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𝟬𝟯𝟰. . . among us

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR !

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- ❝ AMONG US ❞ 💌











































































































ⁱᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉ !

rorza🤘 ; astoria
loud chewer ; dante

loud chewer
RORY

rorza🤘
DANTE

loud chewer
contact name is still insane btw

rorza🤘
u say that every single time u text me

loud chewer
bc its true???

rorza🤘
luckily mal taught you how to chew so its not accurate anymore 😊
but still
memories ❤️❤️❤️

loud chewer
i hate you
wanna hang out 😂

rorza🤘
u literally just said u hate me

loud chewer
leave me alone
mal's at some sports game and i'm bored

rorza🤘
do u not have any other friends... 💀

loud chewer
WELL AS A MATTER OF FACT
i don't 😔
well i do but they're all from my old school yk
and they're all on a school trip in canada rn so L me

rorza🤘
so i'm ur last resort basically

loud chewer
i mean i didn't wanna say it......

rorza🤘
FUCK YOU

loud chewer
LMFOAOFSOAIODIOAOIA
sooo...... r u down 🤞

rorza🤘
i am SO down but i can't 💔💔

loud chewer
BROOOO
why not

rorza🤘
it's kali's bday today so we're all hanging out at hers

loud chewer
ummmm
why wasn't i invited 😐

rorza🤘
STOPPP
well her party is in a week or so which u and mal are coming to
but for her actual bday she just wanted to chill at her house

loud chewer
okay fair enough ig 🙄🙄🙄
how is it

rorza🤘
it's.....fun

loud chewer
whats with the .....

rorza🤘
well it's fun besides the fact that chris is here

loud chewer
oh right
bc of the whole harper thing?

rorza🤘
yeah
wait
how do yk abt that 🤨

loud chewer
i'm not stupid (luna told me)
so is it awkward? 🧐

rorza🤘
yeah
i'm torn bc i KNOW i overreacted abt the whole thing cuz idek what happened between them
but at the same time i'm still upset bc i thought like
idk

loud chewer
u thought u two were it for each other?

rorza🤘
EW
ur so long term relationship coded i hate you
but yes 🫤

loud chewer
AWWWWWWW

rorza🤘
kys

loud chewer
well just see what happens
maybe he'll bring it uo?

rorza🤘
i doubt it
we haven't spoken all day and everytime i try and make eye contact he just looks away

loud chewer
hm well that's kinda cringe
erm

rorza🤘
why r u so supportive but not at the same time

loud chewer
it's all part of my charm
but anyways
just try and enjoy the evening

rorza🤘
yeah okay

loud chewer
u sure everything else is okay? besides chris?

rorza🤘
ofc

loud chewer
okay good
i'll talk to you later rory 🤞

rorza🤘
ttyl dante bff ☺️☺️
































































































































ʳᵉᵃˡ ˡⁱᶠᵉ !

kali's home is bathed in the warm, golden hues of the sunset, casting a cozy glow across the living room. it's her birthday, and they're all hanging out at her house, just their group. the smell of a freshly baked cake wafts through the air, giving the room a comforting feeling.

the television plays a random movie in the background, the dialogue and action scenes lost beneath the group's discussion. they're too engrossed in their own conversations.

kali and luna sit on a small loveseat, their bodies comfortably intertwined. kali's head rests gently on luna's shoulder, and luna's fingers idly traced patterns on her girlfriend's arm as they talk alongside the others. astoria can't help but think about how annoyingly cute they look together.

meanwhile nick and skye occupy the adjacent couch. they're sat close, their shoulders touching, their laughter infectious. skye occasionally nuzzles into nick's shoulder, making him blush slightly. matt, on the other side of the couch, can't help but roll his eyes good-naturedly. surrounded by two lovey-dovey couples, he's trying to focus on the movie, though it's a futile effort. he occasionally glances over at his friends with a bemused grin, shaking his head at them.

