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99 Problems: A Sean Cameron Story.
Chapter Three: Choose - Craig or Jimmy?
My cousin has some weird friends.
Really cute, but weird friends.
After we had left the airport Spinner automatically felt better and showed me why they "called him the Spray Cheese King". So. gross. Jimmy had smirked and told me it's a miracle that Spin had a boyfriend, causing the car to burst into laughter, and Spinner pouted in the back seat as he threw a chip at Jimmy. Marco seemed pretty cool, too. And Craig? The kid was cute. Real cute. But Jimmy was pretty fine himself ..
Sean is gonna kill me for likin' his friends..
I leaned back in the plush passenger seat of Jimmy's car, turning the air conditioning vent on my side to face me. We were stuck in traffic, for the past ten minutes (which Spinner was saying it seemed more like half an hour) and it seemed like we'd be like that for a while. I watched through the rear view mirror as Marco stuck his head out the window, seeing how much traffic was ahead.
By the look on his face and the groan he let out when he rolled the window back up a few moments later, it was going to be a while.
"All right, since we are obviously going to be here for a long ass time.. since I think Marco and Sean both know I can kick their asses at the slug bug game," Spinner smiled cheekily, "we're playing choose."
"We played it on the way there, man." Jimmy said, and I raised an eyebrow.
"Choose? What's that?"
Spinner stared at me, surpassed. "I give you two things and you have to choose between them. Thus, the name choose."
"In other words it's Spinner's way to entertain himself without choking on spray cheese," Craig said, grinning at me and I let out a giggle.
"Bite me, Manning."
"Wouldn't Paige do the honors of that? Or have you two not gone that far?"
"........"
"That's what I thought."
"I hate you, Craig."
"Love you too, Spin."
"Alright, all right. Shut up. I need to think of a good choose question for Ronnie." Spinner crossed his arms and leaned back in his seat, a serious look on his face. Marco and Sean started humming the Jeopardy theme, smug smiles on their faces as Spinner hit them both upside the head, then going back to thinking.
"This might take days," Jimmy commented, and I laughed as he looked over to me, grinning.
The boy had a cute smile, too. Shit. Shiiiiiiiiiiit. If Sean ever finds out --
"All right! Ronica, choose - Craig or Jimmy?"
What. the. hell.
I turned around in my seat, my cheeks bright red as I stared at Spinner. Sean turned around to give him the look, and Craig turned bright red as he cleared his throat. Marco was trying to not to burst into laughter, and Jimmy was even blushing as well.
Spinner sat, smiling like an idiot, proud of his question.
I cleared my throat. Tucking a loose curl from behind my ear I thought about it for a moment, trying not to give an answer that gave the question away -- especially since I had no idea what the answer was myself. "It depends," I said, slowly, shrugging my shoulders.
"Depends on what?" Sean looked over to me, giving me a knowing smile. Damn! Not him too.
"Yeah, depends on what?" Marco chimed in, grinning, as Craig shot him a look, Jimmy as well.
"It depends on if whatever one's single," I finally blurted out, throwing Spinner, Marco and Sean a glare as I turned around back in my seat.
Laughter erupted from Marco and Spinner, and Sean shook his head, smirking widely. I raised my eyebrows, as Jimmy cleared his throat yet again, and Craig was desperately trying not to beat the shit out of his friends.
"What? What's so funny about that?"
"Well. Jimmy is in the process of getting rid of the old' ball and chain," Spinner started, grinning as Jimmy threw his hand up to flip him off, "And Craig .. Craig is Lord Stud. Just because he is."
"It's a looooooong story." Marco said, waving a hand in the air, trying to obviously save Craig. I looked over to Sean, and he gave me a look as if to say 'I'll tell you later.'
"Well, We obviously got time," I said, motioning onto the ongoing traffic, "And I'd like to hear about Jimbo's "ball and chain," as well as Craigger's little story about how he came to be Lord Stud." I looked to Jimmy, batting my eyelashes innocently, grinning, and then doing the same to Craig.
The back seat erupted into laughter yet again, minus Craig. "Craiggers and Jimbo? Damn. I'm putting those in my "nicknames to piss the guys off" collection. Nice one, Ronnie." Spinner said, leaning forward to give me a high five, and I burst into laughter and high-fiving him back. Craig and Jimmy were both bright red, muttering things under their breath.
"I hate you guys," Jimmy said, looking to his friends in the back seat, who smiled innocently at him.
"We love you too, Jim." I grinned at him, patting his shoulder.
"OooOoooooOOoo!"
"Shut up! Ya'll are so immature," I laughed, glaring at them as I stuck my tongue out, "Anyway. Tell me about Jimmy's apparently ex girlfriend."
Marco calmed down a bit, snickering, "Her name's Hazel. She's Spin's girlfriend, Paige's .."
"Shadow?" Sean chimed in, grinning as Jimmy shot him a look.
".. And she's one of the most popular .."
"Bitches?" Sean.
