“Hey! Wake up sleepy head!”
My head was pounding and it hurt to open my eyes. Someone was jumping on my bed but I couldn’t tell who it was, I think it was Jaime.
“Wake uuuuuuppppp! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!”
“Jaime?” I sat up groggily and put my hand on my head, “Jaime, will you please shut the curtains. The light hurts.” Every time I cry myself to sleep I wake up with the worst migraine. It feels like a hangover, but worse. Jaime got up from the bed and shut the curtains making it dark in my room once again, “Emily! It’s time to get up! Aliyah’s flight gets in, in like two hours! And you still have to get ready!”
“Wait what! You mean I’m late for work! Shit!” I jumped up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom quickly brushing my teeth and turning on my straightener so it could heat up. After I finished brushing my teeth I ran to my dresser and pulled out an outfit,(outfit) “What’s up with all of the zebra print stuff?” Jaime was sitting on my bed watching me struggle to get everything on at once, “Aliyah gave all of this to me for my graduation present. It comes with a matching… wait never mind.” I think it might be a good idea not to tell him about the matching lingerie she got me. I smiled as I thought to myself.
“Wait, a matching what?” he asked intrigued, “Oh nothing. I gotta go and curl my hair.” I ran to the bathroom and shut the door. I brushed through my tangled hair and started pulling it up into layers. I twirled my straightener over my hair until I got the perfect beach curls/waves. After that I pulled my bangs back so I could apply makeup. After I finished my eye shadow I topped it off with a little bit of liquid liner and mascara. I let my bangs down and ran my fingers through my hair to loosen everything up and give it a little bit of volume. I looked in the mirror with a smile and admired my beautiful work, after, I ran out of the bathroom to find my superman wallet.
I stopped by my bed and gave Jaime a questioning look, “Jaime, what happened to Vic?”
“He had to get ready to pick up Aliyah so he left. Well actually he left last night after I got here.” He smiled, “Emily, he told me everything that happened. It’s okay, I wasn’t mad when I found you two asleep on your bed.”
My eyes widened as I sat down next to him, “Jaime, I swear. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t mean to, I mean it just happened, I-”
“Shhhhhh, shhhhhh. Emily its fine; It wasn’t your fault.” Jaime put his finger gently on my lips to silence me. Wow, I didn’t think he would take the kiss part lightly. But I’m glad that he can see how much I love him.
“Really? You’re completely fine with what happened?” I smiled
“Yes, I mean it wasn’t your fault that jack had come back while I was gone. You had no control over it.”
I was confused by what he had just said; did Vic tell him that jack came back? Why did Vic lie for me? I just went with it anyways, “Yeah, I’m glad that you understand. Well, I need to go to work now, so I love you and I’ll see you later.” I leaned in and kissed him, it felt wrong kissing him and being all lovey dovey seeing as I had jus lied to him; but I did it anyways.
“Oh, I called Jensen and told him about Aliyah and that you would be late, and he said just to stay home today. He called you this morning anyways to tell you that you had the day off. But seeing as your phone is broke, he couldn’t tell you. There was a tattoo convention thing that had just come into LA so he and all of the artists went to it.”
“Oh, well that works out nicely, where’s Charlie? Did she even come home last night?”
“Yeah, she was asleep in her room when I got here last night and she just left like half an hour ago.”
“Oh, it’s not usual for her to leave and not tell me or wake me up, especially when our schedules match up like this week.”
“Yeah, she came in and wanted to wake you up but I told her what happened and how you cried really hard last night so I asked if she could just let you sleep.”
“Oh, well thanks.” I smiled and hopped up from the bed, “I need to go and get booze.” I wiggled my eyebrows and ran into the kitchen to grab my wallet just as I tripped over something and face planted, “OW! What the hell?”
Jaime came walking in, smiling.” I don’t think we need any booze.”
I looked around my kitchen in awe; well what was once my kitchen. Just about any alcohol that was legal in the state of California was stacked almost ceiling high in my kitchen. “Do you think that the seven of us will be able to drink all of this?” Jaime laughed and helped me up.
