so some of you might recall this post (an absolutely awesome post btw) from @martin-lachance and i just needed to write it so here’s this garbage cause i don’t have shame or apparently any sort of self control. full deal (it’s short though) under the cut as always and i hope you enjoy! (also i swapped baurus with jauffre cause i thought he’d fit better so yeah i hope that’s okay)
Adelaide frowned down at her phone for the third time in as many minutes. Martin was late to the officer’s meeting of their small history club and he hadn’t called as he promised he would if the student council meeting ran late. (The council had the honor of using the nicest building on campus for their meetings. This also meant that Martin was ten minutes late to their meetings on a good day, as it was on the other side of campus. Twenty minutes after four and today seemed to not be a good day.)
She sighed and pushed her phone away so she couldn’t be tempted to look at it and began rummaging through her bag instead. They couldn’t very well start the meeting without their president, so she might as well get a head start on her homework. Across the table from her, Baurus had already started his, and he was presently alternating between loud slurps of his icee and looking through his notes.
Jauffre, their official ‘adult moderator’, had shut himself in his office to do work until Martin arrived.
Adelaide was still digging through her backpack in what was an apparently fruitless attempt to find a pen when her phone rang in the familiar tune she’d set what felt like years ago. Her head popped over the table just as Baurus picked up her phone from where she’d pushed it not two minutes earlier.
“You still call your dad ‘daddy’?” He asked with a slightly teasing tone as he passed her phone to her.
Oh. Right.
Shit.
She’d forgotten that she’d changed that contact name.
Play it cool, play it cool, she told herself furiously. Unfortunately, Adelaide Darrell, Grade A Massive Nerd, was not known for playing it cool, but it seemed the gods were with her this day. Some massive wave of confidence she didn’t have made her make direct contact with her fellow officer as she answered the call.
“Hey, Martin.”
Across the table from her, Baurus choked on his icee and started a coughing fit so loud Adelaide was shocked Jauffre hadn’t come running into the room.
“I’m very sorry, but the meeting ran really late, I only just got out. Is everything okay there? There’s a lot of noise on your end.”
Adelaide raised an eyebrow at Baurus as his coughing fit finally began to calm. “Everything’s fine. I’ll see you in ten.”
She could hear her boyfriend’s smile on the other end of the line. “In ten.”
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Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