"Cameron, you're lucky your cousin is hot, otherwise I'd kick your ass out of the car right now."
Silence.
I turned bright red as Jimmy shot me another grin, and I could feel Sean's cold glare on his back. Marco cleared his throat, and Spinner blinked innocently.
"Anywaaaaays. Craig is called Lord Stud cause he can't keep it in his pants."
"SPINNER!"
"WHAT!? It's true! Do we need to call Miss Ashley Kerwin and the lovely Manny Santos for conformation? Cause I can. Marco, give me your phone."
Craig shot Spinner a look as I tried to contain my laughter. Marco shook his head, so did Jimmy, and Sean patted Craig on the back, grinning, trying not to laugh as well.
Traffic is the most evil thing, ever.
And being in a car for more than an hour drives you stir crazy.
I let out an annoyed sigh, as we finally were about apparently 30 minutes away from Degrassi. We had been sitting in traffic in Toronto for what it seemed for hours, and it was about 6 or 7 now. Spinner had fallen asleep in the back seat, Marco had been dozing off from time to time, and Sean had passed out in a dead sleep. I knew, since I had poked at his leg for about 10 minutes straight and didn't get my ass kicked. Oh, what a nice and lovely cousin I am ..
So that left a half-asleep Craig, Jimmy and I to maintain the boredom. We had their band's demo, Downtown Sasquatch, playing softly, not to wake up the three sleeping beauties in the back, and they told me all about Degrassi. It seemed pretty interesting, actually, and I was slightly amused at how much drama seemed to surround my cousin's life. They told me about Sean and his ex's Emma's recent break up, which Sean hadn't told me about, and his new girlfriend, Ellie. We were currently talking about the battle of the bands competition that they had entered, and I grinned widely as I turned to look at Craig.
"Hell Hath no Fury? Shit, Craiggers. Ashley is one of those angst "don't fuck with me, I'll mess you up," type of chicks, isn't she?" I asked, talking softly, and Jimmy chuckled at my question.
"Something like that." Craig shrugged his shoulders.
"She really had a shirt of you?"
"Yep."
"And you were on fire?"
"Yeah.."
"And she made these other girls wear them and hate you too?"
"Uh huh."
"Daaaaamn," I raised my eyebrows, a bit taken back, and Craig smiled meekly, shrugging. Jimmy laughed, shaking his head, his eyes never leaving the road.
"Ashley really grilled his ass with the lyrics, too." Jimmy stated.
"Bite me."
"No thanks, have Manuela do it for you."
I burst into giggles as Craig hit Jimmy's arm, glaring at him. Jimmy chuckled, the bright grin still plastered on his face.
"Manny seems lovely," I smirked, looking to Craig as I hit the lever on the seat to lean it back, the seat barely in Craig's lap. I got comfortable, pulling my jacket off the floor and wrapped it around myself. Craig shrugged, smirking somewhat.
"I guess you could say that."
"Aww, does wittle Craiggy-waggy still like her?" I asked, running my hand through Craig's curls, ruffling his hair. He blushed, glaring playfully at me as he let out a laugh.
But I couldn't help notice the look of jealousy in Jimmy's eyes ..
I shrugged it off and bounced up since the tape had ended, much to Craig's disappointment. I leaned the seat back up, flipping through stations determined to find something decent. I turned around minutes after, and Craig had dozed off as well. How cute. If I had a camera .. wait. I grinned innocently, pulling my cell phone out of my pocket, grinning as I took a picture of the four sleeping in the back. Jimmy chuckled, seeing what I was doing, and grinned.
"They're gonna kill you if they ever find out," he said.
"Which is why it's our little secret, James." I said, beaming as the phone was placed in my purse, and poked his nose.
"You're somethin' else, Cameron."
"Thank you."
He laughed and glanced over to me as I continued to flip through stations. "Sunshine" by Lil' Flip suddenly came through the speakers and I beamed, grinning from ear to ear as I turned it up a bit more. Jimmy laughed, "You're into hip-hop?"
"I'm into everything," I shrugged, "from Good Charlotte to DJ Mad Bullets.."
"No shit? You like DJ Mad Bullets?" He asked, suprised. I grinned, shrugging a shoulder.
"Who doesn't?"
He grinned, and we both laughed. When the chrous to the song came on, I found myself singing aloud, Jimmy watching from the corner of his eye.
"Sunshine - I can call you my baby boy.
You can call me your baby girl.
Maybe we can spend some time,
I can be your sunshine.
I can call you my baby boy,
You can call me your baby girl.
Maybe we can spend sometime,
I can be your sunshine .."
"Damn, girl." He laughed, "I should tell the guys we should have you be in the band and sing instead of Craig."
"Oh, shut up. I'm not that good. I drabble," I said, grinning cheesily at him as I hit his arm lightly.
"You're trippin' if you don't think that's good," Jimmy said, grinning.
I blushed, smiling at him as a silent thankful, feeling my heart beat going crazy as I quickly looked out the window, as we pulled onto Degrassi Street.
We don't have to be in love ..