A/N: I'd like to start this chapter by saying thank you to all of you who have read this, favorited it (is that a word? Probably not, but I'm going to use it anyway…), and followed it. It really means a lot to me, truly it does. So thank you from the bottom of my heart, and enjoy!
I also have a few questions: 1.) Do you want me to add a chapter that is Sawyer's POV of the lunch/after the lunch? 2.) Are there any scenarios that you'd like to happen in this story? 3.) Do you have an idea as to which one of Sawyer's friends will try to make a move on Kaya? Who do you want/would you like to see make a move on Kaya?
For texts: J=Joey, S=Sawyer, T=Tyler, C=Connor, K=Kaya
The next morning I woke up to my phone buzzing on my nightstand. I looked at my alarm clock. It read 8:05. I groaned and sat up against my headboard. Sawyer, Joey, and I stayed up so late last night, just talking about random things and putting, and organizing, my work stuff in the second bedroom, and I really wanted to sleep in this morning. I reached over and picked my phone up off of the nightstand. I unlocked my phone and looked at the messages icon. I had six- no eight new messages. I tapped on it and went to mine and Joey's conversation.
J: Are you up?
J: Text me when you get up!
J: Girl, it's 8am wake up!Whatever Joey wanted sounded important.
K: I'm awake. What do you want? I replied. I went back and tapped on mine and Sawyer's conversation.
S: Whatever Joey says, don't listen to him. I scrunched my face. That was a very weird text.
K: Whyyyy?I sent back and tapped on mine and Tyler's conversation.
T: We should do a collab.
T: Ooh, we could do it on your new channel!
T: I hope you don't mind that Joey told me about your new channel…
K: Nope, not at all. I'd love to do a collab with you. Just let me know when, where, and what! :)
After I sent that message, my phone vibrated. Joey had texted me back. I tapped on our conversation.
J: I think someone likes you! I rolled my eyes at his message. He has to be joking. I've only known a handful of people for a day or two. Who could possibly like me already? I dismissed his text and read the text I got from Connor.
C: Hey Kaya, it's Connor. What's up? I smiled. Finally a normal conversation.
K: Hi Connor! Nothing, I'm just going to finish unpacking. What are you up to? I replied. I got up and walked out to the dining room where the last remaining box was sitting in the corner. I set my phone on the table and opened the box. Inside were random things: games, stuffed animals, sports stuff. I took out my Penny Board and put it on the floor. My phone buzzed on the table. Tyler sent back an 'ok' and a smiley face. I tapped on the message Connor had just sent me.
C: Have fun. Haha. Do you want to hangout later?
K: Yeah sure! I replied. I put my phone back on the table and took the box into the loft and put my Penny Board in my closet. I heard my phone ringing and rushed back to it. It was Connor.
"Hello Connor." I greeted.
"Hey. I was thinking we could go to Venice Beach and hangout." He said.
"Yeah, sure. That sounds great." I said. "Where do you want to meet? I could come over to your place and we could go from there."
"Sure! I'll text you my address." He said enthusiastically.
"Okay. Bye Connor." I said and hung up. After Connor hung up he texted me his address. I put it in Google Maps and looked at the distance from my house to his, and from his house to the beach. He lived pretty close to the beach, so I could drive my car to his house and we could skate down to the beach. I texted him back.
K: I'll be at your house around noon.
C: Okay. I changed into my Starbucks crop top, jean shorts, vans, and put my hair in a bun. When I walked out of my room there was a knock at the door. I walked over and looked through the peep hole. It was Joey. I opened the door and he walked in.
"Hi Joey." I said. "Come in." I said as I closed the door. I turned to look at him. "What's up?"
"Oh nothing." He said with a shrug. "I can't hang out with my friend?" He asked me. I figured I would just cut to the chase and get to the bottom of his messages from this morning.
"Just out of curiosity, what the fuck were you talking about earlier?" I asked him. His eyes widened at my choice of words. Even I was shocked by what I said. I hadn't planned on cussing, it just sort of flowed out.
"I just think someone likes you. That's all." He said. Now I was really curious, there were only three people it could be if what he was saying was true: Connor, Sawyer, or him.
"Who?" I asked as I walked past him to go into the kitchen. "You?"
"Don't get me wrong, you're awesome and very pretty, but no." Joey said.
