I lie around restlessly on my bed, waiting for Jade to come in. As if on cue, she quietly opens the door and sneaks into my room. I immediately jump off the bed.
“Didja get ‘em?” I ask rushing to her side, nearly trampling her.
“Yes, Ali. Come on, you know me. I got everything!” she whispers, quietly emptying the contents from the paper bag she was holding. Onto my bed falls 4 Kit-Kats, a couple Butterfingers; regular and king size snickers, a huge pack of sour patch kids, gummy worms, and two Big Macs.
“Yay!” I shriek, jumping onto my bed next to the food.
“Oh, but that’s not all. I also got your favourite!” she reaches into another bag and carefully pulls out two plastic cups.
“A frostie from Wendy’s! Girl you are THE best!”
She sits down beside me and laughs along, “Well, what can I say?”
I immediately unwrap my Big Mac and sink my teeth into it. She follows my lead and we devour our dinner.
“The guys would KILL us if they knew we had this!” I say, reaching for a Snickers.
“I know! Ever since Fatima put them on that new diet they’ve been all grouchy!” she agrees. She throws her leftovers into the garbage and continues to rummage around in her backpack. “And the best part is… Twinkies!” she says, presenting me with a Hostess box.
“Yes! Jade, I think you just saved my life.”
“Yo, yo Brian!” Nick asks, poking him to get his friend’s attention. They had been shooting pool in the lobby when Nick had noticed Jade run quickly into the elevator with two large bags.
“What?! Can’t you see I’m trying to concentrate here!?” he yells, waving off Nick’s hand.
“But where is Jade going with all that stuff?”
Brian immediately perks up at his girlfriend’s name, “Jade? Where?” He sets the cue down and follows Nick’s gaze.
“Over there! Look!” he points her out and Brian raises his eyebrows.
“Let’s follow her!”
They take off running as the elevator doors close.
“We couldn’t have just waited for another elevator, Bri?” asks a panting Nick of a gasping Brian.
“I want to see what she has in those bags!” he pulls Nick up the rest of the flight of stairs.
As soon as they hit their floor they stop, dead in their tracks. They sniff around for a second, trying to identify the scent.
“Food!” they both yell, dashing down the hall to Ali’s room.
“What was that?” Jade asks, as we look up from our food.
“It sounded like Brian and Nick yelling at something.”
We shrug it off and continue pigging out. All of a sudden we hear two sets of feet pounding down the hallway towards the room.
“Oh shit! They know!” Jade exclaims and we scramble up the candy.
She stuffs as much as she can into her bag and I shove the rest under the bed.
“What do we do with these?” I ask nervously, pointing to two leftover Twinkies.
She takes one and shoves it in her mouth. I pick up the other and do the same thing. In trying to stuff them in, we smear the white frosting all over our mouths. We throw ourselves back on the bed, trying to look as nonchalant as possible, and lay down as our boyfriends storm into the room.
“Why are y’all laying like that?” Brian asks, as Jade and I turn to look at each other. We shrug, and turn back to them.
“You guys… have some white stuff on your mouths,” Nick says, his curiosity getting the better of him. He then lets out a big smile. “Brian, I think our girlfriends just had…”
Before he can get another word out, we cough out our Twinkies all over the guys and burst out laughing - Jade curled up in a ball holding her stomach, me nearly falling off the bed.
“You sick pervert! We know what you like to think about!” Jade exclaims.
“Help me out here, Bri!” Nick begs.
“You know… that really wouldn’t be too bad.”
“BRIAN!” we yell simultaneously. Then crack up laughing again.
“You two! Ugh, we don’t need to be hearing this,” I sigh, shaking my head.
Jade nods her head and lets out a few more giggles.
“Oh, I got an idea. You two close your eyes,” I say pointing to them. They follow my directions and I sit up on the bed. “Oh, Jade! Uhh, god!” I yell, hitting my fist on the pillow. Tears flow down her cheeks as she tries not to laugh. She kicks her feet against the bed and follows through with my plan.
“Alicia! Oh, Ali!” she moans back.
“Oh shit! I gotta go to the bathroom!” Nick yells, his eyes still clenched shut.
“Not if I beat you there!” Brian says, as they both race to the restroom.
“GUYS!” we yell, falling back onto the bed giggling.
“Am I romantic?” Brian suddenly asks Nick as they head back towards Ali’s room.
“Romantic?” Nick looks at his friend and laughs. “Kinda askin’ the wrong person here dude.”
“You know what I mean!” Brian says.
“Uh, well I guess you probably are. I mean you tell Jade you love her and stuff.”
“I do that ALL the time. But she was sayin’ earlier how romantic it was that you and Ali ran off like that.”
“That WAS romantic,” Nick agrees with a big grin. “Best day of my life so far.”
“I guess I need to GET romantic,” Brian says sadly.
“You can’t GET romantic,” Nick grins. “Ya gotta FEEL it. Just do whatever you wanna do with Jade and she’ll think you’re Mr Romance himself.”
“Man…” Brian shakes his head. “I never thought I’D be gettin’ relationship advice from YOU!”
“Hey, I’m good!” Nick says. Brian laughs and suddenly changes direction. “Hey, where you goin’?”
“I just thought of somethin’!”
“What?” Nick races after his friend and listens intently as Brian starts to explain his idea.