A/N-I DO NOT OWN THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND!
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Nat was walking me home in the evening when he looked at me and asked, "So your gonna go home and tomorrow if and when I see you your not gonna be mad at me?" He smiled.
I laughed. "No, I won't. But if you ditch me then we'll have a problem," I joked.
"Ha-ha, very funny. But that means we're gonna hang out tomorrow right?"
"Don't you think that you should hang out with the guys? You know you have a band together."
He smiled again. "Yeah, I know. I'll tell them."
"Then go…I don't know…celebrate. I'll find something to do."
"I'll hang out with them in the morning and I'll hang out with you in the afternoon," He said, trying compromise.
"Fine, if you insist," I joked again.
"I do, so I'll see you tomorrow?" Nat asked, as we reached my house.
I smiled. "Yeah, see you then." I walked into the house, and noticed Josh wasn't watching at the window like he usually was. He probably realized that he didn't need to spy anymore because he knew who I was hanging out with all the time.
"Why were you with Nat?" Josh's voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Because he's my friend," I said happily.
"Wow. I can't believe he hasn't told you yet."
"Told me what?"
"That he only hangs out with you because I asked him to."
I scoffed. "That's a lie. You'd do anything to keep me away from Nat." Phew, I thought I had something to worry about.
"Okay, okay, I lied. But he's only hanging out with you because he feels bad for you."
"Yeah, right."
"It's true! He told me all about it. He doesn't really like you, or anything, and not even Alex likes you."
"If he didn't like me then why did he take me to his house when I hit my head? And I thought you said he didn't say anything about me." Now I knew he was lying.
"Like I said, he felt bad for you. He knew no one would care if you came home," Josh said, with a triumphant smile on his face.
I just shook my head. I knew he was wrong, and he was only trying to make me upset at Nat again so I wouldn't hang out with him. I shrugged. "Oh well, then I guess he was lying when he told me something about your band," I said, pretending to believe him.
Josh stopped. "What about the band?"
"Oh nothing. If he doesn't care about me, it's probably a lie anyway."
"Rosalina, c'mon tell me!" He begged.
"No, it's pointless. It's probably a lie."
"Okay, okay, I lied! Nat talks all about you! He's really glad you came to New York. All he does is talk about you when we hang out. Please, tell me what he said."
I smiled. "Sorry, can't say." I walked away from him, happy with the turnout of our conversation.
~NBB~
The next morning, I knew that I wasn't going to meet Nat until the afternoon, because he was going to meet with the band. So I decided to start putting my room together a little better. I put away clothes, rearranged my room a little bit, put together my desk, put up my posters, and looked through some pictures.
A knock came from the door.
I looked up and saw Dad. "Oh…hi Dad."
"What are you doing?"
"I just wanted to put my room together a little better."
He nodded. "We'll have to put up new wallpaper soon. It's kind of…boring, don't you think?"
"Yeah, a little bit…no offense."
He laughed for the first time since I could remember. "None taken." Dad noticed the picture I was looking at. It was of my mom and me when I was little. He sighed.
"Do you miss her, Dad?"
"Of course I do. Why would you ask that?"
"Well, you didn't come to her funeral. And you haven't said anything about her."
Dad sighed again and sat down next to me on the bed. "I know, and I'm sorry. You must think I don't care. But I do. I care about her and I care about you."
"Thanks, Dad."
"And you probably have no one to talk to about this, so I'm sorry for that."
"Well at first I didn't…but then I met Nat."
He nodded. "Nat's a nice boy, isn't he?"
"Yeah, his mom died when he was four."
"So that's why you can talk to him about it."
I nodded.
Dad got up and walked over towards the door. "I'll just let you get back to cleaning up your room."
"Hey Dad?"
He looked back at me.
"Thanks for…talking to me." I smiled.
He smiled at me. "Your welcome."
