Recap:
"Armani!" Wesley comes sliding down the banister. When he catches site of Drake, something in his eyes change. Is it jealousy? No that couldn't be it. I'm reading too much into it.
"Whose that?" he asks me looking at Drake questionably while walking up to me and giving me a hug.
"My new guest." I tell him reluctantly.
"What?"
"I'll tell you about it later." I tell him.
"Who's this?" I hear Carlos asks as he and KC come down the stairs.
"I don't feel like explaining this a billion times. Where's the rest of them?" I ask no one in particular.
"Josh and Demetri are out back setting up. And Alex and Charlie are racing around the track."
"Well let's go out there so I can explain everything."
Chapter 7 - BB's Bash (Part 1)
The backyard is pretty huge so everyone hops onto his or her own source of transportation. KC takes Drake on the golf cart. Carlos rides his dirt bike and I hop on the back of Wesley's ATV while he drives. My backyard has just about everything. I wouldn't even call it a backyard. There's a giant pool, a racetrack made for go-carts or cars, a skate park for skateboarding and BMX biking, a huge section with dirt and dirt ramps (A/N had no clue what this place is called) for ATVs and dirt bikes. There is also a stage for entertainment purposes for when we have parties and stuff. The backyard practically looks like the set up for the X-games without stands for the spectators.
We all ride down to the racetrack, where Alex and Charlie are racing on go-carts. Charlie is in the lead but Alex is right on her tail.
"C'mon Alex!" I yell loud enough for them to hear over their engines.
"Go Charlie!" KC yells, a little louder than I did.
Alex speeds up and they are now head to head. "Whoo! Alex!" I yell as loud as I can.
They are now almost to the finish line. Alex suddenly picks up speed and finishes off the race with Charlie lagging not far behind him. Alex hops out of his go-cart. He takes off his helmet and shakes out his hair to get rid of his helmet hair. He has a proud smile on his face. Charlie hops out of her cart also and takes off her helmet. She walks off without even a glance at Alex. Alex just laughs and follows right behind her. Charlie looks pissed about losing the race. She is such a sore loser.
"Good race guys." Carlos says when they finally get to us. Charlie rolls her eyes but Alex smiles.
"That was a really good ending." I add.
"Yeah it really was. Wasn't it Alex?" Charlie asks with narrowed eyes.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" he asks.
"Where did all that speed come from?" she asks him.
"What speed?"
"At the end of the race you just suddenly got the boost of speed. I want to know where it came from?" She suspects him of cheating but I don't know how he could have cheated.
"You mean my nitrous? I saved it for the end. You always use yours at the beginning of the race. You have to save it for when you really need it." Alex explains.
Charlie takes in this small ounce of knowledge with a blank expression. "Whatever." she says, knowing that Alex is right but refusing to let him know.
"Who's that?" Alex asks, nodding his head in Drake's direction.
"I don't know. He just keeps following me. STALKER!" I yell at him.
"You wish." he smirks at me.
"But seriously who is he?" Charlie asks.
"To avoid repeating myself a billion times I've decided to gather everyone and tell you who he is. Tweedledee and Tweedledum are over by the stage. So let's go get them. Shall we?" Everyone either nods or replies with an "ok" or a "yeah".
As we pull up to the stage Josh and Demetri are dancing to California Gurls by Katy Perry. They both look completely ridiculous. Wesley pulls out his new iPhone 4 and starts to film them.
"I'm definitely uploading this to YouTube." he tells me.
"They look crazy." Everyone starts to laugh hysterically. They are unable to hear us over the loud music blaring through the speakers. Josh does another weird move and turns around in the process, seeing us laughing. He stops dancing and taps Demetri on the shoulder. Demetri turns around to see us laughing, you can tell he's blushing through his light ebony skin. Josh walks over to the stereo to turn off the music.
"How much of that did you see?" Demetri asks.
"Enough to record and put on YouTube." Wesley answers with a smirk.
Josh and Demetri look at each other. "Shit!" they mumble to themselves.
"Remember I told you about the good-slash-bad surprise." I ask. They nod.
"Well let's go over to the pool house so I can fill you guys in."
The pool house is actually right behind the stage so we just walk over there. But KC being the lazy girl she is, gets into her go-cart and rides a whole 4 ft. to the pool house.
"Was that really necessary?" Carlos asks her.
"Yeah." she smiles at him.
We all walk into the pool house and they sit on the couches, while I standing front of them. I gesture for Drake to stand next to me.
"Who's that?" Josh asks.
"I'm about to tell you. So calm yourself." I tell him, getting a little annoyed with that question.
"Ok this is Drake."
"Hi Drake." They say all together.
"Don't say it like that we're not in an Alcoholic's Anonymous meeting." I giggle. "Well any who. He's my new house guest."
"What? Another one?" KC interrupts.
