Okay, so it's 11:15 on a Sunday night, the official end of my spring break (-SOB-) I still have a bunch of homework, and NOW inspiration chooses to strike! After almost 3 weeks! All I can say is if I get detention tomorrow, you guys better at least be reading this!
This one is especially dedicated to Torian Princess; your review for 'Glasses' made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside:)
Cody sat in the kitchen glumly. Squib had already been gone two weeks; the two hadn't talked at all. No calls, no letters. Nothing. Not to mention, she didn't even have anyone to help her through this. She had called Adena the day before, when she had finally gotten out of bed, but as soon as she had finished her story the other girl mumbled something about having a date and hung up. Some friend she was, Cody thought bitterly. She had tried getting a hold of Tannis and even Sunny, with whom the other three girls had actually grown rather close to during their last year at Cascadia, but they were both either gone or just not answering. Cody sighed. All she wanted was someone to talk to.
Just as she was seriously contemplating crawling back into bed, there was a knock on her door. She paused for a moment, considering answering it, but quickly decided she wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone.
"Cody," a familiar voice called from the other side of the door, "open up!"
"Adena?" Cody said quietly, more to herself than to the other girl in the hall. She rushed for the door and opened it up. On the other side she saw not only Adena, but Tannis and Sunny as well.
"What are you guys doing here?" She asked incredulously.
"We're here to cheer you up," Tannis smiled.
"We've got ice cream, chips, soda, popcorn, and about a million of the worst chick flicks ever made!" Sunny exclaimed and it was then that Cody noticed the bags in her friends' arms. As she stared at her friends Cody couldn't think of anything to say, so she instead engulfed the three of them in a huge hug.
"We've missed you, too," Tannis laughed.
Squib looked up when he heard a knock on his hotel room door. He didn't move from his place on his bed, though. After two weeks without Cody he was miserable. He had seriously considered calling her every day, but she had made it quite clear; they were over. When the knocking continued, Squib sighed angrily and moved toward the door.
"What do you…" He stopped in the middle of his angry exclamation when he saw who was on the other side of the door. "Cameron? Rick?"
"Hey man," Rick greeted him as the two boys walked into Squib's room.
"Uh…not to be rude, but…what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean what are we doing here?" Cameron asked, "We heard about you and Cody!"
"Oh…" Squib said quietly.
"And we are here to do the guy thing," Rick explained, "so we've got more beer than is probably even legal..."
"And the game starts in a few minutes," Cameron finished for him, grabbing the remote and changing the channel.
"Look, guys, I appreciate this, but…"
"Don't worry, we're not gonna make you talk," Cameron assured him, "we're just gonna watch some hockey and hopefully get hammered."
"What a jerk!" Sunny said through her tears. The four girls had made their way through three tubs of chocolate chip ice cream and two movies, and were now half-way through Autumn In New York. After hearing Cody's tale all four were in tears.
"So, he just left?" Adena asked.
"Well yeah, but I'm the one who…"
"I can't believe him!" Tannis interrupted, "I mean, he should have stayed! He should have tried to…wow. This movie is really bad." Cody had to laugh at that.
"So what are you guys going to do?" Adena asked.
"What do you mean?" Said Cody, "When he gets back he's gonna get his stuff, probably while I'm in class, and then…that's it."
"What? No!" Tannis yelled, making Cody jump, "That can't be it!" You guys are Cody and Squib!"
"Even I have to admit you two belong together," Sunny told her.
"But guys, we broke up," Cody said, "its over. Finished. Done." At this a fresh wave of tears started cascading down her cheeks.
"You guys can't be done!" Adena insisted, handing her a tissue.
"Yeah," Sunny added, "You guys fought all the time at Cascadia! And you made it through those!"
"But that was different," Cody explained, "those fights were about t-shirts and prank wars and him making one too many short jokes. This…this was big."
"Big, shmig!" Tannis exclaimed, "You guys are Cody and Squib, you have to work this out!"
