Robert's POV:

"I'm going to take care of some business outside so I'll be back later, okay?" Jaune says as she helps bring the dresser from BJ's into Ross' room.

"Alright." Ross responds.

We all place the dresser down next to Ross' window and Jaune waves as she walks off. Me and Ross plop down onto his bed and finally switch our drinks.

"So what should we do? We got the whole house to ourselves." Ross asks as he drinks his Doctor Pepper.

"Maybe we could invite Roy over?" I suggest.

"Isn't he grounded still though?" Ross questions.

"Yeah, he'll just sneak out. He's good at that." I answer.

"Alright, I'll call him up."

Ross takes one more sip of his drink then pulls his phone out of his pocket and calls Roy. He immediately picked up.

"Hey Ross, what's up?" he answers, I'm close to the phone so I could hear what he says.

"Nothing, what're you doing?" Ross asks.

"Nothing except laying on my bed in misery. You?"

"Chilling with Robert at mine, wanna come over and not be miserable?"

"Hell yeah. I'll be there in ten."

"Alright, see you. Oh and bring snacks."

"I-!"

Before Roy could say anything else Ross hung up on him. Me and him chuckle at each other and get up from the bed.

"While we wait, you want help unpacking your stuff?" Ross asks.

"Sure, thanks!" I answer.

Ross then goes downstairs and brings up a basket full of my clothes since he put them in the washer yesterday and his beanie.

He places the basket on his bed and holds his beanie over his head, getting ready to put it on.

"You should leave it off," I say to him as I take clothes from the basket and fold them.

"Why? It's clean now." Ross says back, also folding clothes from the basket.

"I don't know, I just never see you without it and you look ni-"

I cut myself off, realizing what I was about to say. Ross must've realized what I was about to say too because he looked down in embarrassment. We both stayed in an awkward silence while we continued folding my clothes and organizing them to put in my dresser. Ross kept his hat off. The silence continued until Ross asked a question that threw me off guard:

"Do you really think I look nice without it?"

I wouldn't have expected Ross to ask a question like that, he never cares about stuff like that. He looked at me with a blank expression on his face, waiting for a response. That threw me off even more because how could he ask a question like that and look so calm? And how do I answer that without it sounding weird?

"Yes Ross, you do. But I know your beanie is comfy so if you wanna wear it you do you." I reluctantly respond with a smile.

Ross subtly smiles and looks back at the pile of folded clothes in front of him.

"You look nice with the beanie too just saying." I awkwardly add.

He chuckles and picks up the pile of clothes. "Thanks." he says as he puts the pile into one of the drawers.

We put the rest of my clothes away in silence.

-

Just like Roy said, he got here in no less than ten minutes. He knocked on the door like a freaking maniac until we went downstairs to let him in.

"Hey guys!" he says as he walks past me and Ross into the house.

"Hey dude." Ross says back, closing and locking the door behind him.

We all walk upstairs to Ross' room and Roy's attention immediately went to my dresser and bag.

"Ross, you got a new dresser?" he asks.

"No, it's Robert's." Ross answers.

Roy looks from Ross to me with a confused look on his face. Me and Ross sigh and tell him to sit down so we could explain everything to him.

"Just to say it quickly, I'm staying here until my mom and siblings get away from my dad. And Ross' mom is going to help them." I quickly explain to Roy.

Roy stayed silent for a bit. "Oh." Is all he said in response.

Roy then went into his bag and emptied it out onto the bed. Snacks and drinks were inside.

"Wow you actually brought snacks." Ross teases.

Roy grumbles and takes a bag of sour cream and onion chips along with a coke.

Ross' POV:

"So, whatcha guys wanna do? Wanna continue our game of T and D?" Roy asks, munching on his chips.

"No." Robert sternly answers, surprising me and Roy with the sudden change of tone.

"Uh, okay!" Roy awkwardly responds.

We all stayed in silence while we brainstormed ideas on what to do.

"Videogames?" I suggest.

"My mom has my laptop." Roy says with a frown.

"How about we keep it chill today and just watch a movie? Oh, and we could build a fort too!" Robert suggests excitedly.

