“Hey guys you should meet our new neighbor she’s
pretty hot.”J.C. said as he sat down to eat with his
four friends. “Really? What’d she look like? How old
is she?” Joey asked with wide eyes. J.C. chuckled as
he said “I don’t really know she seemed really
nervous so she didn’t really talk much but I’d say
she’s about Justin’s age.”J.C. said. “Nervous? Like
she knew who you were?”Lance asked suddenly
apprehensive about the situation. “No…I don’t think
so I think she’s just shy.”J.C. said. “She did look
really familiar though, although I’m not sure
why.”J.C. said thinking about it. “Who knows.”Justin
said. “So whose she live with?” “Uhm I’m not
exactly sure I know she said her mom wasn’t home
right then, and she was carrying a little kid that
couldn’t have been more than four or five so I’m
guessing her mom and brother?”J.C. said absent-
mindedly. “Well we should go over and introduce
ourselves.”Chris finally chimed in as Justin and Joey
nodded in agreement. “Guys, maybe we should give
them a few days to settle in.”Lance said as
everyone just rolled their eyes at him but eventually
agreed. “Well you guys will have to tell me what
she’s like I’m leaving for New York in the morning
for a few weeks.”Joey said. A couple days
later I pulled back up to the house after running
some errands and as I started to get Brayden out
of the car I heard him yell “Look! It’s Nsync!” My
breath caught in my throat at what he said but he
scrambled out of his car seat and ran out of the car
so I had to turn around and look. I nervously gave
them a half smile as I grabbed Brayden and said
“I’m sure they don’t want to be bothered let’s go
inside.” “Oh nonsense who is this little guy?” Justin
asked as he reached his hand out to Brayden. “I’m
Brayden.” Brayden said giving Justin his million
dollar smile as I sighed. “Hey Abby.” J.C. said
smiling at me. “Hi.”I sighed looking up at him.
“These are my friends I was telling you about.
That’s Justin. Lance. And Chris. And our other
roommate is out of town visiting family but I’m sure
you’ll meet him sometime.” “Oh yeah. Uhm
Brayden why don’t you go inside and put in one of
your movies.” I said as I sat him down. “Can I play
rockband instead?”He asked looking up at me with
huge puppy dog eyes. “Uh..It’s not unpacked yet.
Just put in a movie and I’ll find it when I come in.”I
said. “Fine.”Brayden said as he went to turn around
to go in the house. “Hey wait! We have rockband
you could come play with us.”Chris said.
“Yeah!”Brayden yelled as he jumped up and down
and the guys chuckled. “Uh.. I don’t know if that’s
such a good idea.”I said. “Oh come on.”Justin said
giving me the same smile that Brayden had only
minutes before “Besides you can come too.’’ Just
then my mom walked out of the house and must
have heard the last of the conversation because
she said “Abby I’m going out for a little while. Why
don’t you go and have some fun.” As she just
smiled at me. “I wouldn’t want to be an
inconvenience though.”I said glaring at my mother.
“Well they invited you over and I think it’s rude not
to go.”She said smirking at me as she got into her
car. “I agree with your mom.”Justin smiled as I
sighed. “Fine.”I said as Brayden giggled and ran
towards their house chasing Chris. I followed a little
slower and Lance fell back and said “Don’t worry
about it they’re really not as intimidating as they all
look.” I just gave him a half smile as we entered
the house and sat down with the rest of the guys.
“Can I play guitar?”Brayden asked looking up with
Chris with a grin on his face. “Sure.”Chris said “You
and Justin can play guitar and I’ll play drums and
J.C. can sing.”Chris said looking at the guys as they
all just shrugged. “Make sure you put his on
easy.”Lance said from his place on the couch.
“NO!”Brayden said offended and I couldn’t help but
laugh “I play on hard.” This caused a chuckle from
all the guys. “Let the man play on hard then.”Justin
said disbelief in his voice and I just continued to
laugh. “Dude! I can’t believe that he’s actually
hitting all these notes.”Chris stated in disbelief.
After about an hour of the guys playing I decided
that it was time to go. Although I was grateful that
the guys were engrossed in their game and that
none of them were paying that much attention to
me besides Lance who was sitting beside me.
“Brayden it’s time to go sweetheart you need to get
washed up for dinner.”I said as I stood up and
stretched. “Okay.”Brayden said as he put the guitar
down and came and stood by me. “Thanks for
letting me play with you guys.”Brayden said. “No
problem. You can come over and play whenever you
want.”J.C. said. “Thanks guys.”I said as I started to
walk to the door. “You can come over whenever you
want too.”Justin said grinning at me. “Uhm yeah
thanks.”I said looking at the floor then quickly
walked to the door. “You’re right she is
shy.”Justin said after we had left. “I told you. And
obviously she knew who we were because her little
brother did but she didn’t seem to acknowledge it at
all.”J.C. said a little dumbfounded. “Maybe just
Maybe there is someone who isn’t completely
infatuated with you JT.”Chris chuckled as Justin
threw a pillow at him. “I don’t know I think she’s
nice though.”Lance said. “I never said she wasn’t I
just think it’s a little odd and she still looks really
familiar.”J.C. said. “She does look kinda
familiar.”Justin said agreeing with him “Where’s she
from?” “I don’t know she doesn’t say much.”J.C.
said as the guys just nodded.