I looked at him with a smirk; ”Clearly you haven’t ever been with the three of us girls while we’re drinking. H.o.l.y.s.h.i.t. we can put it away. Infact we might need more so you boys can get some also.”
“No, I think we’ll be okay. But what we do need to do is get you a phone. Like soon.” Jaime grabbed my hand and took me out the front door and down the steps to his truck; I barely had enough time to lock the door. We both hopped in the truck and buckled up, safety first ya know!
“So, we need to go to go to verizon and get me a new phone but get my old number back.” I smiled and plugged my ipod into the stereo.
“Sounds like a plan” Jaime started pulling out of the parking lot and down the street towards the phone company. I searched my ipod until I found the perfect song and I pressed play on it. Jaime laughed at the selection, “Really?”
“What? I love this song.”
“Why did you have to pick this song of every song on your ipod which I know there are thousands, you just had to pick this one.”
“Hey, pour some sugar on me is a classic song. Def leopard is an amazing band. You’re just jealous!”
“Yeah, totally. Now, Do we need to pick up anything else?”
“Umm, I think we should get some balloons and a cake. Ya know, just welcome home type stuff. And just so you know we’re watching grease when she gets here. Its kind of tradition.”
“Okay, sounds good to me! And balloons and cake it is.”
“And I gotta go to Victoria’s secret or something before she gets here.”
“Okay? Why?”
“It was always something that we had done for each other. Whenever we were away from each other for a really long time. Well, since I moved out of state. We would get a perfume or something for each other. Whenever I visited her in Utah, she would get me some and whenever she would visit me here in California I would get her some. Last time I didn’t get her perfume though.” I laughed as I thought back at how funny her facial expression was when I gave her a (very cute) set of lingerie that was joker themed. I’d say that the best friend award definitely went to me!
Jaime laughed, “Really? If you didn’t get her perfume what did you get her? Or do I not want to know?”
“Don’t tell her I told you this, but I gave her a set of joker themed lingerie. It was the cutest thing ever! But I don’t think she’s used it yet. I’m pretty sure, that if everything goes according to plan, she’ll be using it soon though.”
“Oh really?” Jaime raised an eyebrow and grabbed my hand, not taking his eyes off the road. “Yepp. Why do you think I had Vic pick her up? I mean, I knew I could most likely get the day off but I wanted to be able to get stuff done at the apartment. That and I knew that Vic didn’t have a girlfriend and Mike now has Angelise, and I think I would be unfair for Vic to be the one lonely one of the group. Plus Aliyah has had THE biggest crush on him for like, EVER! So I guarantee she is so going to kill me when they get back.”
“Oh, well lets go get you a new phone so she can call you when she lands.” We pulled into a parking spot and Jaime shut off the truck. We both hopped out and met each other in front of the truck; Jaime grabbed my hand and entwined our fingers before he opened the door for me to walk in first. “Thank you.” I kissed his cheek and we walked up to the counter.
An old friend of mine greeted us that I met when I first moved to Cali, “Hey Emily!”
“Hey Adam!” He walked around the counter so I could give him a hug. After, he returned behind the counter and logged onto the computer, “Wow, I haven’t seen you in forever! How are you?”
“I’ve been better. But today is great! I mean, my best friend is finally moving in with me! Oh! And Adam, this is my boyfriend Jaime.” I smiled when I watched Adam realize who he was, “Oh my gosh! Emily, how?” Adam was breathless while he shook Jaime’s hand. Jaime gave me a weird look so I decided to answer both of their questions, “Adam and I met at a pierce the veil concert. And Adam, remember how I told you that I knew them from a while ago? Well I ran into him and Tony and we started hanging out again and now we’re dating.”
“Oh, well that’s great! So, what can I help you with on this fine day?”
“I need a new phone, but I was wondering if you could give me my same number. And I know this is probably impossible, but is there any way that when you transfer my new phone, you can put all of the contacts on it as well?”
He started typing away on the computer, “Yep we sure can! And it says here that you were actually approved for your upgrade as of… today actually!”
“Oh, that’s great!”
“Yepp, so that gives you the newest iphone and, would you like to get a case for it as well?”
