We're Just Friends. On Tour

4. Farmers Market

"Fuck you, David!" I hear Allison scream from down the hall. She's in a meeting with him and it doesn't sound like it's going too well. "This is totally bullshit! FUCK YOU!" She slams his office door shut and stomps away into the room Reece an I are in.

"Hey honey, what's David got you all worked up about?" Reece says in a comforting motherly manner.

"I'm not a slut." She days while sitting down with her head in her hands. "He's having the Sun or TMZ, maybe E! I don't remember, run a story about me saying I'm sleeping around with a bunch of other celebrities. I'm fucking tired of this! I wouldn't care so much if they weren't trying to slut shame me. At least make the articles woman empowering."

"Why should it even matter? It's your body and if you want to have sex you shouldn't be called a slut for it." Reece responds. She took the words right out of my mouth.

"I'm gonna fucking kill David! This is what? The third time he's done this? You're a fucking virgin and he's going around slut shaming you! This isn't high school!" I say angrily. I wish he had chosen me instead. I already have to fake relationships, I can fake constantly having sex with all of Hollywood.

"It's fine, I'm just overreacting."

"No you're not. You have every right to be angry, hun." Reece says comfortingly while rubbing her back.

"When does the story run?" I ask.

"At 5."

"We got a few hours. Purple Ivory should be here then. We can play some board games with them to keep you distracted and off social media." I suggest. Ally nods in response.

Purple Ivory have been here a lost the past week so we can become better friends with them before the tour starts and Allison gets really excited everytime they come over. Her and Melissa have gotten really close ever since they found out they share a love for terrible pickup lines. They also bonded over growing up in church and going to youth camps. They seem to find the words 'You're making purple!', 'I don't want to see any purple!' or just the word 'PURPLE!!' screamed very angrily, the most hilarious thing ever.

"Why don't we go fix up your makeup in the bathroom. Charlie, do you mind if we use some of your makeup wipes?" Reece says wiping away Ally's tears.

"Go ahead." She mouths 'thank you.' and her and Allison head off to the bathroom with Reece's makeup bag and my makeup wipes. I scrolled on my phone for a bit, then all of a sudden the door busts open and Tessa is standing there drenched in water.

"Would you like some human with that water?"

"I know I'm a few hours early but let me explain." She sounds like she's has 17 shots of espresso. She's talking so fast you'd think she's Jojo Siwa. "Ok, so there's a farmers market, did you know there's a farmers market? Anyway, I guess it's only open on Saturday, hence why it was open today, and I thought I'd go check it out. Then it started, OUT OF NOWHERE, pouring rain! So I ran inside of this cute little coffee shop and I thought I'd just wait it out but the rain didn't stop so I decided to just walk over here instead. Oh, and get this, I had THREE coffees. They had to cut me off." She didn't take a single breath.

"I'm going to pretend like my brain understood what you said."

"Hey, where's Reece and Allison?" She looks around the room confused.

"In the bathroom fixing Ally's makeup. David wasn't so nice today..."

"Oh..."

"Would you like a change of clothes? You're soaking."

"I would love a change of clothes, but do you guys have a wardrobe department here? I thought this was just a management building."

"No, but I all three of us keep a change of clothes in the closet over there just incase something happens." I say pointing to the closet behind Tessa. "Paisley even has a change of clothes." I walk over to the closet, open it, and hand Tessa my extra pair of clothes, which is just sweat pants and a hoodie.

"Thank you."

"It's not a problem." She starts to head towards the bathroom to change be then she walks back.

"It's a single stall." She says

"So?"

"Ally and and Reece are in there."

"Oh, right. Um... just get changed in here then."

"With you watching?!"

"It's not like I haven't seen boobs before."

"Yeah, but you haven't seen MY boobs!"

"Well, I didn't plan on staring at you while you got dressed."

"I know but... still..."

"Here," I turn around and face the wall. "I'll turn around. Is that better?"

"Yes, thank you."

"Ok, now hurry up. This wall is boring."

"Don't rush me." A few seconds go by.

"Are you done?"

"Hold on! Ok now you can turn around." She says. I turn around and she decides to model my clothes. "So, what do you thinks?"

"You look better in them than I do."

"Oh, shut up." She punches my shoulder and I start blushing. What's going on? Panic mode. Panic mode. Panic mode.

"Hey, Charlie, I left my highlighter in my other bag, can we borrow your- what are you doing here so early?" Reece says cracking the bathroom door open just a little.

"Farmers market. Rain. Coffee. Here." I answer for her. "Oh, and here's my highlighter." I grab it out of my bag and hand it to her.

"Thanks." She shuts the door and then not even a second later opens it again and sticks her head out. "Also, just in case you were wondering, I'm following one of Nikkie Tutorials' videos."

"I love Nikkie! Which one?" Tessa asks.

"Is that Tessa? Why is Tessa here?" I can very faintly hear Allison ask.

"Something about a Farmers Market." She answers Ally. "Her Jawbreaker look because that's the only palette I brought with me."

"I love that look! But it's very pink, are you sure it'll go with her outfit, Reece?" I ask.

"Nope. But like I said, it's the only palette I brought with me."

"I'm sure she'll look great. Don't listen to Charlotte, she's being a negative Nancy." Tessa then sticks her tongue out at me and I pretend to be offended.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are t-"

"God! You guys flirt like middle schoolers!" Reece says then pretend to gag. I can hear Ally pretending to throw up too.

"Thank you, but we were going for more of a 'freshmen thinking they are mature now that they are in high school, but they aren't because they were literally in middle three seconds ago' type of flirt." Tessa jokes while sitting down and getting comfortable on the couch. "Right Charlie?"

"Yeah... totally. Freshy flirting. Flirtatious freshman. That's what we were being." I decide to play it cool and also sit on the couch. My plan is not too close to her. Not too far apart either, I don't want it to look like I'm avoiding her. As I make my way over to bump into the coffee table.

"Charlie, are you ok? I can't tell if you're being odd or it's just the ungodly amount of caffeine in my system." Tessa asks.

"She's doing the thing." Reece not so subtly whispers to Ally.

"Oh my God, she totally is." They snicker and Reece shuts the bathroom door.