Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Community.
A/N: I'm so sorry about not posting! I lost inspiration for this fic, but not to worry it's back now that I have a solid ending in mind ;) Anyway thanks for sticking with me! Reviews are welcome. Thanks guys :)
Chapter 7: Roxanne
Annie woke up with Jeff practically attached on her back. She groaned and sat up cracking her stiff neck. She looked around her bedroom and her eye went straight to the mess of Jeff's things in the corner of her room. She sighed and checked her phone for any messages or phone calls-
Wait did it say 11:53?
Shit.
"Jeff wake up!"
Jeff groaned at Annie shaking him by the shoulders.
"Jeff!" She shook him a little harder until he woke up.
"Mmhm?"
"Jeff it's almost noon! You have to be out of here!"
"Well good morning to you too Annie," he slurred.
"Jeff! Abed said he would be home from his dads at noon…"
"Oh."
"Yeah 'oh'! Jeff you need to go!" She practically rolled him out of bed. "We agreed to tell them all at the same time! I don't want Abed to find out about us like this!" Jeff could sense the obvious panic in his girlfriend's voice.
"Annie, babe. Calm down," he said while putting on some clothes from his abnormally huge bag packed for way more than four nights. "I'm going to get as much down to my car at once and I'll see you back here for the group dinner tonight okay?"
"Okay," Annie said putting on a fuzzy house robe, "you got it?"
"Yeah, I think that's all," he said while he mounted his duffel bag on his shoulder. "Bye babe," he planted a kiss on her cheek while she stood by the door holding her robe up at her chest.
"See you at seven!"
Phew. Jeff was out of the apartment. Annie walked back to her bedroom to tidy things up and get ready for the day. Abed came home while she was in the shower and getting ready to run to the grocery store to buy some cooking items for tonight's monthly group dinner. As she was about to wash her hair she realized she was out of shampoo, so she used what Jeff had accidently left behind.
"Hey Abed how was your dad's birthday?"
"It was fun, what did you do while I was gone?"
Slept with Jeff. Showered with Jeff. Made out on every piece of furniture in this apartment with Jeff.
"Nothing much," she lied, "but the termite guy came for the fourth time," this however was not a lie.
"Really?" Abed asked surprised.
"Yeah, we're going to be kicked out of our apartment on October first so they do the 'getting rid of termite' routine, which worked so well."
Abed sighed, "This is the fourth time."
"I know," Annie replied, "you know Abed I was thinking, if you're okay with it, I was thinking about finding a new place to live."
"Me too, actually my dad wants me at home."
"Really?"
"Yeah, his wife is pregnant."
"Abed! That's fantastic news! You're going to be a big brother, or a big half brother!" Annie shirked as she wrapped Abed in a hug.
"Thanks Annie," Abed stopped a minuet in the middle of their hug. Annie's hair smelt of men's shampoo.
"Annie did you use men's shampoo?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." She quickly left Abed to go straight to the bathroom to get Jeff's shampoo and other various hair products that he had forgotten.
"So how has everyone been?" Shirley asked the group while helping Annie herself to salad.
"Good, actually Troy and I have some news!" Britta announced and hushed the room.
Troy locked his hands with Britta's as Troy began to talk, "As you all know we are three days from being fourteen weeks along and we just found out that we will be having a baby girl!"
Annie began to clap and reached to the right of her to hug Britta carefully, Pierce high fived Troy from across the table, Troy hugged Jeff who was sitting next to him, and Shirley agreed with everyone that that news was "nice."
"Wow Britta that is fantastic," Jeff announced.
"Yeah, I never thought I'd have kids but after getting married I realized this is what I want," her comment was more directed to her husband rather that Jeff, but it made Jeff think.
After all the talking died down Abed made an announcement.
"Well as you know this apartment is cursed with termites, I will be moving out to live with my dad and my pregnant step mom," Abed said neutrally.
"Well An-nie where do you plan on staying?" Shirley asked.
Annie hadn't given it any thought actually. She assumed she could stay with Jeff until she found a place of her own, but she couldn't announce it at this moment.
"I don't-I don't know actually."
"Well if you need a place to stay, my guest bedroom just got redone." Shirley announced to Annie.
