Sighing, I fall on to my bed, worn out from working today. With a groan, I slide off my soaking wet shoes and just lie face down on the bed. Until I hear a light knock at my door and the creaks of my door opening.
I turn to my door where I'm suddenly met by a someone I didn't expect. A man in his late teens or early 20's. A moment of silence passes and he must see my confusion because he is soon explains himself. "Oh sorry, Shauna told me you were home and to come and introduced myself. I'm Zeke by the way" he smiles at me. "Shauna's boyfriend." He moves and crosses he arm Making an 'o' face I realise that this is the Zeke Shauna's been talking about since she left. "Oh yeah hey I'm Tris" I tell him calmly but I'm kinda taken back by his forward approach to come and say 'Hi'. And with that I get off my bed and walk towards him with my hand out waiting for him to shake. He grabs it, and calmly shakes hit twice before releasing it gently.
He smiles before quietly turning and heading out the door. But before he walks out he turns his head in my direction and says "Oh yeah Tris, Shauna told me to tell you that dinner was almost ready so if you wanted to wash up." He looks at me for a sign that I was going and that I heard him. "Yeah I'll see you in a second." I say back with a smile just as the door shuts behind him.
I stand in the middle of my bedroom awkwardly for a moment before going into the bathroom to have a quick shower. My damp hair sticks to my neck as I try to dry it with a towel. Stepping carefully down the stairs. I can hear the loud conversations happening from the kitchen. Laughter and screaming echo through the rest of the empty house but I can hear more than just Zeke and Shauna. The shorts and singlet that I'm wearing is my form of avoiding the heat. But I suddenly feel a little under dressed for company, even if I just met Zeke, and know no one else.
Deciding to not go back and change I walk through the kitchen door to the voices and laughter calming almost immediately, and a group looking in my direction. Shauna's still laughing when she says "Hey Tris nice of you to join us'' she giggles before taking a sip from the bottle in her hand. The group start to say their hellos, since most of them were from the yard, I really didn't feel as awkward as to when I first walked in.
I take a seat on one of the half occupied seats which had Chris at the other end and take a sip from my own bottle. "So what's going on?" I question as some of the previous conversations continued. Chris shuffles over and whispers in a not so quiet voice "You don't know most of these people do you?" I shake my head no. "Well" she says. "I'll just have to introduce you." She sits up and yells to get everyone's attention. 'Four likes Taylor Swift!' They all look in her direction.
Zeke is the first to reply. "Um, What, Since when" he looks towards one of the other boys who sits on the floor next to another girl who I've never seen. He opens his mouth but before he can answer Chris does. "He doesn't" she deadpans. "But it got your attention didn't it" she smiles proudly at herself. "Look Tris doesn't even know half of you and you didn't even bother to introduce yourselves" she pans over to Shauna. "Your a terrible host" she laughs.
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"Okay Tris now you know everyone's life story" Zeke laughs. It wasn't half true I only knew their names not so much their stories. There was Zeke and Shauna, Christina and myself on the couches and Four and Cara on the floor. Also with Zeke's brother Uriah in the kitchen eating and Shauna's sister Lynn at her place, this was mostly their gang. "Now we can get into the juicy bits" Zeke explain when Uriah walks back into the room, ribbing his hands together he hums in excitement before explaining. "Okay the next Rage is coming up in a few days so we need to start to get ready." Everyone looks like they know what he's saying. I just sit there, clueless.
Shauna shifts on Zeke's lap. "Well, on the note of Rage, there are a couple of groups forming tonight if you wanted to go practice Four." She looks towards Four for an answer. Four wraps his arm around Cara. "Yeah why not, I need a pay day." She smiles in excitement. "Great'' she looks at me. "Do you want to come too?" This question captures the attention of the whole group cause soon all eyes are on me. I shift. "Ah nah guys it's okay, I think I'm just gonna go to bed." I tell everyone. They look disappointed but say good bye as I leave
I walk passed the kitchen putting my finished bottle in the trash before walking up the stairs. I slowly crawl into bed. And sooner or later I'm out like a light...
Hey Everyone thank you for sticking with this story I have just had a lot of things happening but I'm going to update all of my stories through out the week as a schedule if you want to see it its on my page thing. :D Thank you!