"So then she says that I don't pay attention to her, and that all I ever think about is tennis," Squib slurred after too many beers to count, "which, fine, okay, maybe I do talk about tennis a lot, but that doesn't mean we had to break up over it! I pay lots of attention to her."
"I hear you, man," Rick, who had dropped himself on the couch and wasn't planning on moving until the room stopped spinning, said, "it's a chick thing. It has to be all them, all the time."
"Ya, but Cody?" Cameron asked from his place lying on the floor, "Never would've pegged her for the type."
"I can't believe this," Squib said as Rick passed him another beer, then hockey game long forgotten, "I mean, she was the best thing that ever happened to me. The best. And now, it's gone. All gone!" Squib wailed the last line. "I don't know what I'm gonna do without her…and in a few minutes I think I may start crying…crap."
"Hey man," Rick spoke again, although his voice was slightly muffled now that he had turned over onto his stomach in an attempt to stop the ceiling from moving, "what happens in the hotel room stays in the hotel room. You wanna cry? You cry."
"Yeah," Cameron added, "secret's safe with us."
"I can't believe this," Cody unknowingly echoed her (ex) boyfriend's words, "I mean, it was me and Squib! I never in a million years thought I'd have to let go of him!"
"You know what you do?" Sunny said, "You get rid of all his stuff, first of all."
"Yeah," Tannis exclaimed, sitting up, "we can have a bonfire!"
"Guys, we can't burn all of Squib's stuff," Cody told them.
"Why not?" Adena asked indignantly.
"Because what happens when he comes back for his things and he finds a pile of ash?"
"Oh who cares, the jerk deserves it," Sunny insisted.
"True," Cody admitted, "but still. I don't think I'm quite there yet."
"Well, you let us know when you are," Tannis said comfortingly, "because I've got matches."
Cody laughed, "Thanks."
"Okay, this movie sucks!" Sunny popped it out of the VCR and threw it somewhere behind the couch, "Someone pass me Shall We Dance?."
"But here's the kicker," Squib, who had given up the fight and was now in tears, said, "she's the only girl I've ever felt this way about. The only one! And now I've messed it up! I mean, what are the odds that I'm gonna find another girl as amazing as Cody?"
"Not damn likely!" Rick said loudly. He tried to raise his arm in what Squib could only guess was a show of enthusiasm, but ended up rolling off the couch, "Ow."
"I still can't get past the fact that you two broke up. You broke up?" Cameron asked.
"Yep,"
"You sure?"
"Unfortunately," Squib answered him.
"That sucks, man."
"Tell me about it."
"I mean, during all our years at Cascadia, you two were always the couple. Cody and Squib…Squib and Cody…well, I think there's only two ways to say it, but you get the point! It's like we're in the twilight zone."
"Nah," Rick slurred, "then she'd probably be an alien, instead of just really pissed."
"True, true," Cameron agreed.
"I miss Cody!" Squib yelled suddenly, breaking into another round of sobs.
"Then there's only one thing to do, my friend," Cameron said, passing him another beer, "drown your sorrows."
"You know what? I miss Cody, too!" Rick exclaimed.
"Now you know how I feel!" Squib said.
"Well then, to missing Cody," Cameron said, raising his beer.
"To missing Cody," the other two echoed, although Squib's was inaudible underneath all the sobs.
"I miss Squib!" Cody sobbed from her position lying across the couch, her head in Adena's lap.
"I know," Adena said sympathetically, stroking her friend's hair in a gesture of comfort.
"What am I gonna do without him?" Cody said in a small voice.
"I say you're better off!" Sunny said loudly, "If the little monkey doesn't see how lucky he is to have you, the he deserves to be kicked to the curb."
"But I don't want Squib to be on the curb," Cody, who was quickly becoming hysterical, wailed, "I want him here, with me!"
"Then you know what you do?" Tannis asked.
"What?"
"You fight for him?"
"Fight for him?" Cody repeated.
"Yeah," Adena said, forcing her friend to sit up, "Tannis is right. If Squib means as much to you as we all know he does, then you fight for him."
