played Magnus on the show said as he stared off into space while drinking his beer.

    "It was kinda random if you ask me." Marlon, who played Jonah replied. "But I'm glad they did it."

    I drank a small portion of my beer as I listened in on the conversation. I didn't say much, I didn't really know what to say, but I laughed at the things they said and made a few comments here and there. I didn't mind though- in fact, I was finally enjoying myself tonight.

    I hoped to keep it that way.