It felt as if the games were coming at light speed. It was like every corner you turned there was another video to record and post, and it was starting to get a little tiring.
Luckily (or unluckily) for you, you'd be sitting out of this game due to your injury. Although playing Mario and Sonic 2012 Olympic's wasn't that physically challenging, Matt Raub demanded no chance of risk.
You sighed to yourself quietly, balancing the crutches you had received under your armpits, trying your best to fill in your eyebrows. After finishing up and putting the pencil back in your makeup bag, you threw your hair into a messy bun and slowly, but surly, made your way into the gaming room.
You stared down at your clothes, you were hoping nobody had noticed, but you were still in Shayne's x2 too big clothing. Who could blame you though? Oversized clothes are the best.
You pushed the door open and flop yourself down into the corner of the couch, sinking back to get comfortable. The crew was already in there, setting up lights, cameras, and preparing audio. You waved to them silently before pulling out your phone to pass time.
You decided against going on social media, unsure if the fans and your peers had calmed down since last nights post. Instead, you simply played a basic game.
After a few minutes, you felt the couch dip beside you. You turned your phone off and placed it on your lap before turning your attention toward whoever just sat down. "Hey, Keith." You smiled warmly at him, subconsciously tucking your hands in the sweater sleeves.
He returned the gesture before throwing his arm around you. "How you feelin'?" Keith asked, pressing himself into you to create some form of side hug. "I'm feeling okay," You answered with a weak smile, "I could be better, though." You concluded, gesturing at your wrapped ankle and your crutches that were propped up near by.
Keith sighed solemnly, flashing a small pity smile. "Don't worry, girl! We'll win this whole thing for you if you have to sit out for long!" He pushed your shoulder lightly, laughing a little. You laughed along before pushing him back, "Alright, I believe you." You giggled out, head resting on his shoulder afterward.
You sighed happily, "What would I do without you guys helping me through this?" You asked, mostly rhetorically. "Crash and burn, girl," Keith cracked a smile. "Crash and burn."
***
The rest of the members piled in around twenty minutes into your's and Keith's conversation, settling down and dividing themselves on either side of the couch.
You enjoyed being squished next to Keith, those twenty minutes really did a lot for your friendship and you got to know a lot more about each other, but you couldn't help but scoot yourself over in hopes Shayne would come and squeeze into that spot.
Much to your disappointment, he simply glanced your way before sitting the furthest from you. You felt your heart pang against your chest, did you do something?
You shook your head to rid the thought, this couldn't happen now, save the crying for later. You took comfort in Keith's body pressed to yours, sadly resting your head against his shoulder.
Keith looked down at you with confused eyes, noticing the sadness laced in your e/c hues. You simply shook your head, silently telling him 'don't worry about it.'
Keith nodded shortly, and you knew by the look in his face he would want to talk about it with you later. You let it be, not wanting to start a silent argument.
"You guys ready?" Sunny called from behind camera, snapping you out of your spiralling thoughts. Nods and 'yep!'s flooded the room and the cameramen started the countdown.
***
The competition started getting tight.
After watching Flitz win the javelin throw, Joven kick Ian's ass in ribbon dancing, Shayne beat Wes at synchronized swimming (while you blushed like a tomato, too focused on the fact that he was shirtless), Lasercorn beating Courtney in badminton, Keith losing to Anthony in horseback riding (his score was undoubtedly embarrassing), Olivia beating Mari in fencing, and Sohinki shouting non-stop about Shadow having a gun, It was time for the tie breaker.
You started to sweat for your team while you sat and still consoled Keith about his (embarrassing) score, Sohinki and Flitz were decided to play against each other. Nobody wanted to walk through the mousetraps.
Flitz hurriedly picked Shadow as his character, giving Sohinki a snark look. "What!? I was going to pick-" Flitz cut him off, "I know, Shadow has a gun."
You could see the fire in Sohinki's eyes while everyone in the back 'ooh'ed at Flitz's remark. With determination in his eyes, Sohinki went and picked Luigi.
You bit your nails nervously as you watched them go. Perfects, greats, and goods flashing on the screen as the computer calculated the score. After finishing, everybody went silent, waiting for the score to show on screen.
It was like your eardrums were going to explode as your team screamed, Flitz winning by 0.22 points. Your eyes felt as if they were going to pop out of your head, they were so wide with surprise.
"Flitz! Oh my god!" You cheered, jumping up and down on your butt, trying to force yourself off the couch to join your team in celebrating. Flitz beat you to it, scooping you up from under your armpits.
You laughed with joy, Koala wrapping yourself around Flitz while he spun you around. He put you down gently, Mari passing you your crutches so you could stable yourself. You smiled in thanks before joining everybody where the mousetraps were set, this was going to be fun to watch.
***
It was about two hours later and you found yourself in kitchen, hungry for a light snack. You hummed to yourself as you (gracefully) hopped around the kitchen to grab some cucumber out of the fridge.
You pulled out a cutting board and a knife, peacefully starting to cut the cucumber apart.
Shayne sat at the table silently, scrolling through Instagram with a bored expression before focusing on you. She's still wearing those? He thought as he examined his clothes from yesterday that were still draped around you.
Man, she looks so- Shayne's thoughts were cut off by the sudden drop of a knife and a slam of a fist. "Can you stop staring?" You asked shortly, turning yourself to glare at him.
Shayne's eyes widened in surprise, did you have eyes in the back of your head?
Before he could answer, you spoke. "First, you don't even try to say hi to me this morning, next you completely ignore me when I made a spot for you to sit on the couch next to me," The words were coming out of your mouth like a sharp bullet.
You closed your eyes and took a deep breath, "and now you're staring at me." You finished. "What's your deal?"
Oh no, Shayne panicked, She's mad. What do I do, what do I- You interrupted his thoughts again. "Hello?" You questioned with a raised brow.
Shayne decided to lie, "I was wondering when you were going to give my clothes back."
You felt your heart deflate and a pit form in your stomach before anger washed over you. "Are you fucking kidding me?" You snapped, stomping your hurt foot down, ignoring the sharp pain that flooded up your leg.
To say you were angry was an understatement, you were practically fuming now. "What the hell happened to you?" You questioned, "What the hell happened to us?" Your voiced cracked with the last word.
Shayne's face drooped into a sad look, but you still wouldn't let him speak. "We used to be so close, what flipped in your brain to change your mind?"
You didn't want to bother hearing the answer.
You shook your head before taking the sweater off of your body to reveal your black tank. You threw it at him, "You can get the sweats later." You mutter as you started to crutch yourself away.
With a loss of appetite and a gain of tears, you went off to find Keith.
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A/n: Some happiness and surprise, some angst >:)
Decided I would bless you with a longer chapter since I don't know when the next update will be!
I hope you enjoyed! :)