Still Into You: Alpha Betas (OC x Buck)

Chapter Seven: Movie Night

After a moment, I woke up back into the real world and stretched every part of my body before I stood up slowly. I yawned and headed over to a now-awake Eddie.
"Hey, man," I said, smiling. "Good job today. I'm only slightly mad at you now." I punched his arm to let him know I was being impudent.
"Thanks. Wait, why are you mad at me?"
"I said I was slightly mad at you — and because you're a simp."
"Oh, fuck off," Eddie said, flipping me off. I laughed it off, flipping him back, then turned to Buck, who had just gotten out of his seat. I walked over to him and rested my hand on his shoulder.
"You doing okay, Buck?" I asked.
"Better now," he replied. "Thanks for helping me out, Jackie. It means a lot to me."
"Aw, you're welcome. Anything for my favourite little Irishman."
He beamed as his cheeks turned a bright red, scratching his nape and looking as adorable as ever.
I think he likes you back, Jackie.
As we headed upstairs, I said, "God, I haven't felt that much pain in my stomach since last month, or the month before, or the month before that."
He laughed as the doors opened to the control panel. Tommy and Mason turned to us, Mason smirking with a bag of cheese puffs.
"Hey, Lovebirds," he said. "How'd you both go?"
Buck and I looked at each other awkwardly, remembering that we almost kissed before Tommy died.
"W-We went okay, actually," Buck chuckled nervously.
"Yep. Perfectly fine," I quickly added, clearing my throat.
"I think it all worked out in the end," Eddie said.
I quickly changed the subject before I embarrassed myself even further.
"Hey, guys. Are we still up to watch a movie?" I asked. Everyone shrugged and nodded.
"Alright, perfect! Well, Ruby and Stephen, I'll see you both tomorrow. Have a great day!"
As we walked out, I realised that Allison and Darryl were no longer present. I had guessed they were having a private discussion.

We were at our local Safeway to get some snacks for the movie, and that was when I had an idea.
"Hey, guys," I said. "How about we do a challenge?"
"What challenge?" Buck inquired.
"Simple: whoever can get the best food and drinks for the lowest price gets to choose the movie we watch."
Everyone thought that that was a fair deal, Eddie, especially, who rubbed his hands together and said, "Oh boy, I can't wait to win this."
"Ugh, shut up, Eddie," Mason said, making me laugh.
"Okay, I'll be on Drinks duty," Tommy said.
"Perfect. Starting from when we step foot inside."

We all prepared ourselves to enter the store as I counted down from five. As soon as I got to one, we all scattered in different directions into the Candy and Snacks aisle, except for Tommy, who went to get drinks as he promised.
I tried to scour everything as fast as I could. I was initially thinking about getting some chips when I laid eyes on a bag of the Tayto Variety Park; it was only €2, which equals at least $2.32USD.
Grabbing the bag, I grinned evilly and went over to Buck, knowing how much it would piss him off. He had picked out a block of Aero Peppermint Chocolate.
"Oh, Bucky," I said over his shoulder. "Look what I've got."
I shook the bag in front of his face, but as soon as he saw it he backed away irritated.
"Oh no, don't you fucking dare!" He yelled.
"What?"
"Come on, Jackie, you know I'm trying to lose weight here."
"Oh, you're just now trying to lose weight?"
"Leg stretches count as exercise, Miss Thunder Thighs. They're not just for trying to grow my tiny legs! Besides, I am not caving into racial stereotypes, alright bitch?"
"You know you want to."
"Shut it!" He snapped and stormed off to the checkout counter. I grinned, feeling satisfied and followed him but paid at a different counter. Eventually, everyone else came along with a variety of stuff: Mason had a bag of Flaming Hot Cheese Puffs, Tommy was carrying a pack of Mountain Dew cans, and Eddie was carrying a bottle of Coke with a bag of microwave popcorn.

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Back at the mansion we laid out our snacks on the table and called out our prices.
"Alright, I had a bag of Tayto that was €2, which translates to $2.32," I said.
"A bag of Hot Flaming Cheese Puffs, $2.18," Mason said next.
"Mint chocolate, also $2.18," Buck added.
"This ten-pack was $5.08," Tommy said.
"Tommy?" Mason asked. "Were you even trying?"
"Look, they didn't have anything cheap, okay?" Tommy whined.
Eddie scoffed, "Tommy, this bottle of coke was $1.42," he then pointed to the popcorn. "And this was only 69 cents."
We all snickered in unison.
"Which would add up to—" he paused for dramatic effect, "—$2.11. Which means I pick the movie."
We then booed at him, with Mason even saying, "Come on, man. I'd rather win an arm wrestle with Buck for that tie."
"Hey!" Buck said.
"Sorry, guys, rules are rules," Eddie said slyly.
I groaned and proceeded to mock him in a deep voice, "Oh LoOk At Me, I'm EdDiE, I WiN aT eVeRyThInG cAuSe I'm A wAnKeR!"
I went back to my normal voice, "Yeah it's not impressive when you are also the best Don't Touch the Floor player of all time."
"I told you, Jackie, I'm not bad at anything."
I rolled my eyes, "Oh please. The only thing you're bad at is getting laid."
Everyone laughed at Eddie from my roast.
"Good one, Jackie," Tommy said.
I guessed Eddie couldn't think of something clever because he immediately changed the subject.
"Alright," Eddie barked, "I'm picking the movie now." He turned on the TV and scrolled through a list of different movies, "How about Child's Play?"
"Oh my God, absolutely not," Mason said.
"What? Why not?"
"Eddie, you know none of us can do scary movies."
"Yeah, we pride ourselves in being the biggest pussies in the world," Buck said.
"The movie's not even that scary."
"Please, Eddie, no horror movies!"
"Okay, okay fine," Eddie caved. He fiddled around in the action genre and decided, "Ooh, Avengers: Endgame!"
Everyone immediately groaned at the suggestion.
"We've watched that movie like ninety-nine times!" Tommy said.
"Well, I want to watch it for the hundredth time."
"Nooooo."
"Okay then, how about 365 Days?"
"WHAT?" We all shouted.
"You guys don't wanna watch Endgame, so I'll pick something else."
"Dude, anything but that," I said.
Eddie started to get pretty sick of everything until Tommy suddenly interfered.
"Oh, oh, Eddie!" He said, raising his hand and bouncing like a little kid, "I have a movie suggestion!"
Eddie turned to him, "Really?"
"Yes, it's a good one, please."
"Okay, what is it?"
"How about...Titanic?"