"Are you serious?" Patricia whined, her head leaned forward and her lips puckered in disbelief.
"Yeah, me and Jerome thought it would be a good idea. And aren't you friends with Joy anyway?" Eddie sat next to Patricia on his bed.
She straightened her back, "Well, yeah, but we're like best friends. It's just gonna be weird."
Eddie was unsure of how to respond; he wasn't great with this kind of stuff. "Eh," he muttered.
"So, you just planned a dinner date with me, you, Joy, and Jerome that you knew I wasn't going to agree with and all you can say is 'eh'?!" Patricia stood up, placing her hands on her hips.
Eddie blushed a shade of crimson, looking slightly uncomfortable with her hovering above him. "I don't know what you want me to say, Patricia!"
She sighed, letting it go. Patricia just wasn't in the mood for a fight. "Whatever, what should I wear?"
Someone knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Joy shouted across the room, looking up from the magazine she was reading.
Jerome walked in holding an arm full of women's clothing. Joy sat up.
"Jerome...?"
"Yes, so I may or may not have planned a date for us tonight and you're going to have to dress particularly nice because I won't be the one needing to be impressed." His words came out so fast, Joy wasn't sure if she had heard him right.
"Wait a minute. You set this up?" Joy interrogated.
"Well, yes, you could say that." He smirked, putting the clothes he was holding into view.
"Jerome, I hope you realize that only answers one of my million questions for you." She pointed a finger at him and gave a small frown.
Still plastering a smirk on his face, Jerome replied, "And what would the others be?"
"Why are you holding clothes that look like they're for me? Why did you set up a random date? Where is it going to be? And why do I have to impress someone else?" Joy's words came out quick.
Jerome directed his eyes toward the ceiling, in thought, as he spoke, "This is what you're going to wear. Eddie and I set up a date with me, you, him, and Patricia. And the date will be at La Ville. Did I answer all your questions?" He looked back down at Joy.
"Yes, I think so.."
"So, you're okay with this?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"I-I don't know." Jerome stammered.
"Sounds good."
"I'll pick you up at 6?"
"I'll be ready." Joy smiled.
Patricia sat in the booth alongside Eddie, nervously flicking through the few pages of the menu.
"What are you so nervous about? It's just a couple having a date with their two closest friends." Eddie stated.
Patricia sat the menu down and looked at her boyfriend. "Yeah, yeah I know. I just...I've never done a double date thing before. We haven't even gone on a real date that was this shmancy." She waved her arm around the room. Everything was decorated in white. The tables, the cloths, the walls, the floor, the curtains, even the doors to the kitchen and bathrooms.
Eddie took a look around the place Jerome had picked out for their double date. "True, I agree,"
Patricia's eyebrows raised, suggesting disbelief.
"I mean, I wanted our real first date to be a little more...private, too." He slipped his hand into her's, under the table.
She blushed and felt a little bit of..guilt?
Patricia opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted when Joy and Jerome slid into the seating across from them.
"Sorry, we're late! I had trouble getting into this stupid dress." Joy glared at Jerome. Patricia automatically knew that Jerome had picked it out for her, seeing as it exposed a lot of skin. Eddie, unfortunately, didn't seem to get that memo.
"Then why'd you pick it out?" Eddie inquired, the side of his mouth perking up in a wow-you're-stupid manner.
Patricia slipped her hand out of his and smacked him on the shoulder with it. Eddie faked pain and made a hissing noise. In return, Patricia rolled her eyes then looked away.
"So, what's on the menu for tonight?" Jerome picked up the menu, scanning through it.
"It doesn't look like they have many options." Joy gave a confused look over Jerome's shoulder, looking at his menu. He set it down in the middle of them on the table, so they could share it.
"Yeah, these kind of places don't usually have much to choose from. No pancakes, either." Eddie stated, matter-of-factly.
"How would you know?" Patricia countered, ignoring his pancake reference.
"Uh, hello? Super rich dad who owns a prestigious boarding school? Yeah, you get around."
"Whatever," Patricia scoffed.
After dinner, they started to head back to Anubis.
"Did you have fun tonight, Joy?" Jerome asked as he put her jacket on for her.
"Hm, it was alright," She wrinkled her nose up, playfully, faking disgust.
"Oh, please. I know you loved it." Jerome kissed her nose.
Beside them, Eddie watched Jerome, so he could use some of his moves on Patricia. Eddie attempted to sweetly put on Patricia's leather jacket for her.
"Yeah, yeah, I got it." She swatted her hand at his. He held up his in defeat.
"Alrighty then."
Patricia glared at his weird behavior.
Eddie stuffed his hands in his pocket, "So, did you have a good time? Better than you thought it would be?"
Her eyes softened, "It was okay, I guess." She smirked. Eddie immediately knew she had had a great time. He smiled back at her.
"But, seriously, can we get a banana split or something on the way home? I'm dying from lack of chocolate here!" Patricia exaggerated, changing the subject at the same time.
Eddie wrapped his arm around her neck as they walked out the door together behind Joy and Jerome.
This was requested by someone on Tumblr, so I just whipped it up. This was very out of character sigh. But if you can review, that'd be awesome!
