Living with Tayler Holder

Chapter 11: Vinnie, are you...jealous?

I woke up with a Doja Cat song playing on repeat in the background. I must have fallen asleep whilst TikTok was still playing.

I looked at the clock and saw it was 8:00am and for this lot that was hella early. Most of the people in the house don't go to sleep till 5:00am because they're filming some kind of wild video, editing or just partying. I got changed into this and decided to head down to the gym.

Tayler has this gym in the house and I've just not used it yet. I saw the treadmill, put my AirPods in, and escaped to a world where everything was just better.

I was rudely interrupted as Tayler came down looking flustered and turned off the treadmill.
"Hey what'd you do that for man?" I said annoyed he interrupted my workout.
"Grace you can't be doing this to your body!!" Tayler said concerned. I just stood there confused because I had no idea what he meant. I stood looking at him waiting for him to continue.
"You've been running for an hour and a half straight. You've ran a 15k this morning. Do you know how ridiculous that is for someone your age?" Tay said as he pointed to the stats on the treadmill.
"I...I didn't realise" I said looking him in the eye.
"I guess some things never change huh," I said trying to make a joke out of it as I got off the treadmill and wiped the sweat from my face using a towel.
"Grace, you can't joke about these things. You have an eating disorder and whatever this was," he said pointing to the treadmill, "could tip you over the edge."
Tayler was truly concerned.
"Look, I love sport though. I can't just stop." I said scared he'd stop me from exercising.
"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not stopping you. You just have to be more careful. Maybe put a timer on the treadmill. Look I just don't want you to hurt yourself. Or you could wake up me, Nate or Chase to work out with you so we can keep an eye on you."
"Hey, I'm not a kid. I don't need 'watching'"
"I get that you're not a kid, but it's the only choice I have. I'm sorry" Tayler said sadly.
"Look, I'll do the timer thing. I promise I'll only work out in moderation from now on" I said in the most sincere way possible. After a lot of convincing, Tayler finally agreed to let me work out once a week unsupervised. However if I wanted to do it more than once a week he would have to watch me or get someone else in the house to do it. It feels stupid but I do get where he's coming from.

After the morning fuss, Tayler made sure I ate before he let me go upstairs to shower and get ready for the day. I got myself clean and then changed into this.

I walked downstairs with my eyes glued to my phone as I continued to scroll on TikTok. This app really is addictive. As I got to the bottom of the stairs I bumped into a chest and I felt a strong pair of arms wrap around me to stop me from falling to the floor.
"We've really gotta stop meeting like this" Vinnie said smiling down at me. I looked behind him to see Josh, Kio, Blake, Noah and Bryce all stood there. I quickly got back on my own feet out of embarrassment.
"What we're you doing on your phone?" Blake said.
"OoooooooOoooOOoooo someone's got a boyfriend...." Josh said in a teasing, stupid voice as all the boys laughed along and started teasing me about it.
"Boyfriend!?" Tayler said as his head popped out from around the corner.
"Who's got a boyfriend?! I'm sure hoping it's one of you boys because I know for sure it ain't the baby!" He said looking at me and hugging me dramatically as all the boys laughed at his little performance.
"Hey I'm not a baby," I said half giggling.
"And I haven't got a boyfriend, I was just scrolling through TikTok" I said holding my phone up to show them.
"Omg what's your @ so we can all follow you" Bryce said getting his phone out.
"NO!" I shouted a little too loudly as all the boys looked at me like I was crazy.
"I don't want you guys to follow me because I don't want to be found. I want to do this whole TikTok thing because it looks fun, but as soon as people associate me with you guys they'll go digging into my past and find out all that stuff about my family."
All the boys stood nodding in understanding. At that very moment markell and Kelianne walked past us and saw TikTok was open on my phone.
"Omg Grace, how are you feeling about the app?" Kelianne said as she stopped.
"Yh it's aight" I said as if I hadn't spent my entire night on the app. Everyone raised an eyebrow at me.
"Don't you lie to us girl" Markell said.
"Ok it's amazing. I've been scrolling since last night." I said giving it up.
"So when are you gonna film a TikTok?" Noah asked me.
"Um...I'm not too sure. Not yet though. I'm not sure I'm ready."
"Aight, fair enough" he said as him and the boys went to out to the back and I walked to the living area and continued to scroll as I sat on one of the sofas.

After scrolling for some time - the majority of the day to be exact - I came across this boy who was pretty good looking.

He had dark hair, a really nice smile and his dress sense was pretty good as well. I clicked on his profile and his name was Jacob Sartorius. I was watching through his videos before I felt a presence behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see Vinnie glaring at my phone.
"Um..you alright man?" I said as I put my phone down.
"No, no, no you get back to it" he said still in his same spot. Vinnie was so close I could feel his breathe on my neck.
"Bro are you good? I can feel your breathe on the back of my neck." I said laughing hoping he would move. But he remained rock solid in place.
"You've been scrolling on his page for a while now" he said glaring.
"Do you like him or something?" Vinnie said looking me in the eye.
"I mean...he's pretty good looking" I said responding.
All Vinnie did was let out a grunt.
"Vinnie, are you....jealous?" I said laughing.
In that instant Vinnie rugby tackled me so that he was on top of me and he began to tickle me viciously.
"Take. It. Back." He said as he tickled me like there was no tomorrow.
"Look....I'm...sorry....I....take.....it....back!" I said struggling to breathe as he tickled me.
Finally he came to a stop as he was left still hovering over me.
"Let's get one thing straight. I, Vinnie Hacker, don't get jealous. And I don't like you like that Grace. You're a great friend and I wouldn't want to wreck that."
"Fair enough" is all I could say in the moment as I was still left breathless after he ATTACKED me.

Vinnie shifted his body so he was no longer hovering over me. He was now sat next to me on the sofa.
"So, plan on making any tiktoks?" He asked.
"Um...maybe. Not too sure yet. I want to but I might later on when the house is less...busy." I said referring to the hustle and bustle going on now all the boys were together.
"Right, so when we all leave" Vin said laughing.
"Yh your exactly right. I don't need an audience you know." I said as Vinnie placed his head on my lap as I played with his hair.
"Well I think the boys are going for an all nighter" he said making himself comfy in my lap as he let out a yawn.
"Why don't you sleep in my room. I'll take the sofa." I said noticing how visibly tired he looked.
"No, no I'm not even that tired" he said trying to open his eyes but failing.
"C'mon Vin" I said as I lead him to my room and let him lie down.

As I was about to leave the room Vinnie said,
"Wait, where are you going. I can't kick you out of your own room and..." his speech became slurred as he drifted off to sleep in my bed. I reached into my wardrobe and picked up my blanket and spare pillow and walked downstairs to the living area where I tried to fall asleep and ignore all the noises the boys were making from Tayler's room. It wasn't long before I fell asleep.

Author's note:
I wasn't sure whether to have a Vinnie and Grace love story line. If you guys want to see Vinnie and Grace get together let me know. Thanks for reading guys. Xx