Chloe, double bed

“Oh, goody!” Heather exclaims. “So, here’s what we’re going to do. Vicky, Chloe and Gavin will write their names on these slips of paper and then Kurt, Zack and I will pick one of them from the bowl. Ok?”

Zack nods with his stomach doing somersaults as names were written and put in the hat that Heather brought. He was relieved that he couldn’t draw Kurt, actually any of the available options would be fine, be it one of his two best friends or his crush.

Heather then shakes the hat and reaches inside it to pick up a name. She unfolds it and reads.

“Gavin, my friend!” She announces. “Looks like you’re with me.”

Zack couldn’t decipher if Heather was truly happy with her draw or was just faking. Gavin on the other hand looked like Christmas had come earlier, which he found a bit weird considering his usual shyness around girls.

Then again, perhaps he was just happy not to spend the nights with Kurt or even Victoria. The first because of obvious reasons, the latter because he'd obviously not be comfortable about sharing a room with the girl his best friend had a serious crush on.

He then notices Kurt had just stuck his hand into the bowl, and felt his heart take a leap of fear as he could immediately see the smile on the other guy's face.

"Victoria..." The man grinned, while turning to the lovely young blonde. "That's a... pleasant surprise!"

Needless to say, Zack had to hold himself back from just punching that douchebag square in the face, and it seemed like both Heather and Chloe were about as quick to read his expressions. Both girls discretely stepped in between them, without Kurt even noticing a thing, and Victoria just looking rather uncomfortable with the whole situation.

"Well, I agreed to play!" She says as cheerfully as she can muster, and honestly doesn't look like she'd be that much comfortable about sharing a room with any of the others.

"And I've got just the room!" Says Kurt, who's already picked up his stuff and started heading for the building. He's stopped short by his cousin however, and scowls pretty badly when she tells him off.

"The last room is for Chloe and Zack!" She announces for reasons yet unknown to the others, though it seems on Kurt as she's just been thwarting his plans. He doesn't object though, but grumbles loudly as he's off for the main building.

"Sorry." Says Heather after a moment's pause to Zack and Chloe, when the others are all out of earshot. "Looks like you two will have to share a double bed. I couldn't really let Kurt get away with that."

"...Thanks." Zack finally says to her, though he can't really forgive her for setting up this stupid idea in the first place. The idea of Kurt and Victoria sharing the same room is bad enough, but just the thought of them sharing the same bed makes his blood run cold.

"You've done what you could." Chloe tells her, though with a worried look towards her good old friend, and then they stand and watch as Heather too start taking her stuff towards the house. "It'll turn out fine, Zack... Victoria isn't the type to fall for a guy like that."

"I... think you're right." He agrees, but still with a hint of anger in his voice. He's not blaming her however, and he tries his very best to keep himself calm. "Let's check out the room then...?"

"Ah, yeah!" She smiles as well, and then suddenly stop i her tracks just as she's taking her stuff out of the car. "Did she say... a double bed...?"

"That's what I heard." He replies, and feels a little better just from being able to tease her a little about her slow reaction.

A bit later they were both unpacked in their new room, and glancing at eachother when considering the large double bed.

"I could take the floor, if you'd like..." Zack says eventually, while trying to come up with a way to make the hard floor a little more comfortable.

"Nah, it's okay!" She replies, just a little too quickly and with a sudden laughter. "It's not much different from our sleepovers when we were kids, right?"

"Yeah, sure." He agrees, but again with a look to the bed they were supposed to share. It actually was big enough for them to keep to themselves at each side, and they had shared a bed several times before, though the last time they were still not even in their teens yet.

"Whatever happened to the sleepovers anyway?" She asks after a moment of silence. "They used to be such a blast!"

"Guess we grew up..." He replies, and then feel a bit awkward about the answer. "You know... getting older, and getting more friends and all that..."

"Yeah, I guess." She nods, followed by another and longer silence between the two of them as they're both lost in thought for a moment. It was suddenly difficult to put in words, but growing up had quite an impact on their relationship to eachother.

Both meeting other friends for starters. Friends like Victoria for example...

"Well, let's just make the best of it, ok?" Chloe suddenly turned to him again with that gentle smile on her lips, and proving that she too had exactly the same kind of thoughts as himself. "I really hope it works out for you and Vicky one day...!"

"Well, thanks...!" He managed a weak smile back at her, while wondering for the first time in quite a while if Chloe had ever been jealous about his interest in the lovely blonde. She'd never shown it before, and always supported him on the matter, but it still got him wondering if she truly didn't have any such feeling for him at all.

He sure couldn't be so sure of himself not having any feelings for her...