A/N: God knows how long ago I wrote this story…last year I can see. I'm just proofreading it since there are loads of mistakes. (I wrote this story when I still had no idea what this amazing thing called 'writing' was. Please forgive me.) So here you have Cupid, Meet Heart—the revised version!
Heart Gray just stood there at the front of the airport impatiently, waiting for her three cousins to pick her up. After her parents died from a terrible car accident, the judge said that her mother appointed her cousins, Jason, Shane, and Nate Gray to be her guardian. Heart used to like them, heck she used to even adore them; but they changed once they hit puberty, a period in life that managed to make Heart hate them more than she has ever had.
Heart tapped her foot. She waited for two and a half hours and her cousins still haven't arrived. A person would think that three almost adult boys would be smart enough to pick their cousin up at the airport on time. She groaned, as another minute passed by.
A short security guard went up to her, confused. "Where are your parents, kid?" he asked. Heart was offended. She really wasn't much of a people person. She's pretty sarcastic and a big prankster. She wasn't the type of person who made good first impressions.
"Kid? I'm fourteen for God's sake!" She stomped her foot.
"Yeah, coming from the teenager who acts like a ten-year-old." The security guard replied in a mocking voice.
Heart rolled her eyes. "Coming from the midget guard who escaped from the yellow brick road." she said, imitating his voice.
"Just tell me where your parents are," the security guard huffed, annoyed.
"They're in Heaven. My idiotic and irresponsible cousins, who are now sadly my guardians were supposed to pick me up. I wouldn't be surprised if they forgot—but irritated is something I would totally be." Heart scoffed. The guard handed Heart his cell phone to call the boys, having enough with her complaints and sob story.
Meanwhile, Jason and Shane were playing video games as Nate was upstairs being 'tutored' by another girl. The phone started ringing, breaking the usual flow in the Gray mansion. Shane nudged Jason to get it, and Jason nudged him back.
"You get it" Shane said pushing his brother.
"No, you!" Jason said.
The boys started pushing each other to the phone as it continued to ring. Nate came out of his room with his hair messed up and his shirt on backwards, revealing every sign that he was most certainly not getting tortured. The girl who was supposedly helping him at schoolwork walked out of the house quietly, smiling.
"Can't you guys just shut the hell up?" Nate yelled. Shane and Jason rolled their eyes in response, like they were used to Nate yelling at them. Nate groaned and picked the phone up.
"Hello?" he asked, annoyed.
"Finally! Did you forget that I existed or something!" Heart screamed into the phone angrily.
"Oh crap, you were coming today?" Nate asked.
"No, actually I came in two and a half hours ago!" Heart said so loudly, Shane and Jason could hear her from downstairs."
"God, Heart! You don't have to be so loud! I swear I lost my hearing!" Nate hung up as he walked down the stairs. He grabbed the keys on the coffee table and threw them towards Jason. He rubbed his ear, knowing that that earful he just received was just the beginning of the many yells of Heart Gray.
Thirty minutes later, Jason's Hummer pulled up at the front of the airport, and they found their very furious and irked younger cousin. Nate sighed dejectedly, as if he was having the look of sorrow played on his face.
"Start the funeral music 'cause a fourteen-year-old is gonna start ruining our reputation." Nate said.
"Don't you mean your reputation? You guys are going to go to school together starting tomorrow." Jason said with a cheeky smirk.
"Don't remind me" Nate pleaded with his eyes closed. Shane and Jason merely rolled their eyes and hopped off the car with Nate following in pursuit. When Heart saw them, she tried her very best not to blow up at them.
"Hey, Heart," Jason greeted flatly.
"Nice to see you too." Heart replied sarcastically. Jason picked up two of her suitcases while Shane and Nate picked another one up, all three brothers wordless. Heart, deciding to play along with the quiet game, went straight to the car and sat next to Nate. An awkward silence filled the air.
"So…" Heart started, hating the silence. No one responded though. Shane was text messaging, Jason was listening to the blasting radio, and Nate was doing anything to keep himself from talking to Heart. The young girl sighed and gave up.
I can't believe mom and dad made them my guardians. Heart thought.
