devon woke up to whispers and flashes in her face and josh's head stuck in between the couch cushions.

"guys let them be for pet-, ansel stop!" violetta whisper yelled at ansel and tried grabbing his phone out of his hands while adeline giggled and timothée continued taking photos and her dad taking part in the photo grabbing too.

"no, vi we need to capture how cute they are and totally not get any blackmail." ansel plead with his girlfriend who angrily stood with her arms crossed looking at him with a strong death glare. "fine." he gave in when she pulled up a picture of him on her phone that was taken in freshman year.

"i'm her best friend i have to," adeline said to violetta who let her continue, knowing that adeline did have to or her best friend duties will have been wasted.

garret continued taking photos that he would probably post on instagram knowing well that devon wouldn't care that much. m they both frequently posted embarrassing photos of eatchother.

"i will murder all of you!" devon whisper yelled at them all and catching them off guard. "shoo, leave, make breakfast, get postmates." she told them all but they stayed in place. "i'm still tired and cranky and want to go back to sleep and if you wake him up you have another thing coming from me." she tried threatening but it wouldn't work ether. "timothée i will post your rap from history, adeline i will tell everyone about your LDS experience and i can't do anything to you dad and ansel, vi already threatened you. so go!"

they all muttered and held up their hands and walked away to get cereal or food.

"i tried reasoning with them but they wouldn't stop so i shoved my head in between the couch cushions." josh tried saying while his head was indeed shoved between the couch cushions but he pulled it out. "good morning then, that's one way to wake up."

"your hair is super staticky," devon laughed while his hair was sticking straight up in some places. "everyone is doing their own thing today. tim is seeing friends and vi and ansel are supposed to be having a day to themselves and adeline has to get some work done and do castings and photoshoots. so i'm free all day!" devon told him, "everyone is staying here even though some of them have houses? i don't get it but it's cool."

"eh, it seems nice." josh told her and stood up. "want to get brunch? i'm starving." he offered his hands to her to help pull her up.

she accepted his help and stood up while they walked to the kitchen where everyone else was. "sure, we have to bring the dogs because my dad has meetings and crap and won't be home." she went to the coffee maker and poured herself a cup, offering josh one but he declined.

"i finally get to meet them i see, i feel like i've been robbed of puppies." he sat down on one of the stools at the island.

"me too!" timothée complained with agreement from everyone else. timothée was sitting on the island with a bagel and a cup coffee to his right was adeline on a stool with dry fruity pebbles. violetta was on the counter next to the sink with a bowl of fruit and ansel leaving on the counter next to her with coffee and captain crunch.

everyone was quickly eating their food so they weren't late because of their oversleeping. "my uber's here," adeline yelled and quickly finished her fruity pebbles and coffee, hugging devon and violetta, grabbing her bag and went out the door.

quickly after adeline left the rest of them did too. ansel and violetta stayed for a little bit longer to take their time but josh and devon left after devon quickly changed, grabbed her backpack with necessities and washed her face. they made their way to brunch in venice and josh drove to the cafe and get food with the puppies the car looking out the windows at the smoggy city. once they got out of the car and wales over to the cafe they let them sit with the dogs outside.

"you know what i don't get? country music," devon randomly blurted our after taking a bite of her açaí bowl. "what is the appeal oncesoever? it's just dudes who complain about love and their trucks and girls complain about guys to really badly played guitar."

josh snorted at devon's observations and some water came out of his nose. "my math teacher in seventh grade when we asked her to play music played country music and people left the room and got detentions. i don't get how people like it at all, and it's not like especially different from pop and other music instrument wise but somehow they fucked it up enough to create big green tractor and shit." josh cut his french toast and held it on his fork and waved it around while talking. it almost flew off and hit the lady next to him but before it did he stuck it in his mouth.

they jumped from odd topic to odd topic while eating, they agreed on how asmr was gross and had arguments over little things. people came up to pet the dogs and devon cursing at josh in russian.

after getting brunch the two kids and the two dogs walked along the beach and explored small shops that let them in. because of devon's dad here and there cameras would take pictures of the pair and devon did weird poses and josh would play along.

"i really miss the bagels back in new york, you could get some good ass bagels in new york anywhere you went." devon said to josh while they walked on the beach hand in hand, barefoot with their shoes and socks in devon's bag.

"ooh bagels sound really good," josh started to say but quickly got sidetracked as someone with a camera came close. "what should we do to this one? you're the mastermind."

"kiss? that might make them freak out? i'm running out of ideas right now." devon suggested with a small laugh, slightly nervous at what she got herself into and josh just laughed and shrugged in agreement, also nervous.

devon turned to face josh while they stopped and she put her hands behind his neck and got on her top toes. she didn't really know what came over her but she put her lips to his. this time the two were completely sober and knew what was happening. it was bliss, and the butterflies in her stomach were swarming and devon loved it. she tuned out the camera clicks because she didn't care about amusing all the cameras and kissing josh to make them crazy, she did it all for her. she broke away quickly and a grin was stuck on her face and when she opened her eyes josh was too.

"i hate pda but that was fucking awesome!" devon whispered to josh making him chuckle and nod in agreement. the little moment was broken when the dogs pulled on the leashes to keep going but their smiles didn't fade.