Gia Donovan and Sammy Meeks
August 09, 2016 8:01 PM
In light of darkness. by Gia Donovan and Sammy Meeks
Gia was getting the last of her thoughts, ideas, and examples in order to show Sammy for their future club. She didn't want to make any assumptions on how they should run it and planned to do it as partners. When her roommate came back to the room, Gia leapt up from her bed and took her hand, “Look at everything I found for us.”Sammy looked down at their joined hands. Admittedly, she was still in a state of slight shock, given the conversation she’d just had. She’d been pretty calm in the situation, but now she couldn’t quite process what she’d just agreed to. What she ought to tell Gia she’d agreed to. “Barnaby Pye just asked me to the ball?” she blurted out, her intonation making it sound more like a question.
The smile on Gia’s face dropped immediately after Sammy confessed what had transpired with Barnaby. “What?” She mumbled, uncertain as to what else to say after hearing that. Barnaby asked Sammy to the dance? Her Sammy? The very Sammy that hated his guts? “What did you say?” She asked, wanting to know how her friend reacted to such a ridiculous request.
There was a pause. “Don’t freak out.”
“You said yes?” Gia exclaimed, her voice turning into a weird squeak by the end of her statement.
“It’s not like I wanted to!” Sammy returned. “But I… I had to. He was being really weird. Like…. He was talking about you guys. Mostly Jax. He seems convinced he knows something about Jax, but he wouldn’t tell me unless I go with him. Plus, I dunno…” She tried to keep her voice from sounding sad; she was honestly happy all her friends had dates, but she was still a bit beat up about Joella and Lionel, and she really didn’t want to be a seventh wheel anyway. “I had nothing better to do that night. Might as well keep an eye on him.”
Gia dropped Sammy’s hand. She was upset that her best friend was going to the ball with the one person who Gia both liked and hated, but she was also furious at Barnaby for asking Sammy and using her and her brother in the process. “So you just agreed to go instead of just asking us?” Gia demanded, her anger getting the better of her. “He uses me and my brother for a sport and you agree to that?” Her word choice should have said pawn, but she was too upset to think of the correct phrasing. “You could have gone with Chuck and myself! But you go with him instead?”
“Look, I know it sounds bad,” Sammy conceded. “But there was something…. I don’t know. I don’t know what he knows or how he knows it, but he might know something.” She took a deep breath, reliving the confusing, fast-paced, and threat-filled conversation she’d just had with Barnaby. She hadn’t thought she believed him, but evidently she did enough to think it was worth investigating. “It might be nothing and I’m just an idiot playing his stupid game, but I have to see what he thinks he knows. Maybe it’s important.” Her hand ran through her hair out of frustration “I don’t know. I just feel like I have to do this, y’know?”
“You mean, you want to figure out something about Jax through Barnaby.” Gia corrected. She sniffled, trying to stop herself from crying. “who cares what he knows? Jax can handle Barnaby. If you wanted to know, you could have just asked Jax, not agree to a date with the one person that Jax cannot stand and the one who I-” Gia abruptly stopped herself. “Forget it. Do whatever you want.”
“If I wanted to know what?” Sammy blinked, too oblivious to notice just where and how Gia had cut herself off. She was more interested in the fact that Gia at no point suggested Barnaby was bluffing, something Sammy had wondered but now thought was less and less likely to be the case. “..What’s going on here? Does Barnaby actually know something?” She paused for a moment. “You know you guys can tell me anything, right?”
“I don't know what Barnaby thinks he knows.” Gia lied. She knew exactly what he was doing but she wasn't going to play into him. “But if he does know something about Jax, it's Jax’s business to tell people, not Barnaby’s and not mine.” Gia had always wanted to tell Sammy the truth about them. She was so tired of carrying it around all the time, but she would never betray her brother like that.
Sammy only stared for a moment, her face wrinkled in indescribable sentiment: not quite hurt or anger, and not quite confusion either. In fact, things felt oddly… clear. She wasn’t always the most perceptive person, but she knew Gia well after this long, and… Gia was lying to her. “I guess I’ll just have to ask Jax, then,” she said, her tone fairly even. “Sorry… for… everything, I guess.” Sammy stepped backwards toward the door, incredulous and conflicted. When she reached the door frame, she turned around and left. She wasn’t sure yet if she’d go find Jax or if she’d just go… think.
OOC: Cowritten by both authors
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