chris is on the other side of the living room, sat backward on a dining chair, draping himself over the backrest. it's such a chris thing to do but today he's also so not chris at the same time. his eyes are filled with their usual sense of immature happiness but behind that they're also kind of... tired. he's wearing his black sweater with the white skeleton design on it, paired with black jeans and as always, his filthy air forces, which have now been discarded in the hallway by the entrance.

she suddenly snaps out of her trance as she realizes she's been observing him, because what the fuck? why is she completely focusing on someone who won't even look in her direction?

astoria, from where she's nestled on the floor surrounded by a mountain of pillows, turns away from chris and back over to the birthday girl. she leans back against the soft barricade around her as she goes back to listening to her friends' conversation.

"so, what do we wanna eat tonight?" kali asks, looking around at everyone. "and don't say mcdonald's, i beg."

skye immediately sighs. matt turns to him, raising his eyebrows.

"skye, we literally ate mcdonald's yesterday," he says, and the boy just sighs again. matt rolls his eyes.

"kali, shouldn't you choose?" astoria questions, looking back up at the girl. "it's your birthday."

"i'm too indecisive for this shit," kali says.

chris shifts in his seat, taking his phone out from his pocket. he swipes upwards to unlock it and then presumably starts scrolling through an app, though astoria has no idea because she can't actually see anything.

"why don't we just order everything?" chris suggests.

"what?" luna says.

"sorry, but my parents only left me like 150 dollars," kali says. "i'm not sure that's gonna cover it."

"i don't mean literally everything," chris replies, sighing. "i meant, like, why doesn't everyone just order what they want so we don't have to choose one specific thing."

"wait, that's actually really smart," astoria says, and silence falls as everyone turns to stare at her. she looks around awkwardly, fidgeting nervously with her necklace as all of her friends just stare at her. "okay, what the fuck," she says.

"sorry, i just got whiplash because you just agreed with chris," nick says, and astoria frowns. part of her hadn't even noticed it was chris saying it, simply just agreeing with what she thought was a good idea. though another part of her wanted to be nice in hopes that he'll stop ignoring her, so hopefully they can talk it out

judging by chris' expression, he has absolutely no interest in doing so because he, as he's been doing the entire night, doesn't even glance in her direction even though the conversation is literally focused on the two of them. he just stares blankly at his phone, continuing to scroll like it's the most interesting thing he's ever seen.

"um okay anyways!" luna exclaims, breaking the awkward silence that's formed in the room. "chris, give me the phone."

chris looks up, his eyes wide. "what?"

"give me the phone."

"um, what?"

"i wanna order my food," luna tells him. "so give me the phone."

"but i'm literally ordering my food-"

"too bad, so sad," luna grins, leaning forward to snatch it out of his hands. immediately after grabbing it, chris reaches forward, but luna leans back against the chair (and kali), smiling to herself as she begins scrolling through uber eats. after a moment, she frowns and looks back up at chris with a disgusted expression on her face.

"ew, you're getting subway?" she asks. chris shrugs.

"um, yeah?" he answers. "i was feeling a chicken fajita footlong."

"peasant," is all luna says, shaking her head and going back to scrolling through the app. a simple discussion emerges, with nick and matt arguing over what to order, for whatever. however, astoria's lost in thought, her mind drifting further and further away from the current atmosphere. she gazes around the room with a distant expression, her fingers absently tracing the patterns of one of the pillows on her lap.

so, astoria might've lied to dante when she said that everything else was fine.

she's actually not fine at all. her heart weighs heavy with thoughts of her dad. he was her anchor, and him not being around anymore has left a gaping void that seems impossible to fill. it's been a while since he passed, of course, but the pain his loss is constantly present in her life.

the fight with chris has made it all the worse for her. her dad absolutely adored chris, and always asked her why the two weren't friends anymore and suddenly hated one another. he'd always hoped for them to get along once again, and astoria feels like she's failing him, especially now.

