Prompt 77. I think I’m in trouble featuring made up but relatable Dana Nurse, cousin extraordinaire and law student. She knew first in this one. I have no idea where this went, but this was an indulgent call out of my own procrastination.
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Dana Nurse has had enough of law school. BusinessOrganization sounded like a perfectly practical class before she was half waythrough it and remembering she hates both business and organization. The clearsolution was to call her favorite cousin and pester him into enablingprocrastination.
Derek picks up the FaceTime call after a few rings. He looksfine but weirdly out of breath. “Dana! Hi. How’s the fancy law school forlawyers and such?”
“Boring and bad,” she waves her hand in front of the camerato prevent that whole line of questioning. “But I called for hockey hijinks. Sospill it, what have you all been up to?”
“Ah, well, Dex and I just got back from Founders—”
Before Derek can continue explaining, Will chimes in fromoff screen. “Are you tattling on me already? Chowder or Jack and Bitty?”
“I’m trying to talk to Dana, you heathen!”
She’s unsurprised to watch Will appear over Derek’s rightshoulder, just in frame on the camera, with a mischievous gleam in his eye.
“Oh, are you gonna tell her about you eating shit on thesidewalk earlier because you don’t listen to me about the ice?”
“No,” Derek shoves lightly at Will’s shoulder. “But I wasthinking about recounting that joke Chowder told at Annie’s that was so funnyyou got iced coffee in your nose.”
“Okay, well for bringing that up,” Will says, walking awayfrom the couch, “I’m not saving you garlic bread for when you finally stopditching me for dinner. Bye, Dana!”
Derek laughs and beams after Will. “Don’t be fuckingmean, Dexy, I’m not ditching you. Just give me a minute to get off thephone.” He turns back to Dana’s raised eyebrow on camera and immediatelydrops the smile. “Why are you making that face at me? You make that stupidexpression and I think I’m in trouble. I don’t like it.”
“I’m just wondering,” Dana says, not even trying to hide hersmirk, “when you were going to tell me you have it bad for your d-man.”
Derek looks positively indignant at the suggestion. “Never,because I don’t!”
“Listen, D,” Dana tries to shift her voice into something sympathetic,“I hear you and I want you to know I understand what you’re saying. But alsowould you stop bullshitting if I told you I thought it was mutual?”
“And I want you to know that I am choosing to no longer hearyou. We used to fight like all the time. Things are just better now, yah know?We hang out a lot, grab food, chill.”
“I’m not here to push you, but between that and that weirdnot-flirting I definitely just watched this sounds an awful lot sophomore yearof high school when you—”
“Got a crush on my best friend without realizing it” Derekresponds, suddenly looking startled.
“I’m just saying, it’s wild someone who’s as in tune withother people’s vibes as you are doesn’t realize they’re half in love untilthey’re two weeks deep into getting over it.”
“Fuck,” Derek mumbles and then is quiet for a while. “Fuck.I knew I was in trouble. So what do I do?”
“Go have dinner, I guess. He seemed serious about takingyour garlic bread. I’ll talk to you after you talk to him about this.” Danachuckles before hanging up. This was definitely more interesting than requiredreadings.
Hey there - was just wondering, you are ghostwriterly on ao3, right? Someone on here was looking for your fic ‚Ill equipped‘ and I wanted to point them to it, but found that you have hidden this great story? Any plans to make it public again? I‘m on my phone, but I will try to @ you to the post in question.... love your writing!
Thank you sweet thing! <3 I will look for it!
I actually rewrote and edited Ill Equipped into an original novel for publishing over the past several months. It will go live on Amazon tomorrow! (And the first book in a series!)
