After sex cigarettes // dreamwastaken

IV

Saturday morning I'm woken by Ena crawling in bed with me
"Lara are you awake" she whispers.
"I am now" I groan rolling over
"Today's the day" she starts to shimmy and say in a sing some tone "today's the day" I respond with a groan
"The dates today. With Nicky and clay. Today's the day" I push myself up on an elbow
"Nicky?" I scoff "do you really like him that much?" Her cheeks blush
"We talk all the time, in between classes, at home and sometimes in classes" her smile is stuck.
"Where are we even going?" I throw my curtains open and bathe in the sun for a brief moment
"We're going to paint our own pots, it's called 'pottery by U' or something" she moves to a sitting position "and we need to get ready we have like an hours before they come" my face crinkles, it looks like it's 8am, however I look at my phone to find it only to be an hour later, 9am.
"They're coming at 10?"
"Just hurry up, we're making a day of it"

Ena comes out with her base makeup slightly done, eyelashes and eyeliner perfect and lips slightly over lined. She's in loose blue jeans with tears on either side of her thighs and a a cami which has like built in cups. I have similar jeans only they're cargo and navy which I pair with a black racer top.

"Lara! Hurry they've been waiting for a few minutes" she's trying to usher me
"So then 2 more won't hurt, let me brush my teeth" I'm quick to finish and swirl mouthwash. She's standing with our dorm door open, she looks pained.
"Don't forget your keys" I tell her, she fishes them out the dish. The blonde boy, who I assume is clay, is driving whilst nick sits in the front. Nick come out and opens the back door for Ena, so I take that as an interaction to sit upfront with clay.
"Hi" I say softly meeting his eyes " oh my god I saw you in target" I gasp as the revelation sweeps in my mind
"Well, I do have to grocery shop aswell" his sarcastic tone was dense and I was not in the mood, I toss his a dirty look before turning around
"Hi Nicky" I mimics the nick name
"Hey, are you okay" he asks like a normal conversation however I know he means from Finns tantrum
"Yes of course are you?"

"Clay, dude, this is epic she sounds like George" Nick slaps clays shoulder causing him to chuckle
"George?" Do I actually sound like a man, what the hell
"Yeah, me and nick play video games with him" my face relaxes and my head whips round to meet Enas eyes
"Gamer Fingers" I mouth and she laughs
"What's so funny?" Nick asks a bit worried, in all honesty it probably looks like we're slating him
"It's just something we say" Ena places her hand over nicks
"What was it?" His eyebrows untense
"Gamer Fingers" she shoots him a wink and he turns a shade of pink.

We arrive at a row of streets, one says 'tanning' the other says ' bistro' and so on and so on, the walk takes us past the bistro and a few shops down until 'the pottery nook' is sprawled across a wooden sign.
"Reservation for nick" he tells the receptionist, they have a small Conversation before she directs us to our table. It's a small, circular table with four stools surrounding. Nicks tells us we have to go and get our own pots from the massive array of them. There are plates and mugs, the regular, then piggy banks and little figurines. Ena gets a little dish, nick gets a tea cup and saucer, I get a heart shaped pet bowl and clay gets a crocodile piggy bank.

Nick and Ena are engulfed with chatter whilst clay and I sit in silence
"Do you have a pet or something ?" He asks. This is the first polite thing he's said to me, perhaps the first thing.
"No, not here" I frown "I have a hedgehog back home though"
"Won't it drown in that" he points his paint brush towards the bowl
"Oh. No no this isn't for knuckles, I'm going to put this in the apartment, Ena and I can put our keys and bits and bobs in it" I continue to pain ladybirds on bowl.
"Knuckles. Bits and bobs" he mimics, I shoot him a glare
"So what do you do" I ask looking over at his piggy bank
"Right now? I'm painting. In general? I'm a software engineer and I program 'bit and bobs' from time to time"
"Oh so you're smart. Wait do you and Nick go to UCF aswell?"
He scoffs "don't be dumb. no". Just when I think we could be friends I get shut down. How can people actually like a complete arse like him.