"Connor?" I asked. He shrugged. "Sawyer?" I looked up at Joey's face. His obnoxiously big smile confirmed that I had said the right name. "How do you know?"
"The looks. What he says, how he says it. What he does." Joey said and sat on one of the stools at the breakfast bar.
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"You mean you're telling me you haven't noticed the way he looks at you?" He asked me. I shook my head.
"No, not really." I said.
"Well, this may sound creepy, but I saw you the first day you moved in with your family. Sawyer mentioned that he saw a new car in the lot and a U-Haul and I told him that you moved in. He looked really excited. He asked me for details, and I told him the only thing I knew which was what you looked like. I told him about the people you were with, and that the two younger guys could either be brothers or one could be a brother and the other could be a boyfriend." He said. I nodded and he continued. "He looked really upset at the possibility of you having a boyfriend. And when we left yesterday he told me that he was glad that the guys I saw were your brothers. You don't have a boyfriend, do you?" He asked me.
"No, I don't." I told him.
"Good. Don't say anything about this to him. He will kill me if he finds out I told you." He said. This is probably why Sawyer hadn't responded to my text earlier.
"I won't tell a soul Joey." I told him.
"So what are you doing today?" He asked.
"I'm hanging out with Connor later and after that nothing." I said. I took the bowl of grapes out of the refrigerator. "Want some?" I asked him.
"Sure." I put the bowl next to his arm. "You want to make your first video for your new channel when you get back?" He asked and ate a grape.
"Um… Sure. What did you have in mind?" I asked and popped a grape in my mouth.
"The cotton ball challenge." He said.
"Yeah. Sounds like fun." I told him. He got up from the stool and took a handful of grapes, which was majority of the bowl.
"Well thanks for the grapes. Call me when you're on your way back. Nice chatting with you." He said as he made his way to the door.
"Okay, bye Joey." I said and closed the door after him. I went back into the kitchen and leaned against the counter. Is two days enough time to know you're into someone? I've said it before, and I'll happily say it again: Sawyer is very attractive. I may have a very miniscule attraction towards him, but I barely knew him. But I never thought it was possible to have feelings for someone so quickly. The way Joey told me made it sound like he was head over heels for me. I thought about the times that I had been with Sawyer during the past two days. Sure his eyes found their way to my general area, but I didn't think much about it. He eyed up the waitress at The Cheesecake Factory, he probably eyes a lot of girls up. Yesterday when I told everyone about my job, he clung to every word that I was saying. And when he put his hand on my waist, and smiled that gorgeous smile—
"No. I'm not going to think about this anymore. I'm going to push this out of my mind. If what Joey's saying is true and Sawyer really does like me, then he'll act on it." I told myself. I went into my room and grabbed my MacBook and the grapes off of the breakfast bar and went out onto the balcony. I browsed Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, and shopped online for a few hours. I looked at the time in the bottom corner of my laptop and shut it, it was 11:40. I placed it on my bed, got my phone, keys, sunglasses and Penny Board and left to go to Connor's. On the way there I stopped at Starbucks to get a drink. I texted Connor to ask if he wanted anything.
K: Do you want a drink from Starbucks?
C: Sure! Can you get me a Refresher? Any flavor is fine. Thanks!
K: No problem.
I got Connor a Valencia Orange Refresher and got myself a Very Berry Hibiscus refresher. I parked outside of Connor's house, got my phone, sunglasses, the drinks, and my Penny and walked up to the front door. I put the drinks and Penny Board carefully on the ground and knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal a guy with short dark hair and a cloud tattoo on his wrist.
"Hi." He said.
"Hey. Is Connor here?" I asked.
"Yeah, come on in. I'll go get him." He said. I smiled and reached down to grab the drinks and my board. "I'll get the drinks for you." He said.
"Thanks." I told him. I picked up my board and walked into the house. The guy led me into the living room. I sat down on the couch and put my board on my lap. He put the drinks on the coffee table.
"I'll go get Connor." He said and vanished up the stairs. I sat there spinning the wheels on the board. A few minutes later Connor came bouncing down the stairs. I set the board down and got up.
"Kaya!" He said as he walked over and pulled me into a hug.
"Hey Connor." I said. When he released me I handed him his drink. "I got you the orange kind."
"That's actually my favorite." He said with a smile. "Do you want me to pay you back?" He asked. I shook my head.
