Partner Projects// l.h.

Chapter 9: Movie Night Manners

        When I walked into the media room Cal and Mikey had already monopolized the love seat and were sprawled out with their kickstands extended. Ashton was sitting alone on the couch, on his phone. With last nights red bandana back on his head. The only other place left to sit was on that couch. Next to him. Those two fucking sneaky bastards. Thank god it was a long couch. I sighed and tossed three bags of popcorn towards the two idiots. Then I went and sat criss crossed in the middle of the couch with Ashton on my left and handed my last bag of popcorn to him. With a muttered thanks Ashton went back to his phone.

        Then Luke walked in and I guess our 'glorious' movie night could begin. He handed one of the large silver bowls he brought in to Mikey and Cal, gave one to Ashton and kept one for himself. He was about to sit down when Mikey said, "Wait! You're the last one up so that means that you're obligated to shut off the lights. So go do it. God don't you know classic movie night manners." With an eye roll Luke got up and shut off the lights. As he was up I grabbed two more of the four bags out of Luke's bowl and gave one to Ashton. Then opened the other one I had grabbed and shook half of it into Ash's bowl and the other half into Luke's. I was all about being fair.

        Luke came back and sat closer to me than I was expecting. We still had several inches between us, but he wasn't tucked as far into the corner as he could get like Ashton was. The two boys on either side of me opened and poured the popcorn bags into their bowls. Then they each set said bowls between themselves and me, so that I could have some if I wanted too. I guess they did know their movie night manners. I glanced back over at Cal and Mikey only to find that Mikey was already carefully staring at the three of us. He really is more clever than I gave him credit for. Then he flashed me his devil may care grin and started the movie.

        Oh god. Someone help me. The movie he chose was fucking Twelve Nights in Paradise. One of the most overtly sexual movies of all time. And I was trapped between Ashton and Luke. Help. I incredulously looked back over at Michael who was silently shaking with laughter. I. Am. Going. To. Murder. Him. By the sixth sex scene I had just given up on being awkwardly uncomfortable and leaned against the couch. I reached to my right to get popcorn and my hand brushed Luke's. Nope. I quickly grabbed a small handful and brought my hand back to my lap. We were thirty minutes into it on the twelfth scene, I was counting, when I reached to my left to get more popcorn. And Ashton had reached at exactly the same time too. Our hands didn't just simply brush, they collided. After I untangled from his massively large fingers I darted my hand into the bowl and grabbed a handful. After this two for two incident I decided I didn't need anymore popcorn. I should've just kept that fucking bag I split between the two of them. Bad things happen to good people. 

         During a more, erm, intense scene my mouth suddenly got very dry so I leaned forward to grab one of drinks Ashton brought in off of Luke's coffee table. As I did this I felt my shirt ride up my back and I heard someone pull in air in through their teeth. The noise came from the right. I grabbed the stupid drink and decided I just wasn't going to move for the rest of this movie. That seemed like an excellent plan. Another hour later the damn thing was finally over. Or so I thought.

        After the credits started Michael sprung up and was in the process of swapping out the disks when I wearily asked, "Oh god Mikey. What movie did you chose now?" The dvd player had just taken the disk in when he said, "Oh relax. It's just The Wolf of Wall Street." "But that's like a three hour movie... Ugh. I need to stretch before we start this.. my legs feel cramped." I grumbled standing up and pulling my arms up above my head which caused me to loudly stretch-groan. Then I dropped them back down and swung around so that my back popped. And as I did this I noticed both Ashton and Luke were shifting in their seats a little. Then I leaned down and touched my toes. When I straightened up I took a deep breath and saw Michael laughing and Calum was smirking. Oh fuck. Now what?