I continued putting my room together until I heard something on the window. It sounded like a rock. I ran over to the window to see Nat and Alex down on the sidewalk. I smiled and ran downstairs. "Dad, I'm going to the park!" I called.
"With Nat?" He called back.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah!" I ran out the door and down the steps.
"Whoa, slow down there. Why are you in such a good mood?" Nat asked smiling at me.
I smiled. "I talked to my dad. It felt really good to finally talk to him."
"That's great."
"How did the guys take the news?" I asked, as we walked towards the park.
"They took it pretty well. But we're going to start rehearsals soon because the studio want us to release a CD as soon as possible."
"So that means you wrote more songs?"
"Yeah, a few."
"I bet their great," I said when we reached the park and Alex took off for the jungle gym again.
"I guess so."
"There's been something bothering me…and I wanted to make sure it wasn't true," I blurted out suddenly.
"What is it?" Nat asked, with a concerned look on his face.
"Well…last night…I was talking to Josh…and he kinda…um…said some things…about you."
"Rosalina, I swear it's not true."
I was a little offended. "So you don't talk about me at all?"
Nat gained the nervous expression I saw when I first met him. "Oh…well…uh, yeah I talk about you. But it's only good things, I promise."
"Yeah, I know…Josh told me."
He looked embarrassed. "Yeah…"
"Nat, it's okay. I think it's sweet."
He just smiled.
"So…I'm guessing that since you have rehearsals, we won't be able to hang out?"
"Of course we're still gonna hang out. You're my friend."
"Thanks, Nat."
Soon after that, Alex roped Nat and I into a game of freeze tag. Nat and I were on a team because before we started Alex had said, "You guys will have to be on a team because I'm a master at this game."
So we agreed it was Nat and I versus Alex. If Alex was able to tag both of us frozen at the same time, he won. If one of us tagged Alex, we won.
Now I was standing frozen by one of the jungle gym bridges, waiting for Nat to come and tag me.
Suddenly, someone tagged me, and pulled me under the bride. Before I could panic, however, they turned me so I was facing…Nat.
"Sorry if I scared you. Ready to get Alex?"
I nodded, quickly looking around to see if Alex was nearby.
"If one of us gets tagged, the other has to tag Alex or its game over for us." Nat was so serious it seemed like this was a life or death situation.
I nodded again.
"I'll distract him, and then you tag him." He ran out from beneath the bridge. "Alex! I'm out in the open!"
There was a silence and then the sound of Alex's feet pounding against the woodchips.
Nat was standing, waiting for Alex to run up and tag him.
As soon as I knew Alex's back was to me, I quickly but quietly ran out to tag him.
He was so close to tagging Nat when I stretched my arm out and tapped Alex on the back. It took him a second to realize what happened but when he did, he froze and Nat smiled.
"Yeah! We won!" Nat said, giving me a high five.
"Sorry Alex," I said, giving the little boy an apologetic smile.
"I'll get you both one day…" Alex said.
"Hey, we won and we didn't cheat," Nat said, smiling.
"Beginner's luck," Alex said with a shrug.
I laughed. "So what do you guys want to do?"
"Let's go for ice cream!" Alex said, cheering up immediately.
"Alex, you have enough sugar in your body right now," Nat said, putting a hand on his little brother's shoulder.
"So what?" Alex didn't seem to get what Nat meant.
"I think Nat means, we can't get ice cream," I clarified for him.
"Please!" Alex begged.
"Maybe next time, Alex," Nat said.
"Fine…" Alex sighed with defeat. But he perked up immediately as an idea hit him. "Let's go show Rosalina your new songs, Nat!"
"Alex, I doubt Rosalina would want to hear unfinished songs."
"Sure, I do."
Nat shrugged. "Sure, if you want to."
"Let's go!" Alex shouted, leading the way out of the park.
We walked towards their apartment and I didn't have to think about unpacking, or Dad, or Josh, or he his crazy step mom. I just thought about how I finally had friends.
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