I thought for a minute, “Umm. Do you have one that I would like? You know what I mean..”
Adam smiled at me and took the phone from the counter and walked into the back room. He was back there for a good, ten minutes so Jaime and I just waited in an awkward silence. When he came back he had put an adorable zebra case on it. “You mean like this?”
“Oh my gosh, I love it!” I squealed and hugged him over the counter. “So, what’s the damage, my kind friend?”
He gave me my phone and hit a couple buttons on the computer. “Well, since it was your annual upgrade, it’s only $10.35 for the case.”
“Oh that’s great!” I reached for my wallet that I thought I had in my back pocket, “Shit, I forgot my wallet in the truck, I’ll be right back.” I ran out the door to the truck, when I tried to open my door it was locked. “Shit.” I ran back in to get the keys from Jaime just as he was putting his wallet back in his pocket and turned to walk out the door, “Jaime, did you seriously pay for my phone?” I whined as he walked up to me
“Yeah, I was waiting for you to leave for your wallet because I knew you wouldn’t let me pay.” He smiled and kissed my cheek. I stuck my tongue out at him and waved at Adam just before we walked out.
***
“We’re out of helium!” Jaime yelled from the living room
“Really? We had like four tanks!” I walked into the living room and laughed. There were balloons covering the ceiling, it didn’t even look like we had a ceiling.
“We do have a lot of balloons ya know. I don’t think it would hurt us if we sucked the helium out of just a couple.” Jaime was slowly reaching up to grab one
“Jaime Alberto Preciado, if you even touch one of those balloons so help me, I will pimp slap the shit outta you!” Jaime slowly put his hand and head down and pouted, I laughed “Okay, just one! And I have to make a couple calls, will you please go and pick up the cake real quick?” I batted my eyelashes at him and gave him a cheesy smile
“Okay, I’ll be back in a jiffy.” He kissed me on the cheek quickly before grabbing a balloon and running out the door.
“I’m dating a child.” I chuckled as I dialed Tony’s number. I put the phone up to my ear and mimicked the ringing in my head, ring ring, ring ring, ring ring, ring ri-
“Yello?”
“TURTLE!” I shrieked
“Emilio! I thought your phone was broken?”
“I got a new one today. Are you coming over?”
“Why would I come over?” he laughed a little bit, he probably thought that it kinda sounded douchey, I mean It kinda did but I know he didn’t mean for it to.
“My friend Aliyah is moving in today, her flight gets in, in like…” I checked my watch, it was now 8:42am “48 minutes, I believe? I was hoping that all of you boys could come. I mean, Vic and Jaime are commin for sure but I would love it if you and mike could come.”
“Oh, yeah! For sure! Have you called mike yet? Cause I haven’t heard from him since he got back from your place last night.”
I sighed and chewed on my lip, “No, I haven’t talked to him since then either. Well, since I got your answer, I’ll call him now. Do you think you could make it over here, in…. say, 7-10 minutes?” I bit my lip even harder awaiting his answer.
“Yep, for sure! Let me just shower real quick and I’ll be over. Should I get her something? As like a welcome to our ‘mentally screwed the fuck up’ family gift?” we both laughed, “Sure, if you want. But if you top my gift I will end you. That or I’ll just wrestle you for the best friend award, even though I know for a fact that you wont get it.”
“Okay, whatever you say Em.”
“It is whatever I say turtle boy!” I raised my eyebrows and popped my hip as if he was standing right in front of me.
“Turtle boy? Really?” he laughed
“Yes, you are my turtle boy. Now I must go and I will see you in 10 minutes. Bye, sweets.”
“Bye Em.” We both laughed and hung up.
I scrolled through my contacts until I saw mikes. I stood and stared for a few seconds. I knew I couldn’t put it off any longer so I sighed and clicked on his name. I stared as it started calling “Mike Wasowski” ; I put the phone to my ear, I was so lost in my own thoughts that I didn’t even notice when he picked up.
“Hello, Emily?”
“Oh! Hey mike. Sorry, I was distracted.”
“What do you want?” his tone wasn’t as friendly as it usually was. He wasn’t his perky self.