KC was the first one to live with me. She's my cousin and so is Carlos. Their parents were going through a rough patch and were always fighting. KC couldn't take all the yelling so she asked my parents if she could live with us. About a month later, Carlos was also getting frustrated, so he decided to join us. Their parents are now divorced and the house is a lot quieter but they don't want to go back. They say its more fun here.
"Yeah sorry KC." I smile sympathetically and continue. "His dad is a friend of my family and he wants Drake to stay here."
"Wait your Drake." Realization hitting Carlos.
Drake nods.
"You're the same Drake that cut Armani's hair off when we were six." Carlos asks.
"Yup." he confirms smirking at me. I'm getting so sick of that damn smirk. I glare at him.
"Wait. How do you remember that?" I ask Carlos.
"I came over to your house that day. And you were crying hysterically about how some evil boy cut off your hair. Your mom had to keep you away from windows and mirrors until you hair grew back."
"Ok so what's the bad news?" Wesley asks.
"These guys are like childhood enemies. They hated each other. And they probably still do. I can tell Armani does." Carlos informs him. Something in Wesley's eyes light up like he's happy that I hate him.
"So what's the good news?" Charlie asks.
"Oh yeah. So as like a guilt gift from my daddy. He's putting a recording studio in the house. With state of the art equipment and brand new instruments for all of us!"
"Are you serious?" "This is awesome." "OMG" That's all I here for like a whole minute.
"When do we get it?" Alex asks.
"I don't know. I'll have to call my dad back. But I'm thinking within the next week." I say
"Omg I'm getting a new drum set." Josh says excitedly.
Cause I got some intuition
Or maybe I'm superstitious
But I think you're a pretty sweet pill that I'm swallowing down
To counter this addiction
You got me on a mission
Tell me darling can I get a break, somehow?
Can I say no?
She's got a love like woe (Woe oh oh oh)
Girl's got a love like woe (Woe oh oh oh)
(Ba da da)
I gotta feel like it don't make sense
'Cause you're bringing me in
And now you're kicking me out again
The Ready Set begins to play a song for me in my pocket. I take out my cell phone and look at the caller ID.
"Your dad." I tell Drake and answer it.
"Hey Mr. D"
"Hello Armani. I just wanted to inform you that your father has decided which room he's wanted to place Drake. So all his things are there."
"Alright. Ill tell Drake."
"Ok. Bye."
"Bye."
"Your stuff is already in your room." I tell Drake.
"Can we go over there?" He asks.
"Sure." I say reluctantly. "Guys I gotta go show Drake his room. I'll be back."
"Alright. While you're gone we'll finish setting everything up for tonight."
"What's tonight?" Drake asks.
"BB's Bash!" We all scream.
"Who's BB?"
"Armani is BB." KC says coming out from the back corner of the room.
"Last time I checked you didn't have a B in your name. So where does BB come from?"
"First off, Armani and Wesley are always together. And Wesley has this crazy obsession for A&W Root beer. Wesley's the root and Armani is the beer. Wesley's nickname is Rooty. And for Armani we just took the first letter of beer and repeated it, because beer is an ugly name." KC explains.
"Oh" was all he said.
"Jeffery!" I call my favorite butler in a singsong voice. Jeffery is great he's like a second father to me. I've known him my whole life.
"Yes honey?" He asks coming out of the library.
"This is Drake, the boy that's staying here. Can you tell me which room he'll be staying in?" I ask.
"Sure. Follow me."
We walk up the spiraling staircase. I follow them absentmindedly. Not really caring.
"Ok here it is." Jeffery opens the door to Drake's new room.
"Thank you sir." Says Drake politely.
"No problem. And you can just call me Jeffery. If you need anything just call me through this intercom right here." He shows him the intercom on the wall by the door. "Or you can just get Armani, her room is right across from you."
"What?!" I ask bewildered. I look over to the other side of the hall. My room door is staring me right in the face. "All the rooms in this house and my dad puts him here?!"
"He said something about bonding." Jeffery says.
"What more bonding can we do?? He's already in all of my classes!" I yellfrustrated.
"I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do. These are your father's orders." He smiles sympathetically at me. "Holler if you need me." he says jokingly.
"Sure thing."
I turn around to see Drake smirking at me. "Stop the damn smirking. It's only been a day and I'm already getting sick of it."
He advances toward me. For every step he takes forward, I take one step back. Soon my back hits the wall and I realize I have nowhere to go. He puts each of his hands flat against the wall on both sides my head.
"You know you like it. So stop lying." he whispers in my ear. I hold back the urge to shiver.
"What a-" He takes this opportunity to kiss me. I just stand there in shock. But when I get a grip on myself, I push him off of me and walk out of his room.
Questions fly through my head. Did he just kiss me? Did I really like it? Did I actually feel a spark?
And the answer to the first one was Yes. But the others. No. Because there's no way I can possibly like someone that I hate so much. Can I? No...Right? But do I really hate him or am I just holding a grudge against him?
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