You're Family Now

Part 4

Gems pov-

Me and Vik walk a few more feet, just watching the boys play around and act like idiots but to be honest? I liked it, I liked seeing the innocence in people.

Vikk laughed at the boys stupidity then yelled "HEY! Dumbasses! Your gonna hurt yourselves!!!"  All of them froze and stared at Vikk like a deer in head lights then literally LOST it.

"VIKK!!!" They all cheered and shouted as they tackled him to the ground, causing me to giggle a little bit. Once the group stood up, they instantly got sucked into a conversation. I silently stood there staring at the ground, one of my arms crossed over my body as I held onto my elbow shyly. I'm not good with crowds at certain times and this is one of those times. I press my shoe into the ground and twist it, causing the grass to rip out of the ground. I basically zone out just listening to their conversation and feeling awkward. Out of the corner of my eye I see one in a light blue jersey notice me then tap on another ones shoulder who is wearing a white jersey.

"Aye Vikk?" The blue jersey says as the tall one walks over to me. I zone out of the conversation again and notice black soccer shoes in front of mine. I look up and tuck a stray hair behind my ear.

"I'm Simon." He says and extends his hand for me to shake it. I grasp his hand a shake it gently, "Gem." He laughs slightly, "I know, Vikk just said that."  I blush slightly, "Oh," I chuckle nervously "I wasn't paying attention." It came out softer than usual, when I'm not 'performing' and someone that I have never spoken to talks to me, I get VERY timid and shy.

I briefly look up again to examine his facial features. His hair was short and an odd redish-brown color. I couldn't quite tell the color of his eyes given the sun decided to be in the perfect position to create weird shadows. He had a kind of goofy grin and looked slightly awkward. Of course he was tall compared to me, even though I'm pretty tall for my age, he seemed to be about Lachlans height.

We both pull our hands back awkwardly and the others come up to us. I wave at everyone giving a shy smile. Everyone waves back and then someone with a RIDICULOUSLY funny and loud laugh, has a random laugh attack. 

"Awe, she's so adorable!" He laughs "she reminds me of a scared puppy!" I laugh at his comment and everyone else joins in after a moment of listening to me laugh. I quiet down my laugh just to hear theirs, they all sound so happy, not forced or anything like that just genuinely happy. A genuine smile takes its place on my face as we all quiet down from laughing.

"So," a black haired one starts " I'm Josh, you already said hi to Simon and know Vikk, these are Jj, Ethan, Toby and Harry." He introduces going down the line.

I look at Jj, "I've seen you before," I start "I watched one of your videos of you playing fifa."

"Oh really?" He asks, I nodd.

"Yup, you got like 3 of the worst players and lost your shit." I laugh and he laughs too. "And I've heard you all before," I gesture to everyone else besides Vikk, "You were playing GTA with Vikk." 

"And who won the most?" Toby asks.

"Well I think that you won one because Simon and Vikk decided to joke around and mess with Josh and then the second and third rounds Vikk won." I reply.

"Cause I'm fookin helmet boy mate!" Vikk says in some weird accent or something and we all laugh again.

"So.... what are we doing? I assume Vikk talked to you about me being in le video?" I ask.

"Yah he did, and we are doing.... actually, I don't fuckin know!" Ethan says laughing, causing Simon to facepalm. 

"We are doing some kind of speed test thing to see how hard you can kick the ball." Jj answers. I nod.