A/N: Just a (really) short but sweet bit of fluff written as part of my now exceptionally old AU (Thank God For Mojo) - a conversation between Stella and Josh, just a few days after the original piece.
I wrote this around the same time as the rest of the stuff already up (Nov 2010), and just realised I typed it up a month ago and never published it. So here it is.
It makes me smile. Hopefully it makes you smile too.
Disclaimer: Well, does it even matter anymore? Just for fun.
"So what's up with you and Shannon?" Josh asked me as we traded stupid faces in the locker room before work.
"Wouldn't you like to know." I replied with a wink before making another silly face at him.
"I think I already do after that display in the locker room, you slut." She sneered playfully.
"Have you to thank actually, dickbutt."
"What?"
"If you hadn't told Leon about her celibacy, he wouldn't have brought it up and she wouldn't have blamed me for it." I explained vaguely.
"Right. Try adding a little mystery to your explanation next time, would ya? That was too easy." He shook his head at me, still in the dark.
"Shut up." I rolled my eyes. "Didn't Leon tell you what happened?"
"Yeah, he did, but not very eloquently. He got stuck somewhere around the part where you started macking on Shannon." Josh smirked at me.
"She put me in one of those spots you can only dig yourself deeper into. So instead of getting in the shit for your rumour spreading, I kissed her. It was quick and I only meant to prove Leon wrong, aside from a nice and easy opportunity to kiss her and get away with it…but the next day she suggested we keep playing games to mess with everyone's heads. Turned out she digs me." I smiled proudly.
"So now what, screwing her around like you did Michael?" Josh asked skeptically, and I knew he'd just clicked over from my fun big brother to Shannon's over-protective big brother.
"No. Now we're seeing how it goes. It's pretty intense actually. Getting serious pretty quickly." I shook my head to assure him. "Besides, Shannon wouldn't put up with that shit. Michael is weak as piss. I think that's why I used him." I muttered unhappily.
Josh watched me carefully as I sorted through my locker and found my wallet.
"You'll be good for each other." He said finally.
"Yeah, right." I snorted in amusement.
"No, really. She'll sort you out and get you back on track." He replied humourlessly. Then he cracked a big smile, "And you'll help her pull that stick out of her arse."
He laughed heartily at his own observation while I grinned back at him. My smile leant more towards being happy for his 'approval' than at his apparently hilarious one liner.
"Careful, that's my girlfriend you're talking about there, fairy." I replied with a smirk.
As we left the room on our way out to TR2, Josh slung his arm around my shoulder and called me a mug.
Things were good.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to let me know what you think. Thanks for reading, I appreciate you.