Friends

Date/Timing: 11 June 2007
Setting: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Edan turns to Fen-fen, says, "Tell me again why we're standing by Trini's back gate getting rained on?"
"Trini said we had to."
"Ah, right. Silly me."
Fen-fen grunts.
"Any idea what this is about?"
"She swore me to secrecy."
Edan sighs.
An engine grumbles up the alleyway.
Edan eyes the green Corsa trundling toward them, presses himself tighter to the garden wall. "Uh, Fen-fen? Shouldn't you step—"
"It'll stop."
"But—"
"It'll stop."
It does and the driver's door opens.
Trini hops out, flourishes. "Tahdah~!"
"You bought a car!" Edan blinks. "You bought a car?"
"'Car' might be an overstatement," drawls Fen-fen.
"Shut it, Reid. She runs, passed her exams, got her paperwork, and she's aaalll /mine." Trini strokes the bonnet.
"That's /brilliant!"
"I know!"
Fen-fen rolls her eyes.
"So—" Edan bounces on his toes. "—can I take her out?"
"/No!" yell Trini and Fen-fen together.
Edan cringes.
"You're not insured for her," points out Trini.
"You'll kill us all," chips in Fen-fen.
Edan pouts.
"Sorry, Bea—"
"Do /not call me that or I /swear—"
"Sweetheart, you're /not driving my baby."
"That's better."
"Great. Glad we got that sorted. Now—" Trini jingles the keys. "—who wants to go for a ride~?"
"/Me!" Edan stuffs himself into the backseat, knees nearly touching his chin. 
Trini squees, flings herself behind the wheel.
Fen-fen slumps in as shotgun.
Trini starts the engine, puts the car in gear, and rolls them smoothly down the lane to the street, eases them into traffic.
"Where're we going?"
"Shopping~!"
"Why'd you even bother asking, Danny-boy?"
"She doesn't /always go shopping!"
"Yes, she does."
"Yes, I do."
"See?"
Edan concedes with a laugh. "Anything particular in your sights, Trini?"
"I need a couple of new dresses for my holiday~!"
"Here we go again," sighs Fen-fen.
"Quiet! I wanna hear /all about it."
Fen-fen huffs.
"Thank you, dearie." Trini beams in the rear-view. "Alli—"
"Dunn? From over by the bridge?"
"The very one~! He's taking us to Burntisland for a /week!"
Fen-fen hunches.
"Ooo, he's a real catch, Trini! Cute /and's got a great job."
"I know~! He's an absolute /sweetheart, too."
"That's brilliant!" Edan grins. "I had a /huge crush on him in middle school, you know."
"Oh God do I know. You talked about him /constantly for a month."
"I did?"
"Yep. Even if you hadn't, was there any boy you /didn't have a crush on as a kid?"
Edan protests, "I had a lot of love to share."
"But now you've got your little boytoy back full-time and you don't have /any to spare."
"Yeaaa ... I'm the luckiest, happiest guy I know."
"I noticed. Your feet ain't touched the floor since you got home."
"Lay off the kid, Fennie. He's getting older now, so it's only natural he's starting to think of settling down."
"Is that what's happening to you?"
Trini scoffs. "I'm out for my own /pleasure right now." The grin in her voice gets /huge. "Alli's a hell of a pleasant time, let me tell you."
Fen-fen sulks lower in her seat.
"Glad to know my excellent taste's been validated."
"You spent a week in love with Ollie Graham, sweetie."
"What's wrong with—"
"He's in jail—"
"Again."
"—for glassing a bloke."
"Again."
"I never said my taste was /perfect," pouts Edan.
"Only trying to bring you back down to Earth," laughs Trini. "You need to shop for anything yourself?"
"I, uh, could probably use new khakis for work." Edan frowns. "Some better shoes, too."
"Oo! I know where /both of those are on sale this week!"
"Of course you do," grumbles Fen-fen.
"Of course you do!" cheers Edan.
"And we're almost there, too!"
"Whee."
"Maybe we need to find /you a dress, Fennie."
"Fuck no."
"But you're so cute in them!"
"Get bent, Beaker."
"Now you've done it," giggles Trini.
"Can we at least score you some socks? Yours are more hole than sock."
"Fiiine," huffs Fen-fen. "Your treat."
"Fiiine."
Trini glides them into a parking space, pulls the handbrake, announces, "We're here! Everyone out!"
Fen-fen groans, heaves herself to the pavement.
Edan scrambles after her, unfolds himself, flips up his hood, and streeeeetches, spine popping.
Fen-fen raises an eyebrow. "Little cramped back there, yea?"
"Nothing a brisk stroll won't solve."