as she glances at chris across the room, a tumult of emotions swirls within her. he's sitting, talking to luna and skye, completely aware of her thoughts. astoria can't help but be angry at herself for getting mad at him without knowing his side, though it's something she seems to do often. her father would be disappointed.

yet, she's still hesitant to make amends. her pride and her fear of rejection is holding her back, preventing her from apologizing and trying to heal... whatever they are. what if her actions have already done too much damage and chris doesn't want to be around her anymore?

the thought stings more than she'd like to admit.

every glimpse of chris across the room makes her heart ache. she needs to speak to him, but how is she supposed to when he's clearly ignoring her? not that she blames him for it. if she were him, she'd ignore her too.

"rory?" kali's voice comes from her right. "you okay?"

astoria blinks, before looking up at her friend. she nods, shifting to sit further upright.

"yup," she replies, quickly going to speak again when she sees kali's unconvinced expression. "so, what'd you order?"

"canes," kali replies flatly, knowing something is up but not pushing further, which astoria is grateful for. trying her best to ignore chris, she now finally joins in with the conversation.












the group are all watching dumb try not to laugh videos while they're waiting for the food to arrive, and a video of a little kid running into a pole is interrupted by the sound of the doorbell ringing.

kali pauses the tv, and everyone looks at one another, waiting to see who's going to volunteer to get up and answer the door.

"just saying, i think rory should go and get the food," she announces. astoria's eyes widen.

"what? why me?" she answers.

"you're sitting on the floor," luna says. "it's easiest for you to get up."

"and i'm the birthday girl and i say so," kali adds.

astoria rolls her eyes, pushing herself off of the floor and quickly dusting herself off before glaring at the two girls, who are still sitting together on the loveseat.

"this is because i love you," she tells them, and they both give her a thumbs up before she turns around and leave the room.

she walks down the hallway, her mind instantly clouded by thoughts of chris. this is the hallway where they kissed before christmas, now almost a month ago. with the distance between them now, it seems like an entire lifetime ago.

astoria shakes her head, getting rid of the thoughts as she answers the door. a friendly young man stands on kali's porch, holding the biggest stack of takeout food boxes she's ever seen. there's literally no way she'll be able to carry this all by herself, especially since the man before her is a whole head taller than her and is struggling himself.

"i'll be right back," she says, and he nods. astoria turns around, quickly walking back down the dreaded hallway and into the living room. she scans the room, contemplating whether or not she should follow her gut.

she does.

astoria turns to chris, catching his eye for the first time today.

"chris, can you help me with the boxes?" she asks. he raises his eyebrows, but gives her a short nod as he gets up from his seat silently, walking back her into the hallway. astoria sighs, then follows him.

"hey, man," chris says to the delivery guy politely, taking more than half of the boxes off of him. he then moves to the side so astoria can get past and take the rest of them.

"thank you!" astoria calls, before closing the door using her foot. she turns to chris, who is standing in the hallway, looking at her. suddenly feeling nervous, astoria avoids his line of sight and instead turns her attention to the large stack of boxes in his hand.

"do you want me to take some?" she asks, using her head to gesture to what he's holding. chris just shakes his head, then turns away from her and walks back into the living room. astoria frowns, realizing he's still mad and not interested in speaking to her.

once she's back into the room, her mood immediately lifts because of how happy everyone seems to be that the food is here. astoria gives out the boxes, though she practically deflates when she finds that the last one in her hand is, of fucking course, chris' subway.

he notices right as she does, though he stays firmly planted in his seat. astoria rolls her eyes, walking over and handing it to him.

