Chapter 25

                                    

                                          
3rd person's POV
They were playing Monopoly together, Anne, Twig, Sasha and Ivanna.
"Come on, no!" Ivanna said.
"Hand it over." The brunette giggled.
"Thank you,"
"It's nearly midnight, can we please just call it a draw?" Twig asked.
"No because I'm clearly winning I just have bad rolls!" Ivanna said.
"No, I'm winning, because I have more money!" 
"No the winner is the superior businessperson, and that's me."
"No, I'm the superior businessperson seeing as I have more money, which is the goal of Monopoly!"
"You only have more money because you know all the Monopoly cheats!" She said and gestured with her hands.
"You can't cheat at Monopoly!"
Sasha flipped over the board and said. "Oh... whoops,"
It went silent before she said. "Draw?"
"Draw." 
"Thank frog."
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"It's never a good time to tell someone that their crush is going on a date with someone else." Ivanna said.
"And I just don't like Marcy!"
"I've seen her with those nasty sophomores at the gate!"
"If they say anything mean to Anne, I'm going to crush them." She said and balled up her fist.
"Crush them?" He said amused.
"Verbally," She added.
"Doesn't sound like the safest tactic,"
"Well... I don't like playing safe, chip?"
Twig took a chip and a bite out of it.
"Let's tell her when she gets back,"
"Fine, but only if you stop talking about it!"
"I just think that Marcy—"
"Ivy! Can we please talk about something else, anything else."
"What? Oh." She breathed out.
"Am I not being entertaining enough for you?"
"No, you're not. You're being annoying!" He laughed. 
"Oh, I'm sorry... what do you wanna do instead?"
"Should I perform a piece of interpretive dance?" She said and set down the bowl of chips aside.
"Would that be less annoying." She said slightly shaking her shoulders as Twig shook his head with a smile.
"That wasn't exactly what I had in mind..."
"Too late, you said it now," Ivanna said and slightly bopped his nose and getting up while clapping her hands, which made him laugh.
She continued dancing awfully, and turning back side to side with her hands facing the direction.
"How's this?"
"I think this is worse,"
"I just think you can't recognize talent when you see it!" She said and continued.
"I can, and this isn't it." He said with a smile.
"I can't believe this whole conversation was a ploy for you to witness my incredibly amazing dance moves."
"Oh my frog, stop! Stop!" He laughed out as she moonwalked badly to her.
"Stop it!" He laughed out as Ivanna grabbed a pillow and lightly hit him.
Sasha and Anne walked into the room. "Do I even wanna know?"
"Ow!" Ivanna said once Twig hit her with the pillow.
They gave them their cups before sitting down.
"So I was thinking of inviting Marcy to my birthday thing on Saturday," Anne explained.
Twig glanced at Ivanna who stared at Anne.
"I really want her to come, but I don't want it to be awkward or weird since you don't really know her."
"No, it wouldn't be awkward." He said.
"I assumed she was coming anyways." Sasha said with a knowing smile.
"Okay..."
"Good."
Ivanna and Twig locked eyes again as they took a sip of their drinks.
To be continued...