Chapter 39 - XXXVIII (2/2)
Vivi and Brie both nod. Laia quickly made her way to the table before anyone could sit there, making the three girls who followed her chuckle upon sitting down.
”You were like a rampaging bull!” Brie teases with a grin.
Laia didn't bother restraining a smile. ”I just wanted us to get a table,”
”Babe, you didn't have to,” Vivi flashes a smirk and subtly points at a nearby guy who brightens at the sight of her. ”He got it covered.”
”Who's that?” Shane asks, checking out the guy briefly before returning her attention back to her friends and making a ”meh” face.
Vivi flips her hair. Laia wondered what her shampoo was. ”A guy who likes me, I think,”
”You think?” Brie turns towards the guy who was still looking at Vivi without an ounce of embarrassment. ”He's still looking at you, by the way.”
”Ah,” Vivi makes a shooing motion with her hand. The guy's eyes widened and left immediately. ”There, no more,”
”Do you have a lot of guys who reserve tables for you?” Laia asks with genuine curiosity.
Vivi cocks her head to the side as if she was thinking. ”I guess? Most of them are my acquaintances so--”
”Pizza for Shane and ramen for Vi,” Jake suddenly appears behind the girls he mentioned and placed the plates in front of them before sitting beside Vivi. ”They didn't have pizzas with cheese filling, though,”
Brie looks up. ”They didn't?”
Jake's eyes widened at being addressed directly by Brie but regained composure quickly. ”Yeah. They only had the ones without,”
”Boring!” Vivi complains even if she didn't even order a pizza.
Laia can relate. She also complains about everything, albeit only in her mind.
”Where's Samuel?” Shane bites into her pizza.
Jake turned towards the cashier. ”He's still waiting for Laia's grilled cheese,”
”My-- what?”
”Your grilled cheese,” Jake repeats. ”You wanted one, remember?”
”Were you kidding?” Vivi asks with an evil grin.
Shane hits her with her plastic fork. ”Laia wouldn't lie about that!”
”Chill, Sha,” Vivi returns her attention to Laia who was already on the verge of either laughing or feeling bad about the asshat who she thinks had been standing by the cashier for fifteen minutes already instead of eating already. ”Laia?”
”I don't think Sammy will be mad,” Brie tries to reassure Laia with a smile. ”I think.”
That wasn't very reassuring.
Laia sees the asshat walking towards them with a tray.
And an obvious frown on his face.
Brie's words were definitely not reassuring at all.
The asshat places Laia's plate of one grilled cheese sandwich in front of her with a grunt. ”Here's your expensive ass sandwich,”
”Expensive--”
”I paid for it,” The asshat cuts her off. ”Consider it charity,”
Brie elbows him the moment he sat on her side. ”Don't be rude, Sammy. Laia didn't ask you to pay for her sandwich, anyway,”
”That's true,” Vivi adds after slurping the noodles from her ramen. ”She doesn't need you to pay for anything, and we girls can absolutely pay--,”
The asshat raised both his hands in the air. ”No need to go all about misogyny and all, Vi. I know that gleam on your eye when you're about to launch a one hour monologue about--”
”You asshole!” Vivi smacks him in the head.
Shane giggles. ”Do you guys remember when Vi did that speech about how, as she quote, we should get rid of patriarchy, in front of our teacher who was definitely a believer of the patriarchy system?”
”Oh, fill me in with the details,” The asshat leaned in closer.
Vivi laughs. ”I still remember how he could barely keep his butt on the chair and wait for me to finish!”
Sometimes Laia forgets how they have been classmates since freshmen year, with the exception of the asshat, of course.
It's sometimes both terrifying and exciting to think of how time quickly passes people by.
”When I was finally done with my speech which was amazing by the way,” Vivi once again flips her hair, making her companions laugh at her confidence. ”He made me sit down on my chair and started having a monologue of his own regarding the importance of keeping the traditions alive and all I could think about that moment was to choke him!”
”Vivi!” Brie's eyes widened.
”I swear!” Vivi laughs even more before lowering her voice to a whisper. ”You didn't hear it from me, but the recording I sent of his monologue was definitely one of the reasons why he got fired!”
”He got fired?” Laia asks after biting from her sandwich, which tasted good.
Great, actually, except for its price which Laia didn't want to know.
”Yeah,” Shane replies for Vivi who was slurping her noodles again. ”I heard he's not even allowed to nearby schools after his whole monologue.”
”What year did that happen?” The asshat asks. Laia only noticed how he didn't even buy anything for himself except for a can of cola.
She didn't say anything about it, though.
”Sophomore?” Brie turns to her friends who nodded. ”Yeah, sophomore year.”
”My sophomore year was definitely bad compared to yours,” The asshat shook his head in distaste. ”Worst year, even,”
”Care to tell why?” Vivi asks.
The asshat clasped his hands together and started talking.