Jasmine's POV

I woke up the next day thinking about Anthony. I checked my messages. Daveed had made a group chat with him, Anthony, Oak, Renée, Pippa, and me.

🔥THE CHAT WHERE IT HAPPENS🔥

frenchy: Hey do you guys wanna grab some ☕️ before rehearsal?

oaksmash: Sure. Where?

mommaren: I'm in. How abt that little place by the theater?

jazzyj: Manhattan Mocha? Sure I'll go. Ant? Pip?

ant🐜: I'll be there

cinnamonrol: 👍🏼 Meet you guys there in 20 min?

oaksmash: 👌🏾 See y'all there

I set my phone down and jumped out of bed, almost sprinting toward the bathroom. Twenty minutes to get ready. How am I supposed to do that? I don't wanna be late. They'll get a bad impression of me. I guess I just have to hurry.

I quickly showered, changed, and ran out the door. It was a ten-minute walk to the café. And I only have five. I thought after checking my phone. I started running

I was about halfway there when I ran into someone, sending us both flying.

"Sorry! Sorry!" I apologized, getting up to brush myself off. I reached out to help the other person up when I saw who it was.

"Shit! Anthony, I'm so sorry," I felt my face flush.

"Jas it's fine," He said, smiling as his cheeks turned red as well. He took my hand and I pulled him up.

"Why're you running?" He asked, glancing the way I came as we began to walk towards the coffee shop.

"Because," I checked my phone, "we're supposed to be at the café right now." Anthony glanced at his watch.

"Shit!" He exclaimed, "Come on!" He grabbed my hand and sprinted off, pulling me in the direction of the café.

YOU ARE HOLDING HANDS!! I REPEAT YOU ARE HOLDING HANDS!! My brain screamed at me. YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND JAZZY!!! Another part yelled. I continued to argue with myself. But Noah hasn't really been for you lately. But he's still your boyfriend and you love him.

Do I?

I was shaken from my thoughts when I heard Anthony.

"You coming Jas?" He asked. I realized that he was standing in the doorway of the café, while I was still in the middle of the sidewalk. I quickly nodded and followed him inside. "I'll get us coffee. You can go sit down," Anthony said. I gave him my order and walked to the table where the others were sitting.

"Sooooooooo," Pippa started, glancing at Anthony.

"We ran into each other on the way here," I interrupted.

"Nah you guys slept together, I'm calling it," Daveed teased. I shot him a glare as the rest of the group laughed loudly.

"Here you go," Anthony said, handing me my coffee before pulling a chair up to the table.

"Thanks!" I exclaimed.

"So... anyone do anything interesting last night?" Renée asked, smirking as she glanced at Anthony, before switching to me.

"No just hung out with my sister," Anthony said while blushing, clearly getting what Renée implied.

"Lies," Oak mumbled, making Pippa laugh.

"So Pippa how's your boyfriend?" I asked, trying my hardest to change the subject. It worked and we all listened to Pippa ramble about Steven.

We soon finished our coffee and got two taxis. The boys climbed in one while Pippa and Renée followed me into another.

"Okay, explain," Pippa demanded as soon as the door closed. Renée nodded eagerly. I recalled the story for them, going over every detail. Many questions followed.

"Wait, did he grab your hand or your arm?"

"Does he like you?"

"Do you like him?"

They continued to fire questions at me and I continued to answer, all the while not really listening. Do I like Anthony?

We arrived at the theater and the three of us clambered out of the cab. We set our stuff down in our dressing rooms.

"We're running You'll Be Back through Wait For it today. Be at the stage in five." Lin announced over the speaker.

The three of us got to the stage and sat down next to Daveed, Oak, and Anthony. We all talked while they practiced You'll Be Back. Somehow, Pippa steered the conversation to Anthony's romantic life.

"So Anthony? How about you? Are you single?" Pippa asked, throwing a wink at me. I rolled my eyes, yet looked at Anthony, waiting for an answer. He shifted uncomfortably.

"Yeah I just broke up with my ex, Emma," Anthony said, looking at the ground. "She was cheating on me for a while." He looked like he was about to cry, though insisted he was fine when asked by Renée.

I was infuriated. Who would cheat on someone as nice, funny, and hot as Anthony? I was about to say something but was interrupted by Lin.

"Right Hand Man!" He yelled.

Rehearsal ended and we discovered that it was pouring outside. Lin offered to drive everyone who couldn't get a cab home.

Anthony and I followed Oak, Lin, Ariana, and Ephraim to the car. We were deep in a discussion about the importance of keeping certain shows on Netflix.

