Page 33 of Welcome to the Friendzone

“I understand. One day you will, I know it and I’ll ask you over and over again until you finally say yes. I promise you.”

Marta chuckled, imagining Oliver asking her every single day. She wasn’t completely wrong, although he only asked her once a week from that day forward.

“I hope you know that you’re the best,” she whispered, leaning herself against him for another hug.

“Doing the best I can,” he chuckled a little.

“Does this change anything between us?” She asked, scared.

“Not at all, Sugar. You can’t get rid of me that easily. I’d be very depressed if I couldn’t have dinner and movie nights with you anymore.”

“Or get yourself destroyed in Cluedo,” she added.

“Yeah, or that.”

Both of them started to laugh before Oliver let her go from his hug.

“I’m still your best friend but one day I’ll be your boyfriend. That’s the official warning.”

“Yeah. One day.”

Secrecy

NOW

July 31st, 2022

“Come on,mi cielo. You need to wake up. We have to make breakfast,” Marta whispered in Oliver’s ear before placing a few kisses along his jaw.

“Why did we decide to do this again?” Oliver sighed, refusing to open his eyes as he turned around and pulled the blanket over his head.

Marta chuckled, trying to free his head from the blanket but Oliver held fast against her. He was way stronger so Marta didn’t stand a chance. She chuckled again, trying to tickle his waist through the blanket, but it didn’t bother him.

“Come oooooonnnn. It’s Lynn’s 30th birthday. We need to do something special,” Marta complained, trying to convince Oliver in an emotional way.

“She has a boyfriend for that. Why is Butch not making her breakfast?” Oliver’s voice came from under the blanket. He was still hiding.

Before Marta could answer him they heard a loud moan from the room next door. In an instant Oliver appeared from under the blanket, looking wide-eyed at Marta. The Deputy Director burst into laughter while Oliver jumped out of the bed. He was only in his boxers, looking for the clothes he had spread around the room the night before. He hurried to get into them while mumbling “Oh gosh, I donotwant to hear that” over and over again. With one leg already in his sweatpants he jumped around the room in a desperate attempt to not lose his balance. After struggling for several seconds he finally managed to get the second leg into his pants so he was finally ready to flee.

Marta couldn’t stop laughing, lying on her side, holding her stomach. The panicking Oliver, who was getting more and more frantic with the ongoing moans from the room next door, was a hilarious thing to observe.

When the blond Agent was fully clothed, he looked at Marta in expectation.

“Come on, Sugar. There’s breakfast to prepare.”

“Yeah, I bet they need some fuel after their morning workout.”

“Maaaaarrttaaaaaaa,” Oliver whined, storming out of the room with his face furrowed in a grimace.

She was still laughing as she rolled out of bed and put on her own clothes before following Oliver into the community kitchen.

Together they started preparing different kinds of breakfast dishes. Thankfully Tia and Birdie joined after a while, helping them with the tremendous amount of food they wanted to make.

Over the last few weeks Marta had contacted the few people in Lynn’s life who were not living at headquarters.

Toby hadn’t been around in a while as he’d gotten a promotion at the hospital he worked at. He was now leading a team of five young doctors and was responsible for their education and specializations, but for Lynn’s 30th birthday he’d taken a day of his PTO to make sure that no emergency would stop him from coming.

Oliver had also asked their colleagues Jakob and Peter if they’d come around for breakfast. It was a Sunday and, as both of them were living away from headquarters, he wanted to make sure they’d be okay. Of course they agreed.

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