“Don’t be such a grumpy gills, mike.” I laughed hoping it would lighten his mood. And as expected, it failed.
I heard giggling in the background, so I assumed he was with a girl, but I know it’s not Angelise because she’s in LA right now. And I know she wasn’t lying because she’s with Jensen helping with the convention. “I’m busy, Emily. What do you want?”
“Mike, who’s with you?”
“No one. It was the TV. Now as I’ve said, what do you want?” his voice was hostile and angry, he was acting like a complete dick.
“My friend Aliyah is moving in today, and I was hop-”
“She’s your friend, why do I need to be there?”
I pulled the phone away from my ear and looked at it shocked, was he still that pissed of about last night? I mean, really? I put the phone back to my ear, “Can I ask you a question mike?”
“If it makes this phone call any shorter then yes.”
“Mike, just hang up already”. A female voice came through the phone.
“Okay, can you tell your tramp to leave you alone for 5 fucking minutes?”
I heard him mumble something which earned a sigh from the girl and then he redirected his attention to the phone call, “Okay, Emily. Obviously you’re still pissed off about last night.”
I scoffed, “Me? Pissed off about last night? Hell no! The only thing I’m pissed off about is that you’re being such a fucking dick! You should be happy because I’m staying committed to someone! If you were a true friend like I thought you were, you would be happy for me! I think you’re the only one who’s pissed off about last night!”
“I am not pissed off about last night! I’m pissed off because I told you that I had feelings for you and you still rejected me! It hurt to get rejected!” he growled
“ Is that what this is all about? Being rejected? I mean damn, one girl rejects you so now immediately you have to have another one with no morals and probably a lot of STD’s on your dick to replace it? I mean come on mike! Even I thought you were more classy than that..” I smirked and waited for his comeback
“That not what this is all about! And who the fuck do you think you are! I’m classier than you, I guarantee it! I can be more classy than an arrogant slut like you any day!”
“Ya know what mike, I bet you are. Now you are coming over in the next five minutes so you can meet my best friend or so help me I will go down to your motherfucking house and drag your skinny ass up here! You have five fucking minutes and if you’re not here, you better be expecting me!” I hung up the phone as angrily as I could. That’s the problem with touch screen phones, or just cell phones in general. You couldn’t hang them up angrily. You can’t have the satisfaction of slamming the phone down after an argument.
“What was that about?” Tony came walking through the front door
“Oh, nothing; Mike’s just being an ass, as usual.”
Tony rolled his eyes, “What’s goin on this time?”
“He just refuses to come here.” I put my phone in my pocket and started walking towards the front door. Tony turned around, his eyes following me, “Where are you going?”
“To drag Mike’s scrawny ass up here. Jaime should be here any minute, being back in five!” I shut the door and walked to Mike’s house.
~One very short walk later~
I burst through the front door of the Fuentes house and straight up to Mike’s room. I tried to turn the handle but it was locked, “Mike, please open the door.”
I heard that girl who was on the phone’s voice through the door as she giggled, “He’s a little…uh.. Tied up at the moment. Can you come back later?”
“Listen bitch, I need your bimbo ass to open this fucking door right now. I need to talk to mike.”
“Well, my ‘bimbo ass’ isn’t opening anything for your ugly one.” I could almost feel her crossing her arms over her silicone implants.
Shit! I don’t have a bobby pin with me to pick the lock; I guess I’ll have to go terminator on this bitch.
“I think she’s gone. Now where were we?” the girls voice was just above a whisper, but I could still hear it.
I backed up about a foot and planted my left foot so it could give me balance. “Oh, Vic is so gonna kill me for this.” I breathed out and slammed my foot on the door making it fly open.
“HEY! WHAT THE HELL!” mike screamed as the girl jumped up from the bed to grab mike’s robe, mike was indeed, tied up like she said. It was quite a funny sight, actually.
“Time to go bitch.” I grabbed her by her hair and dragged her down the stairs and out the front door while she was screaming and trying to keep her balance. I threw her out the door and watched as she barely caught herself before she hit the ground. I laughed as she got up and spun around quickly, “Who the hell do you thing you are?” she got up in my face and pointed at me.