"Thanks Shirley," Annie smiled at Jeff
Hm, Annie is moving out, duly noted. Jeff's eyes wondered over to Annie who was engaged in a conversation with Shirley.
Britta interrupted them, "Annie, do you have a jacket I could borrow for now? I'm super cold."
"It's probably you being pregnant baby," Shirley cooed.
"Yeah, yeah, I know."
"Yeah Britta, in my closet on the left side there should be some jackets hanging."
"Thank you Annie!" Britta jumped up and disappeared into Annie's room.
A few moments had past. Jeff couldn't stop thinking about the concept of having Annie move in with him, Annie was in the middle of a conversation with Shirley, Abed, and Troy about baby girl names while Pierce threw in random names everyone shot down.
"Annie?" Britta peered out of her bedroom.
The conversation had come to a halt as Britta interrupted them.
"Why are there men's deodorant and many other men's hair products on your dresser?"
What did she just say?
Annie's eyes grew large, Jeff gulped, and Britta just laughed at Annie from the door way.
"I- um, well, it's uh…"
Crap.
Annie looked at Jeff for inspiration to help her out of this, but both of them were in shock.
Why did I just leave that out on my dresser! Damnit Annie! Get it together.
"I knew it," Abed announced.
"Seriously! You guys are a thing now! Great, now I owe Pierce ten dollars!" Troy sighed while pulling out his wallet fishing for a ten dollar bill.
Shirley glared at Jeff and spoke in a sugary sweet tone, "Jeff-rey, I love you and An-nie very much and so does our Lord, but if you hurt her..." her voice dropped to a frightening level, "I will saw off your limbs and use them to beat you with... Okay?" She smiled.
"Yeah, what Shirely said," Pierce agreed with Shirley with a nod.
Jeff rolled his eyes and looked at Pierce, "You're agreeing with the Christian housewife's threat?"
"Jeff-rey!" Shirley kicked Jeff under the table.
"Ouch!" Jeff reached down to rub his sore shin, "but I have no intentions of hurting her," he smiled at Annie who giggled at the trouble the group was giving him.
Britta was cracking up at the doorway, basking in the laughter she just created.
Pierce looked back over at Jeff, "So big boobs huh?"
Annie arms immediately shot up to cover her chest while Jeff rolled his eyes.
"Ew! Pierce!" Shirley scolded.
"Soo…" Troy began quieting everyone down, "how long has this been going on you two?" he asked playfully.
Britta returned to her seat with a jacket covering her arms, "My guess is since our wedding, since then you guys have been super… you know." She just pointed back and forth to Jeff and Annie not really knowing what to say.
"Britta? How would you know?" Jeff asked while rolling his eyes.
"I have a twitter too you know."
Annie blushed and giggled thinking about all the pointless tweets filled with emoticons and pictures they sent each other.
"Actually for your information Britta, this has been going on since August twenty third."
"Wow this must be pretty serious?" Abed asked and Jeff and Annie looked at each other and smiled.
"Say it is, what would that mean," Jeff asked Abed.
"Well I'm just saying that because Jeff remembers the date you guys got together pretty much signifies that it is serious, I figured that he wouldn't remember, considering Jeff's memory isn't quite up to par. And in Two and a Half Men-"
"Ugh! Shut up Abed!" The group said in unison.
Not many questions followed. Just laughter, baby names, inside jokes filled the night. No one was drinking, partially because Britta couldn't, but mostly because they were all having a great time, without scotch or beer. At one point someone brought up the idea to play Yahtzee, but it just triggered more memories from the house warming party about two years ago. Britta ran to her purse to fetch her iPod. She found the song that brought them closer together that night "Roxanne" by the Police.
"ROXXXAANNEE!" Britta began and everyone else joined in.
They all got up from the table to break out into song and dance. They jumped up and down to the beat of the music and sang loudly and off key. Just like they did about two years ago. But this was the last time they would be gathered in this apartment. The same apartment that Troy confessed his feelings to Britta in, where everyone came to send Troy off to the A/C repair school, where Annie taught Abed about empathy, where Abed and Troy's first fight sparked, where the Dean had randomly shown up to watch Blade, and most importantly where they were dancing around just like this two years ago. This apartment had so many memories so saying good bye to it was going to be hard, not only for the residents Annie, Abed, Britta, and Troy, but also Jeff, Pierce and Shirley, too. This was the apartment that they had grown so close in.
