Rush Together.

"Dolly?" the voice hummed.

I looked up with my mouth stuffed full of fluff, almost spitting out my food. Standing before me was Zack, his eyes dark and his face flushed. He looked like he hadn't slept all night. Brian just stared at him with his mouth hanging open, not sure what to do or say.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I asked in shock.

He looked over at Brian and back to me, his face red with anger. "We were hungry. What the hell are you two doing here?" he said, not breaking his glare from Brian.

"We were hungry too. Are the rest of the guys here?" Brian asked.

Their chit-chat faded into the back of my mind as I ran Zack's words through my head. We? I thought to myself. My question was soon answered when a tiny, blonde girl joined Zack's side and spoke with the most obnoxious, high-pitched voice I've ever heard.

"Zacky, baby. Let's go. I'm hungry and," she looked over at Brian and then to me, snarling her nose like a dog "hi, Brian. who's this?"

Zack opened his mouth to answer, but I stood up on my own, reaching my hand our for her to shake, at least attempting to be polite even though a tinge of jealousy was welling up in my soul.

"I'm Dolly. Nice to meet you."

"I'm Gena. Zack's girlfriend." she said, ignoring my offer for a handshake.

I stood there still with my hand stretched out. This girl wasn't about to make me look like an idiot with my arm outreached. She was looking at me like I was insane and so was Zack.

"Do you want something?" she asked with a bitchy tone to her voice.

I scoffed and put my hands on my hips, to which Brian responded with by standing up because he knew how short my temper was.

"Unlike some fucking people, I'm not a rude fucking bitch. Now, I'm gonna do this one more time. When I stick my hand out, you either shake it like a real woman or I will disrespect everyone in this entire restaurant."

She hid behind Zack who stood in front of her and got up in my face. "What the fuck is your problem?"

"Excuse me? You need to ask her what her fucking problem is. I was being nice." I was yelling at this point and other customers were looking at the scene we'd created.

Brian came over and placed himself between Zack and I, our bodies were almost touching and pushed me back a little.

"You both need to chill the fuck out. You're making a scene."

I was getting seriously furious at that point. Being told what to do always made my blood boil. I pushed Brian's hand away from my chest and went right back up to Zack's face. poking my finger into his chest as I spoke.

"You tell your little blonde bimbo that she needs to learn some fucking respect," I looked over his shoulder at her, still cowering behind him "You hear me, bitch? Watch yourself."

Brian walked up to the waitress, handed her our money and rushed back over to me, yanking me away from Zack who I was now in a screaming argument with.

"We are leaving now." he said, grabbing my jacket and yanking me out by the arm and dragging me into the car.

Granted I did it unwillingly, I swallowed my pride and left the restaurant with Brian. He practically stuffed me in the car before speeding out of the parking lot.

"What in the literal FUCK was that?" he screamed at me.

"The bitch disrespected me. She was rude, so she got what she deserved."

"You almost fought someone you just met in the middle of IHOP! We aren't teenagers anymore. Police show up and bye-bye Dolly because you'll be sitting in fucking jail waiting on me to bail you out!" he said flailing his hands in the air.

"Who the hell is she anyways?" I crossed my arms and pouted like I did every time Brian yelled at me.

"He had calmed down slightly, enough to talk to me. "I don't know, really. Zack's seen her a couple of times. She's been around the guys before."

"Hmm. She looks like a fruit fly."

Brian laughed at my childish insult. I don't know what came over me with that girl. My jealously got the better of me for some reason and I just melted into the person I'm not anymore. old Dolly reared her ugly, bitchy head and I didn't like it. Two days in town and Huntington was already turning me back to the little spitfire I used to be.

"Well, I don't know about a fruit fly but you're definitely more beautiful than she is." Brian said, reaching over and stroking my cheek with his thumb, making me blush.

"Thank you. So, what was that about a date?" I remembered.

"Uh, shit. I totally forgot about that. You made me too fucking scared to think straight. I don't know, I was thinking me and you could go out to dinner or something. To an actual restaurant that isn't a shitty breakfast joint where you'll have to dress up really pretty like for me."

I thought for a minute about this. Was it really the best idea to go out with Brian? I mean, almost 15 years of friendship and nothing like this had ever happened. It could potentially ruin our friendship. But on the other hand, I really needed or wanted to make Zack jealous for some reason. I looked over at Brian's adorable face and smiled at the goofy way he was looking at me with his eyebrow cocked and his mouth slightly curved into a smile. I wanted to say no earlier, but I couldn't help myself now.

"Sure." was my simple response.

His face lit up with a goofy smile and he reached over, giving me a kiss on the cheek. Suddenly, his phone rang.

"Hello? Yeah. Uh-huh, she's with me still. I mean, if that's what you want. What time? Alright we'll be there." CLICK.

"Who was that and why did they ask if you were with me?" I asked, genuinely curious.

"Jimmy. He said Matt is having a cookout tonight and you're going. With me."

I crossed my arms and legs an gave him a hateful look. "Thanks for asking if if I was even interested in going."

"Oh, shut up. Like you would have said no if any of the guys had called you themselves. I'm taking you to Jimmy's to get shit to get ready but then you're coming back to my house. Jimmy has a lady friend that hasn't left yet."

"Goddamnit, Jimmy. I guess so." I said, looking out the window at the palm trees swinging by.

Brian drove me quickly to Jimmy's to get my things. I ran inside, trying to be as quiet as a mouse in an attempt to not disturb Jimmy and his girl who were making no attempts to be quiet. I grabbed a cute dress and some flats as well as my makeup and hair essentials before creeping back out to Brian's car and driving to his house laughing the whole way about the fact that I heard the girl referring to Jimmy by his stage name instead of his real one. He opened the door to the house, which seemed a little clearer now that I was sober.It was quaint and perfect for him. He was in the kitchen doing God knows what , so I helped myself to the bathroom and began preparing for one hell of a night.

Notes

getting back in the groove of writing. you're all going to hate me pretty soon lol. this chapter is buns, I know. It's a filler before the things you all will hate me for happen.
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