The sun peeked in through the windows, waking Olivia and Lauren, but Kenzie just pulled her TARDIS blue comforter over her head and continued sleeping. Since Family Force 5 had hit it big, they'd been getting a lot more money which meant that their favorite roadies got bigger paychecks and those roadies could afford a really great house.
The three members of Team Unicorn lived in a huge wood-cabin-esque house. Lauren and Olivia had rooms downstairs and Kenzie had called dibs on the huge open loft just up the ladder from the living room.
Kenzie had a mattress thrown on the floor by the left side of the loft, though she rarely actually slept on it, a drawing desk pressed up against a huge window, a dresser against the right wall, a changing screen in the corner (since she had no walls for privacy), and several precariously placed beanbag chairs.
Olivia's room had huge, picture-frame windows and a bed set into the wood floor and draped with black sheets. One of the white-painted walls was entirely taken up by bookshelves and there was a little nook in the back where she and Josh could get away together for a few minutes when the world was annoying them.
Lauren's has not yet been described to me.
It was high noon when the FF5 guys burst through our front door, Lauren and Olivia watching the plasma screen TV hanging opposite of our big, cozy couch. Jacob slid across the wood floors and plopped down next to Lauren, giving her a big kiss and rubbing noses. Olivia fake gagged at the couple and stood to meet Josh in the middle of the room. He wrapped her up in a big bear hug and kissed her forehead. The next several minutes were full of greetings and hugs and the like. Nathan stood awkwardly alone, slapping a drumbeat on his thighs and straining his neck to look around the huge first floor.
"Um, guys?" Everyone turned to face him, raising questioning eyebrows. "Where's Kenzie?"
"Oh..." Lauren said, finally understanding why he was being so antisocial (Well, more so than normal). "I think she's still asleep. You can go wake her up if you want."
Nate nodded, silently thanking Lauren, and climbed up the ladder to Kenzie's loft. Kneeling down by her bed, he kissed her on the forehead. Kenzie mumbled something incoherent before sitting up, running her fingers through her messy hair and adjusting the strap of her Captain America tank top. "Don't you people knock anymore?"
"There's … There's no door, babe." Kenzie extended an arm and Nate's eyes followed her finger. There was a freestanding door, doorframe and hinges and all, in the middle of the open space at the front of the loft. "Oh. That's new."
"Yeah. But, whatever. Just knock next time."
"I will," Nate said, laughing at his half-asleep, completely ridiculous girlfriend. He started back down the ladder as Kenzie rolled out of bed (literally).
"All clear?" Kenzie shouted down the group below.
"All clear!" Olivia shouted back.
Nate quirked an eyebrow. "What are y-"
"GERONIMO!" Kenzie leapt from the edge, Nate screaming and panicking in the brief moment of her fall. She landed perfectly on the conveniently placed trampoline, front-flipped once and then flipped off of the trampoline, landing on the big empty loveseat. Olivia and Lauren produced score cards from God-knows-where, holding up eights while the rest of the band cheered.
Nate was still trying to slow his heartbeat, gesticulating violently. "Don't! Don't EVER do that again! You scared me to DEATH! YOU could've DIED."
"Oh, hush. I do that all the time." Kenzie said, trying to fix her hair before Jake smacked her hand, saying the 'messy look was hot'.
"She's gotten a lot better at it!" Olivia added, giving a thumbs-up to the superhero-PJ clad girl who was now sprawled out on the recliner. "She hasn't hurt herself for almost 3 weeks!"
The twins started laughing, remembering the time they'd been there to see Kenzie sprain her ankle by attempting a back flip. Nate didn't seem to find the retelling of the tale funny in the slightest, especially because he had been told that she "slipped on the ice." He was rather protective. As opposed to Jacob, who was up in Kenzie's room, with Lauren, practically pushing his lady off of the edge. Solomon, Josh, and Derek were all up there too, waiting patiently for their chance to take the leap.
The majority of the day was packed with "Wait, watch this!", "I wanna try this!", "Lemme go!", "Jake, you cut me in line! Go to the back!", "Shut up, Soli. No one cares!", and the like. After about three hours of childishness, Nate and Kenzie glanced up from the couch and noticed that they were alone. Where was everyone else? Muffled giggles from behind the closed doors of Lauren and Olivia answered two thirds of the question, but where were Derek and Sol?
Nate and Kenzie looked up at each other, mortified by the grunting sounds they heard from the guest room. Apparently, everyone else had heard them too because their heads were peeking out of the doors, looking just as disgusted as the two in the living room. They all crept towards the guest room, the noises getting more and more vomit-inducing. Dear Lord, what were they DOING? Were those … Bed springs we heard?
"That's it! I can't take it!" Josh kicked in the door, Olivia melted a little at how sexy he was when he did it, and everyone stared at the scene before them.
Derek and Soli were sitting on the bed, bouncing up and down, moanin' and groanin'. They started cracking up, falling over and gasping for air. No one understood what was happening.
"We got bored!" Soli said between short, desperate breaths.
"We thought we'd prank y'all!" Derek said, surprisingly immature and inappropriate.
Jake threw up his arms, turning around and starting back towards Lauren's room when he was tugged back by a firm grip on his shirt. "What?" he almost whined.
"I think this makes a point…" Lauren said, Olivia and Kenzie knowing exactly where she was going with this. "Maybe we should try a little harder to include the guys in what we do. We can't just be constantly making out with our significant others."
"Not that we mind that!" Kenzie and Olivia added in.
"Right. But we always leave Derek and Sol by themselves. I sorta feel bad about it, ya know?" Lauren turned to see the two other couples sucking face in a completely exaggerated manner. "Guys! I'm serious!"
"Fine, fine. You're right." Olivia said, wiping her mouth off on her sleeve. Josh shrugged.
"Good. So from now on, we'll try our best to be less … Touchy-feely."