“While I only just learned that you’re some sort of fighting beast, this is still not what I expected to see when coming into my best friend’s room!” Callie threw her hands up. “It’s like a freaking guy’s room!”

Callie and Katlyn decided to come over and visit after working at the gym today. Because of her age and experience in fighting, Coach decided to start her off slow. For now, she’ll only be teaching young children to get some experience. He was worried that Dylan might be a fluke and it would be safer for the gym to start her off slow. Zoey had no issues with it. Her teaching skill didn’t discriminate between ages. She didn’t know if it discriminated against species though...

“I have to make sure my body stays in good condition.” Zoey explained reasonably.

“You’re lucky I didn’t know about the state of this room before I came here, Zoey.” She crossed her arms. “It needs a total extreme room makeover!” Callie’s eyes glowed brightly as the words came flying off her tongue. “Extreme Room Makeover! We should totally watch it together!”

“Girl, I do not understand how your brain functions even after all these years...” Katlyn pinched her nasal bridge.

“By watching Extreme Room Makeover, we could get some ideas to give your room a makeover!” Callie shared. “And since you don’t wanna throw out all this gym equipment stuff, we’ll really have to do our best to make it look pretty!”

“Look Callie, I'm gonna rain on your parade and totally ruin it but what if Zoey didn’t want an extreme room makeover? What if she liked her room and wanted things to stay the same?” Katlyn asked her easily excitable friend.

Zoey didn’t wanna be awkward but Katlyn was totally right. She liked how her room was right now. While she didn’t think she would mind an extreme room makeover from Callie, it would definitely take some time to get used to. Not to mention trying to keep all her gym equipment and make things look cute and pretty. It would be pretty hard to mix those two types of rooms but when thinking about Callie’s personality. She’d definitely try her best.

“Well, how about Zoey tell us what she feels?” Callie stuck her tongue out at Katlyn.

Despite the two of them being totally unlike the other, they stuck to each other like two halves of a whole. They had multiple arguments about many things, but their friendship was as tight as glue in Zoey’s eyes. She wished she had someone that was basically the opposite of her as a friend. But now that she thought about it, that person would probably be very annoying and she would love to mess with them often.

“I like my room.” Zoey answered while thinking about other things.

“See.” Katlyn grinned. “Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean that other people don’t like it too. You can’t be too selfish? Headstrong? I don’t know the right word but you know what I mean right?”

“Auuuuugggghhhhh. Am I really being pushy, right now?” Callie's shoulders slunk over as she looked up at Katlyn.

“Yep, and because you’re doing it with such a bright smile on your face, it makes it hard for people to tell you no.” Katlyn explained.

“I probably wouldn’t have said no, if Katlyn didn’t speak up for me...” Zoey also shared her thoughts.

“Auuugghh!!!” Callie knew she was definitely in the wrong if Zoey was giving it to her too. “I’m sorry, Zoey.” Callie walked forward to apologize with a hug.

Zoey did not want to be squished in between her breasts again. Why did Callie have to be so damn tall with breasts that big? Weren’t track girls supposed to be slim and lean? What did she eat growing up to get like this?

To avoid the awkward friendly apology that had to include a hug for some reason, her eyes quickly scanned her room for a quick excuse or task she could use to stop Callie from getting any closer to her. Zoey wasn’t used to affectionate physical contact with others because that wasn’t something that she grew up with. While her mother sometimes hugged and kissed her, they still rarely happened and only happened when she was very young. It was kind of embarrassing but Zoey couldn’t even remember the last time she hugged her mother. But her family wasn’t that type of family anyway, so she didn’t feel too upset about it. Thinking about it, her family was the type to show their love in small and hard to notice ways.

But anyway, Zoey’s eyes caught the perfect excuse to use to dodge Callie’s warm, suffocating embrace. With a very subtle dodge that wasn’t totally obvious that she was trying to avoid the hug at all, Zoey slipped past Callie and bent over to pick up a dumbbell that was lying on the floor. Someone could slip on it after all.

“It's okay Callie.” Zoey tried to respond as cooly as possible.

“She totally avoided my apology hug.” Callie pouted.

“Pfft...” Katlyn couldn’t help but laugh after seeing Zoey obviously not want to be hugged.

“No... I just didn’t want anyone to trip...” Zoey was caught like a deer in the headlights. ‘Damn it! I thought that was totally smooth!’

“Ahuh...” Katlyn grinned as she walked over to Zoey. “It looks like Zoey isn’t a fan of apology hugs either, Callie.” She looked at the cutely pouting girl sitting on the bed.

“It's because of my tits, isn’t it!?” It looked like she already knew.

Zoey nodded. Lying wouldn’t be appropriate in this situation. It might only make the problem worse. From hanging around with Callie and Katlyn for a while, Zoey has now learned that Callie doesn’t learn unless you’re upfront with her. So that embarrassing crap from earlier like not telling her she didn’t want an extreme room makeover or an apology hug wasn’t needed at all. It only made Zoey look even more like a loser than she thought she already did! She already had a mini heart attack when Callie and Katlyn suddenly showed up at her door after work. They gave her literally no heads-up whatsoever and no time to prepare her room at all to hide all the workout equipment.

“I don’t like being suffocated?” Zoey tried to explain her reasons behind not wanting the apology hug but only made herself sound a little retarded.

“Okay, what if I tried it like this!?” Callie walked over to Zoey with a new way of hugging her friends floating around in her mind.

Callie had to adjust her boobs before going in for the hug but no matter how she pictured it, it definitely wouldn’t look like a normal hug or feel natural at all. She’d have to prop her tits on top of Zoey’s head if she didn’t want them in her face and that wouldn’t be comfortable at all for either of them. She wanted to scream once she realized that there was no way to naturally hug her friends from the front! Both Zoey and Katlyn had to be short!

“Sorry, gal. Looks like hugging is off the table.” Katlyn chuckled.

“What if you two tried stepping on your tippy-toes?” Callie suggested, clearly uncomfortable with the thought of not being able to physically express her affection with her friends.

“Girl, no. Just give it up.” Katlyn told her plain and simple.

“This is going to be so totally awkward for me!” Callie whined.

“You’re gonna have to deal with it or find a new way besides hugs to express yourself.”

“I think it will be okay.” Zoey placed her hand on her shoulder for support.

She made it just fine without having to hug people to express her happiness or sadness. At least, as fine as anyone would describe her if they knew about her. Zoey might not have had any friends at all since like elementary, but that didn’t mean she was totally clueless about social interactions! There were a few things she knew here and there. And no, they weren’t all gained from watching teen drama shows on Zeeflix!

“How about we watch that new cooking show on Zeeflix?” Katlyn suggested.

“You mean Kitchen Stars’ Nightmare!?” Callie suddenly brightened up at this suggestion.

“I haven’t watched it before.” Zoey added.

“O Em Gee! You need to watch it! It's so good! Where’s your remote?!” Callie exclaimed.

Zoey grabbed the remote on the desk next to her bed and turned on the tv. She then gave it to Callie to navigate to the show since she looked so excited about watching it together. Seeing both Katlyn and Callie getting excited over this also made her a little excited about it. Kitchen Stars’ Nightmare sounded like it would be fun to watch. The name made her imagine talented cooks before being forced into horrible competitions or something like that. Or just totally normal cooks being put in difficult situations. Both would probably make good reality tv, because there is nothing people love more than watching drama and strangers being put in difficult situations for a lot of cash.