"That sounds good!" I respond.

"We could do a movie marathon!" Roy also suggests.

Robert starts smiling. "Yes! Now what movie series?"

We all start brainstorming again and yell out random suggestions.

"Shrek!"

"Lego movies!"

"Studio Ghibli movies!"

Roy looks at me. "We're not emo like you Ross."

"Bu-"

"No!"

"You suck."

"How about we do one or two movies from each of our suggestions? So we don't fight." Robert suggests, eyeing Roy.

"That sounds great Robert." I respond.

Roy rolls his eyes. "Well I wanna watch Shrek one and two."

"Alright, I choose Lego Batman. You Ross?" Robert asks.

"Ponyo."

"Ponyo?! Isn't that the one with the pink fish? I thought you would've picked a different one." Roy says, shocked.

"Well I know you don't like boring stuff so I chose a kinda fun one."

Roy makes a "tch" noise and gets up from the bed. Me and Robert also get up.

"Let's start making the fort. I'll get chairs, Ross you get pillows, and Roy you set up the movies." Robert instructs.

We all nod then me and Robert head downstairs. Robert grabs two chairs from the dining room and I grab a bunch of pillows from the linen closet in the hallway. We head back upstairs and set everything on the floor. Roy had Shrek one ready on Ross' TV.

Robert set the chairs up so that they were across from each other and grabbed his blanket from my bed. He threw it on top of the chairs then told me to get my blanket and throw it on top. I did as he said then we all grabbed the pillows from the floor and put them inside the fort.

"We should put a blanket on the floor so its more comfy." I suggest.

"I have one in my closet, I'll get it real quick." I say.

I crawl out the fort and go into my closet to grab my blanket from the top. After I grab it I kneel down and throw it inside the fort so Roy and Robert could set it up inside.

After the blanket was set up they crawled out to look at the fort.

"Hm, it looks like shit." Roy nonchalantly says.

"Hey!" Robert shouts at him.

He gives Roy a nudge on his arm and he chuckles.

"It's not that bad. It's because the blankets don't match." I say reassuringly to Robert.

He smiles. "Anyway, let's bring the snacks inside. We should also move the TV off the stand cause we won't be able to see it from inside the fort."

"I'll take it off the stand, you guys move the snacks." I say to him and Roy.

They nod and begin taking the snacks and drinks from the bed and moving them to the center of the fort. I carefully grab my TV and move it off its stand to the floor in front of the fort. Roy grabs the remote then we all crawl into the fort and get comfortable.

"I'ma press play, you guys ready?" Roy asks.

Me and Robert nod our heads yes and Roy presses play.

The movie starts and I decide to grab a snack to munch on. I look at all the variety of snacks Roy brought and decide to go for a bag of Famous Amos cookies. I reach my hand over to a bag but just like in chem class yesterday, Robert went for the same bag and our hands met. I feel like I'm in a cliche romance movie, why does this keep happening?

"You can have that bag." I say to him, going for a bag of Jalapeno chips instead.

Before I could grab the bag Robert grabs my wrist. "Hey, wanna just share?" he asks hesitantly.

He's really making it hard for me to get over these stupid feelings of mine. I have to say no..

"Sure." I answer.

What the fuck.

Robert smiles and scoots closer to me. He grabs the bag of cookies then opens it, putting the bag in the middle of us. He takes one cookie then leans back into a pillow behind him, now focusing on the movie. I quickly take a few cookie after him, not wanting us to accidently have another cliche romantic movie moment and touch hands in the bag.

Through the glimpse of my eye I catch Roy looking at me while snacking on a bag of popcorn. When he notices I see him looking at me he looks away and pulls out his phone. Suddenly, I feel my phone vibrate through my pocket, making me take it out to check. It was a text from Roy:

Roy: bro ur face turned red as hell

Roy: u got a thing for rob or something?🤨🤨

I look at Robert then back at my phone, quickly typing.

Ross: no stupid I just got embarrassed

Roy: okayyyy

I sigh and put my phone back in my pocket, now focusing on the movie.