𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 AWSTEN KNIGHT | on hold

four

iv. ONE TOO MANY AWKWARD SITUATIONS

saturday, december 12th

"SO HOW IS THIS GONNA WORK?" Cassidy Pine asked, her hands on her hips.

  West held up seven fingers. "Rosie, Herc, Rora, and I will stay in our rooms," he explained and put four fingers down as he listed off the names. "Awsten...we'll get the air mattress out for you." Another finger down. "Cass, V, one of you can sleep on this couch,—" Another finger. "—and the other can sleep..." he trailed off.

  "Where are your mattresses?" Herc asked from the couch, scrolling through his phone.

  "Lost on a moving truck," Venus explained.

  "Convenient," he rolled his eyes.

  "It's a pullout couch, remember?" Aurora reminded her roommates. "You guys can both sleep on the couch...If you're okay with that, of course."

  The girls shrugged. "Yeah, that's fine I guess."

  West put down the last finger. "Perfect!"

  This was going to be a long (and crowded) two weeks.

They ordered dinner that night, and Awsten paid.

  "I can go pick it up," Rosie offered. She wanted to get out of this house, and this was the perfect opportunity.

  "I'll come with," Herc suggested. He wanted to get out too. His sister staying at his house for two weeks was bad enough, but her best friend was going to be staying with them. Maybe it was a good thing he spent barely any time at home.

  "Cool." Rosie paused. "Awsten, when's it gonna be ready?"

  "Uh, like 15 minutes," he read off his phone.

  "Great, Rosie, you wanna go now?" Herc asked.

  "Yes."

  They sat in the driveway for 15 minutes.

  "What happened to you two?" Herc asked her. "You and Awsten, I mean."

  "Yeah, I know who you're talking about," she sighed. "We just...don't like being around each other anymore. I don't know. One too many awkward situations. It just kind of ruined our friendship."

  "Which is funny, because 'your friendship' is the whole reason he's here," he said with air quotes. "Thank you. For introducing us to them. I don't think I've said that enough."

  Rosie went quiet in the driver's seat as he continued. "I know you two may not be the best of friends, but Otto, Travis, and Jawn...Geoff, all those guys, I don't know where we'd all be without them. Don't know where they'd be without us."

  "Yeah, whatever, Herc," she said softly, pulling out of the driveway. "As I said, we had one too many awkward situations. Can't really go back from there."

  "He bought you dinner, Rose. I'm sure he can't hate you too much."

  "He bought us dinner," she corrected. "All seven of us. Plus he's rich, it's kind of a given he's gonna buy our food. Especially considering we're letting him stay at our place. It doesn't mean anything, he's just being polite."

  "I miss 2012 Rosie."

  "Yeah, no kidding."

  Sitting in the parking lot, waiting for their food, they didn't say anything. The only sound in the car coming from Rosie's speakers.

  Aurora's "ABBA Gold" CD was still in the player, and neither of them even knew the name of the song that was playing.

  Rosie turned it off. "I can't fucking stand ABBA."

  "Says the girl who watched Mamma Mia! on repeat like two months ago," Herc retorted, staring straight ahead out the windshield.

  "That was different, I was on my period."

  "Whatever you say."

  They got their food, and drove home. Everyone was waiting for them, the five of them crammed onto the couch.

  They ordered from the local sandwich joint. It was a restaurant that they always enjoyed ordering from. Rosie and Herc's regulars were grilled cheese sandwiches, and West's was a meatball sub. Aurora's order changed up a lot, she enjoyed almost anything off their menu.

  "So what movie are we watching?" Herc asked, sitting down on the couch with his dinner before it got too full.

  "Mamma Mia!," Aurora answered.

  "No," Rosie and Awsten said at the same time.

  They eventually settled on Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Aurora didn't argue considering it was one of Paul Rudd's best movies in her and Rosie's opinion.

  After dinner and the movie, they began to set up the pullout couch for Cass and Venus.

  "It's so early though." Cass held up her phone to display the time. It was early.

  "Yeah, but there's also seven of us," Aurora shot back. "A little extra room on the couch wouldn't hurt."

  They watched Seven next. Mostly because it scared the hell out of West.

  And by the time it was done, they were all pretty tired from today and decided to call it a night.

  "Here, Awsten, let's go get the air mattress," Herc said, pointing towards the closet. He got up and stretched and Awsten did the same, trailing after his friend.

  Herc opened the closet door and pulled the air mattress off the shelf. But when he and Awsten unfolded it, he let out a sigh. "Rosie," he said, "you might wanna come see this."

  She got up to see what could possibly be keeping them from blowing the air mattress up. And when she saw it, "Fuck," she cursed.

  Right in the center was a big hole. That would definitely be a problem.

  It took her a second to realize why Herc had called specifically her over there though. And when she realized it...

  "What do you think one more awkward situation would do to you?" Herc asked her.

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