#dramatic friends

“Woah, what’s gotten you in such a bad mood?” I ask, smiling at him softly, trying to lighten the mood.  He sighs loudly:

“They… They’re… I can’t even begin to explain how fucking angry I am right now.”  He says pacing around the office, hands clenching on his side, trying to contain his anger.

“What did they say? Come on, sit down… Take a deep breath.” I say, losing the smile when I realize he’s really upset with what happened in the office, gently guiding him to sit on the couch that’s in the office.

“I… I can’t say it, but it's just… It’s utterly ridiculous what they’re doing, seriously, it’s… It’s like… Like they don’t even care about the wellbeing of the-” He starts rambling and when I realize he’s nowhere near getting something comprehensive out, I cup both of his cheeks gently enough that he can pull away in case he wants to and place a chaste kiss on his lips. 

When I pull away and look into his eyes, they’re already looking at me with so much love and tenderness. His hands that were on his lap went around my waist, hugging me gently and kissing my neck softly. 

He starts kissing his way up my neck towards my lips and he kisses me just as gently, trying to use those kisses to calm himself down. We hear the door open, then two loud comical screams come from it and we pull away from each other, my hands on his shoulder, looking at the door startled. We find Logan and Alex by the door:

“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES!” Logan screams, covering his eyes. 

“WHY?! BY GOD, WHY?!” Alex yells afterwards, falling on his knees dramatically.

“My God, boys… You’re so dramatic, you could’ve knocked” James says, covering his blushing face embarrassed.

“I’m traumatized, I don’t know how I’ll ever look you two in the eyes again.” Logan dramatically says, pretending to wipe some inexistent tears from his eyes. I laugh loudly at that, covering my mouth when James scowls at me, but I can see that he’s also trying to fight his laughter.

“Come on, kids. We weren’t doing anything.” I say standing up from the couch and helping Alex stand up from the ground, laughing through my teeth. 

“We came to check on you, boss… We heard it was a tough meeting.” Alex says, looking at James who’s still covering his face.

“You boys don’t have to worry about it, I’ll try to fix everything before the race, you two focus on resting and feeling ready for the race.” James says, standing up and placing a gentle hand on the bottom of my back. 

“Go on, kids. I’m sure the big boss won't mind if you go get ice cream.” I say laughing, noticing that James really doesn’t want to talk about that, the two younger boys look at each other and then: “I’M GETTING THERE FIRST!” They both yell at the same time, running to their cars.

“I can’t believe they’re 20 something years old” I say laughing, looking up at James to find him smiling at me tenderly. 

“Thank you, honey…” He whispers as if it’s a secret no one can hear, kissing my forehead softly.

“Anytime, handsome… Now let’s go, I made myself crave ice cream by mentioning it.” I say laughing with him, we both walk to the parking lot slowly, only to find both drivers’ cars gone. “They’re really fast for two traumatized kids.” I say laughing, bringing out a laugh from James.

“Come on, you want to go to the usual place, sweetheart?” He says smiling at me softly, opening the passenger door for me.