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2 ; silence is golden

i shrug and start walking toward the showers, george still following me. "wait, who's in the shower?" i ask.

"pk, i think. wait—is he having a hot shower?" he suddenly realizes, and we both start walking quicker toward the shower.

"yo pk! i'm not gonna lie—"

"nah, i'm having a cold shower! look!" pk cuts me off as george walks ahead of me into the showers. the lights are red, which i'm assuming means a hot shower.

george walks over and pk convinces him he's having a cold shower before fist bumping him.
"c'mon bro," pk says as i groan at them.

"pk, you know what, my bad dude," i say, walking over to the other shower and dropping my stuff onto the table.

"i'm gonna get back. see you."

"bye george," i say as he walks away.

it's so weird talking to him like this again. and we have to act like we never even knew each other? god, this is tough.

𝝑𝝔

i've been out of the shower for about 15 minutes before jason somehow convinces the whole group to do some meditation.

"take a deep breath, close your eyes," he says as we're all sat in a circle. i've got mya on my left and dylan on my right.

"five seconds of silence real quick," jason continues, taking a dramatic breath. "invision yourself... with a waterfall."

mya starts giggling immediately as george fully commits—eyes closed, arms out, acting like he's feeling mist on his face. mya glances over at him and completely loses it.

"...everyone think of how the water sounds. okay... everyone take a deep breath in."

we all take a breath.

"hold it."

mya bursts out laughing mid-breath. "that's it, she's out," patrice says like he's judging a competition, while jason dramatically rolls off his seat and flops onto the sofa like he's given up on us.

mya's still laughing and grabs my arm, turning toward me, which makes me crack too. then the whole group joins in, the meditation circle officially dead.

𝝑𝝔

i then hear pk and mya talking about a wedding. an african wedding? "you gotta get married to me. everyone's gonna be the groomsmen and brideswomen. and then we're gonna do an entrance—"

"yeah!" mya raises her voice with happiness.

they walk back to the main room and pk announces their wedding.

"wait that'll be so fun!" cinna says.

𝝑𝝔

we've all aligned the seats and stools to make it look like an audience is present. me and george have been assigned as the ring bearers.

a wedding march starts to play as jason walks down the 'aisle,' sprinkling paper on me and george, holding two ring pillows he clearly just grabbed from the sofa. mya has her arm linked around patrice's—he's playing her dad in this wedding.

pk covers his mouth in fake joy and shock. me and george take our seats in the front row as patrice delivers mya to her spot.

ddg, assigned as the priest, clears his throat and says in a deep voice, "all rise," which makes a few of the girls start laughing immediately.