The Payback or The Adventures and Pranks of Zachary O'Connor

Chapter Ten: The Inevitable Dodging of the Inevitable

I quickly texted Anti on New Year's Day.

ME-> hello

ANTI-> i am so friggin hungover man. lemme go back to sleep

ME-> you're not hungover

ANTI-> what're you talking about? i was utterly out of it last night

ME-> no you weren't

ANTI-> uh huh

ME-> nuh uh

ANTI-> what makes you say that?

ME-> cuz you were acting drunk to make reagan laugh

ANTI-> damn, it was that easy to figure out?

ME-> as far as i know, i'm the only one that knows

ANTI-> well, the thing is, gabby already texted me and accused me of the exact same thing

ME-> haha nice

ANTI-> this does not change the fact that reagan totally made out with me last night

ME-> no, i suppose it doesn't

ANTI-> wow man

ME-> ik man

ANTI-> it's crazy man

ME-> ik man

ANTI-> fr man

ME-> gj man

ANTI-> i think we get the point man

ME-> i believe so man

There was a pause.

ME-> that was weird man

ANTI-> wow man

ANTI-> really man

ANTI-> good job man

ME-> ok that's enough man

ANTI-> keep it going or surrender man

ME-> i surrender dude

ANTI-> ok dude

Then, I brought up something to the rest of the group excluding Reagan. It was something we had been dodging thinking about for a while.

ME-> hullo

JOHN-> hi

MEGHAN-> hey

GABBY-> hi

ANTI-> why no reagan?

ME-> well, i'm about to explain that

GABBY-> this is clearly about the fact that if we want the money we have to get revenge on reagan

MEGHAN-> oh shit

ME-> yeah

ANTI-> not an option

JOHN-> yep, definitely not

ME-> well, then do we tell laurel that we can't get revenge on her and ask about payment from that point?

JOHN-> it doesn't particularly matter to me cuz i wasn't gonna be getting any money anyway, but i would hope at this point it's about more than money to you guys