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"Wait. This is Alex?" Raquel questioned nodding toward the young woman.
"Oh Raquel! Your brother's sense of humor has rubbed off on you." Her grandmother laughed. "Yes this is Alexandra! Her and Derek played together all the time when they were younger!"
Raquel looked at Derek for some sort of explanation. Yet Derek just sat at the end of the couch with a hand on his head and a look on his face that practically showed his mind working at a thousand miles an hour.
"Yes, we would play on the golf fields at the country clubs while our grandparents talked." Alex prompted, as if that would have brought back childhood memories.
"No," Derek shook his head. "I'm really truly sorry but, I don't remember you." He replied quietly.
The room was filled with a horrible awkward silence. Alex smoothed out her dress and Raquel picked at imaginary pieces of lint, thinking of a way to explain to her grandmother that she is currently trying to set her gay grandson up with a woman he barely remembers.
Steve then walked out of the hallway paying no mind to the women on the couch. He was wearing a red, yellow, and blue striped sport jacket and a tight pair of denim capris and to top it off a very odd looking brown thing that was suppose to be a hat. He strolled over to the kitchen and all eye's were on him.
"Yes?" He drawed as he turned to face the group.
"Steve," Raquel spoke slowly. "What are you wearing on your head?"
"You like it?" Steve twirled in the kitchen and patted his head. "This is a faux leather rabbit fur aviator hat. Faux leather rabbit fur aviator hat's are cool." He played with the flaps of material on the side. Derek couldn't help but smile as his boyfriend referenced one of his favorite shows.
"Hmm. Charming." Grandmother spoke, there was no amusement in her voice, "And who would this be?" She asked not even looking at Steve. Derek stood up that instance and grabbed Steve by the shoulders, pushing him towards the older woman.
"This is Steve, my-"
"Work buddy!" Steve interrupted with a smirk on his face. Derek looked at Steve like he was insane.
"Well I would say we are a lot closer then JUST buddies." Derek glared at Steve.
"Yes, he's right." Steve spoke. Derek sighed in relief. This would make his grandma stop trying to set him up with, well, the wrong gender at very least. "Were just BEST friends!" Steve announced with a huge grin.
Alex just smiled contently and smoothed out her dress for the seventh time since sitting. Raquel just stared in awe of the weirdness of the whole situation, and Grandmother just sat with a sort of grimace one her face. She cleared her throat to get her grandson's attention.
"Darling Derek, I'm famished! Is there anything for us ladies to eat?" She smiled.
"Well they have stuff for sandwiches in the kitchen if you want." Steve responded with a smirk jabbing his thumb towards the direction of the kitchen. Grandmother huffed and stood up. Alex got up to follow her but grandma turned and smiled.
"Oh Alex sit down. Raquel and I will make some tea and sandwiches." Raquel was a bit surprised that her grandmother had called her, but she rised none the less, following her grandmother and Steve to the kitchen
Alex glanced around the room. She and Derek were sitting across from each other. She laughed quietly to herself.
"What?" Derek asked quietly. She was shocked by the voice.
"Nothing." She smiled. "It's just that I always thought that us meeting again would be a bit," She paused as if to searching for the right word. "Romantic?" Now it was Derek's turn to be surprised.
"How do you mean?" Derek pressed looking at her with what was undoubtedly confusion.
"Well, I don't know, maybe it's watching to many romantic comedies or just a wild imagination I suppose. I just thought the next time we would have met was like at a coffee place or a bar, you know. Then, we would reminice about the childhood we shared and you would ask me out on a proper date. We would go out to dance and end the night in a kiss and live happily ever after. Not by me getting out of a tough relationship and your grandmother pushing us together." She smiled and stood up tinkering with the items on the coffee table. She picked up a keychain. It had a small laminated pride flag connected to it. She placed it back on the table and sat next to Derek. "You know it's sort of embarrassing to admit but you were the boy I would write my name next to in the hearts all over my notebook." Derek shuffled next to her in discomfort.
Steve smiled and ushered the two to the kitchen before turning to leave.
"Where do you think your going?" Grandmother spoke annoyance was obvious.
"I'm going to check on the two love birds." Steve chuckled before running out. Raquel just rolled her eyes and turned to the fridge to get the items they needed for sandwiches. Her grandmother stood in the middle of the kitchen with a frown plastered on her face.
"You know frowns cause wrinkles and I'm pretty sure you can't pull it off." She smiled as she quoted Kurt. Her grandma just turned to her and scowled.
