Deal With It ✓

Seven: Demons

Song: Good News // Mac Miller

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Nick and I met at a record shop. I was collecting all of the Arctic Monkey's vinyl records so that I could hang the covers on the wall that held my window which was already half full of other artist's albums. Nick, however, was trying to hide from a date that didn't live up to his expectations. Apparently, she'd asked him very personal questions that creeped him out of his skin and he didn't think he could be around her anymore, but when he tried to end the date, he thought he'd come face to face with the devil.

Naturally, he resorted to lying flat on the floor of the aisle that held rock music given she hated the genre and he knew that there was no way she would go looking for him over there. I shot him a curious glance once I found him sprawled on the floor under the Arctic Monkey's records. He responded by giving me a pleading look, placing his finger above his puckered lips when he heard the obnoxious clicking of heels accompanied by the sound of a screeching girl.

I nodded in response and lifted my head up to be met with a head of red hair whose eyes looked like they were gonna set this entire place on fire. When she met my gaze, she sent me a deadly glare and asked if I had seen what looked like 'a pathetic excuse for a man' anywhere in the store. My eyes flickered to my feet where the poor guy was now in a fetus position, and I shook my head, telling her that I think I saw them sneak out. She whipped her head towards the front door and sprinted out the store and I thought her neck would snap when she aggressively moved her head from left to right trying to locate the guy.

"Alright man, the coast is clear," I informed him, lightly poking him in the stomach with my foot. 

He sprung up from the floor and scanned the store to make sure the she-devil wouldn't return, when he was convinced he'd lost her, he turned to me and pulled me into a hug, "Thank you, man. I thought that I was going to die today."

I awkwardly patted him on the back, uncomfortable with the thought that a stranger was hugging me, but I let out a small chuckle at how terrified he was of the woman, "It's alright," I told him, picking up the Suck It and See album to inspect it.

He later asked me if I wanted to go to a McDonald's and when I pointed out that I already had lunch, he said that it doesn't matter and that my mind would 'unconsciously make room in my stomach for their burgers'. I had nothing better to do, so I agreed to go with him after I checked out the vinyl records at the cashier. 

Over lunch, we had bonded over our similar taste in music and the immense annoyance we felt whenever we were around our younger siblings, his brother was around the same age as Amber, maybe a year older. We then learned that we attended the same college, but we never bumped into each other because while he was there studying business, I was majoring in music and composition, a major Nick didn't know even existed.

After that day, we had grown really close to each other, however, once he accepted a job out of the country when we graduated, we had lost contact with each other and neither of us bothered contacting the other.

Until the day of my birthday.

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When I told Amber that I was planning on going out with Nick, which meant that she'd have to be on her own, she was more than ecstatic to see me leave the front door. I was really suspicious if I'm being honest given that she'd admitted to me that she hated being at the house on her own, but for once in what felt like a lifetime, I was very excited to leave the house, so I didn't think twice about her behavior.