After amazing myself and having enough self-control, I managed to suppress my inner fan-girl and just talk to them like a normal person.
"Why hello…" Andy said when he saw me, "I am Andrew, but please call me Andy." He said politely, but clearly flirting. I just smirked at him, I find people flirting with me hilarious. I'm not pretty, nor funny or nice. I don't get why so many guys do flirt with me. I have long brown wavy hair, which I am much too lazy to straighten, and I am just normal height and don't have any features about me that make me pretty.
"And I'm Bradie." Bradie said politely but still glaring at Andy. I almost laughed. I was having fun watching them.
"I'm Vannah." I said to them.
"Look, I don't mean to be rude but I have to go and see if the shop will refund my 3DS because good old brother Andrew here dropped his Bass on it." That I did laugh at. It sounded like something my friends Katie and Cassie would do.
"It's not funny. They cost a lot." Bradie said glaring at me now.
"No, I'm sorry. It's just yesterday before I left Brisbane my friends Cassie and Katie were arguing because Katie dropped her Bass on Cassie's iPhone and broke it. They had been arguing for three days before that about it before as well."
"Oh, well I feel sorry for this poor Cassie person." Bradie said.
By this time Michael had taken Chris inside after saying good-bye, and pop started walking over to get my amp.
"Wait up pop!" I said, "I'll come get the guitar if you just take the amp!" He nodded and went to pick the amp.
"You play guitar?" Andy asked grinning.
"Yeah, too much sometimes." I replied.
"That's cool. Can I see it?" Andy asked.
"Yes, but you can't touch it. I'm not rich and it took ages for me to save up for it. And after this whole 'dropping my bass' thing, I'm not sure if I can trust you with it." Bradie snickered at that and came over to see it as well. I got my Les Paul out.
"WOW! This looks like Shaun's … before he lost it." Andy said. I smiled, I remembered hearing about that. They decided to come inside for a little bit to help me unpack. As we were walking up the driveway, my iPod dropped out of my pocket.
"Damn it." I said and attempted to pick it up.
"I got it," Bradie said and picked it up for me. "What have you been listening to?" he said and turned it on. And much to my despair, Short Stack's 'Werewolves' was on. "Haha, you a fan?" I blushed and just said "sort of." Then he and Andy continued to laugh.
When they finally stopped teasing me about me loving them we finally got to my room. They said hello to Nan and told her they were going to help me unpack. When we were in there the bell rang, I went and got it. As I opened the door Shaun was there.
"umm, hey. I'm just looking for-"
"Bradie and Andy?" I cut him off. "come on in." I walked him into my room, unfortunately I walked into Bradie and Andy unpacking my 'Random Band Stuff' bag where I brought the stuff I didn't trust to stay at home. This included three signed Short Stack posters and a signed Sway Sway Bradie shirt.
"We have met you before?" Bradie said, staring at the stuff.
"Multiple times." I said before taking the bag and putting it in the cupboard for now.
"Shaun's here!" Andy said, "he can help unpack as well!"
"I was actually coming to get my guitar, and see if Bradie was over the little accident yet."
"I'm not." Bradie said whilst unpacking some stuff.
"Okay, I'm over unpacking." I said looking at all the stuff in my room. "Let's go get something to eat or go somewhere other than here." I said smiling.
"Okay. Let's go to the pizza shop!" Andy said grinning. We all agreed and went off. I told Nan and Pop and they were happy that I had actually made some friends.
When we got there it was really busy. And after Bradie telling Andy he was ridiculously fussy over not eating pizza with BBQ sauce like a normal person we walked down to the beach to eat. Me being me, I got up to go to the bin to put the rubbish in the bin and fell over and dropped the boxes on Shaun and fell on Bradie.
"Haha! Whoops!" I said and tried to stand back up. I fell over again. "I give up. Someone else take the rubbish. It hates me." I said pouting. Andy got up and he and Bradie took it.
"I think Bradie likes you!" Shaun said as soon as they were out of earshot. That surprised me.
"Why?" I said.
"Because he looks at you all the time and blushed when you fell on him."
"No I meant, why would he like me? I'm annoying and loud and talk way too much."
"I don't know, I haven't thought about it. I just know he likes you. Look at him now, he's talking to Andy and dibsing you." I turned around and sure enough they were talking.
"How do you know he's dibsing me?"
"Because when we went to the toilet at the pizza shop he told me he dibsed you." I blushed. I always liked Bradie the best. He was the one that was most like me. Shy, but when he was around people he was comfortable with (or drunk) he was fun and talkative.
Soon after I was lost in my thought he and Andy came over. We went to walk back to the car when Shaun and Andy went into a guitar shop. I was going to go in with them when I realised I promised my mother I wouldn't buy any music stuff while I was down here, so Bradie and I went for a walk along the beach. We were having so much fun, running around basically acting ten years younger than we actually are. He would chase me into the water and I would throw some sand at him. He then caught me and kissed me. I wasn't expecting it at all. Although, I couldn't help but kiss back, it was amazing. He is amazing. After that everything got a little bit awkward as we walked back to where Andy and Shaun were. Before we got there Bradie said something that surprised me.
"I'm sorry." He said looking at me guiltily. He must have thought I was angry at him for kissing me.
"No! No don't be sorry." I said quickly.
"I know that we only just met today, but I really like you an-"
"Stop." I cut him off while walked closer to him. "Don't worry. You just did what I was too worried to do." I smiled and kissed him.
When we broke apart he seemed over the moon. He was grinning like a Cheshire cat. We walked over to Andy and Shaun holding hands and smiling.
"So I'm guessing you guys did something else than walking." Andy said smirking, and Shaun was off in his own little world already walking halfway down the street. Bradie was blushing and I'm pretty sure I was a little red myself.
"Shut up and drive us home Andrew. I'm still pissed at you and Shaun from this afternoon." Bradie said, his happy mood suddenly dropping dramatically. I almost laughed over the fact that he was so worked up over this. Then I realised that I was being hypocritical because I would be doing much worse if someone broke my guitar, even my acoustic one. I hugged Bradie randomly when we got back to the car. He laughed and asked me what that was for.
"I just feel bad that your Nintendo broke. If someone broke something I loved then I would murder them." I said, my head still resting on his chest.
"Aww, that's alright." He replied, "It's probably still under warranty anyway." I let him go after he said that thinking that he would want to get into the car. Apparently I was wrong.
"That doesn't mean that you can let go." He said and pulled me back to him. I giggled and hugged him again.
"Come on lovebirds." Shaun said out the window of the car. "I have better things to do than be here."
The car trip was mostly long and boring. Except for the small while when Shaun had found a megaphone and was yelling out the window randomly stuff like when they got out their cars, "Get back into your car immediately." And other inappropriate things. That ended when a police car pulled us over and the man yelled at Shaun. At this point Bradie and I were in the back of the car hiding our faces and trying not to let the police officer know we were laughing.
The car ride was actually only around 20 minutes, but it seemed longer. I have no idea why but it did for some reason. After saying good-bye to Shaun, he started to drive back to his house. Andy just yelled "See ya tomorrow" over his shoulder to me, not even acknowledging Bradie's presence, he went inside. Bradie stayed out the front talking to me for a while about nothing in particular. Eventually he had to go.
"I'll see you tomorrow beautiful." He said to me before kissing me goodnight and walking into his house.
That night I went to bed a happy woman thinking about how people I just meant today, meant so much to me.