We arrive at the o2l house and Ricky escorts me inside. I walk in to find the tall boy with blue hair playing Mario Kart with another boy with brown and a bit of green hair. They start yelling at each other and I look over at Ricky
"Don't worry, once you move in you'll get used to it"
Both of the boys stop and face us.
"Move in?"
One of the boys had a nose ring and a chiseled jawline, the other had a cloud tattoo on his right wrist.
"Evs, this is Kian and this is Jc. Kian, Jc, this is Evelina, but you can call her Eva"
Kian was the first to talk and Jc soon joined.
"Why the hell does he get to call you Evs and we have to call you Eva"
"Damn right"
"Okay, well hello to you guys too" I look at Ricky and let him explain why they have to call me Eva.
"Guys, she only lets her closest friends call her Evs because we pretty much came up with it. She was always called Eva so our other good friend and I came up with Evs"
"That's stupid" Kian rolled his eyes and gave me a glare.
That isn't the reason, I always have a cover-up. That is a really stupid cover-up but Ricky knows what to say. Reason I have a cover up is because I don't like hearing the actual reason myself. He always waits for me to give permission. I nod and he tells the real reason.
"Well her great grandmother use to call her Evs and she doesn't really like to hear it because it reminds her of her great grandma. She passed a couple years ago and she only let's her closest friends call her Evs because we have the bond that she use to have with her great grandama"
"Okay....." this time Jc gives me a confused look.
They turn back to the Tv and start playing again.
"You're right Ricky I would love to move in. Pfft like I'm gonna live with these douches"
"Who are you calling douches, for all we know you could be like Acacia!" I see Jc getting up to leave.
"For your information, I am nothing like Acacia! She's a bitch!"
"Takes one to know one!"
"Oh, fuck you"
"You don't know anything about Acacia, okay!?! So shut the hell up and get out"
"Really?! Really!? This may not be my house but I'm 110% sure you don't control me!"
"You didn't have to deal with her!"
Ricky tries to put his hand on my shoulder but I only walk towards Kian, getting closer. As I get closer I realize that his height intimidates me, but that's the more reason for me to keep on going.
"Oh! Don't fuck with me, I can ruin you right now" True, Kian could ruin me but I don't have any fans. So this kinda goes against him.
"Oooooh scary! I don't care!"
"I told you and I'm gonna tell you one last time. If you still don't get it, I'm gonna save your time and go in baby steps. First, shut the hell up. Second, get out"
He puts his finger in my face and I grab his wrist and pulled away.
"Okay, you wanna play like that. First, keep your finger to yourself. Second, stick it up your stubborn ass"
"Me?! Stubborn!? I can cuss you out and you can cry home to your little friends"
"Forget you"
"You're right, you're nothing like Acacia. You're worse!"
"Oh please, bitch! You didn't go to middle school with her! You don't know the pain I felt when she used me! You don't know how it felt to be her 'best friend'! You don't know anything about Acacia, and you certainly don't know anything about me!"
After all that yelling, the room was dead silent.
"Oh....look I'm sorry, can we start over?"
"Sure"
We back away from each other and took a deep breath.
"Hi, I'm Kian"
"Hey, I'm Evelina but you can call me Eva"
"There you go, okay now let's sit down and talk a bit. Jc! Come over here!" Ricky motioned for me to take a seat. I sat next to Kian and Jc because Ricky pretty much forced me to be in between them.
"I like your hair" I look at Kian's hair, the blue similar to the top of mine.
"Your's too"
We make small talk and have a bunch of awkward silences. One was broken by a dog.
"Awh, who's this?" I ask
"This is Wishbone, my dog" I look over at Jc.
Since we didn't talk much, Ricky told us to go upstairs to meet another one of the guys. I hope we don't start like Kian and I.
"Hey I have a better idea, let's scare him. Let's see he's probably editing or recording a video. So let's walk in and jump on him in the middle if his video" We exchanged looks and nodded at Kian.
We walked up the stairs as quietly as we could until we got to this guy's room. As we got to the door, Kian leaned on it listening to see if he was talking, he was. We slowly open the door and we jump on him.
"What...the....fuck"
"Hey Connor, meet Evelina. Evelina this is Connor. She might be moving in sometime so don't start any fights, yet. Like I did, oops"
"Yea, I heard you guys"
Connor's green eyes are scanning me, as if he approves if I can stay or not. Honestly if doesn't matter if he doesn't want me to stay, it's my choice.
"Hey Evelina, so you are Ricky's best friend and Sam's o- girlfriend" he has a friendly, warming tone but also had a hint of defense as if I was gonna say something bad to him.
