Here it is folks! As always, please pretty please with an Anna on top (hehe) let me know what you think! Chapter 3 will arrive sometime tomorrow or the day after. Read on, nerds. xx
They arrived at the hotel after an hour and a half of driving mixed with random break out jam sessions to Adele's latest and Anna trying to get Brittany to talk about her recent split, continuously failing.
"Ya know, you're gonna have to spill eventually. I will get it out of you."
"Kendrick, you are not going to get me drunk just so I'll talk. It's done, we're done. There's nothing to even talk about, I'm fine."
"You may be an award winning actress Snow, but you don't fool me."
They exchanged a glare as Brittany pulled into a parking spot outside the hotel. They were silent other than the muttered 'thank you's' as they held doors open for each other on the way up to their room.
"Who's decision was it that we had to share a bed again?" Anna asked as she threw her bags on the floor, ran and flopped onto the large bed face down.
"Since there was only two rooms left in the whole place and it's only for the weekend." she plopped herself down on her back next to Anna while the brunette nodded in acknowledgement. They lay there still for what felt like five minutes, but apparently between mumbles about what they're wearing to the rehearsal dinner they must've fallen asleep. Anna rolled over, "Shit. Britt, wake up." it was 9pm and they had slept for most of the evening, missing their planned meet up with Alexis, Ester and Rebel. She nudged Brittany again, "Dude. Up. Now. lets go." which only earned her a groan and a slap from the blonde. She grabbed her phone only to see twelve texts from Rebel (that probably included very crude gifs), two missed calls from Alexis and a voicemail from Ester. She clicked on Rebels name and waited for her to answer.
"Hey, so so sorry we missed you guys, we fell asleep and lost track of time."
"Nah don't even worry. Alexis didn't show either. Something about not finding a babysitter in time, she won't be here until the morning."
"Ah cool, now i don't feel as bad." she said scratching the back of her neck.
"Raincheck then?"
"Sounds good."
"Sweet." they both hung up. Anna fell back onto the bed and nudged the still half asleep Brittany with her elbow.
"Hey, you. Pizza and wine?" she poked the blonde and said blonde grumbled in agreement without moving a muscle. Anna sat up and picked up the phone on the night stand next to the bed, dialing room service. No answer. What kind of hotel doesn't answer their room service? She'd just have to go out and get things herself. "No answer down stairs, I'll be back in 20. Keys?" Without lifting her head the blonde just pointed to her purse on the small dresser in the center of the room. After fixing her disheveled hair, she grabbed Brittany's keys, her phone, purse and walked out the door.
She was stopped at a light when her phone buzzed.
Snow 9:32pm: Pepperoni. Moscato.
Anna 9:33pm: Well good morning sleeping beauty.
Snow 9:33pm: Shut up and bring the goods.
The light flicked to green, she placed her phone in the cupholder and continued to drive forward.
Minutes later she pulled back into the hotel parking lot and started heading up to their shared room with 'the goods' in hand.
They were three episodes into Game of Thrones (Anna won a bet) when one of them finally broke the silence.
"So… tomorrow…" Brittany said as she finished off her third glass of wine.
"Is Saturday?" Anna replied picking at the last slice of pizza.
"You know what I mean." with an accompanied eye roll of course.
"Do I? 'Cause I dunno Britt, I'm pretty sure today is Friday which would make tomorrow Saturday but whatever you gotta tell yoursel-"
"DUDE." clearly the alcohol was getting to them.
Anna threw her hands up, alarmed by the current state of her friend, set her wine glass down, got up and started walking towards the bathroom.
"Where the hell are you going?"
"To the shower? to take a shower? That's what normal people do, I think? Or would you rather have me reek of plane filth while you have to sleep next to me? I obviously don't know your type Snow, but hey - if that works for you then so be it."
"You're not gonna sit down with me and talk about this?"
"About what?"
"TOMORROW!"
"Ooooh, right. The Saturday thing." Brittany rolled her eyes at Anna's response, got up from the bed and walked over to the brunette.
"Tomorrow, two of our closest friends are getting married. And you and your pain in the ass planted this idea in my head that one of us is next." she started pacing back and forth after motioning between the two of them dramatically with her hands like she was Dinero or something.
"alright, Chloe, I'm gonna need you to calm the fuck down." as she let those words leave her lips Brittany threw her a 'ha ha very funny' look at the mention of her overdramatic character. "Before we even begin to discuss this, I'm gonna need more booze." she threw her hands up and grabbed her glass and filled it up.
