Chapter 4
The ride with Britta was kinda quiet the music playing currently was Vampire Weekend's Ya Hey, Britta liked the reggae influence in this song as she was bopping up and down to it while Emilio sat beside the blonde unsure of what to make of the lack of rhythm in her car dancing.
"Oh, sweet thing
Zion doesn't love you
And Babylon don't love you
But you love everything
Oh, you saint
America don't love you
So I could never love you
In spite of everything"
As they were heading to his apartment, the young man looked the city streets as Ezra Koenig was singing about the "Motherland not loving you" he was still worried about Jeff he sent out three texts asking if he was okay, with no response he hoped he was okay. Britta saw the concern in his face.
"Jeff's okay, he's probably at his apartment right now sitting in the dark drinking scotch looking at pictures of him and Annie."
"Are you sure? I've never seen anybody take a rejection like that before he seemed tore up I just hope the man is okay after that."
"He will be, but I have a plan to get them together and I need your help."
"What is it? Lay it on me."
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25 minutes later
Britta had laid out the plan to Emilio on the ride over.
"So what we do is we convince Annie that she should get together with Jeff just for at least one date, Abed will videotape them showing how perfect they are together and next thing you know we'll be seeing them makeout saying 'awwwwwwwwww'"
"How do we convince her if she doesn't want a relationship right now?"
"Simple, we get them together by making it seem like there's a huge sale or something at their favorite stores."
"That could work, but maybe needs some tweaking in certain areas much like convincing Annie or Jeff."
"Leave that to me and Shirley, you and Abed will somehow convince Jeff that it's important to go out just for the hell of it where Annie will also be 'convinced' then voila they date, fall in love whatever happens they'll thank us for it."
"Not bad though I'm not sure it's completely foolproof, but we'll talk about this later cool?"
"Yeah you just take care of Jeff it's pretty rare that he gets like this so my advice is simply to be there for him"
"Aight, well I guess this is my stop, talk soon"
When he got to his apartment Emilio changed into some sweatpants and a black t-shirt as he was finished changing, there was a knock at his door, though it was more of sloppy, drunken pound than anything.
"This should be fun or incredibly disturbing, probably the latter."
"It's Jeff, Letmeinpleasei'mreallydrunk and I need your super wizard mind to help me." He hiccupped through most of his sentence.
"I'm coming just wait man" he opened his door and there was Jeff with a bottle of whiskey in his right hand and a picture of him and Annie from two years ago.
"Yup incredibly disturbing" Emilio thought as Jeff sauntered into his apartment, as he sat down on Emilio's leather couch shedding tears saying "it's over, it's over now nobody will love me." That's when Emilio started to text the rest of the group (not including Annie seeing as she was the one who rejected Jeff.)
Emilio: Jeff's in my apartment drunk (and crying) what do I do?
Shirley: First of all God bless you for taking him in at his most worst, second of all I can't help you there sorry…
Abed: The cliché "come to the cool friend because you're drunk and need romantic advice while crying act" my suggestion nod and say yes while at the very end say something incredibly insightful that won't make himself feel sorry anymore.
Britta: I honestly have no clue what to say how sad is he?
Emilio: Pretty frickin' sad has had probably at least two bottles of whiskey judging by his breath and has a picture of him and Annie…wait a damn minute this fool is re-arranging my music collection BRB I might have to knock some sense into this dude…
"Jeff WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY COLLECTION!?" Emilio yelled as Jeff was taking out his vinyl, cassettes and discs and placing them all across the living room.
"I just, just, just wanted t-to see your collection you are so young, but so cool you remind me of me when I was your age don'tevergrowup." At this point he sounded like a teenager stammering after having his first shot of Jagermister.
"I've only known you for about two days, so I don't think we-"he saw Jeff getting pale asking "you need to vomit?" he nodded to his younger compatriot, "it's in the bedroom" he pointed as Jeff spilled his guts out in his toilet.
Emilio: Back, after I got mad at him he started talking about never growing up, how I reminded him of when he was my age etc. and looked like he was gonna puke so I pointed him to my bedroom, currently vomiting as we speak…..
Abed: Cool, cool, cool
Shirley: Looks like you have a long night; I pray you can help him through this evening because he's going to need your patience and kindness.
Britta: ^^^^What Shirley said, and all you need is a little patience.
Emilio: GNR reference?
Britta: No, is it? IDK it's been a long day hope 4 the best might call a few people to help you out.