"That's the spirit!" cheers Trini. She slings her arms around Edan and Fen-fen. "Let's do this!"
So they do, Fen-fen grumping the whole while, though she does allow Edan to buy her a package of colourful socks along with one of her usual black.
Trini drops them off at the kerb and they trump inside, Fen-fen in the lead.
She heads straight up to her room, Edan at her heels, and sets to unwrapping and stuffing her new footwear into her dresser.
Edan drops his bags, crosses his arms, leans against the wall. "What the Hell's up with your mood today?"
"I'm my usual sunshiny self."
"Yea, no, you're not."
Fen-fen sighs, flops flat-out on her bed. "If it'll shut you up to hear, I'm jealous."
"Of me?"
"Trini, too."
"Why both—" It clicks. "I, uh, take it you and Matts are off again?"
"We're done. For good."
"That's good?"
"Not for Evie Aitchison."
Edan raises an eyebrow.
"He got her pregnant."
"Oo. Poor Evie. What's she ...?"
"She's gonna be a mummy."
"I, well, I hope that goes well for her and the wean."
Fen-fen mumbles, "Me, too."
Edan rests a hand on his nape. "You ever wish you had—"
"This's /empathy." She gives him a Look. "/You're the one wants kids, not me."
"Yeaaa ... true enough."
Fen-fen sniffs.
"Anyone on your radar?"
She sorta-shrugs.
"Thaaat's a definite 'maybe'."
She shrugs again.
"You're not thinking of taking Kai back are you?"
"Fuck no." She smirks. "He wouldn't have me, seeing as I broke his nose last time I saw him."
"Good for you! He deserves a broken /everything, though."
"Why don't you give him that for his birthday? 's next week."
"Think I'll pass. He could turn me into a gummy bear without a breaking a sweat."
"True that."
"What about taking Liam Caulfield out?"
"Engaged."
"To who?"
"Phia Morton."
"Huh. The kids'll be cute?"
Fen-fen rolls her eyes.
"Weren't you sweet on Jess Mclevy—"
"Dating Niamh Goodall."
"Ewww. That one's a nasty piece of work."
"She's not so bad," Fen-fen mumbles.
Edan cocks his head. "You've never liked her before."
"We have 'business' now."
"Jesus, Fen-fen." He face-palms. "/Please say you're being careful about it this time."
"I'm /always careful."
"Which's how—"
"Just bad luck."
Edan sighs. "What about Chloe Mcchord?"
"Moved to Aberdeen." Glowers. "Not gonna do long-distance, either."
"Alex Shand?"
"Gay."
"Molly Cantely?"
"Straight."
"Who outta the old gang haven't I mentioned?"
"Ella, Tommy, and Trini're the lot."
"Well, Ella moved to France, right?"
"Yea."
"So, Tommy?"
Fen-fen wrinkles her nose. "We tried it a few months back. Incompatible in bed."
"Too bad, that," Edan sighs. "And since Trini's right—" 
Fen-fen's ears pink.
Edan blinks, straightens. "Oh holy /shit! You have a crush on Trini!"
"Shut up," she growls.
"You do! Oh my God!"
"Shut /up, Beaker."
"I can't blame you, really. I mean, /I dated her—"
"Not. Helping."
Edan cringes—"Sorry."—ruffles his hair. "I, well, she's pretty brilliant."
"Don't hold back on the salt."
Edan makes a frustrated noise. "Right, right, sorry." Deep breath. "What I mean is, I used to crush on straight folks all the time, so I know how bad it sucks."
"Used to until you found the love of your life."
"I got bloody-fucking-lucky."
"Glad one of us did for once."
Edan pushes off the wall, drops himself next to Fen-fen on the mattress. "We're both pretty blessed and you know it."
She scoffs.
"We're both alive, sane, get enough to eat—"
"Are friends with Trini ...."
"See? /Blessed."
"Get out before I kick you out."
"I'm not done!"
"Yea you are. Out." She nudges his butt with a knee.
Edan stands, grabs his packages, and walks to the door, grinning. "Alright, alright, I'll leave you to mope in peace."
"Thank ye most kindly, Beaker."
"I'll let you get away with that, seeing as you're in emotional distress," he snickers as he closes up.
A /whump as Fen-fen's pillow bounces off the door.
Edan laughs and saunters down the hall to his room.
Category:Ficlet
Category:Glasgow (setting)
Category:Edan
Category:Edan's POV
Category:Edan (ficlet)
Category:Fenella
Category:Fenella (ficlet)
Category:Trinity
Category:Trinity (ficlet)
Category:Alli (mention)
Category:Hermann (mention)
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2007 06 11
Category:Celestial Mechanics