Chapter 8

                                    

                                          
     Devin was laying on her back on her bed, picking at the hem of her dress nervously. She was dressed up for the dinner with Jean, Scott, and Alex. She had been staring at her ceiling for a while before Alex walked in, he furrowed his eyebrows at her and walked over to lay next to her, causing the bed to dip towards him.
                          
     "You alright?"
                          
     "Do worms have feelings?"
                          
     "Do...What?" He looked over to her, she glanced over at him before looking back to the ceiling. "Now's not the time for questions, Socrates. Get up, we're going on a date." He sat up.
                          
     "Double."
                          
     "What?"
                          
     "Double date." Devin looked at him, he turned his head to look at her. "We're going on a double date, not just a date." She sat up as well.
                          
     "Yeah, I know." Alex sounded like he was trying to convince himself of that more than anything. "I know it's a double date, it's just quicker to say date. Are you going to be like this the entire night?" He raised an eyebrow.
                          
     "The life of the party you mean? Yeah, I am," she told him with a blank tone.
                          
     "You alright? We can cancel if you want." He rested his right hand on her knee.
                          
     "Don't cancel." She shook her head. "I'm just thinking about the training I'm doing with Hank and Charles, the ones with the plants." He nodded, knowing what she was talking about. "They've been acting weird, ever since the night you came back drunk. They've been avoiding me outside of training time, I guess it's because I yelled at them, but it still hurts you know?" She looked at Alex who was staring at her.
                          
     "I'm sure they are just worried that it won't work the way they hoped." He gave her a supporting smile before kissing her temple. "We should go, I don't want to keep the others waiting." He patted her knee before standing up, she continued sitting.
                          
     "I never thought you and I would be in this position." She looked up to him before standing up.
                          
     "Ready?"
                          
     "Yeah." She nodded as he kissed her forehead again, a small smile on her face.
                          
     "Okay, let's go." Alex began walking down the hallway towards the stairs.
                          
     "Hold my hand," she told him.
                          
     "Why?"
                          
     "Hold my hand dammit, we have to make this look convincing," she hissed at him, he smirked and grabbed hold of her left hand.
                          
     "You're intense," he told her as they walked down the stairs.
                          
     "So I've been told." She smiled.
                          
     "About time," Scott said from the bottom of the stairs, holding onto the end of the banister. "I thought you were making me a niece or nephew you guys took that long." Devin rolled her eyes.
                          
     "He's in the basement, I haven't finished him yet."
                          
     He faked a laugh at her. "Can we go now?" He seemed to be acting in a nervous, yet rude, manner.
                          
     "Yeah, we can go, the car is unlocked." Alex nodded as both Jean and Scott held hands and walked out.
                          
     "Your brother needs to get laid, damn." Alex laughed.
                          
     "That's my brother you're talking about, kinda gross to think about that." He looked at Devin while they both walked out of the mansion.
                          
     "Just saying, he's very stressed." She pointed out as Alex closed the door and walked to the car, opening the passenger side for her. "Thanks," she mumbled quietly, a small smile spread on her face as he closed the door and walked around to his side, getting in and starting the car.