They were still together after graduation and even though school was over, not much had changed in the past years, except for Britta was married and pregnant with Troy's baby, Annie was now with Jeff, Shirley was now a business owner, and their voices may have gotten worse.
Shirley left, followed by Troy and Britta, then Pierce. Jeff stayed to help Abed and Annie clean up.
"Abed you look super tired." Annie stated.
"I am, I woke up at 5:30 to come back here."
"Oh my gosh Abed! Go to bed!" Annie demanded.
"Yeah buddy, Annie and I will take the cleaning from here." Jeff said grabbing the small trash bag Abed was holing.
"Alright well, goodnight."
"Night Abed," Jeff and Annie said in unison as he disappeared into the blanket fort.
They picked up the rest of the apartment in about five minutes. Jeff was pretty silent, on his way to the trash chute he was thinking about asking Annie to move in with him, but he wouldn't bring that up tonight. That was a different conversation for a different time. Annie however was light on her feet, vacuuming and humming "Daybreak."
"Jeff your things are all in here," Annie lured Jeff into her bedroom to help him get the rest of his things.
"Thanks," Jeff sighed, "So are you happy?"
Annie looked at him in perplexity.
"Are you happy with how everything came out?" Jeff asked.
"Oh yeah, yeah. I'm just happy they know and that there are no more secrets, you know?" she paused, "ar-are you, you know, happy with things now?"
Jeff nodded, "Yeah, I mean I got a death threat from Shirley, but I'm happy," he looked over his shoulder to smile at Annie who was preoccupied with cleaning.
"Well Jeff… Is it true? What abed said? About your memory?" she said looking up from the pile of leftover things Jeff had left.
"My memory is fine but thanks for your concern."
Annie laughed and walked over and took the toiletry bag out of his hands and put in on her dresser, and took his hands for herself. "No Jeff," she smiled and looked at him from underneath her eyelashes, "are we 'serious'?"
"Hm, serious like this?" Jeff captured Annie's lips then resting his forehead and nose on hers.
"No I think I'm going to need another example." Annie smiled at Jeff looking at him from under her eyelashes.
Without warning Jeff lifted Annie off the floor and allowed her to straddle him. He spun her in circles and Annie giggled and cupped his jaw as she kissed him. They spun around until they fell on her bed.
"So to answer your question, yes Annie I'd say we're serious." He said rolling on top of her and heating things up by kissing her neck.
"Jeff," Annie slipped out a whimper, "Abed is next door," she whispered.
"Let's not bring Abed into this." Jeff said buried deep in Annie's neck.
"I'm just saying blanket fort walls aren't exactly thick," Annie's eyes fluttered closed.
"So we'll just have to be very quiet," Jeff raised his head to look at Annie who was smiling, eyes shut but clearly enjoying every second of this.
"Alright then," She opened her eyes and pushed Jeff down and rolled on top of him, "I can do quiet," she whispered with a smile.
Annie woke up before Jeff to get some coffee started, and Abed was watching cartoons on the recliners. Annie was waiting for Jeff to wake up to the obnoxious sound of their coffee maker, and sure enough Jeff came wondering out of Annie's bedroom.
"Morning Jeff," Annie smiled slipping him a cup of hot coffee. He leaned down to kiss her but they were interrupted but Abed.
"Morning Jeff."
Jeff was oddly embarrassed. But Annie just rolled her eyes and chuckled at the awkwardness.
"Good morning Abed," Jeff made that statement sound more like a question.
Abed went back to watching Sunday morning cartoons and Jeff whispered to Annie, "Remember when we cared if people knew about us," he laughed a little at his comment.
"Whatever Jeff, it's Abed. I'm sure he already knew that we were going to sleep together last night." She smiled at him and kissed his coffee tasting lips.
Jeff just laughed as he discreetly lead Annie back into her bedroom with a huge smile on his face.
