The pictures ended up looking pretty sick. We ended up printing out five. The one of us laughing and the other of us were the only ones that ended up making it into the frames but the other three (two of which were selfies and the other was of us standing in front of our house) just got pinned to a corkboard that was hanging off the wall. We looked so in love that it was unreal.
El sent me some of the picture to me on my new phone. Yup, that's right. This Squid got his first cell phone. It was a crappy Samsung that ran out of battery way too quickly and I only got a few contacts so far but I still felt pretty accomplished. I hadn't shown any of D-tent it yet but I'd also been avoiding them all week after I kind of flipped out at them.
We were expecting Jack and Kimberley any moment now. I was laying on the couch, throwing my phone up in the air and catching it as I talked with El. We hadn't talked about the whole kissing thing but I kind of didn't want to. I couldn't get more attached. I mean, we had to 'break up' in a few months anyway.
"What about Sasha?" El asked as she read from the baby book. She decided that it'd probably be a good idea if we had a name for our darling baby in case anyone asked. I shrugged. I had been telling her since she started reading out names that I really couldn't care less. Emily had texted us a few days ago that she got an ultrasound done and told us she was expecting a girl.
"Yeah, sure. Just pick a name so we can get on with our lives." I muttered and El sighed, rolling her eyes. Ooh, looks like I pissed little Eleanor off. I still can't get over the fact that her full name was Eleanor.
"Fine, I'll tell them that we're thinking of either Rachel or Sasha." She closed to book and threw it at me. My phone was just being tossed in the air when she did that so I ended up catching the book and not my phone. It ended up ninja kicking me in the face.
"Ow!" I yelled, sitting upright. "My phone attacked me!"
El started laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world to see my nose start to bleed. We'll see who's laughing when she accidentally gets a pan thrown at her face later.
Just kidding, I probably wouldn't throw a pan at a chicks face. Keep note of the 'probably' that was in that sentence.
After I managed to stop bleeding from my face, the doorbell rang. Neither of us moved from our spots on the couch, both of us being way too lazy to actually go get the door. "El, someone's at the door!" I yelled, even though she was sitting right beside me.
"Then answer it, Squid!" she yelled back.
"I can't!" I argued, lifting up my limp arms. "I broke my arms!"
El snorted, "Yeah sure and I'm Santa Claus." She retorted sarcastically.
"Does that make me Mrs. Claus?" I wondered aloud. "Do I have to bake cookies and sew your fat pants and stuff?"
El laughed. She was about to reply when two people burst through the door, looking at us accusingly. "You two are ridiculous! We could hear you from outside, you know." Kim laughed.
Kimberley was gorgeous to say the least. She had long, long legs, tan skin, flowing golden brown hair and icy blue eyes. She kind of had a narrow face but it worked for her and only made her look all the slimmer. I used to have a wicked crush on her in high school, along with every other boy in school and she's only gotten hotter since then.
Yet…I didn't feel anything when she came through the door.
Jack came and gave me a bro/boss hug while Kimberley and El squealed and leapt at each other like they hadn't seen each other in fifty years. Well, I guess they haven't for like a year but kids who came home from Camp Green Lake didn't react like that when they saw their families for the first time since their sentence.
"I can't believe how pregnant you are!" Kimberley gasped and El did a little twirl. She was just wearing a baggy, grey hoodie and some yoga pants but you could still see the baby bump through her outfit. "Why didn't you tell me?"
El pouted. "I'm sorry! I forgot to even tell my parents! I guess I was just so caught up in everything that I forgot to tell people!" she whined apologetically.
It was like she turned into a completely different person with her friends. When she was with me, she was really sarcastic and competitive but the second Kimberley walks in she's all: "OMG! Let's scream a lot because we miss each other and go get our nails done! Hashtag Besties!"
And that was basically every girl ever.
"So did you guys have any names picked out?" Jack asked and I shrugged nonchalantly.
"We were thinking maybe Sasha or Rachel? We'll know once we see her for the first time." I answered. I really hope that's what most expecting parents would say. If you haven't noticed, I'm kind of new to this baby thing. "I think we should name her like Optimus Prime or something sick like that-"
"Yes!" El screamed, jumping into our conversation. "That would be so awesome! And then if we ever have another kid we could name him Megatron!"
"That's perfect! Whenever they fight it would be like Auto-bots versus Deceptiocons!" I added and El's grin only widened.
"Baby-bots!"
"You two don't even know how perfect you are for each other." Kimberley sighed, "You're so similar it's freaky. This child is going to be so sarcastic and obsessed with Transformers when she grows up."
"Optimus is going to be such a badass." I muttered and nudged El. She elbowed me back with a smirk on her face. If she actually were having a baby, she would be the coolest kid ever. With the greatest parents ever, too.
We kept on talking for bit longer, just about work and stuff until we finally decided to actually sit down and have dinner. El made shit loads of spaghetti and tomato sauce so we would still have left overs even after we all ate until we were ready to throw up. El was just about to take a bite but she randomly pulled away. "I almost forgot!"
"What?" I asked nonchalantly, even though inside I was ready to shit myself. She startled the crap out of me!
"The school called, they asked me to do a presentation on Tuesday about what life's like after high school! They said I would be presenting in the homeroom I was in last year." El explained.
"Yeah, they called me too." Kim added. "Apparently Ashley and Brad got called too. They're calling anyone who still lives here."
"Whose homeroom are you in?" I asked.
