I Can't Get You Off My Mind: Chpt. 4 The Game Goes On
After Dinner…
"You were right, that was awesome!" Carlos yelled as we all walked around the apartment in my horrible excuse for a "grand tour".
"Told you and here is SJ's room and this thing is my evil little brother, SJ. Hi SJ." I replied pointing him out as we walked in.
"Hey! I resent that!" he retorted, Katie chuckled beside him, and I just ruffled his hair and continued the tour.
"Love you too Simon," I laughed, "Ok, living room, kitchen, dining room, the bathroom is off to the left of the kitchen, my mom's room, and my favorite, my room" I completed the tour by hopping onto my bed and turning to flip on my ihome. "Come in and sit down. It's boy safe don't worry I had SJ check it." I laughed, my inner self coming out more as I got more comfortable around them. "Have A Nice Day" by Bon Jovi started playing and I smiled as it made home feel a bit closer and I put a hand on my necklace again.
"Hey, Rosie?" Logan asked, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah." I replied looking at the boys that were in various spots around the room.
"1. this feels more like a hang out room than a bedroom, and 2. why do you keep holding that necklace?" he told me from his spot on the floor.
"I get that a lot, it is a place that you can hang out in but I also sleep here so it's like a bedroom hangout. But the reason I keep holding this necklace I because my dad gave it to me as a last present before he left us" I replied fingering the blanket I've had forever.
"Oh…I-I'm sorry. I didn't know" He looked down afraid he'd said something wrong.
"It's ok, you didn't know" I told him lowering the music and going down to join him on the floor.
"Rosie, truth or dare?" James asked walking over to join us and sitting beside me. Carlos and Kendall came to join us soon after.
"I have nothing to hide so truth" I replied hoping he wouldn't ask anything embarrassing.
"Ok, Gustavo said we could flirt with you as freely as we wish but we all agreed not to fight over a girl after what happened with Jo. So, if you had to choose out of the four of us, who would you date?" he asked smiling, thinking he knew my answer.
"I've known you guys for less than a day! I don't know. Logan is taken, Carlos is to much like my brother, all jumpy and hyper a lot, and you are too obsessed with your face. So, I guess if I had to choose, Kendall" I told him looking down and blushing at the slight crush that had formed in less than 24 hours.
"Aw man! How come Kendall always gets the cute ones" He pouted and Kendall and I blushed more.
"Aw. Someone thinks I'm cute" I said in a sing song voice and just kissed James's cheek to make him happy. His face turned bright red and his hand went up to his cheek. I got up and sat on Carlos's lap so he wouldn't feel left out. "Logan I would have kissed your cheek but I would like to live" I joked.
"Naw, it's cool. It's your turn." He told me. Carlos played absent mindedly with my hair.
"Ok, Logan, truth or dare?" I asked.
"Dare, I guess" Logan replied.
"I dare you to-" I was interrupted by my phone I reached on to the nightstand to get it. I smiled when the I.D. said it was Dallas.
"Hey you. How's life without me going?" I asked him smiling.
"Awful, I have a quiz in Spanish and I have no study buddy since mine left me for L.A.! but other than that it's been ok. We miss you!" Dallas replied goofing about as always.
"We? And if you want help all you have to do is call, or e-mail me" I asked.
"HI ROSIE!" Lilly shouted into the phone.
"Ow. Yeah I didn't need that ear. Hi Lilly! I miss you guys! So, how's the relationship stuff?"
"Great! 3 years next week! Oh I'm so excited!" she squealed.
"Really, already? Wow, seems like yesterday I walked down the stairs to see my 2 best friends making out on my couch" I grinned remembering the day.
"Hey! Fine, so anyone cute so far?" she asked causing me to blush.
"Maybe…I'll text you tomorrow ok I have guests over right now" I said upset to end the call so soon.
"Yeah ok. BYE ROSIE!" they shouted.