"Friends is a classic!" I yelled at the man next to me in disbelief.

"I just don't think it's that funny. Now The Office is a show I can get behind."

"The Office is boring nothing happens," I spat at him, though there was no anger behind my words. Ant clutched his chest and stumbled backward.

"Ugh Jas you wounded me." I giggled at him.

"Shut up. One day you'll have to come to my apartment. We'll order pizza, watch Friends it'll be great."

"Only if we watch a few episodes of The Office."

"Okay." I conceded.

"It's a date." Ant grinned at me. Just seeing the way Ant's nose scrunched when he smiled caused a grin to form on my face.

"Okay." My brain was so fuzzy from Ant's presence that I couldn't think of any other word. We made the rest of the walk to the car in silence.

By the time the two of us caught up, everyone else was already in.

"Lin," I started, "there's only one seat left."

"Oh damn. Could you guys double buckle?" He asked.

"Or you could just sit on Anthony's lap," Oak suggested, attempting to hide his snickers. Ariana hid her face in Ephraim's shoulder so we couldn't see her laugh.

"We could do that," Ant said, looking at me. "If you're okay with it," he added. I laughed slightly before realizing he was being serious.

"Oh um... sure we- we could do that," I stuttered nervously. Anthony sat down in the empty seat and I sat on his right thigh, trying to ignore the blush creeping onto my face and the butterflies flapping around in my stomach so violently I almost stopped Lin so I could jump out and puke. All it took was a quick glance behind me to see that Anthony was embarrassed too.

Over the course of the ride, I became more comfortable and, with Anthony's permission, moved from his thigh to between his legs, which was easy because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt. I normally wouldn't feel comfortable doing this with someone, especially someone I met yesterday but with Anthony, it felt... different. Eventually, I leaned back on him and after a while, he started playing with my hair.

"You're hair's really soft," he said. At this point, we were alone in the car with Lin, yet still hadn't decided to move to two separate seats.

"Just hook up already," Lin mumbled, quiet enough so only I could hear him. I shot him a glare through the rearview mirror.

"Thanks, I wish it were straight though. It's really hard to take care of," I responded.

"Are you kidding! I love your curls!" He exclaimed.

"Apuesto a que te gustaría tirar de ellos en cama," Lin said.

"Shut up!" Anthony exclaimed. I glanced at him for a translation but quickly saw that his face was red and decided that I didn't want to know.

Anthony and I chatted about some random stuff for a few minutes. While talking, I mentioned that I didn't think that I looked good in hats.

"Here," He said, placing the baseball cap that he was wearing backwards on my head. "You look good." I quickly hit it off.

"You'll mess up my hair," I protested. I turned around to look at Anthony and saw him smiling mischievously. I tried to crawl away from him but ended up laying on my back over the cushions. Before I could sit up, Anthony jumped on top of me and tried to put the hat back on. I caught his hands and did my best to shove them away from me. We struggled for a few seconds until both of us were too busy laughing to fight. By the time Anthony had stopped laughing enough to put the hat back on my head, I was too tired to protest.

He then wrapped his arms around me and rolled off the side of the cushion. I landed on top of him on the floor of the car, which made the both of us laugh again. Our giggles slowly died out and we were left staring into each other's eyes. We sat there for a few seconds, eyes locked until I came to my senses and got up, sitting back in the seat like a normal person. Anthony soon followed.

"You guys done?" Lin asked, turning around to smirk at us. I realized that we had pulled over in front of my apartment building. I thanked Lin, said a quick goodbye to Anthony, jumped out, and grabbed my bag.

After I got upstairs and set my bag down on a table by the door, I went to my room to change. It wasn't until then that I realized I was still wearing Anthony's hat. I grabbed my phone to tell him.

ant🐜

jazzyj: Hey! I forgot to give you your hat back sorry. I'll bring it tmrw

ant🐜: Nah it's fine you can keep it

jazzyj: Oh! Thanks!

I looked at my new hat. It was blue with a big A.R. on the front. I put it on and went to get a salad at a restaurant next door. I brought it home and sat on my couch to watch some Friends. Eventually, I got up and went to my room, falling asleep soon after I laid down.

It's still pretty slow so sorry about that. I'm really just writing this for fun but thanks for reading. I didn't edit this very well so sorry. If you see any mistakes please tell me so I can fix it. Thanks!

LIN RAPPING WITH PIGTAILS!!!!!!!!

Have a great day!

~Kate

Word count-1558 (not including a/n)

Aug. 25, 2017

(EDITED May 28, 2018)