Fic: Ferris Wheel

cats-and-metersticks:

aka more crack!

for @ruby-red-inky-blue– fake exes, because I’ve never heard of that before but now I kinda want to try it out? 

[I meant this to be a super short thing but then it kind of got long and oh well enjoy~]

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“You want me to what?” Jyn coughed and almost dropped her milkshake. Which would’ve been a real shame because it was hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement. 

“Please? Just this once? For a few hours,” Bodhi wheedled. “I’ll owe you, big time.”

“You’re goddamn right you will.” Jyn adjusted the straw around a bubble and took another long pull of orange creamsicle. “What kind of crazy lie did you even tell?”

“Luke wasn’t going to come to the town fair but I told him he had to help me distract you because you and Cassian broke up.” 

“You realize how insane that is, right?”

“He made eye contact! I was nervous, it was the first thing that came into my head.”

Jyn unlocked the door to their apartment and kicked in the door, swollen shut in the humidity. “You mean me and Cassian breaking up was the first thing that came to your head?” 

“No! I mean– you were fighting last week… I don’t know.”

“Well we’re fine now,” Jyn grumbled, collapsing on the sofa in front of the fan.

“So can you just pretend to be… not fine for like, three hours on Saturday?”

Jyn narrowed her eyes. “Sixty dollars.”

“Thirty.”

“Fifty, final offer. Enough for dinner at a nice restaurant.”

“Deal.”

Jyn spit on her palm and held it out.

Bodhi made a face. “Ew, no.”

“Baby.” She rolled her eyes. “I take cash or venmo.”

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