"Who is that any how?" Her grandmother huffed.
"That's Steve." Raquel answered with a shrug.
"He's a queer isn't he?" Grandmother spat out the words. Raquel froze for a moment, in both shock and rage. She took a deep breath and stood back up with turkey slices in her hand.
"Yes Steve is gay but I don't see why his sexual orientation has anything to do with him or you for that matter." Raquel spoke as she prepared some of the sandwiches.
"Well it's just in bad taste to be hanging out with people like that." Her grandmother spoke.
"People like that?" Raquel questioned feign innocence.
"Those damn gay's." Her grandma blurted. "You know how bad I would look if Alex were to tell her grandmother that my grandson hangs around gay's?" Her grandmother paced the room as Raquel tried to hold in all the things she wanted to say.
Oh just wait till you find out the big secret you'll just die, Raquel thought.
Steve entered the living room and sat across from Derek and Alex.
"So lovebirds." He spoke winking at Derek. "How's everything going?" Alex turned to him and gave him a polite smile.
"Splendid. Derek and I were actually in the middle of a conversation. So may I ask what you needed that was important enough to interrupt us?" Steve smiled his own fake polite smile and leaned forward.
"Darling you couldn't give me what I needed even if you tried." Steve cocked his head to the side and smiled. Derek just leaned forward with his head in his hands.
"You know I'm actually a bit thirsty. Could you be a dear and fetch my a glass of iced tea." Alex spoke to Steve. He just smiled and took the glass with some unnecessary force before walking to the kitchen.
Raquel stood by the counter and placed down the cups for the tea she prepared as Steve came in muttering under his breath. Raquel looked at him and was a bit shocked, she never seen Steve this upset except for the first time Derek made him empty out the garage full of designer clothes.
"Hey what's going on?" Raquel asked as she turned back to the tea.
"That handsy little bitch is all up on my man! You know what! If she dares touch him I will beat her fake designer shoes off her elephant feet." He spoke mostly to himself.
"Listen you could have avoided this whole problem if you would have just said you were is boyfriend. Yet you had to say you were his work buddy and because of that you will now suffer the consequences." Raquel said as she placed the tea on a tray. "Now go take this out there and play nice." She spoke as she handed Steve the tray.
"Whatever." he mumbled under his breath as he left the room.
Alex continued to talk at Derek as he sat there trying to think of what to do.
"You know I've been talking most of the time. I'm sorry that's very rude of me so how's life?" Alex smiled at Derek.
"Oh well I'm uh good life is good. I'm a librarian at Dalton academy. And-"
"Who's Steve?" Alex interrupted. Derek was surprised by the question.
"Steve? Oh Steve! He's my-"
"I don't like him." Alex interrupted again. "You should get new friends. Why don't we go down to lights, it's a piano bar down town, you could meet some of my friends."
"Uh no. Why would I-"
"Listen I was just thinking you know we could go out for drinks you know." She leaned forward and placed her hand on his lap. "We could leave right now if you want, you know." She smiled slightly.
There was a sudden clatter on the coffee table in front of them. They both jumped and looked up to find Steve with his bitchface on.
" Okay I can't take this any more!" Steve yelled. All the commotion had caused Grandma and Raquel to enter the room. "You need to get your gimpy nasty hands off my man!"
"Your man?" Alex scoffed as she stood up. "So is that why you're here? Cause you have a crush on Derek?"
"Crush? Are you kidding me I own that!" He gestured at Derek. "He's my man and I'm his it's been like that for a few years now."
"I'm pretty sure he would have mentioned him being queer! Okay!"
"You obviously don't know him at all! If you did you would know that he freezes up when he's put on the spot! I swear when he tried asking me out he didn't move or say anything for twenty minutes." Steve laughed. "I need you to leave right now."
"You can't make me leave this isn't your house!"
"Actually yeah it is! Now get the fuck off my property before I have to call the police." Steve spoke in a eerie calm voices. Alex had just about enough. She raised her hand and made ready to slap Steve, but just as it was about to make contact her hand stops.
"Okay you need to go." Derek spoke as he let go of Alex's hand. "Grandma I'm sorry but you can't stay here, but I will pay for your hotel. I'm sorry." Derek apologized as he turned to his grandmother who looked as mad as could be.
As Derek ushered the two woman to the front door and said goodbye his grandmother pulled him close.
"Derek I'm sorry to say this but we need to speak privately," She spoke in a hushed tone. "It's about Raquel's Future residence."
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