“Are you breaking up with me?” Morgan asked.
“No,” I grumbled.
“Good. That would be a really dumb way for this to end,” she replied.
“Do you have to do that?” I asked.
“What?”
“The ‘I know everything and will explain to you how it all works’ thing,” I replied, standing up and walking over to the bed.
She scooted over to give me some room, eyeing the floor. “What are you talking about?” she asked quietly.
“You say these, like, absolute statements. It’s not like you’ll say you think I’m not helping, I’m just ‘not helping.’ You’ll even explain how dumb a certain method of breaking up would be.”
“It was a joke. I was trying to lighten the mood. I’m just not very funny, I guess,” Morgan replied in a defensive voice. “I’ve always talked like this.”
“I’ve always wanted to find out why people do what they do.”
“Yes, but that was exhausting me.”
“Well, the way you talk down to me is exhausting me,” I reasoned.
She huffed. “I’ll try to stop myself if I see myself doing it,” she replied quietly.
I nodded. “I’ll try to save the backstory questions until after we’ve solved stuff.”
She nodded, and we didn’t say anything for a long time. After a bit, Morgan slowly lowered herself onto me, her head ending up on my chest. Neither of us said anything, but eventually, she looked up at me right as I looked down at her. We both chuckled softly, and before we knew it, we were shyly kissing each other.
Our lips parted and our eyes fluttered open. She slowly removed her head from my chest and grabbed her phone, groaning to herself. “This fucking sucks,” she grumbled.
I sighed in response, checking my watch. “I should probably talk to Doug soon,” I told her. “I think we both could do with some alone time anyways.”
“Yeah, probably,” Morgan replied, looking at me and giving me a hesitant smile.
***
“So you two understand our situation?” Morgan asked Crystal and Lexi.
“Maybe if you get me a McChicken, yes,” Lexi joked.
“Lexi, can you focus for one minute?” Morgan all but barked.
“Yeah, yeah, we get it,” Lexi dejectedly mumbled.
“It’s gonna be hard to get the group together after this one,” Crystal whined. “And summer just started! Whatever the fuck happened, it better have been worth it.”
“The best way to beat it is to let Milo know it hasn’t affected us,” Morgan reasoned, looking around the McDonald’s we were in, as if he could be there. “The sooner he sees how little power he has, the sooner he’ll stop his little games.”
Crystal’s eyes lit up with an idea. “We could just go back to calling him Sadie, just for a week, see if-”
“Absolutely not,” Morgan immediately replied. “Crystal, I’m disappointed in you.”
“It was just an idea,” Crystal mumbled, sitting back in her seat.
“Where’s Taylor, anyway?” Lexi asked.
“With Joel,” Morgan clarified. “She’s barely left his side for the past twenty-four hours.”
“Like an obedient puppy,” I mused.
“Whatever works,” Morgan added. “Okay, fuck it, I want more, I’m getting a McDouble. Lexi, w-”
“McChicken!” Lexi reminded her. “You still owe me for last time.”
“I paid that back, but whatever,” Morgan huffed. “And for the cute one?”
Morgan turned to look at me, followed by Crystal and Lexi. I turned to Morgan and smiled. “Didn’t you already ask Lexi?” Morgan and I shared a giggle. “Um, maybe my own McDouble. Thanks, s-sweetheart.”
“Nothing more romantic than getting fat together,” Crystal remarked flatly. Morgan flipped her the bird as she walked off, leaving me with Crystal and Lexi. “Nah, but seriously,” Crystal continued. “You two are really cute together.”
Lexi ignored Crystal and Morgan, and gave me a knowing smirk. She liked it when anyone called her cute. “Thanks, Quinn,” she sang.
“Anytime,” I replied. As annoying as her joking exterior could be, I actually found Lexi surprisingly easy to get along with. She tended to act up in crowds, but if you could engage her in what felt to her like a one-on-one, she actually was a pretty fun person. “So, speaking of, how did you and that blond boy get along at that last party?”
Lexi rolled her big blue eyes. “Sucked,” she answered annoyedly. “He had no idea what he was doing. Went way too fast, way too rough, and was only interested in cumming and going.”
“Coming and going?” I asked.
“C-U-M,” Crystal clarified.
“Oh,” I replied. “Sorry to hear that.”
“So am I,” Lexi grumbled. “Just once I’d like to get a guy that knows how to fuck. Or is at least nice about it. Taylor got Joel, apparently he has one of the biggest dicks in the school.”
I rolled my eyes. Lexi was, if nothing else, Lexi. I sipped away at my unsweetened iced tea as Lexi continued.
“…And Morgan got to have Quinn, who is a fucking gentleman and ate her out even though she never blew him!”
I instantly choked on my tea. It took a good few seconds to clear my throat. Lexi looked a little surprised at my reaction, but Crystal just gave me a ‘here we go’ face. “…What?” I finally asked with a little heat.
“No? Am I wrong?” Lexi asked innocently.
Right on cue, Morgan came back with a tray of food, and I looked up at her. “Who are you telling about our sex life?!” I asked with a little more anger to my voice than intended.
Morgan shot Lexi a look. The normally stubborn Lexi just turned pink and shrunk down in the presence of Morgan. Morgan herself just sighed. “I was tired, I was talking about you, and it slipped out. It was just to Lexi and Crystal. If you want I can try to keep it more private.”
Crystal broke into a smile. “Damn girl, you gave in really easily!” she commented. “Is Quinn some sort of secret super dom or something?”
“Yeah, handcuffs and blindfolds,” I joked as Morgan sat down. “No. We just both know when something upsets the other. I don’t see why a couple talking out things that upset them in a healthy way means she’s whipped or something.”
Crystal rolled her eyes. “Cheesy,” she remarked.
“I dunno,” Lexi softly said, staring longingly at us. Morgan gave me a kiss on the cheek as she handed me my food. “I think it’s kinda sweet. Like, we want a guy that’ll dick us down, but Morgan and Quinn are just vibing as a couple already. No drama.”
Morgan chuckled. “We get our fair share. Remember, Milo’s not here right now for a reason.”
“A reason you won’t even fully tell us,” Crystal added.
Lexi, as usual, was only focusing on her point. “How did you do it?” she asked.
I paused, looking from side to side, realizing that she was asking me. “Huh? How did I do what?”
“Everything. How did you get Morgan, how did you know she was so… like, how did you figure out how to communicate as, like, a couple so quickly?”
I blushed a little and scratched the back of my head. “Honestly, she got me more than I got her,” I confessed. “She came to my work a few times and I-”
“You work? Where?” Lexi asked.
“GameStop. So she came into my work and kept asking about stuff.”
Lexi turned to Morgan and gave her a mischievous grin. “You don’t even like games!”
Morgan simply gave her an all-too-innocent smile in response, then began to eat her food. We all dove in, not saying anything for a bit.
“I just wish I had what you have,” Lexi bitterly mumbled after a bite.
Great story! And..great story telling!