I think I’m going to have a little fun with this one; just cause mike was such a dick.
I scoffed, “first things first, get that finger out of my face, I have no idea where it’s been and frankly I don’t want to know. Second thing, I am actually mike’s wife, so you can shut the fuck up.” I held up my left hand that just happened to have an old ring that was once my grandmothers. I usually just wear it when I go out partying so guys don’t hit on me, but for some reason I just haven’t took it off in a while.
She gave me a shocked look, “I am so sorry! I had no idea!”
“Yeah, well now you do. Now get out of my face before I rip out your ugly ass extensions.” I then turned around and marched in the house and up to mikes room, slamming the door behind me.
When I got up to his room I picked up the girls clothes and threw them out of the window to her. When I turned to mike, I took out my phone and quickly snapped a picture and I put it back in my pocket, “Blackmail.” I laughed before I helping him undo all of the sloppy knots she had done so he could keep the little bit of dignity he had left.
“Why are you here?” he asked clearly angry
“I told you, if you weren’t at my apartment in 5 minutes I was coming down here.” I stood up and smiled, “Now go hurry and shower. We don’t have much time.”
He looked at me with a questioning look, “Why are you smiling at me, and talking so nice? We just got in a fight.”
“Yeah, I know. But I got you back.”
“Oh… by the way Vic is going to kill you when he finds out about the door.” We both looked at the door. The poor thing was barely hanging on one hinge, (how, you may ask? I have no idea. I guess it was just a really crappy door.) Part of the doorframe was smashed from where the trigger pushed itself through the wall. “Yeah, but he loves me too much. Plus, you were being an ass. He’ll understand. Now get your ass in the shower, don’t make me carry you in. cause after what you’ve seen me do today, do you really think I wont do it?”
“Well, now that you mention it. I wouldn’t mind that, I mean you’ll have to undress me.” he gave me an evil grin
“Wow, fine. Whatever you say mike.” I walked over to the bed and picked him up fireman style and carried him into the bathroom, “OW!” I threw him into the bathtub.
“Okay, now undress yourself and shower. And make it snappy, Wasowski.” I started walking out of the bathroom when mike cleared his throat. I turned around and sighed, “What?”
He was now smiling like an idiot, “You have to undress me.”
I groaned and walked over to him, I stripped him down to his boxers.he really only had pants and his underwear on so it didn’t take much. He liked it too; I laughed and stepped back, “Well I think you can do the rest.”
“But I said you had to undress me, completely. That includes the boxers.”
“Fine!” I walked over and a smiled spread across his face, I reached down and turned on the scalding hot water earning a squeal from him. I laughed and threw the bottle of body wash at him and he caught it, “Now wash up, cowboy. We don’t have much time.” I walked out of the bathroom and shut the door.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket; it was now 9:15. I dialed Vic’s number and waited for him to answer.
“Hello?” he laughed
“Hey, Vicky! How’s everything going?”
“Well, the best that it can be. I mean, I’m waiting at a coffee shop right next to the gates waiting for Aliyah’s flight to land. And do you know how many signatures and pictures that I have had to do in the last twenty minutes alone?” I could feel him smiling through the phone. He loved taking pictures with people; he was the most outgoing of the group. Okay, scratch that. Him and Jaime were neck and neck in that department.
“Oh, you loved it and you know it.” I laughed
“Okay maybe a little. How’s everything going back at the apartment?”
I sighed and walked over to sit on the stairs, “It could be better. I’m at your house getting mike right now.”
“Uh-oh. How is that going?”
“Well, I probably scared the shit outta some girl. And Vic, don’t get mad when you come home. It’s really mike’s fault for pissing me the fuck off. I mean if he didn’t call me a slut I wouldn’t have done that to the poor door.”
“Emily, what did you do to my house?” his tone sounded like my dad’s when I would come home past curfew.
“I just kicked down the bedroom door.” I mumbled hoping he didn’t hear it, but of course he did. Vic hears everything.
“Emily..” he sighed, “Why the door. Why didn’t you just kick the shit out of mike?”
“Because the door was locked and I couldn’t get to mike. Plus, when I kicked down the door, I think I may have made a girl almost piss herself.” I laughed, trying to lighten the mood.