"Miss. Poulterhanst's." They said in unison and I internally cursed. If Kimberley says anything about me and El around my friends, we're fucked. I shared a panicked look with El as Kimberley continued. "Ash and Brad are in Mrs. Jessome's, I think so we won't have to deal with those two idiots at least."
El and I kept on eating in silence. We were both trying to figure a way out of this without letting anyone know about us. Kim and Jack didn't notice us being quiet and kept on with a cheery conversation. We didn't realize how much spaghetti we had actually eaten until our stomachs were bloated and we physically couldn't lift up the fork.
"I'm…so…full…" Kimberley muttered, closing her eyes and letting out a comfortable sigh. I did the same. After living on the streets for two weeks, I treasured that feeling of having so much food that I could barely move.
"Can we all go to the living room and die?" Jack groaned and I nodded. He rolled out of his chair and landed on the floor with a thump. I opened my eyes to watch him as he started crawling to the living room.
Damn it… Now I would actually have to move.
The noise I made as I stood up was so close to a sex noise that it was insane. El and Kim giggled but made the same noises as they stood up too. The little hypocrites. Once in the living room, we all collapsed on the couch; Kimberley on top of Jack and El on top of me. I swear we laid there for hours but it couldn't have been over ten minutes. Either way, it was long enough that we didn't feel like we were going to explode if we moved.
Kim apparently digests quickly because the next moment she was up, running to the bookshelf where El kept some movies and video games that neither of us had time to use. The former cheerleader grabbed a game and whirled around to show us, a huge smile on her face. "Remember this, Ellie?"
It was Just Dance…
Seeing the game, El started laughing uncontrollably. "We have to play that! It's been forever since we made fools of ourselves!"
Jack looked at her wearily, "I don't think jumping up and down would be…healthy for the baby."
Oh right, she's pregnant. El seemed to realize this and pouted. "I guess… I'll just make fun of you guys while you play."
I scoffed. No way in hell that I was going to play that stupid dancing game. Thankfully, Kimberley dragged Jack up there instead. She chose some cheesy boy band song and off they went. Kimberley was just kind of dancing with her one hand because that was the one that had the Wii remote in it but Jack was going all out.
I pulled out my phone and started taping it. Kim was screaming at Jack because he was winning. She kept on reaching over to slap him but only ended up messing up more. By the end of the song, they were both dying from laughter and laying on the floor. Jack won.
My boss turned to me with a mischievous smirk on his face as he pointed the Wii remote at me. "I challenge Squid to a duel of dance!" he yelled obnoxiously loud. I wildly started shaking my head as El cheered me on. The girls grabbed me and literally pulled me up in front of the TV.
"Ugh, fine…" I growled. Nobody better see this other than them. "This is staying between us."
"Come on Squid!" El cheered, "Show who's the better couple!"
"Jack, you better not lose this for us." Kim growled playfully to her fiancé.
I grabbed the Wii remote with my right hand as the song began. It was some kind of Spanish song and it was really fast. I didn't exactly dance so for the first part I really just swung my remote around, trying to hit all the right moves. I could see Kimberley filming this with her phone as I jumped and swung my hands around.
"Why is this so hard?" I screamed. It was pretty pathetic to see two men awkwardly dancing to some video game but we were going at it hard. Like El said, let the best couple win.
By the end of the dance, I was sweating and panting. I could handle digging a hole every day for months but the second it came to dancing, I was dead. But not dead enough that I couldn't start cheering when I found out I won. I was jumping up and ran over to El, grabbing her and lifting her up, spinning her around in my arms. "BEST COUPLE EVER!" I screamed.
"I have to go punch a wall or something to get my masculinity back." I collapsed on the couch, El still in my arms and laughing. I let my head fall back and sighed in exhaustion. Winning was great but I was still so exhausted that it was unimaginable. We decided then that we couldn't handle another game so we just settled for laying on the couch and catching up.
Kim made us some tea, which I refused because I'm a man and men don't drink tea. But El took a cup and sipped it as she cuddled up to me, her head resting on my chest and my arms wrapped around her tiny body. I don't know when or how but we were a lot more touchy feely than we used to be.
"You two are too cute." Kim smirked as she pulled out her iPhone. I didn't really get that she was taking a picture but El seemed to because she smiled and held her mug close to her chest. I was too busy staring at her to notice Kim before she snapped the picture. "Squid, you're so whipped."
I scoffed, "Am not! Just take a look at your Jackie boy." We all turned to see Jack standing in the archway of the kitchen, holding Kimberley's tea that she had asked him to grab. He glanced up when he heard his name but it was too late to save him. He was so whipped he may as well have a collar and leash. And I'm saying this about the guy with longish black hair, stretchers and lips piercings and a tattoo sleeve.
"People really do change after high school." El said my thoughts.
Kimberley's eyebrows shot up as Jack took a seat next to her. "What do you mean?"
"Would you have gone for a guy like Jack last year when you were still head cheerleader?" El challenged and Kim bit her lip, knowing it was true. "I know you love him now, you just never expected you ever would."
Kim nodded, starting to understand what El was saying. "Like you and Squid. In high school, you two didn't even know each other existed but now look at you. I can tell when two people are in love and you guys are soul mates."
Or just really good actors. Seriously though, I think we deserve an award or something because not only have we tricked both of our bosses, but we've also got El's best friend fooled too. I always thought girls had this weird psychic bond that made it impossible to lie to each other or something along those lines.
"I'm glad we met." El whispered, more to me than to her friend.
"Me too." I said back and for Kimberley's sake (or mine) I planted a kiss on the top of El's head. "I really, really am."
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