"My treat." I said. He took a sip.
"I guess I should go get my board." He pointed to my board on the floor.
"If you want to go via skating... I just thought it would be easier than trying to find a place to park." I told him. He nodded.
"I'll be right back." He said and went back upstairs. Seconds later he reappeared. I picked up my board and drink and we walked outside. We put our boards on the ground and started skating to the beach.
"I should've brought my camera." I said out loud, more to myself than to him.
"Why?" He asked as we rounded a corner.
"So I could take pictures and videos and stuff." I took a sip of my drink. We stopped at an intersection and pressed the button to cross.
"Gotcha." He said. "It's so nice out today." I looked up at the sky and nodded. Sunny and no clouds in sight, it was my kind of weather. The hand on the sign turned into a figured and we crossed the street.
"Yeah it is." I said. When we reached the boardwalk we picked up our boards and carried them. I thought about the guy I had briefly talked to at Connor's house.
"Hey Connor, who was that guy with the cloud tattoo?" I asked him.
"Dang it, I forgot to introduce you two. It totally slipped my mind." He said. "His name is JC. He lives with me. When we go back I'll introduce you to him. And Kian and Ricky if they're there." I nodded. We walked around on the boardwalk for a while and talked about our interests, like Connor's love for cats, our mutual love for Arizona tea, our favorite stores, and food. We made our way to the beach and sat on the sand.
"Let's take a picture." Connor said as he pulled out his phone. We scooted closer to each other and took a few pictures.
"Send me those." I told him. He nodded and sent them to me. We had the same idea and posted one of the pictures to Instagram. I posted one that we were smiling in, whereas Connor posted one where we made weird faces and looked goofy. The caption for my post read:
'Hanging at the beach today with connorfranta #venicebeach'
Connor's caption read:
'Spending the afternoon with the amazing KayaSandrino at Venice Beach! #awesomegirl'
We both liked each other's pictures. The comments for my picture were normal:
'have fun!', 'lucky, lucky girl', and of course someone had to post 'are you two dating? you'd be so cute together!' The last one didn't really surprise me. Connor had a lot of fans, so of course they'd question the picture. But for some reason, I decided to look at Connor's picture. Just to look at how many likes he would get on it from all of his fans. There were a lot of likes as well as comments. Those comments were a mixture of nice and not so nice:
'she's so pretty', 'is that your girlfriend?' and my favorite one 'is she your girlfriend? She's not even that pretty. You could do better.' Why did it even matter if we were dating or not? We're just friends.
"Wow. Who knew teenage girls could be so mean…" I said as I scrolled through the comments. He put his phone back in his pocket and reached over and grabbed mine. He closed the app and locked my phone.
"That's why you shouldn't read the comments." He said. I took my phone from him and put it in my pocket. I started drawing shapes in the sand next to me.
"If you could change one thing about anything, what would you change?" Connor asked me. I thought about it for a few minutes. There was a lot that I would like to change, or like to see change.
"Probably the way people think of or about people they don't know." I said. "What would you change?" I asked and looked over at him.
"Prices at Taco Bell." He said with a straight face. We both laughed. "No, but I'd probably change the same thing as you. People are way too judgmental nowadays and jump to conclusions way too fast and automatically assume things too often." He said and looked at me.
"Yeah." I said. "Do you want to go get something to eat?" I asked him.
"Sure. Taco Bell?" He asked. I shook my head.
"How did I know you would suggest Taco Bell?" I asked and chuckled. He smiled and shrugged. We stood up and wiped the sand off of us. We grabbed our boards and threw away our empty Starbucks cups and made our way to the nearest Taco Bell. When we were done we headed back to Connor's house. When we walked in, JC had just walked in from the back yard.
"Hey JC, are Ricky and Kian here?" Connor asked. JC nodded.
"Yeah, they're out back." He said. Connor put his free hand on my shoulder.
"I forgot to introduce you two earlier. Kaya this is Justin, but he goes by JC. JC this is Kaya." Connor said.
"Hi." JC said and waved. I waved back.
"Hey." I said. Connor put his board down and took mine and put it near his.
"Come on. I'll introduce you to Kian and Ricky." Connor said and led me out back. "Hey guys." He said. They both said 'hi'. One was in the pool and the other one was lying on a towel. The guy that was in the pool got out and walked over to us.
