your best american girl

EMILIA: lol thanks I feel welcomed to Tinder 😂😂😂

EMILIA: are you a parking ticket? 'cause you have FINE written all over you!

LOIS: HA!

LOIS: i saw that one online too

You matched with Lois on 12/16/20.

LOIS: hey!

LOIS: do you want to hear a bad pick up line?

LOIS: did you just come out of the oven? bc you’re hot.

It was crowded, but he’d expected it almost. He’d tuned out most of the noise but now he could hear a couple arguing loudly behind him. “Amazing, isn’t it?” Daniel glanced at the person sitting closest to him. “Can you imagine being that pissed at your significant other that you start a yelling match in the middle of somewhere?” The man shook his head slightly. 

“Lois, I’m not letting you walk home. Wilshire isn’t exactly around the block.” He went into the app and went to go change the destination. However, he realized he didn’t know exactly where she lived, so he handed the phone over to her. “Put your address in and then you can add your number.”

AJ: I deadass have a lot of people on my contacts, my bad 😅

AJ: OOF. Definitely not the type to be rolling like that.

LOIS: that sucks but also not trying to be the other woman

     Gracie tried to look for a word to describe what has been happening, besides the typical nothing much, “Uh well…life has been shitty but I mean…I’m still going forward so…I guess good? What about you?” 

AJ: ????

AJ: Oh, thanks, bro! Appreciated!

AJ: Wait. OHHHHHH. FAIRY GIRL. Hey! My bad about that, I just sent a mass text out to everyone.

LOIS: ...k

     “I…” Gracie trailed off, knowing for a fact life has been rather…hard, dealing with a breakup recently than having to try to do the whole single life again, scratching the back of head. “it’s been rather a lot but…hey…at least I am alive.” 

AJ: yes, I'm deadass asking about movie recs cause it's movie night with my girl, it's our new tradition. 🥺🥺

AJ: BRUH. 💀💀

AJ: I mean, I appreciate the advice tho 😅

LOIS: oh fuck okay

LOIS: sorry, i'm not really interested in being friends. i just wanted someone to hook up with but good luck with your gf!

He was a confused when she said that what they were planning on doing was a bad idea, but he wasn’t hurt. He knew he could bounce back and move on. “It’s because of my bad Uber rating, isn’t it?” He would definitely have to figure out how to check and fix his rating at some point, or just switch over to a different ride sharing app. 

      Gracie knew that sometimes Santa Monica was small, although often times felt huge when she felt alone the most. But the one person she wasn’t expecting to see was Lois, it’s been several years and the way they left things was awkward, just like now as she tried to flash an uncertain smile. “Hey…Lois.” 

AJ: Yo, shout out to the person who delivered pizza to my door.

AJ: I fucks with pineapple on pizza too. In case it was sent bc spite. I eat anything but anchovies, ya dig?

AJ: Anyways, what's a good movie to watch?

LOIS: are you really texting me about pizza and movie recs or are you just checking if i'm up

LOIS: or are you offering to share

“A teal? Yeah I guess that would be a good in-between, I’ll put that on the to- do list for tomorrow, grab some teal hair dye. Have you ever wanted to dye your hair?” Kyla asked curiously. “Yeah I believe that you are right, I mean imagine we were just talking for an hour and then it gets to the awkward moment where names come up. That would have been embarrassing for the two of us.” She chuckled as she shook her hand. 

“Literally the weekend after New Year’s it’s a ghost town. That’s the best time to go. You could literally tear up the parks in no time,” Lexa pointed out, remembering her last trip to Disneyworld. “Even Disneyland, I mean my parents would take us like that Thursday right after we started back from school and we’d have Friday off, it was glorious,” She chuckled. “I loved dolls growing up. I had my own American Girl doll too! I think I was more fond of her when I was like 5-6 but I was obsessed with Barbie. I remember in Girl Scouts there was a contest of selling like 250 boxes to win a custom made Barbie…and I still have her, I had a friend fix her up and everything in high school. Literally my prized possession.”