Author's note: OMFG GUYS IT HAS BEEN AGES I'M SO SORRY! but just... the laziness and the british televison and the UUUUGHHH was stopping me from updating! how long has it been, like 4 months *le worried face* please don't kill me. ALSO chapter one has been slightly edited :)
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Team Starkid or any of it's characters
Chapter 2
The next day, Lauren couldn't stop glancing up at the clock. She was just too excited! But when 5:55 finally rolled by, butterflies grew in her stomach. As she sat down on the couch impatiently, she grew nervous, and Jaime looming, fussing over her hair, or whether a button should be done up on her cardigan or not, really wasn't helping.
After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, there was finally a knock on the door. Ignoring Jaime's huge grin completely, Lauren stood up and slowly walked to the door. She took a deep breath, and then swung it open, to see Brian standing in front of her.
"Hi" she greeted, with a warm smile.
"Hey, LoLo" he smiled back.
"Would you like to come in, or…?"
"Yeah, sure"
Lauren stood to the side to give Brian some space to walk in.
"Hey, Jaime" Brian greeted, at the sight of her.
"Hi, Brian" Jaime responded, smiling widely.
"What are you watching?" he asked, taking a seat on the couch. Meanwhile, Lauren took a seat on the armchair on the other side of the room.
"Oh, just waiting for the afternoon news to start for Jules" Jaime rolled her eyes jokingly.
"Of course" Brian smirked lightly.
At the mention of her name, Julia made her entry into the room, wearing her glasses and pen marks on her hands.
"I thought I heard you, Brian! How are you?"
"I'm good thanks, Jules" he smiled "How about you?"
"Oh, okay. I'm just sorting things out for tour and everything"
"Sounds like fun" Brian retorted sarcastically, and Julia hummed in agreement. But after that, there was a screaming moment of silence.
"Well, are you ready to go, Lo?" Brian looked in her direction.
"Yeah, I think so. Let me just run to my room and make sure I haven't forgotten anything" she dashed over to her bedroom door and disappeared into it.
"So where are you guys going?' Jamie asked
"We're just going to go catch a movie"
"Which one?"
"I guess we'll know when we get there" he smirked, just in time for Lauren to come bounding back into the room, holding her phone.
"I almost forgot my phone" she smiled sheepishly, blushing lightly. Brian scoffed.
"You ready now?"
"Yep" she smiled, and they walked over to the door.
"See you guys" Julia called out after them.
"Bye, Jules" Lauren smiled back in her direction, and then was out the door.
"Whose car should we take?" Lauren asked.
"My car, I'll drive" Brian said a little too quickly, grabbing his keys out of his pocket and rushing to his car.
Lauren lagged behind, giggling.
"Hey, I'm not that bad a driver!" she laughed, running up to the car, which he was now sitting in.
"Actually, yes you are" he countered.
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
Lauren crossed her arms, slumping back into her seat.
"Prove it" she demanded
"Prove it?!" he exclaimed incredulously "You crashed my car in senior year!"
"Oh yeah" Lauren remembered, laughing.
"Hey! It isn't funny! Do you know how much it cost to get that thing fixed?"
"Actually it kinda is" she smirked.
He shot her a sarcastic look, and shook his head , smiling.
They pulled up in the parking lot of the cinema.
"We're here" he announced.
"That was kinda quick" Lauren remarked, and Brian hummed in agreement.
They both stepped out of the car and walked towards the entrance.
Without thinking, Lauren grasped his hand and squeezed it. He smiled and squeezed back, and she looked up at him.
"You okay there, LoLo?" he asked with a wink.
"I'm fine" she giggled.
"Are you sure? You squeezed my hand pretty hard there"
Lauren giggled, squeezing his hand extra tight, just to annoy him.
"So what movie should we see?" Lauren asked, when they walked inside.
"I dunno, what's on?"
"Why don't we check?" Lauren laughed slightly "Dumbass"
Brian punched her on the shoulder.
They ended up choosing a comedy movie, which Lauren had remembered from the infomercials looked really funny. They then advanced to the snack bar.
"Do you want anything?" Brian asked
"OHH! YES PLEASE!" Lauren squealed, bounding up and down.
"How did I know?" Brian muttered "What do you want?"
"Popcorn….maybe a coke… and OOH CHOCOLATE!" she squealed.
"Anything for you, Lo" he smiled and tapped her on the nose. This caused her cheeks to tinge a deep shade of red, and she grasped his hand tighter.
After they got their snacks, they advanced to the theatre, still hand in hand.
They managed to find a seat easily, and that was when Brian realised they were ten minutes early.
Did you get the buses all sorted out, Lo?" he asked.
"Yeah, they said they'd get us buses we can poop on, so that's good" she laughed.
"Great!" he retorted "The world wouldn't be the same with Lauren Lopez not being able to poop"
"No, it wouldn't" she agreed with a nod, grabbing a piece of popcorn and placing it in her mouth.
"I'm actually kinda glad that we're not on the same bus, Lo" he joked.
Lauren gasped.
"How dare you!" she gasped, throwing a piece of popcorn at him.
"It's true, Lo! You're just way too annoying!"
"Lauren screwed up her face.
"Like you're any different!" she retorted, sticking her nose up in the air.
