Ryan's POV
Why am I friends with these idiots?
This morning, Tristan texted me and asked if I wanted to go to the mall with him and the guys. I said yes for some stupid reason.
Tristan came and picked me up this morning, and we drove together to the mall while the others met us there.
The mall is moderately busy.
"Where are the guys?" I ask Tristan who shrugs.
"I'll call 'em."
"Good idea." I tell him sarcastically. He smiles at me and pulls out his phone. I look around the mall while he waits for one of them to answer.
"Hey Sam… were here… where are you?" Tristan nods and hangs up the phone. "Come on, there at Target."
Tristan leads me to the other side of the mall to the Target. We walk in and head towards the baby aisle.
"Why are they in the baby stuff?"
"I have no idea." I shake my head suddenly wanting to go home.
We walk up and down the aisles, trying to find them. We eventually find them in the crib section. I first see Zach lying in a crib on his phone like he's in his room.
I see Sam and Axel standing around talking normally. We walk over, and Sam and Axel greet us.
"Hey guys." Tristan says, giving them both a bro hug.
"Why is Zach in a crib?" I ask to get straight to the point.
"It's actually comfortable." He tells me not to answer the question.
"Okay, I would assume so, but why are you in it?"
"Why aren't you?"
"Cause we are in a store, and I'm not stupid enough to get a display crib in the mall." I told him.
"Well, my mom told me to test how comfortable they are for my sister."
"You have a sister?" I asked him since he never mentioned having one before.
"I will in 5 months."
He stands up in the crib and holds his arms out like a toddler. Sam steps closer. Zach puts his stand on his shoulders, and Sam wraps his hand around his legs and lifts.
"Your mom's pregnant?"
"No, she's like 50. She's adopting a baby, but the mom is still pregnant." He explains while Sam is holding him.
"Cool. Um, where is lucas?"
"He was here a second ago." The three idiots look around, coming up empty.
"Let's go find him." I sigh and walk away from letting them follow me.
We walked around for a bit, not finding him.
"Can one of you call him, please."
"I got you, ryan." I hear Sam tell me. I only throw a thumbs up toward them.
"Hey man, where are you?... OK, stay there, we'll meet you. He's at Victoria Secrets."
I literally stop walking and turn towards him.
"Wh-why?"
"He didn't say."
"Let's go before he gets arrested." We all leave Target and head towards the lingerie store.
We make it there and walk I side to find Lucas standing in the corner flirting with one of the workers.
"You gonna buy anything, ryan?" Axel throws his arm around me.
"In your dreams." I tell him, but as I look around waiting for Lucas, I see they are having a sale, and there are some cute things. I'll come back tomorrow on my own.
Lucas comes a few seconds later with a shit eating grin.
"Got her number." I shake my head while the guys all congratulate him.
"Where else should we go?"
"Food court." We all agree to Zach's idea and head to the food court.
"What are you getting?" Tristan asks me as the others desert us for food.
"I was thinking about making a pretzel. I'm not really hungry."
"Same. Let's go."
We walk over together while we wait. He asks me what I'm getting. The pretzel place they have has a lot of pretzel and sauce options.
"A salted pretzel with cheese."
"Nice." It's Tristan's turn. He grabs my hand and drags me with him as he orders. He orders himself a salted pretzel with garlic butter. I hear him order a salted pretzel with cheese as well.
The cashier asks him if he wants any drinks.
"Ryan, do you want a drink?" He asked me. I shake my head, and he tells the guys no and hands him his card.
"Your order will right out." Tristan drags me away.
"Did you just order me my food and pay for it?" I ask, knowing the answer.
"Yeah." He nods and smiles at me.
I shake my head, and we wait for our food. When the guy calls Tristan's name, he goes over and gets the tray, and we walk over to a table that can fit us all.
We sit down first, obviously. Tristan gives me my pretzel and cheese, and we eat and wait for the others to get over here. Lucas and Zach come over first with Mongolian grill. Sam comes next with the subway. Axel sits down last with pizza, a pretzel, a smoothie, and ice cream.
I stare at him when he starts to eat.
"What?" He asks with his mouth full of food.
"How are you not obese?" Axel is the easiest of them. None of them are overweight in any way, but most of the guys are more muscular except Axel. He's more of a workout to maintain hue health than being bulky.
"Fast metabolism." He continues to eat. We all made small talk and decided that we d9ne at the mall. Tristan takes me home.
He waits in his car until I get I side before driving away.
"Hey guys." I greet Levi and Milo before going up to my bedroom. I stay up there on my phone until dinner.
"Girls with your birthday coming up, what do you want to do?" Dad asks us.
"Doesn't matter. We've never really done stuff for our birthdays." Ruby explains to them. Every year on our birthday, we kinda just hung out at the house trying to avoid our mom.
"Well, we always do a party, so I was thinking we could do one this year and re announce you are all back." Dad introduces his idea.
We all look at each other before nodding.
"That could be fun."
"Perfect Jess, how bout you start planning it. And girls start thinking about anything you want and who you want to incite."
"K." We all go to bed . I stay up a little texting the guys in the group chat about the random thoughts and ideas they have.
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Bertinelli Family
General FictionWhen a mother took her quadruplets away from their older siblings and father to never see them again. The four grow up not knowing anything about their family only confirming their thoughts about their family when their mother has an accident. Ever...