"Hello, I'm Kian." He said.
"Kaya." I told him.
"I'm Ricky!" The other one yelled from the towel.
"Nice to meet you both." I said. I stayed at Connor's house for about an hour. JC, Kian, and Ricky were pretty cool. I found out that they all had YouTube channels and were a part of a collab channel called 'Our2ndLife'along with two other guys, Sam and Trevor. Before I left, JC, Ricky and Kian gave me their numbers. When I got in my car I called Joey.
"Hey Joey, I'll be there in fifteen minutes depending on traffic." I told him.
"Okay. See you then, bye." Joey said. I said bye and hung up. When I got to my apartment I knocked on Joey and Sawyer's door. Joey opened it.
"Do you want to do this here or in my apartment?" I asked him.
"We should do it here." He said. I nodded.
"Okay. I'm just going to put my stuff in my apartment and I'll be right back." I said to him. He nodded and I went to my apartment and put my stuff on my bed. I grabbed my camera from the second bedroom. I walked back to their apartment and knocked on the door. This time I was greeted by Sawyer.
"Hey. Come in." He said. He was standing there in sweatpants. Just sweatpants. The view was nice. I admired his shirtless chest and felt his eyes on me. I had looked at his body longer than necessary. I raised my eyes to meet his. He smirked.
"Hello." I said and walked in. I saw Joey setting up the camera and lights. "We can use my camera." I said as I held it up.
"Okay, yeah. I guess that makes more sense since it'll be on your channel." He said. He took his camera off of the tripod. I walked over and set my camera up. Sawyer walked over with a frosty bottle. I looked at them.
"What's that for?" I asked them.
"Joey didn't tell you?" Sawyer asked. I shook my head.
"I thought we were doing the cotton ball challenge…" I said.
"We are." Joey said. "Just with a spin. We're going to do the drunk cotton ball challenge like Sawyer and Tyler did."
"Um, okay. That's fine." I said. Joey got a shot glass from the kitchen and walked back over to me. He set the shot glass on the floor next to the two chairs in front of the camera. Sawyer handed me the bottle of vodka.
"Thanks." I told him. He went over to the couch and sat down. I hadn't notice Joey go upstairs until he came back down with a bowl full of cotton balls. He went into the kitchen and got another bowl and a spoon. He walked back over to the chairs.
"Sit." He said and motioned to the chairs. I sat down and so did he. He placed the empty bowl and spoon on the floor, and kept the full bowl on his lap. Sawyer got up and turned the camera on and pressed record.
"Okay, it's recording." He said. He sat back down on the couch with Hitch. I started the video by making up an intro as I went.
"Hi everyone! Welcome to my second channel. For those of you who don't know me I'm Kaya Sandrino. Today I am joined with my friend Joey Graceffa." He waved to the camera. "And today for my first video for this channel, we are going to be doing the cotton ball challenge." He held up the bowl of cotton balls.
"But it's not just the normal cotton ball challenge." He said. We looked at each other and I shook my head. We looked back at the camera. "We are putting a little spin on it like Sawyer and Tyler did." I held up the bottle of vodka.
"Now, please if you are under the age of twenty-one, do not do this. We do not condone underage drinking." I said. Joey nodded. "Would you like to explain the rules?" I asked him.
"So each person will have to place an empty bowl on their heads and scoop cotton balls into the empty bowl, but you will be blindfolded while doing it. We will each get five scoops each. After the fifth scoop you have to guess how many you got into the bowl and if you get it right, the other person has to take the shot, but if you get it wrong, you have to take the shot. There will be three rounds each, so there's a total of maybe six shots in our bodies." Joey said. I set the bottle on the floor.
"I should probably take my hair down for this right?" I asked. Joey nodded.
"Yeah, the bun would get in the way." He said. I undid my bun and looked at Joey.
"Let's do this." I said. Joey pulled a scarf off of the couch. He tied the scarf around my eyes, careful to not get my hair caught in the knot.
"Okay so here's your bowl." He said. I grasped the bowl and held in on my head. "And the spoon." I took the spoon from him. He grabbed my hand and placed it over the bowl of cotton balls. "Okay. Scoop." I did.