“Okay, I guess I’ll let it slide this time. But I am not getting mike a new door; he’ll have to use a curtain or something. And what else happened with this ‘poor girl’ you speak of?”
“Oh, I just kinda dragged her out of the house by her hair and threatened her a bit and told her I was mikes wife… ya know, not too bad…” I laughed at the flashback
“You did what?!?!” I heard Vic choke on his coffee
“It’s not that bad, Vic. It sounds worse than it really was.”
“I can’t believe you actually did that.” he laughed along with me. I was laughing until I heard mike call my name.
“Oh, Hey I gotta go so call me when she gets there or have her call me or something.”
“Okay, bye Em.” He hung up the phone. I pushed my phone back in my pocket as I got up and walked into the bathroom.
“WHOA!” I covered my eyes and turned around, mike was still bare ass naked.
“You liked it, don’t lie.” He laughed; I peeked through my fingers (seeing as I was facing the complete opposite direction from mike) so I could get a towel. I reached into the cupboard and grabbed a towel. I turned around, looking up, and gave mike the towel.
“Here, please cover yourself up.”
He sighed and took it from me and wrapped it around himself. “You take the fun out of everything.”
“No I don’t, your just lame. Now lets go and get you dressed, we seriously don’t even have 15 minutes until her flight lands.”
“Why can’t I just go like this?” mike whined
“Because, you don’t want her knowing how much of a manwhore you are the first time you meet, now do you?” I laughed and pushed him from the bathroom and into his room. “Now, I’ll pick out your clothes for you, but you have to dress yourself while I call Jaime to make sure that everything is still going okay. Deal?”
He sighed and plopped down on his bed, “Deal..”
“Okay, then.” I turned towards his closet, “What do we have here.”
I went through mikes entire closet; in the end I was pretty satisfied with my choice. I had all of the clothes in my arms and walked over to his dresser to grab a pair of underwear and socks, after I shut the drawer I saw a black beanie on the top of it so I grabbed it while walking over and threw the clothes at him, “Okay, get dressed and meet me downstairs. You best hurry up.” I smirked and walked downstairs to call Jaime.
I pulled my phone from my pocket and stared at it, I really need to tell Jaime what actually happened. It’s not fair of me to keep it from him. I of all people shouldn’t keep secrets; after all I hate them with a burning passion. Okay, tonight before we start drinking I’ll tell him. I’ll just get it off of my chest before it eats away at me completely.
I clicked on Jaime’s contact and put the phone to my ear. It rang just a couple of times until his voice filled my ear, “Hey, babe. Is everything with mike going okay?”
“Yeah, he’s getting dressed right now.” I sighed
“What wrong, Hun?”
“Nothing, I’m just tired and my head still hurts from last night.” It wasn’t a complete lie; my head did hurt.
“Oh, I’m sorry. How about when you get back I cover your head with kisses, do you think that would help?” he chuckled and I started smiling like an idiot
“Well, it depends. The chocolate kisses?”
He laughed, “No, my kisses silly.”
“Oh, then I guess that would work. So how’s everything going? Did you get the cake?”
“Yes, I did. Tony and I are also in the middle of putting up streamers. Oh and wanna know what I got?”
“What?” I asked sarcastically
“Fine, I wont tell you. It’s not like I wanted to anyways.” he said in an ‘as a matter of fact’ tone.
“No, Jaime! Tell me…” I whined
“Okay, well I found joker themed party stuff, like cups and stuff and I kind of gathered, from the joker gift that you gave her before, that she liked him, so I thought that It would be great.”
“Jaime, this is why I love you.” I smiled into the phone as I heard mike walking down the stairs, “Emily, lets go.”
I turned around and flipped him off playfully, “Screw you mike, I’m talking to my boyfriend.” He just scrunched his nose at me and started walking out the door, so of course I followed.
Jaime laughed, “Is mike being a jerk?”
“Yes.” I pouted a nudged mikes arm with my elbow as we were walking to my apartment.
“Well, tell him that I’m gonna beat him up if he doesn’t knock it off.”
