John sat at Rose's Mom's house, sitting as Mom Lalonde tried to make conversation, obviously a bit tipsy. John was used to it, and was rather good at responding politely. John sometimes enjoyed talking to Rose's mom, after all, she told the funniest stories about Rose.

"Ah yes, this is when Rosey decided to knit the cat a sweater. I still have it ya know." Mom Lalonde said, her speech understandable but a bit slurred. She was busy paging through a book of pictures of Rose and her younger, baby days, and her cats. "I make sure every cat in this house gets to wear it at least once."

John laughed. "I've never seen Rose without that headband. Its sorta funny to see her without it!"

"Ah yeah...She had always wore them when goin' out in public. She has like, a bazillion-gazillion up in her room" She sighed. "Almost all of them black. You'd be surprised how many shades of black there are! I know once I bough-" She stopped dead when they both heard a car pull in.

"Rose!" They both said, running out to go see her. Wow it had only been a week calm down guys!

When Rose stepped out of the car, she was swamped by her mom in questions, comments, and concern. John stood by, laughing to himself very quietly.

"My Rosey! How are you? Are you alright? Did you manage to get all your stuff from-" The blonde was cut short by Rose's voice.

"Yes Mom, I'm fine. Me and Dave managed to get all of my stuff." She said, her voice casual. John began to wonder…why would she need her stuff? His eyes drifted over to the car she arrived in and noticed her bags in the back, along with furniture and other objects. John wasn't dumb, but he couldn't seem to piece why Rose practically took her house with her…then it hit him. Rose had moved out. Maybe that was the urgent matter? He doubted it, she would of simply told him she was moving out then. Why was he so curious anyway?

"Yo" grunted a voice, a male figure covered by a suitcase he was carrying. "I hate to ruin your private session of 20 questions, but my arms are gonna break pretty soon if someone doesn't help."

"Pfftt, man are you that weak?" John teased, taking the bag from him. "By the way, there are wheels and handles on this suitcase."

Dave huffed, "I was aware, Jonathan. Just like the sky is blue and you're a dweeb." He said, flicking John's forehead.

"Ow!" John Winced. "Not cool."

Dave only laughed as he started hauling more things out of the car. There wasn't much, and when Rose stopped talking with her mom long enough to help, they had Rose's stuff in the house in no time flat. Soon enough, The 4 of them were in the Lalonde's living room, dining on small pastries and such, talking about summer plans.

"So Rose" John asked curiously. "How long are you going to be staying? A new public pool opened up around here, and if you stay long enough we could probably go swimming!" Asking how long she was going to stay was just John's way of asking "So are you moving in?".

Rose shrugged. "It depends. Probably just for the summer." She replied, looking away.

John grew even more curious on what was up when Mom Lalonde put a hand on Rose's shoulder. Did someone die? Was Rose grieving? It was probably very obvious that he was curiously confused, so Dave whispered to him the details.

"So, uh, you probably haven't been filled in, but Kan broke up with Rose last day of school." He whispered. John blinked, about to respond until Rose's eyes fell upon the boys.

"That's why Kanaya went home early. We had a break up." She said, casual. It sorta scared John on how calm she was being.

"Oh…Sorry to hear about that Rose..." John said awkwardly. He didn't know how to react to the news. He felt like he should be celebrating, because his crush was single, but part of him just felt sad for Rose. Relationships were just so complicated and he didn't like the whole trouble it could bring him into, this also added to the fact he didn't crush on many people. He was fine with being eternally single and best bros with everyone else.

Rose sighed, a bit tired of everyone fussing. "It's alright."

"Hey!" Mom Lalonde said, breaking everyone's focus on Rose's lovelife and bringing it to her. "Why don't we take a shopping break, huh?" She asked, "It'll be fun, you guys! Even for the fellas" She laughed, nudging Dave and John.

"Sounds great," Rose said, grateful. "John, we can stop by your house to pick up wallet if you want."

"Actually, I have it on me." John lifted up a leather wallet, dyed navy blue with yellow stitching. "we can just go"

"Alright! Everyone in the car!" Mom Lalonde cheered.

"I'll drive" Dave smirked. "Lets not blow all our money on traffic tickets."

And so they went off…leaving the house keys inside next to the tray of pastries.

Authors Note:

Now we're getting somewhere.

I know I'm a cheesy writer, just shhhhhhhhhh.

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