"thanks, rory," he says quietly, and her eyes almost widen at not only the fact that he's even talking to her, but also at the nickname. it shouldn't be weird that he's using a nickname he literally made up for her, but it is.












they're done eating now, and nick and skye are in the kitchen throwing away all of the empty takeout boxes and used napkins. they'd insisted it was to do something nice for kali on her birthday, but astoria is convinced that it was just an excuse for the two of them to get some alone time together.

so now it's just her, kali, luna, matt, and chris sitting in the living room, wondering what to do now they're done eating. none of them are hungry right now, so they're saving eating the birthday cake until later, but they've been watching so much tv that they're all kind of sick of it by now.

"why don't we play among us?" luna suggests, earning her a collection of confused looks from the rest of the group. "what?"

"i haven't played among us since i was like, fifteen," matt says. "i kinda miss it."

"exactly!" luna exclaims.

"um..." kali says. "there's no way we're about to play among us."

luna turns to look at her girlfriend, a pleading look on her face.

"come on, kals," she begs. "we all play silently, and then when someone calls an emergency meeting we all discuss who we think the imposter is. it'll be so fun."

"not sure why i'm agreeing to play among us right now, but that actually sounds really fun," astoria says, and chris (surprisingly) nods in agreement. kali sighs, though deep down she knows she can't say no. luna grins, knowing it's a yes.

"SKYE! NICK! GET IN HERE, WE'RE PLAYING AMONG US!" she yells. the two boys walk back into the room a second later, both looking extremely confused.

"what the fuck?" nick asks, but skye grins and immediately takes out his phone.

"i'm orange!" he exclaims, and chris glares at him.

"orange is my color and we all know it, skye," he says, and skye just rolls his eyes.

"try me, sturniolo."

luna makes the game and tells everyone the code, allowing everyone a total of two minutes to choose their character names and colors. it results in chris getting orange, and skye claiming to be emo because of it and choosing black for his character.

they're about to start playing, when matt stops everyone.

"wait," he says. "it's gonna be so boring if we just sit in silence."

"that's literally the point of the game," astoria says.

"yeah, we aren't supposed to talk so we don't know who the imposter is," kali continues. matt rolls his eyes.

"well, duh," he says. "but we should play music."

everyone nods in agreement, so matt quickly swipes out of the app to go onto spotify. he goes to the group's shared 'aux' playlist, which consists of over 1000 songs they all love. 'rules' by doja cat is the first song to play, and nick grins.

the game begins shortly after, the group falling into silence as they all begin running around the map to complete their tasks. astoria is a crewmate, which she's pretty happy about. being the imposter is too stressful for her, and she always accidentally vents in front of someone.

she's doing a task in the cafeteria when the dark blue character, matt, walks in. astoria freezes, wondering if he's going to kill her, but he just walks past and leaves her be. so it's not matt, she thinks, unless he didn't notice her there. either way, this game causes her far too much stress than it's worth.

doja cat's voice fades out into the background, and a familiar melody starts playing. astoria completely stops playing when she realizes that the song is 'you belong with me' by taylor swift. unable to stop herself, astoria's gaze drifts over to chris, and her eyes widen when she finds him already looking at her.

they share a moment of understanding, both knowing it's their song. it's been their (and matt and nick's) song since they were kids, all the way back when they were still friends. astoria hates the little thing that her heart does at the fact that upon hearing the song, chris thought of her.

from where he's sitting, matt is grinning himself. chris and astoria are completely oblivious of his purposeful queuing of the song. judging by the look on both of their faces, there's a million thoughts running through both of their heads, and matt just wishes they would finally get their shit together and date rather than this constant back and forth of liking each other but still not getting along.

the moment is sadly interrupted when nick reports a dead body and the group instantly starts arguing, accusing each other of being the imposter and trying to defend themselves. much to matt's disappointment, chris and astoria have very clearly gone back to ignoring one another, not even taking the opportunity to be mean to each other as they usually would.

god, they're so fucking stupid, he thinks.



































matt's so real

sorry for the excessive detail with among us i played with my friends last week and it was actually so fun like #bringbackamongus

also u guys can stop yelling at me to not forget abt this fic again bc look? it didn't take me another month to update ur welcome

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