tiny
what ya up to?
jean louise
nothin much
still trying to figure out how to love the
mirror i bought not once but twice
tiny
oh my god
so you're at home?
jean louise
yes ma'am
why
tiny
just wondering
i miss you
jean louise
i'll cry
don't tell anyone
but i will
tiny
telling the other valentines that's all
it takes to get you to cry
jean louise
not for them
z and jack would have to do something
terrible to make me cry
tiny
didn't you cry because of that ft
where z fell out of his bed in only
his underwear
jean louise
thats cause i was laughing so hard
and jack was laughing so hard and so were
you and so i couldn't STOP laughing
and then once he wasn't in pain z started
his wheezy little laugh and made it worse
tiny
fair enough
i'm getting stared at cause i'm
laughing just thinking of it
jean louise
i just started laughing thinking about you
getting stared at for laughing about me
laughing too hard bc you were laughing so
hard bc jack was laughing so hard
tiny
i miss you so much
jean louise
who wouldn't
tiny
OH
i have a bone to pick with you
but it'll have to wait
jean louise
why does it have to wait
* * *
A series of knocks on my front door pulls me from the conversation before she can type back a response. How dare whoever's behind this door make me have to stop paying attention to my favorite person in the world? It's downright offensive. Upsetting. Enraging. Okay, I'm done with that.
I swing the door open and my jaw drops. I'm surprised my entire body doesn't drop. It's a gunshot to the chest in the best way possible. I don't know how to describe it. A steep drop on a rollercoaster. Screaming the best part of your favorite song with the windows down on the highway. Seeing my best friend who should be across the country smiling at my front door.
Val walks forward and I expect her to hug me but she goes straight past, "I have to pee. Quinn refused to let us stop in case you decided to go somewhere. Didn't wanna fuck with the surprise."
"Quinn?" I question, smiling like an idiot watching her go right past and down the hall. I don't even get how she knew where the bathroom was. But as soon as the door clicks shut, I turn to Quinn who is apparently also here. I'm very overwhelmed.
"Surprise," he says. He closes the front door and my arms are around his neck in an instant. A hug, not an attack! Well, it's debatable. With as little hesitation as me, his arms wrap around my waist tightly.
"Did you help with this?"
"Figured might as well do it when the Ducks are coming to town." His voice is low. Doesn't matter when he's right by my ear.
I loosen my hold and sadly decide to pull away. Val doesn't exactly know the whole situation between me and Quinn. It's not that I want it to be a secret. It's that I don't know if he wants it to be. We're not even doing anything. We check in with each other every single day. We just... Exist. We don't ignore the other's existence completely like we had been. And we've kissed a few times recently. No big deal!
"Thank you," I say.
He shrugs. "You were homesick. Thought I could bring home to you."
"Yeah." I smack his chest, a bit harder than playful but still light. "I hate surprises."
"I know."
"Then why'd you surprise me?"
"Would you have let me do this?"
"No."
He holds his hand up. Silently saying, 'That's my point.'
Something hits me. Not literally. "Wait, why would you want to do it when the Ducks are playing you guys?"
Quinn doesn't even say anything again. He looks at me. If he hadn't managed to give me one of the few surprises I've ever liked, I would have started to tell him not to look at me as if I'm an idiot. But he did give me one of the few surprises I've ever liked.
"No." I shake my head, smacking his chest again. "Quinn, no. You've already done too--"
I didn't even realize Val had made her return. Until I heard her laugh and the roller coaster feeling came rushing back in full force. "I told you she'd do this."
"I'm paying you back, Quinn. You've done too much."
"No, you're not," he laughs.
"You're not even gonna realize I'm paying you back. It's probably not even gonna be with money."
"Okay, seriously." V slings an arm over my shoulders. "As a group, there needs to be less offerings of bodies."
I shove her arm off, making her laugh. "I was not offering him my body."
"You were so offering him your body and it's okay."
"You're sleeping on the street."
"You love me too much for that."
"Yeah," I say, still smiling like an idiot. It's starting to physically hurt. "I do love you too much for that."
Val's jaw drops. She points at me. Looks at Quinn, then me, then Quinn. Checking to make sure we all heard it. Quinn nods, confirming it for her which makes her throw her arms around me in a bone-crushing hug.
* * * * *
valentine.davis00: this shit was literally poisonous
Tagged: _quinnhughes scoutschuyler14
finchschuyler14: AND THE CROWD GOES MILD
scoutschuyler14: you were a mistake
finchschuyler14: says the one born when one of the planned ones was still breast feeding
valentine.davis00: LMAOOOOO
_quinnhughes: "I don't know the last time I bought an onion but I have one"
valentine.davis00: "There's some weird feeling spots on the lemon but we'll use the more normal half"
scoutschuyler14: THE LEMON WAS QUINNS IDEA
jackhughes: yo what
valentine.davis00: hiiiii
atticus.schuyler: she's about to cut her finger tips off
scoutschuyler14: mind your damn business
valentine.davis00: we had bigger issues than a little bit of blood
trevorzegras: Sunday night plans???
valentine.davis00: shhhhhh
trevorzegras: @jackhughes L
scoutschuyler14: hope everyone realizes i almost stabbed quinn twice
jackhughes: the earth is healing
* * * * *
Valentine's Valentines
rowdy
dude
val
tiny
what
rowdy
why'd you have to go for a ducks
game
tiny
I DIDNT GO FOR A DUCKS GAME
schuy
she's here for me :)
rowdy
no duh
zegs
Dont be so jealous
rowdy
i have a better question too
schuy
oh god
tiny
here it goes
rowdy
whose idea was it
zegs
Well Schuy hates surprises (+1 to Z)
schuy
why does a basic fact get you a point
what point system is this
cause i don't have a point system
zegs
Seems like Hughy forgot it so
Point!
tiny
it was a surprise
schuy
a good enough surprise that i let it slide
for the planners
but the thing about going to the ucks game
is still not a good thing to bring up
rowdy
the what game
schuy
canUCKS vs dUCKS
ucks
zegs
Oh god
The guac poisoned her brain
tiny
she did eat the most
despite gagging every time
schuy
in my defense
wine drunk
rowdy
why was huggy there for the surprise
zegs
You ask so many questions bro
tiny
it was all quinn
i just went with it
* * * * *
"Wait, what?"
Val huffs. A laugh melted into confusion. "You didn't know it was all Quinn?"
He'd left hours ago. V and I still lounged out on my couch the same way we were when he was here. It felt so normal. Felt like before I ever had Vancouver in my plans even though Quinn was never in my life then. I don't know. I was so relaxed. I haven't been that relaxed since Vancouver came into question.
"No. I thought... I mean." What did I think? All I knew was that he was part of it somehow. Lately, it seems like he's part of everything in my life even when he shouldn't be. "That's crazy. Why would he do that?"
"Why would he do that?" She seems appalled I'd even ask that.
"He's not going to see you that much, like y'know? He's not getting much out of it."
"Oh, honey," she mumbles.
"What?"
"He gets seeing you happy."
It's my turn to laugh and morph into confusion. "Sure, Val."
"You're so stubborn," she says. "Quinn doesn't feel the same way he did four months ago. He doesn't. You don't. Think about that one."
"Please, he entertains far too many girls in front of me to have gone the same path."
"Or he's really on the same path and thinks you can't fucking stand him outside of the physical shit either."
It's too much. Too different. "We should get some sleep."