Chapter 6: 0.5

❀Courtney's P.O.V❀

"Alex!" I call out, feeling frustrated as I stare at the pile of clothes on the floor.

Suddenly, he appears by my open door. "What?" He questions then chuckles as he sees me sitting criss-crossed on the ground. I look up at him with furrowed eyebrows. "Aww, you look cute like that."

My face drops. "Shut up, no I don't." I huff as I turn away from him, feeling my face heat up. "Anyways, I don't know what to wear. Help." I pout as I look at him and he grins at me.

"Well, of course." He says and holds out his hand for me to grab. I hesitantly do so and he pulls me up on my feet. "Follow me." He instructs and I furrow my eyebrows but do so anyway.

He leads me to his room and I grimace at the sight. "Good lord, what happened in here? Do you have a pet lion or something?"

He winks. "Something like that."

"I don't even want to know." I make a disgusted face and widen my eyes when he raises his arms and pulls his shirt over his head. "What are you doing?" I ask as I cover my eyes.

"It's not what Im doing. It's what I did. I had a naughty tiger earlier..."

"Gross."

"I wonder how you would be if I had you in bed..." I immediately uncover my eyes and smack his bare back. Hard. "Ow! Can't you see I'm injured!?"

"What?" I ask in confusion. And that's when I realize, his back has scratch marks going in all directions. "Ouch- wait ew."

"I'm telling you. She had claws. God I wasn't even going that hard." He turns away from me and I awkwardly look around the room.

"TMI."

"Anyways, here you go." He says as he throws me a piece of clothing and I barely have time to catch it. I hold it by the top and my eyes widen to their extent when I see what it is.

"Are you joking!?" I screech. He hisses and covers his ears. "A dress!? What the fuck even is this!? It's so short!"

"Ooo, the dork cussed." I ignore his comment.

"I am not wearing this!"

He fake pouts. "Aww why not? You weren't planning to wear some of my stuff now were you?" He chuckles and I glare at him.

"How the hell do you even have a dress?"

"Some chicks just leave with one of my shirts. Probably to sleep with it and be creepy." He shrugs and I see him shudder at the thought.

I crack a smile. "Hah, sucker you have stalkers."

He shoves my shoulder gently. "I don't blame them." He winks and I roll my eyes.

"You and your enormous ego. You should get rid of some of it, it's taking up too much of your brain." I say as I walk a little closer towards him and lean in to his ear then whisper, "it's affecting your intelligence."

"Hey!" He shouts and I laugh as I run out of his room. He runs after me and I stumble down the stairs, nearly falling and rolling down. I laugh hysterically when his stomps sound right behind me and I push my feet to go a little faster.

"No!" I laugh when his arms encircle my waist and he pulls me back against his chest.

"That wasn't very nice." He laughs as he spins me around and I laugh when his hands attack my waist.

"Noo!" I cry when he starts to tickle me and I frail around when we both fall onto the couch. "Stop! Stop please! Oh my- ahahahaha! Please!" I try to get out of his grasp but Im helpless as he continues his evil act and tears begin to form in my eyes.

"Take that back." He orders me as he gives me a playful glare.

I peer through my wet lashes and feel my stomach tighten. "Never!"

"Oh, you are so asking for it."

"Nooooooo!" I laugh even louder when he tickles me even more and I laugh so hard that no more noise comes out of my lips, instead I just have my mouth wide open as tears fall from my eyes.

Just then, the doorbell rings.

I cheer mentally as he gets off of me and fixes himself before he walks to the door and opens it. I fix myself up as well as I get off the couch and wipe away my tears.

"Aye, what up man!" A very familiar voice sounds and I immediately turn to look in the direction where the voice came from.

"Julian!" I cheer happily as I run to him.

"Little lady!" He shouts and I giggle as I throw my arms around his neck and he wraps his arms around my waist. "We missed you!"

"I missed you too!"

"Emily misses you a lot, she kept begging our parents to come back home to see you." He tells me once we pull back and a smile forms onto my face.

"Where is she?" I question.

"We went over to your house but we only found out that the house was sold and she is upset, she thinks you moved far away. Who would've thought you would be here?" He chuckles and I frown.

"Im sorry, but my mom and I moved in with this jerk and his dad." I say as I motion to Alexander and he whines.

"Hey!" We ignore him.

Julian only nods his head and I watch as more of their friends enter the house and I go back over to sit on the couch.

"What the..?" I hear a voice trail off beside me and I turn to look at Steven picking up the dress from the floor. "She actually owns girl clothes?"

I manage to give him the meanest glare and a smile forms on my lips when he gets shoved, causing him to take a step back. "Fuck off, man." Julian scoffs and rips the dress from his hands. "Here you go." He says as he extends out the dress towards me and I smile as I grab it from him.

