The Fill - In Boyfriend
Episode 32

This sounds like the beginning of every horror movie.

“Half more days pass and you're starving. You grabbed the 7-Eleven bag and pulled it out. . . ”

“If it's been three days, I might have eaten all my snacks by now.”

I could hear a smile in his voice as he said, "There's one thing left."

“Looks it was your M&M bag. You must be too busy being fearless and strong to remember to take it with you. I'm gonna eat it. "

He grabbed a bag of dried bananas from my hand and I opened my eyes.

“Dry banana and extra bag M&M only,” said. "You won't steal mine."

"Your game is fun" I called him as he walked to the register pretending to be angry.

By the time we got to the car, Bec had already moved to the back, probably because his girlfriend had already arrived.

"Boring people in front." He's all lying in the back seat. "Now give me a snack."

“I told you I'm not your personal shopper. I don't understand. "

He did not say a word, only raised his hand, with his palm up, between the chairs.

Hayden shook his head and handed over the items he requested. “One day I won't get it.”

“Someday I will join the cheerleading squad and go to Becky.”

“Isn't that last year?” Hayden asked.

"Oh yeah. I don't think that's a good comparison. "

You used to be a cheerleader? I asked, not sure if they were joking or not.

"He. That's pretty good too. ”

I remember Hayden saying at the party that he liked to come out in front so people wouldn't get too close. I wonder if this is another example of that.

"Pretty good?" He looked me in the eye. “Don't look so surprised, Ms. Presidents. I was popular too. "

"Wait," Hayden said. You're the head of the OSIS?

Bec jerks. “Oh no, do we have to bring the secret service with us? Is this a security breach? ”

Hayden ignored his sister. “I thought you just said you were a member of OSIS.”

"I. Student council president. "

“Is this for scholarship purposes or because you like being a leader?”

Both, I hope.

Pretty good performance, Gia. Congratuations. ”

I shrugged, feeling like he was making a bigger deal than before. "I guess."

"No, he's right" Bec said, surprising me for the second time today. “There are a lot of people who are campaigning for it. So you are the most popular of the popular. "

“I happen to be the person most people know. I think I just got, like, twenty percent of the vote. The rest is split between the other two candidates and Mickey Mouse, Elvis, and hundreds of other articles. ”

“So, what is your campaign strategy? Do you promise an off-campus lunch for everyone? There is no PE? ”

“I basically spent a lot of time socializing online with a group of people I don't know to remember my name.”

"Smart."

"So let me straighten this out" Bec said. “You use people to get what you want? Do you stop following all those people as soon as you win? ”

"No. I wasn't. "

“But you might stop talking to them.”

Bec has a very special way of making me feel like the worst person on the planet. It was his talent or something.

I'm glad Hayden interjected because I don't want to make it clear that now I respond when people get engaged but never call first.

We stopped in an older neighborhood and climbed into a broken home. Bec jumped out of the car and rushed to the front door. She straightened her hair before she knocked.

"He really likes this kid."

I hope she likes her boyfriend.

He's not her boyfriend. He just wants it. Maybe you can help her with that. ”

"Huh. I could swear they were together. " I saw Nate coming out of the door and closing and locking her behind him. The half-foot distance between him and Bec as they headed for the car was much clearer now. I didn't realize it before.

"Hey, Nate," Hayden said as the two of them climbed to the back.

“Hai,” addku.

"Hello."

The door closed and Hayden started driving again.

"I gave you licorice" Bec said.

Hayden raised his hand. "Well, technically, I gave you licorice."

Bec hit the back of his head with the package and then handed it to Nate.

"Cool," he said. "Thank you." He ripped off right away, sir.

Hayden pointed at the 7-Eleven bag near my feet. “You ready to play co-pilot?”

"I don't know what that means."

“That means you can open a snack for me.”

“Do I have to feed them too?”

“Ew. No, ”kata Bec.

Hayden smiles. "I think I can handle that part."

I opened the snack and placed it on the center console.

“Now we play the game road trip.”

Bec groaning. "Hayden, this is why the three-week RV trip was unbearable."

"No, I'm pretty sure it's unbearable because we have to take our own trash out and sleep on a bunk bed."

She smiles. "really. But your game is in third place. "

“Ya, my game.” He took the pretzel and put it in his mouth. “So, I'm Spying or Are You Better? That is your game choice. Actually maybe we should play Twenty Questions because Gia lost so easily the last time she tried that game. ”

"Hey."

She laughs.

"You're right. I need redemption. I'm actually very good at that game. "

“Prove,” said.

"I will." I opened the bag with a dried banana. Okay, think of something.

“You're not really going to eat it, are you?”

“Why don't I eat this? Now think of something. "

He tapped his thumb on the steering wheel a few times and then said, "OK."

I went back to Nate and Bec. “We will take turns asking him questions about it, the first to guess wins. If it takes more than twenty questions, he wins. "