"That's why we're friends, Lo!" he announced, flinging his arm around her shoulder, invading her box of popcorn and placing a handful of it in his mouth.
"Hey!" she shouted "You have your own!" she shoved Brian's box of popcorn in his face "Don't you make me tip it all over you! She threatened.
"But that would mean less popcorn for you, and we'd have to share!" he remarked matter-of-factly.
"Not on my watch" she grinned, tipping the box of popcorn over his head. putting her own popcorn box out of Brian's reach.
Although, Brian knew her weakness; tickling her. Quickly, he moved his hand over to her stomach and began to tickle her. She squealed, trying to push his hands away during uncontrollable fits of laughter. However, Lauren wasn't strong enough, and he managed to pick up her box of popcorn and tip it over her head.
"Brian!" she squealed, pushing him to the side.
He started laughing hysterically, pointing at her face and clutching his sides with laughter.
"Not happy" she growled.
"Sorry, Lo, but you started it!" he laughed.
Lauren smiled, brushing popcorn out of his hair.
"I'll go get some more popcorn" she announced, grabbing her bag and going to stand up. Brians topped her,
"It's okay, LoLo, I can get it"' he decided.
"No, it's fine" she declined "I started it" she smiled, standing up and skipping out of the theatre, brushing popcorn out of her hair as she did so.
Brian smirked slightly as he cleaned popcorn from his lap, burshing it to the floor. He smiled, leaning back against the seat, thinking back to when they held hands. They hadn't done that in AGES. Not since she started going out with Darren….
At that thought, the lights went down slightly. He looked around, to see Lauren walking into the theatre with a large box of popcorn in her hands. He made it as if he didn't see her, though; he knew exactly what she was going to do.
"Boo" came a voice next to his ear. Brian didn't flinch, but he turned to face Lauren.
"Nice try" he smiled. Lauren slumped her shoulders in defeat, stepping over the chairs and sitting down next to him.
"I bought an EXTR large box of popcorn, so we can share; that way, neither of us can tip the box over each other's heads" she said, pulling up the armrest that separated them and placing the box of popcorn in between them.
"Good decision" he agreed "You came back just in time; it's about to start" he said, hushing his voice to a low whisper.
Lauren nodded, looking up at the screen, her mouth curling into a small smile as the movie began. Without removing her eyes from the screen, she lifted up the box of popcorn and curled up against him, muttering a small explanation that she was freezing.
Overall, the movie was hilarious. It had most of the audience in fits of laughter. But what made Brian laugh even harder was seeing Lauren laugh; watching her squeak as she clutched at her sides, eyes closed. Most of the time, Brian stole quick glances at her, and only once did he catch her doing the same.
When the credits rolled and the lights went up, Lauren looked over at Brian.
"Shall we go?" she suggested.
"We shall" he smirked, standing up with her.
"Look at the mess we made!" Lauren laughed, pointing to the scatters of popcorn strewn across the floor.
"Ah-ah, the mess YOU were responsible for" he objected.
"Ugh, you were partly to blame for It too!" she answered, fishing her phone from her bag to check the time.
7:45pm, it read.
"Do you want to stop and get something to eat, or are you still full from the movies?"
"Nah, I should probably get back to the girls. I suppose they'll want EVERY little detail from tonight"
"And why would they want that?" Brian asked with a smirk.
"Oh, it's just a silly, girly thing, really; they seem to be under the impression that this is a date!" she let a small giggle escape from her mouth. Brian let out a fake scoff, and Lauren, sensing a small tinge of disappointment in his expression, looked up at him.
"This isn't a date, is it Bri?" she wondered. Brian paused.
"That depends" he finally decided.
"On what?"
"Whether you want it to be or not" he answered.
Lauren's heart leapt slightly.
"Then I say this is a date, if that's okay with you" she announced with a smile, skipping ahead slightly.
"That's perfectly fine with me, LoLo" he agreed, catching up and grasping onto her hand. Lauren smiled, moving in closer to him. For a split second, she had a strong urge to kiss him, but she quickly shook it out of her system. He's Brian she thought, Your best friend, Brian. Even If you did kiss him, it would ruin everything!
"Can you remember where we parked?" Brian asked.
"Um…" Lauren stood on her toes in an attempt to see over the cars.
"There we are" she announced triumphantly, pointing to the far left of the parking lot, pulling Brian by the hand in the direction of the car.
"There it is!" she pointed to the car, unwillingly letting go of his hand, running towards the car, waiting for Brian to unlock it. When he did, she crawled in and they were off.
"Did you like the movie?" Brian asked, trying to make conversation.
"Yeah, it was really funny" she commented, with a small giggle.
"Oh, I knew you thought it was funny; you were laughing really loudly"
"Like I could help it" she sighed, crossing her arms. Brian smiled.
"Well, we're here" he announced, as the car pulled to a hault.
"Thanks for a great night, Bri. God, we haven't gone out together in ages!" she smiled, looking over at him.
"Yeah" he agreed.
"Well, I had lots of fun, Bri. We should do this again sometime"
"Yeah, we should"
"Well, thanks again, Bri. See you Friday"
"See you Friday, Lo"
She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Bye" she said, one last time, before stepping out of the car. She rushed up to the entrance of her apartment building, a vivid smile on her face.