Avery's POV
"Four hours of fun, are you ready?" Callum shouted as he lifted his fist to fist-pump the air multiple times.
I groan and slump backwards into the cushioned chair. It's not like I didn't want to spend time with everyone here, it's just that I was exhausted. And I kind of just wanted to chill. I had a feeling that Bentley would be doing otherwise. But it was okay, I did love them I guess.
"Okay, I have my road trip Spotify playlist, five packs of beer and pop tarts. I. Am. Ready. Let's go!" He said dragging out the "o" for longer than what I assumed to be humanly possible.
I cover my ears with a giant pillow and try to save what was left of my sanity.
"Callum-" the door opens and I see Keegan standing a bit too close to Eva. His smile was too big compared to his usual smile. It was quite unsettling on him actually.
I slowly pull the pillow up and over my face again to hide from Eva a bit longer.
The last time I'd seen her she'd thought I was pregnant. And the time before that I ran like a little bitch from her. So I was in no way ready to see her now. Or like...ever really.
What made Keegan think it was a good idea to bring her anyways? I mean I loved Eva but there was an unspoken tension and I wasn't ready to deal with that. This trip was supposed to make me feel better and forget my issues, not the other way around.
Not that she was the source of all my issues, far from it actually but I'd rather not have to deal with awkward glances and uncomfortable small talk.
I feel Dawson leave from his seat next to me, and at first, I don't mind. But then I hear an exchange between him and Eva and I roughly pull the pillow back down and throw it across the room on impulse. Oops?
Everyone's eyes look to me and I just shift on the couch. "My bad. There was a stain. God knows what it could be." I laugh awkwardly and rub my arm in a way to try to release the awkwardness. It obviously failed.
Eva looked away from Dawson and smiles a small and apprehensive smile my way. I return in basic courtesy but I'm pretty sure I looked like I was in pain based on Callum's wince.
"Eva's coming by the way," Keegan tells me nodding like his information that was days late actually helped.
"Thanks, Keegan. You are so fucking helpful."
"Always." He smiled rudely but dropped it when Eva slapped his wrist lightly and muttered something about being nice to me.
Axel comes busting through the front door with Mona on his back. "Road trip baby!" He shouts not noticing the awkward tension.
Mona paused and tried to shake her head like he'll understand.
"What'd I miss?" Axel asks genuinely confused.
Oh Axel, at least you're pretty.
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"But I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks 1000 miles to fall down-"
"Okay, that's enough." Callum reaches forward and twisted the dial for the volume shutting up Bentley and his horrid singing.
Bentley smacks his hand before Callum can fully settle it back at his side. "My car, my music bitch."
Everyone groans and covers their ears with their hands when Bentley plays the song again.
"If you don't turn that shit off I'll grab you in a headlock and make sure we crash this vehicle in the next 10 seconds, Bentley." Keegan threatened from his spot in the very back where he was crammed with Eva and most of the luggage.
"This is exactly why I put you in the back. And I get to see you suffer with all those suitcases." Bentley told him smugly, glancing up in the mirror.
Keegan's face remains calm but his actions prove otherwise. He opened the window slowly and then grabbed Bentley bag lifting it to the edge.
"Stop it you guys," Eva said sternly. Her arms were crossed and she had this look in her eyes I recognized from when we used to play house and I would try to mail my baby doll siblings to another country.
"Fine." Keegan abides. "Just because I'm pretty sure you'd throw me out the window with the luggage."
"Exactly." She tells him smiling widely.
"They're exhausting," I whisper to Dawson. My head was on his shoulder as my pillow was somewhere in the other car and I had no other form of comfort.
"You haven't even seen the half of it, Aves." He whispered back to me with a small chuckle and shake of his head.
"And I have a feeling I don't want to." I looked up to Dawson and found his eyes already looking down at me rather than ahead like I'd expected.
"You get used to us." He assured me.
"I'm already used to you." I shrug my shoulders and look ahead again not wanting to wait and see Dawson's reaction.
There was a high possibility he'd be weirded out and shove me off him and out the door. Who knows.
"And?" He asked making me look back up at him when he tilted my chin upwards with his thumb and forefinger.
"And?" I ask back. "What do you mean and? And I'm used to you. That's all." I clear my throat and shift a bit against his side.
"I mean Avery, and how do you feel about me?"
I was pretty sure I was about to have a heart attack. No, I was definitely going to have a heart attack in the next 20 seconds, max.
I had to play this cool. I mean there was nothing to say anyway so why was I so nervous. Nothing I could say to him anyway. I liked him yeah sure, but saying so would totally change the dynamic of my relationship with well...everyone. And I don't know, I guess I never liked change. I was comfortable with how life was now and for the most part, I was happy. What was the point in letting my feelings take over to possibly ruin everything?
"Well, you're a good roommate. You're fun to talk to. You make hella good chili fries too. The chili fries are probably the best thing about you actually." I joke.
Damn, I could totally be an actress. Totally. Without fail. At all.
"Is that all I mean to you?" Dawson asked with a smile and a laugh referring to the food part.
"Well, you also add just enough extra butter to popcorn at the movies unlike Callum so I applaud you for that."
"That's still food." He tells me with a straight face and almost blank stare. Almost.
"What can I say, I like to eat."
"You're unbelievable Avery." He told me shaking his head and wrapping his arm around me now.
"You know it," I tell him winking and bumping my shoulder against him lightly.
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In case anyone skipped chapter 29 which I just posted right before this (I've done that too oops, but 2 chapters in one day YAYYY) but yeahhh if you didn't see it go back i guess?
Back to the whole Avery's zodiac thing I found that the 3 most popular answers were; Taurus, Scorpio, and Aries. (There were a lot more answers than I expected to get but thanks for helping with thatð)
And I did some research myself and totally agree with all of those three. I think I would go with Scorpio but based on the timeline I have, I'm more between Aries and Taurus now.
And here's a brief explanation on the timeline if anyone wants to know:
So basically it's the end of November/Beginning of December right now and she's still 16 and I don't want her to have JUST turned 16 so that's why I'm going with Aries or Taurus. Also, I'm pretty sure this takes place in 2018 in my head so that's kinda weird to think it was like almost a year ago that this all happened/was happening. But it works for the plot and what's to come.