I turned to mike, “Jaime said that he’s gonna beat you up if you don’t stop being such an ignorant dick.”
“HEY! I did not call him that!” Jaime exclaimed
“Tell Jaime that I will gladly fight him for the title of being your boyfriend.” mike laughed
I was praying that Jaime didn’t just hear that. “Wait, what did he say? I couldn’t hear cause tone was talking to me.” Jaime laughed and I heard a thud on the other line, “Jaime, please tell me you didn’t break anything! Ya know what, don’t answer that. We’re walking up the stairs right now so I’ll just see when I’m up there. Bye Hime!” I hung up the phone and shoved it in my pocket. “Why the hell would you say that mike? And come one, we have to hurry.” I said as we both ran the rest of the way to the apartments and up the stairs
“What? Am I not allowed to speak the truth now?” he smirked
“You are, but not where Jaime can hear you! Why can’t you grow up for five minutes!”
We made our way up the stairs and into my apartment in record time. I burst through the door just in time to see Tony lying on the floor laughing hysterically. “What happened?” I laughed
“Tony lost his balance and fell off the chair. That’s the thud you heard.” Jaime was bending over and gripping his stomach from laughing so hard. “And I thought Emily was clumsy.” Mike laughed and sat on the couch.
“This is not what it is only baby scars; I need your love like a boy needs his mothers side. She’s mine! You stay away from her it’s not her time. ‘Cause baby, I’m the one who haunts her dreams at night, until she’s satisfied. Spent seven years wishing that you’d drop the line, but I carry the thought of you in my mind. Is this what you call a family? Is this what you call a family? I tear my heart open; I sew myself shut. My weakness is that I care too much. And the scars remind us that the past is real. I tear my heart open, just to feel. I’m drunk and I’m feelin down, I just wanna be alone. I hate when you come around, why don’t you just go home. This is not what it is only baby scars; I need your love like a boy needs his mothers side. She’s mine! You stay away from her it’s not her ti-”
Because of everyone’s laughter, I didn’t hear my ringtone. “Wait, shit! You guys be quiet!” I pressed talk, “Hello?”
“Emily! I just landed! Where’s your friend?” Aliyah’s happy voice came through the phone.
“Hey guys! She just landed!” all of the boys cheered as I continued, “Well-”
She cut me off by squealing, “Emily! You will not believe who I am staring at right now!”
I grinned and turned her on speaker while signaling for the boys to be quiet as they all gathered around, “Who are you staring at right now?” everyone was holding their breath to keep from laughing.
“Vic Fuentes. Emily, THE fucking Vic Fuentes!” she started squealing as everyone laughed silently.
“That’s great, Aly! Now, walk towards him.”
“What? Why?”
“Just do it.” I was smiling at the phone.
“No, Emily I am so not ready to meet him right now, I mean I look like shit I just got off of a four and a half hour flight. I just want to find your friend and go to the apartment.”
I laughed, “That’s the thing, Aly. He’s your ride home.” We sat in silent for a moment waiting for it to sink in with her.
“What the fuck!” she squealed
“Yepp, I’ll explain when you get here.” Vic’s name popped up on the screen. “Hey, Aly I gotta go, someone is on the other line. Walk towards him okay! I love you bye!”
“No Emily, wa-” I quickly switched the lines and took it off speaker which meant everyone could now laugh as hard as they want, “Hello?”
“Hey! I think I see your friend. I mean, she’s been staring at me and talking on the phone. And now she’s staring at the phone looking like she’s about to cry.” Vic laughed
“Yeah! I just got off of the phone with her. She’s really not going to like me when she gets here. And she’s not going to walk up to you, so just go up to her and ease into a conversation. If she doesn’t react and just stares at you, go to baggage claim, get her stuff, and go to the car to come home. She’ll follow, I promise. Oh and her full name is Aliyah Kae Conlin, just so you know for her bags and stuff.”
“Oh, okay. Thanks! Then I’ll see you when we get there. Bye Em!”
“Bye Vicky!” I smiled and hung up.
“You guys, Aliyah is so gonna kill me!” I turned towards the three of them while laughing.
