Charli had arrived at the gorgeous Ritz hotel in Los Angeles to film some Dancing with the Stars, she'd brought along her sister Dixi and best friend Avani.
Her boyfriend Landon was going to be joining them later that night. The dread was already seeping in. she'd hoped he'd have said no to this and it would have just been a girls trip but Avani begged him to attend too.
They had all checked in and settled in their rooms when Charli had finished unpacking she got a little bored and wanted to annoy Avani a bit since the other girl had spent the morning complaining about everything during the journey.
She didn't like when Avani made a scene about every little thing, no water at check in, no wine delivery to the rooms, even tho they'd only been here 10 minutes at that point. Everything was a drama, but Charli had to keep her mouth shut or else there would be trouble.
She grabbed her purse and keys, and headed towards Vani's room, she heard her inside, away to exit the room, she prepared herself to pounce as soon as her BFF opened the door.
As the door pulled open Charli lunged at what she thought was her best friend.
She wrapped her legs around the waist of the figure and swung her arms around their neck, "boo," she yelled as she buried her head in the figure's neck.
"What the fuck," the figure said in a heavy Scottish accent.
Oh my god. The reality hit her that this was absolutely not Avani, this was a total stranger.
"Oh my god, oh my god, I'm so sorry," Charli yelled, absolutely horrified, as she pulled back from this poor strangers neck, only to be met with the most beautiful blue eyes she'd ever seen.
"Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing?" The stunning woman said, still holding Charli in her arms.
"Ummm, I'm Charli, I'm so so so sorry, I thought this was my friends room and I was just trying to scare her and I'm so sorry, I honestly didn't mean to scare you and I'm really really sorry," Charli blurted out all in one breath, thoroughly embarrassed and feeling a little dizzy.
"It's fine, but could you maybe let go of me?" The girl said pointedly.
Charli felt the blush creeping up her cheeks as she untangled herself from the tall woman in front of her, she faced the floor with red hot embarrassment.
She was looking at the girls legs, tattoos crawled all the way up them and under her shorts, Charli's eyes slowly crept up her body until they landed on those gorgeous eyes again.
"I'm sorry," Charli whispered again.
"It's fine, just be a bit more careful not to attack unsuspecting guests next time, yeah? Some people don't take too kindly to being jumped," she said smirking down at Charli.
Anni was shocked at herself for speaking, she'd usually have legged it by now.
By this point they'd attracted an audience of several people including Magnus and Alwyn, both standing with raised eyebrows at the commotion in the hall way. Alwyn looked concerned to begin with while Magnus looked furious.
He'd been the first out the door and had seen his daughter just holding the wee lass in her arms, it raised a few questions in his mind, Anni always goes on the defensive, what's changed?
"You good Anni?" Alwyn asked knowing fine well she wouldn't have told this girl her name. It was of course one of Magnus' many rules. He knew they were to keep her safe but some were ridiculous, even when she was a kid.
Anni nodded slowly, never taking her eyes off Charli, Charli was bright red as she'd turned to face a really angry Magnus and a now amused Alwyn, mostly at how angry Magnus gets when new people come near Anni.
