Page 10 of For Your Consideration

“I know.” I could practically hear his smile through the phone.

After I hung up, I looked down and saw all the missed notifications from our group chat. I tried to keep the thing on mute, even though the last time they’d found out I’d done that, I’d got a stern talking-to from Will. It was always going off, I could never keep up, and I fucking hated texting. But the one time I tried to leave, I got added back immediately and yelled at.

Noah

Breaking news—Asher Lawson is acting strange. What could be the reason?

Noah

Stay tuned to find out.

Jaxson

Are you okay Noah?

Will

Strange ass way to start a conversation but okay…

Quinn

Did you want to be a news reporter when you were younger?

Knight

Aren’t you all sitting next to each other at the club right now? Why are you texting?

I smirked at Knight jumping in. Before Quinn, he responded only slightly more often than me, but now he was always paying attention to it.

Oli

He didn’t want those of us not here to feel left out.

Knight

I wouldn’t have felt left out.

Quinn

Yeah, because I would have filled you in later.

Noah

I can start a poll for us to bet on why Asher is in…a mood.

Jaxson

Isn’t he always grumpy?

Will

^second that question.

Oli

Yeah but he’s glaring way more intensely tonight.

Me