Chapter 20

23 0 0
                                    

Cooper and I spent the whole day Saturday walking around the Air and Space Museum. He bought me a little astronaut key chain and I hooked it on my dorm room key.

By the time we got back, it was already 6:30pm and Pippa stopped in to get some shoes for yet again another party.

"Again?" Cooper asked when he saw the bottle of whisky in her hand.

Pippa grinned, her hangover (which I'm sure was a killer after the amount of games of beer pong she participated in) completely passed despite her make up still being smudged from last night."

"You know it!" She announced, sliding on a pair of thick black boots that stretched up to her knees. "Do you guys wanna join?"

"NO!" I shouted back immediately. I was not walking into another party with Cooper on my arm, not after all the drama last night.

"Yeah, I'm feeling a chill night in." Cooper agreed. "Plus, my flight is early tomorrow and I don't want to be hungover."

Pippa nodded reluctantly, the concept of a "chill night in" foreign to her. She left a moment later, closing the door leaving Cooper and I alone.

"Movie night?" I asked.

"Only if I get to pick the movie!" Cooper called out as he squished in beside me on my bed.

I handed Cooper the laptop and he opened Netflix right away, clicking onto the comedy genre.

"Can we just watch "It"?" I suggested. "I think they have the original."

"No way!" He exclaimed. "This is the first movie night we've had since you left, I want a chance to enjoy it."

I slapped his arm. "You didn't enjoy the museum?"

"I enjoyed the burgers at the cafe outside of the museum." He admitted, I glared at him. I had the time of my life at that museum. "I enjoyed how much you enjoyed it." He corrected.

Cooper picked out a movie made in the 80's I didn't know, and I snuggled up next to him as I watched. He wrapped his arm around me, and I was hit with a new wave of homesickness. I didn't have a friend here that was like Cooper. If I wanted to cuddle up next to someone and watch a movie while slowly falling asleep because that movie is boring, I didn't have anyone to turn to.

Finding AmityWhere stories live. Discover now