"Now, what were you saying?" as she took a sip.
"Tomorrow. Anna and Skylar. Married."
"Ah yes, sounds familiar."
"Ugh. Anna!"
"Jesus! I'm sorry! Okay okay okay, sit down, grab a drink. Let's chat, er whatever."
Pouring herself another glass of wine, finishing off the first bottle, she sits herself down at the desk chair and turns to face Anna who was sitting indian style on the bed.
"So… tomorrow. I honestly don't know why you're so freaked about this right now. I was just overthinking, it's no big deal."
"Yeah, well your overthinking turned into my overthinking and now I can't stop."
"I didn't even mean anything crazy by it, I was just stating the obvious. It's all bound to happen eventually. I mean, like yeah it could be one of us, but there's like six others that it could happen to. Geez dude I didn't think you were even thinking about any of it. You just broke up with Tyler after so long I didn't even know you were- never-mind. You don't wanna talk about it, we don't have to talk about it."
"It's not that I don't want to talk about it, there's just literally nothing to talk about."
"Something clearly happened. I know you well enough to know that you wouldn't just let something that strong fade, you wouldn't just end it because you needed 'space'." air quotes included.
"That's not the point. I just needed, something. I don't know what. I just…did."
"Well, whether or not you want to talk about it, I'm here."
"I know.. thanks." taking a sip of wine. "Now, about tomorrow."
"Tomorrow is nothing. All we have to do is look somewhat presentable, clap when necessary, cry when necessary, and most importantly, make crude jokes when unnecessary." Brittany chuckled into her wine glass before taking a gulp.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Bedtime?"
"Bedtime? We still have like a half a bottle of wine left."
"Fine." Snow grabbed Anna's glass, filled it to the top and then finished off the bottle into her own.
"But if we're gonna talk, I'm gonna need more alcohol."
"Spill it, blondie." she settled herself more into the bed, like a dog.
"Ugh okay." she took a deep breath.
Why was this such a big deal? Brittany and her told each other everything. Drunk or not, they always told each other what was up even if they didn't want to hear it.
"Alright." she breathed out. "I didn't love him anymore. My stomach didn't do backflips when his name popped up on my phone, my eyes didn't light up when he walked in the door. The typical Nicholas Sparks bullshit that's actually true that no one believes."
"So what did you tell him then?"
"That there was someone else." she sipped her wine, looking down simultaneously.
"Someone else? Damn Snow, you've been holding out on me more than I thought. What is with you dude?"
"I just needed to breathe. I couldn't deal with all of this," hands flailing, "shit on top of the wedding and seeing everyone again and work, it was just too much to deal with."
"Okay, while I understand what you mean, I just don't understand why you'd lie to him, to me…"
"I didn't lie, I just.. withheld information."
"Information that normal friends tell each other. It's a quick 'Hey how are ya oh by the way' type of thing. Not a 'oh maybe I'll tell you eventually but I don't think we'll ever talk about it because I'm too scared to, even though we both know Kendrick is going to get it out of me eventually' type of thing."
"Yeah well, easier said than done."
"You know you could've told me. And who is this 'someone else?" again with the air quotes.
"No one you know." another sip of wine, accompanied by a tuck of her hair behind her ear.
"oooookay?" they sat in silence and sipped on their wine for a minute.
"It's not that I didn't want to tell you. I just, "
"No, it's okay. You didn't have to talk about it, I just, just wanted to make sure you're okay."
"I'm okay." with a half assed smile, lying of course. But Anna would deal with that later.
"Bedtime?" Anna asked, before Brittany downed her entire glass of wine.
"No better time like the present." the both got up and Anna walked toward the bathroom.
"Hey.. Kendrick?"
"What's up?" Anna said while she was rummaging for her pajamas in her suitcase.
"It's really good to see you." This time accompanied by a not-so-half assed smile.
"Yeah, you too." she shot her with a small smile and headed toward the bathroom and then stopped before reaching for the door handle.
"Hey so when you said there was someone else, is there? someone else?"
Brittany sighed to herself, "Jury's still out on that one."
Anna nodded and continued into the bathroom, turned on the shower and got in.
Brittany sat there in silence in the middle of the bed after changing into an old t-shirt and some running shorts. She ran her fingers through her hair and sighed listening to the water hitting the shower floor. "Well, shit."