As the time passed by, the four Gray's finally made it back to the house. Heart always liked their house since it was too big to be just a house and it was simply beautiful, but she couldn't say that she liked who lived in the house. Jason and Shane brought their cousin's bags up to her new room while Nate just went straight to his room. When they were done, Jason started explaining the rules of the house.
"Okay, curfew is at midnight. Anywhere after that, you're in deep shit." Jason started. Heart widened her eyes. She never had a curfew; her parents were always overprotected of her. "Second, no wild parties unless I say so. Third, try not to need us." Then Jason just walked away, leaving his cousin standing in the middle of the room in confusion. But once again, her cousin left her with no surprise.
She started unpacking her clothes and other belongings. When she was done, she looked around her room. It was so plain and white, the exact definition of boring. The only thing colorful was the inside of her new closet and her red and black bed sheets. Heart sighed and jumped on her bed, landing with a soft thud. She looked at the clock that was hanging on her wall, reading 8:57 pm.
Well tomorrow's the first day of school. I guess I could sleep early. She thought miserably.
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The next morning, Nate explained his own versions of rules about them being in the same school at breakfast. Heart was in her black skinny jeans and a white and black rocker shirt with red Converse shoes. She had her red, white, and black backpack all ready with her new school supplies. Nate was just wearing a shirt he found and loose jeans with black sneakers. His backpack was no where to be seen.
"Okay, listen. You're fourteen and I'm sixteen." Nate started. He took a bite into an apple. Heart just kept on mixing her milk and cereal. "You're a freshman and I'm a junior. I'm two years older and—"
"Okay, I get that there's an age difference between us," Heart said, getting annoyed again.
Nate rolled his eyes with an added scoff. "Anyways, just don't talk to me at school. Don't look at me and don't go telling people that we're related and stuff."
"Don't worry. I don't think I want to." Heart shot back, showing that she was not hurt in any way. Nate shrugged and walked out of the house, seeing that his job was done. Heart heard him start his car and leave without another sound. It wasn't long until Shane came running downstairs in a short sleeved collared opened blue shirt with a cool shirt under and dark jeans.
"Oh God, I'm late for school!" he said.
"Hey, can you take me to my school?" Heart asked.
"Why didn't you go with Nate?"
"He ditched me." Heart explained.
Shane shook his head, knowing that his younger brother was the type of person who normally did this. "Fine, but if I'm late to the university you'll be in so much crap with me tonight." Shane said grabbing Heart and dragging her to his Convertible. "Nate's a heartless airhead. He can't even take his little cousin to school." he murmured. Shane speeded through the streets and quickly dropped Heart off at school. The second she closed the door, Shane hit the gas and rushed to the university.
"Bye." Heart said to the air and rolled her eyes. Heart walked into the high school and instantly got stares. Girls started whispering about her outfit while guys just kept on looking at her. It was like the movie-esque cliché forming around her in just moments.
Heart took out her schedule (as she ignored the obvious looks and whispers), which showed her locker number. "423...423…" she said over and over, trying to look for the locker. She accidentally bumped into a rushing girl and knocking her books over.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Heart said, picking up the girl's books. She looked up and handed her the school items. The girl shyly took the books from her with a small smile on her lips. "Uh, do you know where locker 423 is?"
"Yeah, that used to be my locker when I was a freshman." The girl said, her grin growing a little more.
Heart nodded her head in approval. "Cool, I'm Heart."
"I'm Alex Russo." Alex introduced herself. She led the younger girl towards her designated locker. On their way, they passed by Nate. He gave Heart a confused and surprised look. Then his eyes went to Alex. And to Heart's amazement, Nate's usual bad boy look changed into a love struck face.
"Yo, Nate," his friend said, waving his hand up and down his face.
"Huh?" Nate said. He shook his head, brushing the moment off.
Heart raised her eyebrows. What the heck was that? She thought.
(Original a/n) A/N: Cliffie! Lols. Wonder what's gonna happen with Nate and Alex? How about Shane and Mitchie? Then there's always Jason and his new girlfriend...you just gotta keep on R&R