***
We were all waiting on the couch as my phone rang again, “Hello?”
“Emily, I fucking hate you so much right now!” Aliyah was whisper yelling.
“No you don’t you love me. Where are you?”
“In Vic’s car. He’s getting gas right now.”
“Oh good! So, how was your second time meeting him? Is it memorable?” I smirked
“It is amazing but it fucking sucks too! I mean, my hair is a messy ponytail; I’m in my gray American flag shorts and Joker tank top with my joker high tops that you got me. I barely have any make up on! How could you not have warned me!” (outfit)
“I’m sorry! I wanted it to be a surprise! Tell me, are you surprised?”
“Yes I’m fucking surprised!” I heard a knock, “Oh Em, one sec.” I heard the window roll down and Vic’s voice come through the phone, “Will you ask Emily if she’s making breakfast? Or if she wants us to pick up anything.”
“Did you hear him?” Aliyah could barely talk above a whisper.
“Umm, it’d be awesome if you guys could just pick up food. I don’t even care if its gas station food, and Aly breathe; Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Repeat that, you have to breath honey. You’ll have to get use to talking with him, he’ll be over a lot.” I laughed as I heard her start breathing again, “Emily says we should pick something up.”
“Now smile.” I laughed into the phone, her breathing changed a little bit so I could tell she was smiling. “Good girl.”
“Okay, does she want anything specific?” Vic asked
“Aly just put it on speaker.” I heard a beep, “Okay Vic, just get something that’s take out. Like I did in Reno, just get A LOT of it.”
“Okay, got it! Bye Em.” Vic laughed as Aliyah took it off speaker and rolled up the window.
“Emily, I think I’m going to die.” She let out a nervous laugh.
“Aly you’re going to be fine! Just remember to breath and smile.” I heard Vic get in and shut the door while turning on the car.
“Yeah, so what’s up?” Aliyah said quietly
“Aliyah, I am not going to be on the phone with you the entire car ride. You need to talk to Vic and become friends. Stop fangirling and breath! And you don’t need to talk quietly. He doesn’t care what you talk about, I mean Charlie was talking about our sex lives in front of the boys and they didn’t care.”
“Why would you talk about your sex life with them?” she said shocked earning a laugh from both Vic and I.
“Aly, you’ll get use to it. I promise, and if you don’t I feel bad for you.” I smirked
“Why would you feel bad for me?”
“It’s gonna get really awkward, oh and when you get here ignore mike. Well, don’t actually ignore him, but when he makes a sexual or mean comment just brush it off. Or you can be a bitch like me, I can teach you that.” we both laughed, “Okay, I’ll try.”
“Okay, well I’ll see you when you get here. Bye babe.” I smiled and hung up.
***
Tony, Jaime, Mike and I were laughing and playing video games, I made my way into the kitchen to get some popcorn. All of the guys were laughing and yelling at each other and then they went silent all of the sudden. “Well that’s weird.” I mumbled as I grabbed the popcorn and put it in a bowl. “Why are all of you so quiet?” I asked as I was walking out of the kitchen. All of the boys pointed to the door; “I can’t believe I’m finally here.” a girls voice came through the door from the hall. I looked up with a questioning look as I watched the doorknob turn, it’s like everything was in slow motion. My heart stopped and my fingers went numb from the anticipation, the door swung open; showing Aliyah standing in the doorway with Vic behind her holding all of her bags.
The only things between us were the couch, coffee table and the boys; after standing in silence for a moment, I couldn’t hold back anything any longer.
“ALY BEAR!!!!!!” I screamed, dropping the popcorn, jumping over the couch, stepping on the coffee table, almost kicking mike in the face and jumping on Aliyah while wrapping my legs around her.
“Emilio!!!” she clung on to me for dear life.

My best friend was finally here.

Notes

sorry i missed update day guys! i feel super bad. but okay, this is the last chapter that i have finished and pre typed. so i am so sorry if i miss update day again next week. i am trying so hard to finish the chapters in a timely manner but it's hard. haha especially between school and work. :/ i will try my hardest to keep up i promise! but i can't completely promise that i will. please don't hate me! haha
<3/Emilio