Friends? / A Romeo Beckham Fanfic

chapter 7

The last few days at the Beckham residence consisted of lounging around and watching TV with Cruz. Cruz is the only friend I've made here- he's the most down-to-earth and really nice and caring. We laugh at the lamest things, such as Spongebob and watch funny YouTube videos together. As for Romeo, all he wants to do is stay in his isolated room, never really coming out to talk to us. Brooklyn's really nice too and we've done a lot of mucking around together, but most of the time he's out with his friends, or Chloe.

"Jayde! Come! Play FIFA with me!" Cruz shouts from his bedroom. I peer out of my door and see Cruz holding up two Xbox controllers. "Come and help me open some packs!"

I take my iPhone off the charger and put it in my pocket.

"Coming Cruz!"

I walk down the hallway to Cruz's bedroom. I plonk down on his bed and stare at the ceiling. "Got any good players?"

He switches his Xbox on and scrolls through his players. "My best is Man of the Match Messi, but I bought him with my coins. My best I've packed is TOTY Robben." Cruz hands me an Xbox controller with a purple ribbon at the bottom. "I've heard the Team of the Season players and 100k packs have come out. Apparently the pack luck is good. Wanna open the first one for me?" I give Cruz a slight nod. I stared at his money at the top of the screen.

"How did you get 10 mil coins?" I ask, flabbergasted at the big amount.

"Oh you know, I save up my pocket money to get them."

I scroll to the promo packs and spot the black 100k pack. Oh my. It looks so beautiful. I press A to open the pack and wait for it to load up. Suddenly I feel a vibration from my pocket. I take out my phone revealing text messages from my friend Kayden. I didn't have many girl friends from my high school, I mostly stuck around the boys and played soccer with them.

Kay: Jaydey! Miss you TEXT ME

Jayde: Miss you too. GUESS WHO IS IN THE BECKHAM MANSION ;))))))

Kay: JEALOUS STOP PLS ur so mean omf

Jayde: So, how are ya? 

Kay: Good. School's great. Ale's back. :(

Jayde: oh. hahahaha good luck xxx ;)))

Kay: yeah like she's my fave person in the entire world ya know, I just loveee her

Jayde: Kay, you'll be fine, trust me you idiot. ;)

I smile down at my phone as I read Kayden's texts. Ale's is the Queen Bee of our grade. She hates me, because I always hang out and are friends with the boys. Well, let's say she's jealous of me, and tries to put me down with rude remarks, because she wants to make all the boys drool over her. Luckily when she does make rude remarks, I have a whole army of soccer guys to protect me from her.

"What ya looking at?" Cruz stares don at my bright phone screen. "Who's 'Kay'?"

"Kay? Oh, that's just my contact name for one of my friends, Kayden," I reply, smiling at him.

"Boyfriend?" he asks, a smirk growing on his face. "Oh, Jayde has a boyfriend!" 

I laugh at Cruz's remark and stare down at my feet. "He's my best friend, not my boyfriend."

"Whatever you say. Anyway the FIFA pack's opened."

I scroll through the pack contents. Nothing that good. The best we got was David Luiz, who's 82 rated.

"You said we had good pack luck!" I laugh, shaking Cruz.

"Well you ain't have any luck!" Cruz chuckles. "I'm gonna open a pack and I bet you that I'm gonna get much better contents."

He opens another one of the 100k packs and waits for it to load. We waited for a few minutes, just staring at the screen.

"Why is it so slow and laggy?" Cruz asks, to no one in particularly. "It's been like 2 minutes."

We just sat there in silence, but then Cruz speaks up in a voice, barely a whisper.

"Romeo doesn't seem to be talking to any of us. Do you know what's wrong?"

Romeo and I haven't been on the best of terms at the moment. He's mostly been isolated in his room, not really wanting to socialise. And that night when we had that little chat session with the 3 brothers and I, we seemed fine. He seems to be trying to avoid everyone, I don't know why.

"To be honest, I don't. Was it me that did anything wrong?" I ask nervously. "Or does he always act like this?"

Cruz just shrugs his shoulders. " He doesn't always act like this. He's usually happy and jolly and playing soccer outside. I don't know what's gotten into him."

"Maybe you should talk to him?" I suggest. Cruz shakes his head.

"No, I can't. I tried talking to him five times in the last two days and Brooklyn tried to talk to him too. He just rejected us. Maybe you should go Jayde. You're our last hope," he sighs.

"But Cruz, won't I just make it worse? I doubt he wants to talk to me. If he rejects his brothers, why would he want to talk to the new girl in the Beckham mansion?" I point out.

"Don't you see Jayde? You're going to be modelling with my bro for Burberry. Maybe you should try to get to know him better and at least try to talk to him. Everyone else has failed. Can you at least try and put in an effort?" Cruz says, looking at me with his best puppy dog eyes. Well, they didn't really look like puppy dog eyes; more like he was constipated. I couldn't help but let out a small chuckle.

"Ok then Cruzy. Do you want me to go now?"

"Well the FIFA pack hasn't opened yet, so you better rush out now. Good luck," he says, grinning. I give him a hug and pat him on the back.

"I'll be back soon," I salute him, before running down the hallway to Romeo's room.