"BYE!" I shouted back and hung up sighing. I turned to the boys and set my phone down next to me.
"Who was that?" Logan asked referring to the call.
"Oh sorry. That was Dallas and Lilly, my 2 best friends from back home" I told him.
"Oh. So what was with the "you can just call or e-mail me" thing?" he asked blushing.
"Logan it's fine, I question everything. I said that because back home I also was a Spanish tutor so I would help him with his work sometimes. I was also a girl scout, member of rock band, chorus, and orchestra, and a volunteer at the center where I got Mable, hence the swimming lessons." I finished listing off the things I did in my free time.
"Wow. That's a lot of stuff" Carlos said.
"Yep, and that's not counting sports. I did gymnastics for 7 years, soccer since I was 5, modern dance for 4 years, baseball since I was 4 and hockey since I was 5" I finished wondering how I did all of that and still had a perfect 4.0 GPA.
"Man, you do it all" James said in shock at everything I said.
"Yeah. They said I was too strong for softball and field hockey when I tried out for the teams so I've always been on the guys' team and I was the best on the team" I sighed at least I was on the girls soccer team.
"Amazing," Logan said shocked; "if I didn't know better I could have sworn she said she was on the guys' team" he laughed.
"I did" I replied.
"How? No girl has ever played on a guy's team that we've heard of" James asked.
"Simple. No girl was ever good enough to. I am" I smiled.
"I doubt you could pin one of us" Kendall bet.
"Fine. I bet I can pin Logan, Carlos and you in under 10 minutes" I proposed smirking, knowing I would win with my skill.
"Fine. Logan show her" he smirked back not knowing what I had up my sleeve.
"Ok I give! I give!" Logan shouted from beneath me. I had him down in less than 2 minutes. He was currently pinned stomach down, one arm pinned to his side, the other bent behind his back where I was sitting.
"One down, 2 to go" I released him from my hold. He shot up and blushed. "Aw it's ok Logie" I said ruffling his hair.
"Ok, now it's my turn" Carlos shouted and he was down within 3 minutes.
"Man, did you guys never learn how to fight?" I asked letting Carlos up.
"We never had to. Where we're from you don't need to, much" Carlos said going back to his spot.
"Well, Newark isn't the best place to grow up by" I replied.
"Still, that seems like more than knowing how to fight" Kendall suggested.
"Well, a black belt in self defense helps" I chuckled as their jaws dropped.
"No fair! You have an unfair advantage" Carlos shouted.
"Well, sorry for wanting to defend myself from freaks like Matt" I laughed.
"Ok. Fine, what can we do where we're evenly matched?" James asked.
"Two truths and a lie?" I suggested.
"Ok. So we have to figure out which one of the 3 facts is a lie?" Logan asked.
"Yep. You go first" I told him.
"Ok. My middle name is Philip, I'm a vegan, and I want to be a doctor" he said.
"You're not a vegan" I answered right away.
"Yep. You're good at this" he said.
"You ate the chicken earlier. Not that hard to figure out. Ok, um I have a motorcycle license, I love music and my best friend is a guy" I replied.
"Ok, there is no way you have a motorcycle license" Kendall told me and I reached up to my nightstand to get my hand bag. I took my wallet out and opened it. I took out both of my licenses; driver's and motorcycle and handed them to Kendall. "I sit corrected" he concluded.
"Yep. I got a bike for my birthday from my grandpa" I said taking my licenses back.
"Your best friend is a girl" Logan said.
"Yep, my second best friend is a guy," I told them, "Ok Carlos can go"
"¡Rosalina! Los invitados necesitan dejar" (Rosalina. The guests need to leave.) my mom yelled from the other room.
"Ok. Well, I guess I'll see you guys at the studio tomorrow" I said getting up to walk them to the door.
"Bye guys," I replied waving to see they live next door, "Well, bye neighbors"
"Bye" they said as they walked into their apartment. This is going to be fun.