Emilio: K, Thanx
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30 Minutes later
Jeff was lying on Emilio's couch humming "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" as Emilio made some coffee that's when he heard a knock at his door and what he got was Ben Chang, Ian Duncan and Buzz Hickey…
"I assume you're Winger's new buddy correct?" The older of the three said, Emilio nodded
"Yeah, I assume you're Buzz, the short one with the eyes of a psychopath is Chang and the dude wearing the sweater-vest is Duncan correct?" Each man nodded as Emilio showed them through the door.
"I must say I enjoy your whole late 90's ambience in here, looks like the place of someone who isn't quite ready to grow….erm I mean someone living in their time."Duncan said trying to give backhanded compliment only to realize this young man could probably kick his ass.
"Whatever where's Winger?" Chang said as he was entering the apartment to also add "I wanna put this up on Facebook."
"Do that and I'll knock you out Chang." As Buzz gave Chang a mean look indicating not to do what he had planned.
"He's on my couch drunk, but not too drunk." Emilio pointed to his couch where the ex-lawyer was on his back humming and looking at the picture.
"So exactly why is he drunk?" Duncan asked inquisitively
"Annie rejected him, after he admitted how he felt for her talking about being trapped in Borchert's Lab whatever the hell that means." To which the three men filled in the blanks for him about what happened the week earlier which enlightened him even further to this situation.
"Alright so that means, Jeff thought about the person most important to him, that being Annie right?" Emilio asked to make certain.
"I'm right here you know that and I can hear you guys right?" said the less drunken Jeff (but still pretty tipsy) who was pulling out his phone.
"What are you doing Jeff?" Emilio asked his friend
"Calling Annie, and asking if we can talk because I love her and get her to see we're great for each other." As Jeff explained it like it was simple enough for him to do.
"You sure about that dude I mean are you really sure? Seems like you're still drunk"
"No I'm snot, I'm sober enough to not make an ass of myself and I just said snot" as he proceeded to laugh childishly at the word snot.
"Give me the phone Jeff."
"No."
"Give him the phone Winger." As Buzz joined in
"No, I'm going to do this and you can't stop me because you're not my mom." All four men looked at each other after he said that.
"C'moooooooooon Jeff I just want to go home and drink, so if you could kindly please give us your bloody phone so we can go on our merry way." Duncan said clearly not caring about the situation at hand.
"I'm just gonna sit and watch, this is too fun." Chang said as he grabbed a cup to pour some coffee in
"DON'T touch that coffee unless you're gonna help otherwise, sit your five dollar ass down before I make change, you understand?" Emilio said as Chang nodded and decided to pitch a thought.
"How about you text her and we all watch what you say." Chang threw out his idea which got a negative reaction from Duncan.
"That is single-handedly the worst idea you've come up with, I swear if you said something stupider I'm pretty sure it'd be better than that."
"Like you have anything to say, that'll help." Chang hit right back
It was after that an argument broke out between the two while Buzz and Emilio tried to intervene that's when Jeff saw his chance.
Jeff: Can we talk?
Annie: I think now's not the right time Jeff…..
Jeff: Please
Annie: No I got a text from Britta she told me you're drunk.
Jeff: That's when people are most honest ;)
Annie: No, go to sleep Jeff we'll talk about this when you're not drunk.
Jeff: Pleeeeeeeeeeeze
Annie: No
Jeff: I'll do anything, please can we talk? I'll buy you an Appletini
Annie: NO Jeff, I'm done we'll talk about it when things are less weird…..
Jeff: Please
While the arguing was going on, Jeff had gotten up from the couch and went walking to Emilio's bedroom slamming the door. Hearing the sounds of sniffled cries Emilio saw that Jeff had left his phone on the armrest, as he saw the texts all he could say was.
"Damn it, I better go talk to him you three can stay if you want to otherwise get the hell out."
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Meanwhile…..at Casa De AnnBed
Annie was at the front of her bed wondering if she was too harsh with Jeff, but understood that it was for the best if she stood her ground. That's when she heard a knock it was Abed and Rachel.
"He cares about you a lot." Abed spoke up first straight to the point
"I just can't right now, it's better that me and Jeff remain friends."
"Are you sure? I've seen how you two have looked at each other; I'd say that's more of an excuse than anything." Rachel added in her two cents with Abed agreeing.
"It's not an excuse, and why are you two so judgmental all of a sudden?"
"We're not; we're just stating what we see; now if you need anything we'll be at the movies." Abed left with Rachel before closing Annie's door on the way out.
And with that the couple left to go watch a movie as Annie was alone in her room thinking about what they said.
"I guess I'm the bad guy now."
That's the end of Chapter 4 and wow it seriously came out different than what was in my head, but I hope you enjoyed it and please let me know if some characters are a little bit OOC any comment or criticism is greatly appreciated….