"You guys really think I should?" Cody asked.
"If you're not going to do voodoo on him, you might as well," Sunny agreed.
"You know what, man?" Cameron asked, trying to get up but failing miserably.
"What?" Squib asked as he heard his friend fall back on the floor.
"I don't think this is over,"
"No?"
"No, far from it. This is just the beginning. Not the end. The beginning. The beginning of…" Cameron trailed off.
"I think what our very confused friend here is trying to say," Rick spoke, "is that you need to fight for Cody."
"Yeah!" Cameron agreed enthusiastically, "that was it!"
"You guys are right!" Squib said, sitting up. Two seconds later he fell back onto the bed with a 'thump', but his spirit was not deterred, "I love her! I'm not just gonna let her go! Thanks guys!" He tried sitting up again and with the support of the headboard, he managed to maintain a somewhat upright position. "Guys?" He looked over the edge of the bed to see his two closest friends passed out on the floor. "Lightweights…" he mumbled, seconds before falling back to the bed in a deep sleep.
The next morning, Squib opened his eyes and tried to sit up. Nope. That wasn't gonna work, he realized as he fell back to the bed.
"Good morning, sunshine," Rick joked as he emerged from the bathroom.
"Aah," Squib moaned, "stop yelling…"
"Sorry," Rick nodded.
"I come bearing coffee and Advil," Cameron said as he entered the room.
"Oh thank frickin' God," Rick said, reaching out to grab a cup.
"How you feeling?" Cameron asked Squib, who was now sipping coffee after his second, more successful, attempt at sitting up.
"Like a billion tiny men are scrubbing my brain with toothbrushes," Squib said.
"Join the club," Cameron laughed. He looked down at his watched, "Hey man, we gotta go soon. We've got a flight to catch," he said to Rick.
"Flying with a hangover. Goody." Rick said dryly.
"Hey, thanks guys," Squib said, "for last night. Even if I don't remember it."
"I think I said something about being Cody being an alien," Rick said, "but other that that…" he trailed off.
"Hey, look man," Cameron said before heading out the door, "I'm not sure what I said last night, because it's all kind of a blur," Squib nodded in understanding, "but if I didn't say it then, I'm saying it now: Fight for her."
Cody sighed as she walked down the hall towards her apartment. She had just dropped her three friends off at the airport, and was now looking forward to climbing back into bed. They had been up into the wee hours of the morning, and Cody wanted nothing more than to crawl back into bed and never come out again. All thoughts of sleep quickly left her mind, though, when she opened the door and saw Squib sitting on the couch.
"Squib, what are you…"
He stood up and cut her off, "We need to talk."
It's a cruel, cruel world
So conventional
Sometimes love just wins you over
I've come to life it's true
It's not intentional
Every time when we move closer
I'll take the fall
A twist I know
You just see right through me
It may be wrong
All along
It keeps on turning, turning
I could walk away now,
End it perfectly
And just say your words are
Not affecting me
Somewhere deep inside
I know it may be wrong
But I'm ready to commit
Mistake no.2
Mistake no.2
Must have heard it once a million times
From every one the perfect line
But you're the one to recognize
There are things I need in my life
So I'll take the fall
A twist I know
It keeps on turning, turning
I could walk away now,
End it perfectly
And just say your words are
Not affecting me
Somewhere deep inside
I know it may be wrong
But I'm ready to commit
Mistake no.2
Mistake no.2
Here it comes again
It never ends
I keep on falling further
I'm not sure that I can walk away now
I could walk away now,
End it perfectly
And just say your words are
Not affecting me
Somewhere deep inside
I know it may be wrong
But I'm ready to commit
Mistake no.2
Mistake no.2
-ATC 'Mistake No. 2'
Okay, I admit, about halfway through this chapter, it became much less about Cody and Squib and much more about writing the guys drunk. Hehe… But seriously, its 12:31 AM, I still have TONS of Romeo and Juliet questions to do (which I'll have to do at 5 tomorrow morning, because I'm exhausted!) so I better get some reviews! Good night!