I don't know what he was gonna say before girlfriend but I didn't care.
"Hi Connor, you are one six of o2l and the person who filmed us this morning and you can call me Eva"
"Well aren't you guys interesting" I turn to look at Jc who can't help but smile.
"So you might be moving in soon huh?"
"I guess, I mean I told Ricky that I would get to know you guys first"
"I don't mean to be rude and I'm certainly not thinking this. But what if we don't like you"
"I don't give a flying fuck"
"And what if Sam breaks your heart after you move in"
"One, yes I would be upset and cry all day but I'll eventually get over it. Two, why do you care?"
"Just asking" he raises his hands up and backs away.
If Sam broke up with me, I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself. I'd be out of control. We left to let Connor finish his video and Ricky thought we could go out and see Sam, if he was around Los Angeles of course. I decided I would ask Sam where he was.
J: what hospital are you at?
S: uhhhh hold on let me ask. I forgot, oops
J: okay
S: california hospital medical center
J: I hope your sister has a safe labour btw
S: thanks well I gtg I'll see you when I get home
I didn't want to tell him I was coming, I was going to surprise him.
I tell the guys and we decide to leave with Connor. Once he got out, we got ready and left. It wasn't too long of a drive but the radio was on and Thousand Miles came on. The guys sang it at the top of their lungs while I covered my ears.
After that deal was over we arrived at the hospital and went to the front desk.
"Hello, how may I help you guys"
"We were wondering where....uh...." we didn't know the name of Sam's sister. I felt embarrassed because I didn't know what I was talking about.
Just then Connor informed us:
"It should be Cloe, but didn't she already have a baby? Leo?"
"We're looking for Cloe Pottorff"
The desk lady looked through her book of patients and shook her head.
"Uhhh nope, sorry Cloe Pottorff is not in here"
"Oh sorry, thanks for trying to help"
We looked at each other with confused looks and went back into the car.
"Eva, text Sam" the voice came from the back of the car, it was Jc.
E: hey ummm this was supposed to be a surprise but we came by the hospital to visit and it said that she wasn't there
S: Cloe? we left a while ago. They said it was fine for her to leave. I just went to go see my nephew not for the birth
E: oh okay that makes more sense, are you on your way home now?
S: I gotta get my sister home. I'll be there in 20 minutes
"He said it was her last day at the hospital and they left, now he's driving her home"
"Oh I thought he said he was gonna go see her because she was giving birth"
"Yea you told me that at my door earlier today"
We drove back to the house and went all different directions once we got in. Ricky and I went to the couch and talked for a bit.
"I'm a little confused because I'm pretty sure he told me that he was going to the birth of his nephew"
"Trust me, I'm just as confused as you are. But Connor said Cloe had Leo already"
"Yea, yea, I heard that too. Sam also posted a photo recently with Leo he doesn't look newborn to me. And it doesn't seem likely that his sister would have another baby before Leo is 9 months"
I know I said I didn't care but I'm starting to really think about it. "What was Connor gonna say before 'girlfriend' when we were introducing ourselves?"
"I have no idea"
We just sat there and thought about it but eventually stopped and started going through our phones. I got tagged from Ricky on Instagram and it was another picture of me off guard.
rickypdillon "@evelinak I see you. Love you ;) :-*
Underneath the caption I see tons of comments asking "are you two dating? I mean you said you love her with a winky face, I ship it, you got a pretty girl Ricksters"
I decide to comment, as if anyone were to see it, we aren't dating, we're just best friends. besides I'm with Sam.
Ricky turns to me, "I see you commented on my photo, why didn't you like it?"
"Ricky, I didn't like it because I didn't like it!"
We laugh and went back to doing our own things. A couple moments later Sam opens the door and comes in.
"Sam!" I jump from the couch and hugged him tightly
"Eva!"
I led him to the couch and we sat next to Ricky. I look over at Sam and he couldn't stop smiling and swaying back and forth, it was like that time when he asked me to be his girlfriend, but this time I don't know what he was so smiley about.
"Sam? Are you good, you can't stop smiling and swaying"
"It's all good, I think I'm gonna go to bed" he laughed and as he was walking upstairs he almost fell.
I look over at Ricky, we both had worried faces.
"Do you think he got.....drunk or high?"
"It sure seems like it"
"I really don't want him to be drunk or high but it's more legal to be high at his age isn't it?"
"Evs, he might be both. I don't know"
"Ricky, I'm worried. He possibly just drank illegally"
"I am too Evs, I am too"
I lean on Ricky's shoulder and we both just sat there in shock of what just happened.