modern au where after TA has a messy friend group break up they, a year later, have a surprise reunion which is really just an unexpected sleepover cause the whole cities power goes out and the only person who has a generator is zam (long writing)
surprisingly ro shows up first, very dramatically apologizing for showing up with a pillow in hand and every nerve in zam is screaming for him to turn him away but ro starts begging him with his hands together pleading as he can’t sleep without an ac on and he can already feel the cool air in zams house so he can’t possibly just leave
he starts crying when going down the steps to zams house after zams 5th refusal and zam gets this very bad feeling about what could happen if anyone see's or hears ro crying anywhere near him
so in a panic he lets ro crash for the night where ro immediately runs upstairs and takes zams king sized bed while yelling "goodnight!" as he slams the door shut leaving zam with silence
knowing this was a bad idea to let ro in with how mapic always happens to show up if ro's around, zam calls terrain to calm himself and to ask what he should do
terry is baffled, not helpful in the slightest and from his reaction he makes it sound like zam killed someone which doesn't help zam feel any better but says he’ll bring popcorn and set up a movie so zam wouldn’t be alone if things got too bad
zam immediately questions what terrain meant by "too bad" which is not helping his nerves but terrain cuts the call and leaves zam to ponder in the middle of his living room on how worse things could possibly get
zam than hears a knock on the door just as he was lost in thought and since knowing how terrain would not give him the courtesy of running over to his place, he braces himself and opens the door to someone unexpected
the second person to show up was none other than spoke, when zam opened the door spoke’s eyes were watering while he was holding a box of frozen hot pockets and without a word from any of them, spokes stomach growled
zam sighed, holding his head in one hand as the other opens the door wider to let spoke in, he runs towards zams microwave and zam has to run after him to warn him that ro was sleeping upstairs so he can’t make too much noise
spoke almost trips hearing that, quickly shoving a hot pocket in the microwave and looking at zam with the widest questioning eyes while stepping towards zam and asking why in the world the number one person who hates him is in his house
to zam it’s not bad if spoke visits since he technically wasn’t there when the group broke up and floats about but ro? in his house? after the argument that led to him breaking his arm and ro breaking his leg? yeah spoke had a point to question what the hell ro was doing in zams house
spoke did not like ro when he heard what happened as he was the one to help zam recover while ro pranced around sobbing about his casted arm, zam's happy spoke cares but he can't be having spoke fighting ro at all
zam immediately start telling him they both know how bad ro’s sleep issues are but spoke wasn’t buying it, telling zam he needs to kick ro out as this will not end well in any scenario ever
zam hates it but spokes right, in the morning it would be 10x worse, terrain was also coming over and the looming threat of mapic showing up was making him dizzy
they argue over who’s gonna wake ro up and kick him out whisper yelling until they hear the door unlock, the front door that zam just locked, that no one should have the key to, has unlocked and the door knob was turning
zam shushed spoke and they horrifyingly watched the door slowly open and the next person to arrive was the one and only mapic, his eyes scanned the room the second he slipped inside until landing onto spoke and than zam where zam immediately slides behind spoke after making eye contact
mapic opens his mouth first, with nothing giving away his feelings or thoughts he questions why ro’s location was saying he was here
spoke pipes up first knowing damn well if zam speaks a word mapics mood will sour so he explains that ro crashed here for zams ac since the cities powers out
mapic lets out an irritated sigh and zam was going to add that he didn’t do anything but spoke was squeezing his wrist so hard that zam knew he needed to keep his mouth shut and not move
mapic walks through zams house, looking down at his phone to find ro, zam feels sick watching mapic move as if he still remembers the layout of his place while spoke takes his hot pocket out of the microwave and leads them both to sit on the couch
zam follows with no resistance, eyes still watching as mapic goes upstairs and vanishing out of sight, he doesn’t really know what to do, maybe mapics gonna grab ro and drag him out? it’s wishful thinking to assume both mapic and ro are gonna leave quietly so he sinks into the couch while spoke happily eats his food
the house is really quiet when the door opens again, this time it’s the expected guest terrain and zam starts to think it might’ve been a bad idea to call terry as the entire TA group is back under his roof while they are all on not talking terms
terrain immediately throws the popcorn at zam, greeted spoke and than put on a movie, it should have been fine, really the house isn't burning down and terrain picked- didn't pick a romcom for once
terrain sits beside zam and zam finally stops thinking until terry asks why zams door wasn’t locked
zams breath starts to pick up, yeah the door he clearly locked when spoke showed up had unlocked itself, terrain doesn't know mapic showed up, mapic has a key to his house, the house he specifically changed all the locks to after the TA breakup
the implications of how bad things kept getting and they all haven't even seen each other were sending him off the edge, spoke had to start calling zams name to get him to focus
in the midst of stopping an oncoming panic attack, terrain obliviously goes to find blankets wanting to be cozy on the couch and goes to zams room where all the blankets, where he vaguely remembers, are stored at which just so happens to be where mapic and ro were talking
after spoke and zam finish the popcorn more than halfway through the movie, spoke turns the movie off very abruptly, zam who's very lost asks why and spoke simply points upstairs and zam realizes terrain never actually came back downstairs from wherever he wondered off to
silence fills the house once again, spoke goes upstairs with zam looking for terrain, zam starts to question if he was too zoned into the movie to notice if he left, did mapic leave? was mapic still in his house? zam was not liking his mind right now but it didn't matter as spoke opened the door to his bedroom
laying on zams bed was ro, mapic and terrain all fast asleep in a mountain of blankets
zam was in shock looking at how unorganized yet comfortable they were as spoke started to push them around so he could crawl in too, lost in what he was seeing, zam barely reacted when spoke just yanked him in the bed as well
wanting to avoid the awkwardness when the morning comes was voided as the coziness of the super soft blankets immediately brought him under
when the morning came it wasn't too bad, no one really moved even after all of them woke up, first to speak was mapic, apologizing for making a key to zams house the day after zam changed the locks, zam was baffled next day???, than next was spoke apologizing to zam for stealing his keys so mapic could make a copy of it and zam proceeded to kick spoke under the blankets to which everyone chuckled at
when the laughter stopped terrain started apologizing seriously for running away and avoiding all of them when they really needed him which was very unexpected, they all started to say it was okay as his life got busy but than he got a kick from mapic under the blanket and they all couldn't help but laugh at terry's reaction
than next at the same time zam and ro apologized for breaking the others arm/leg and got super emotional about the other actually forgiving them, though mapic pipes up about not forgiving zam for hurting ro
he ruined the vibe terrain says, but spoke chimes in saying he doesn't forgive ro for hurting zam leading to spoke and mapic squabbling about who was in the wrong more, getting no where as they start insulting each other completely off topic
zam tries to get up to leave but ro pulls him down, stating that they all can't leave until they talk this out, talk out the infinite problems from last year while kicking each other until its solved
they all rolled their eyes giving in and tucking themselves closer into the blankets as ro starts retelling where the problems began as everyone chimes in to correct him throughout
at least it wasn't as bad as zam thought it was gonna get but he never expected for his year long avoidance of anything about TA to lead to them actually talking it out, he just hopes he has enough food in the fridge to feed all of them after this
