Fire Alarm // Luke Hemmings AU

Chapitre quatre. I Wonder

Following Shannon to the kitchen, I take a seat on one of the bar stools. It was one of those chairs that spun around, so that's what I did momentarily while Shannon rummages threw the drawers.

She takes out some silver looking eating utensils, before pulling out a cake from one of the lower cabinets.

"Here I also bought cake just for your arrival." she says laying it on the table counter. As if I was a ten year old at their own birthday party. I let out a small squeal and make grabby hands at the vanilla icing cake covered with fruit, and sliced almonds on the edges.

"Yes, I'm cake af"

She looks at me as if something was wrong with me, but nevertheless had a small grin on her face.

She hands me a fork and slowly pushes the cake to my direction with caution."Me too, but don't talk like your on tumblr please. Have some decency."

I already had a bite of the cake in my mouth, so I just reply with a pouty face and shrug my shoulders.

"You need a drink?"

"Milk would be wonderful." I reply after swallowing my first bite.

She shuffles towards the fridge opening it up, and takes out a carton of milk. She reads the label, and unscrews the knob.

"All we have at the moment is skim milk.. Devin said we had regular milk, but I guess not..."

"Ugh, the only think I hate more than lying is skim milk."

"...Which is water. Lying about being milk."

She rolls her eyes before pouring a glass "Don't go all Ron Swanson on me, is it fine?"

"I guess, god." I groan. She narrows her eyes at me in a playful manner, and hands me the glass taking a seat next to me.

Before I knew it, we were up to our old tricks. Talking on and on like we always did. We smiled and laughed and felt joy at all the same things. Spending this time together, we could forget all our troubles for a while.

"Boy" Shannon says wolfing her final piece down, "i'm going to eat one of these at least every day".

"Don't do that, you'll get fat and die."

"Well that escalated quickly, and maybe I got a death wish hun." I stop in the midst of eating and stare at her intently, but she laughs it off, "kiddin, I'm kidding." swallowing my food, I roll my eyes.

I never knew if I should be taking her seriously by the things she says.

After we finished eating, she places the dishes in the dishwater. Shannon then turns around with a sudden staid expression on her face.

"Listen, not to damper the mood or anything, but I need to get this off my chest." She wipes off the crumbs that have resided on her chest while she was eating, and ponders for a moment.

"First of all that's not I what I needed to get of my chest. It was, but not-"

I chuckle, " -I assumed it wasn't, please continue."

Laying her body against the counter top, and her hands grabbing the edge of it tightly she sighs.

"Ok, so your probably wondering why I suddenly moved in with Devin, and I know you tried your best not to cuss him out when he answered the door."

"You could say that." I take the final sip of my milk before wiping away the milk moustache I had with my jackets sleeve.

"I'm going to admit and say the only reason why I did was..was because I needed a better place to stay, you know? I hated that place I really did, but I also hated bothering you with my presence whenever I didn't feel safe there."