"It honestly feels like nothing is on the spoon." I said as I raised my hand and poured whatever was or wasn't on the spoon into the bowl on my head. I could hear Joey and Sawyer chuckling. After my fifth scoop I put the bowl on my lap. "I'm going to say two. I think I got two cotton balls in the bowl." I untied the scarf and looked into my bowl and frowned I had gotten four into the bowl. Sawyer laughed.
"Guess who got more than two and gets to take the first shot?" Joey asked. He reached down and grabbed the shot glass and bottle. He poured me a shot and handed it to me. "Three, two, one, drink!" He said. I quickly gulped it down and cringed.
"Ugh. This tastes like shit." I said. "Remind me to bleep the expletives out." I told Sawyer. He nodded. I tied the scarf onto Joey and gave him the bowl and spoon. I held the bowl of cotton balls. His first scoop was unsuccessful. "Be careful Joey." I said.
"Shut up." He said. He moved the spoon back to the bowl. The next three scoops were successful; he got one on each of them. The fifth scoop however, was hilarious.
"Okay, now be careful, you're getting them on the floor." I said as he moved the spoon around in the bowl. He picked up the spoon and a mountain of cotton balls came with it. Sawyer and I had to stifle our laughter. Joey put the spoon down. "Okay so how many do you think you got in there?" I asked him. He removed the bowl from his head.
"I'm going to say five." He said.
"Wrong." I told him. "You got twelve." I said after counting the cotton balls. He removed the scarf. I poured him a shot. He looked at it with disgust. "Come on just drink it." He took it from me and drank it.
"That's so gross." He said. When all was said and done, I ended up having to take four shots, and Joey had to take two.
"So, now we all know how bad I am at this, and I'm never doing anything blindfolded again. And I also may be a bit tipsy." I said to the camera. "Well, thank you Joey for being the first person I had the pleasure to collab with, and thank you for watching this video. Be sure to give it a thumbs up, and subscribe to this channel and my main channel. I post videos on my main channel every Monday. Also subscribe to Joey's channel. He makes funny videos and he vlogs. All of the links to our channels and social media will be in the description so be sure to check those out. Also leave a comment telling me who you want me to do collabs with, challenges, and topics for non-collab videos. I love you guys, stay awesome." Joey and I waved to the camera and Sawyer shut it off.
"Well that was amusing to watch." Sawyer said. I got up from the chair and started picking up the cotton balls that had fallen on the floor. "You don't have to clean up. I can get those." He said to me.
"It's fine. I'm done anyway." I said and put them into the empty bowl. I pulled my hair into a high ponytail. I took my camera off of the tripod. "Well, I'm going to go eat something and lay down." I told them and walked towards the door. "Bye guys." I said. As I went to open the door Hitch walked over to me. I put my camera down and sat on the floor to pet him.
"He likes you." Sawyer said. I looked up at him and nodded. After a few minutes I got up.
"Well, I'm going to go now. Bye." I said.
"Bye." Sawyer said. I waved and walked out of their apartment to mine. When I got to my door I reached into my pocket for my keys, only to feel the lining of the pocket. I turned around and started walking back towards their door when Sawyer walked out.
"You forgot something." He said and held up my keys.
"Thanks." I said and took them from him.
"No problem." He said. We stood there awkwardly, neither one of us moved.
"Well, I should go edit this." I said. He nodded. "Bye." I said and waved. He waved back and I turned to go to my door. I unlocked it and walked in. I put my camera on my desk in the second bedroom and walked into the kitchen. I got a glass of water and made a sandwich. I sat down at my small dining room table and ate it. After I ate my sandwich, whatever buzz I had was gone. I got up and put my plate in the sink and went to go edit the video.
"I cannot believe I actually went through with this…" I said out loud as I watched the video. After editing, I uploaded it to YouTube which took forever and changed into my pajamas. I got my laptop and sat down on the couch and Skyped my mom for a while and went to bed.
A/N: I have a Polyvore, so I thought I would actually use it since I haven't in a while.
Kaya's clothes for this chapter: venice_beach_with_connor/set?id=92496477
And also, with the comments on the pictures, I hope you don't get offended, and if you did get offended I'm sorry... I really wasn't trying to be mean or offend anybody. But fangirls can get so mean, and possessive over someone they don't know, it's like asdfghjkl. Ugh, I can't. Sorry about my mini rant. I will update sometime next week. Usually I'd have the next two chapter written in my notebook, but I've had writers block so I'll work on the next chapter this weekend. -Katy