"Thank you."

"No problem." He winks.

"Ahem." We both turn to look at Alexander and Julian steps back when we see him glaring.

"Woah, bro, chill she's a long time friend of mine and my sister."

"Yeah, okay." Alexander says and I start to make my way up the stairs. "Courts,"

I slowly turn as I hear my name being called out and wait patiently for him to tell me the rest of his sentence.

"Wear something warm, it's going to rain later on."

"Alright." I smile and rush up the stairs.

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"I'll keep you my dirty little secret!" Julian sings out loud and I laugh silently to myself on the backseat of Alexander's car as Damian bangs his head while he pretends to hit the drums. "Who has to know? When we live such fragile lives!"

I listen to him sing for a little before I decide to join him. "You are the only one that needs to know!"

Everyone turns to look at me in shock and I smile sheepishly. "What?" I question, feeling intimidated by all their stares. "Can't I sing too?"

Everyone cracks a smile and Julian continues to sing as I join him for the rest of the song and Damian keeps banging the air drums.

I pout when the music is cut off and Julian's voice is all I hear for a few seconds before he stops abruptly. "What the... What happened?"

"We're here." Alexander informs and that's when I realize that the car has stopped moving.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Where are we anyways?" I ask as I look at my surroundings and don't see anything but trees.

Julian turns around and smirks at me. "Have you ever gone camping before?"

I roll my eyes. "Yeah two years ago with you and Emily." I say in a 'duh' tone and his face falls.

"Right."

"Yeah." I laugh. "Wait, how come you guys didn't tell me we were going camping so I could've been prepared?"

"Because we're not actually going to go camping." Alexander speaks up and I furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"I'm confused."

Damian chuckles beside me. "Well we are but we wont be sleeping in a tent. We will sleep in here and Steven and the other dudes will sleep in the other car."

"Umm..."

"Don't worry, you can sleep across the backseat, I like the trunk anyways." Damian offers with a sweet smile and I smile back.

"Thank you, but it isn't necessary."

"Alright."

"Yo, you two coming out?" We both turn to the voice and that's when I realize that everyone is already outside the car.

"Come on." Damian says and I turn back around to see him exiting through the door. I step out of the car as well and shiver as the chilly air instantly engulfs me.

"Aww, you're already shivering." Julian chuckles and I glare at him while I wrap my arms around my body. "I heard body heat is the best way to warm up. But to me the best way is to get in a car and make our breath warm up the car, if you know what I mean." He winks.

I laugh and smack his chest. "You're never going to change, now are you?"

"Aye, my dad taught me these lines. Don't blame me." He chuckles and wraps an arm around my shoulder, instantly giving me warmth.

"Thanks." I say, my jaw no longer chattering.

"No problem, little lady."

"And you're still with that nickname." I huff.

"Blame Mr. Aguilar." He ruffles my hair, making me scoff. "He was the one who called you that first." He then switches his voice into a deeper one. "Watch your language, little lady."

"Ugh, I remember that day. I only said 'shit' for crying out loud! I usually don't like cussing but, he was a fucking old sack of nuts."

He pushes himself away from me as if I just burned him and checks every part of my face like if I have just sneezed an organ out of my body or something. "Oh my god, you just swore! Who are you and what did you do to my little lady!?"

"Oh my god, yes I have my fair share of bad words in my brain. I just know how to switch that unneeded language off." I reason and he rolls his eyes, but he's smiling.

"Okay then, whatever you say."

"Who wants roasted marshmallows?" Damian asks before he stuffs a marshmallow into his mouth and then another.

"When did you guys even set up the fire?" I ask in disbelief.

"When you two were talking." Alexander says as he throws a branch into the fire and hisses in pain before he sucks on his index finger. "Fuck! Shit! Son of a bitch!"

"Hah! What an idiot! He doesn't know how to handle a little burn." Steven laughs and I bite my lip to hold in my laugh when Alexander gets up from his kneeled position and starts to approach him.

"What did you just say?"

"Oh shit, I better run." Steven's eyes widen and he quickly gets up as well and runs around the fire. Alexander does the same and I shake my head at them.

"I don't think that's a very brilliant idea." I point out.

"Shut up." Steven huffs and I shrug my shoulders before he gets tackled onto the floor by none other than Alex himself.

"Fucktard." He mutters and I gasp when I feel a hand grab mine. I turn to look at Julian and smile widely at him.

"Let's go take a seat to get you warmed up, yeah?" He asks me gently and I nod my head.

"Yeah, okay."

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Woop, new character. And that character is someone you might all fall in love with ;) Stay tuned for this story and the epilogue for Roommates. There's a special surprise for all of you. Anyways I have said enough. Later!

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