A Friend Of The Flames

CHAPTER THREE

As we were driving I started to realize that I was sitting, in a car, with my IDOL... Holy fucking shitttttttt. I started to rearrange my appearance once again. I adjusted my beanie and messily waved hair, I wiped under my eyes in case of mascara running. Etc etc.

"I like the beanie." He said.

"Haha of course you would. Its your team." We both laughed.

"I don't wanna sound, stalkerish or anything but I, uh. I saw you give money to some girl. Down at Olympic Plaza." He said shyly. I instantly felt super awkward. He probably thought I was dealing drugs or something. I decided to keep quiet.

"Who was she." He said quietly as he looked over at me.

"Oh. Uh. She's my sister. She doesn't live at home and she struggles to get by so I just give her some money to help her out.

"Oh. That's nice of you." He responded. Soon enough we were cracking jokes to kill the awkward silence.

We pulled up to a nice ass townhouse. I followed him up to the door and right when we walked in I was in awe. His place was so fucking niceeee. I mean, huge TV. New furniture. Marble countertops, you get the idea.

I let my eyes wander for a few seconds before Johnny spoke up.

"You can just put your bag anywhere and take off your shoes." I smiled at him and did exactly that.

"Fancy housee" I joked and he laughed.

I sat down at the couch as he brought us each a bottle of water. "Video games?" He asked.

"Hell yeah mate." I said opening the dasani bottle. He even has fancy water.

He started up Nhl 15 and We played for about half an hour and naturally he was kicking my ass. I finally got a lead and I was ecstatic "HELL YEAH COME AT ME BRO." lets just say I'm quite the shit talker and Johnny could barely handle himself with his laughing.

"Keep laughing like that and I'm gonna win this game." I said as the horn sounded. "Or maybe not."

At that my phone started ringing from a call from my mom. "Excuse me." I said standing up and walking to the hall.

"Hello?"

"Hey aspen. When are you gonna be home?"

"Um I'm not sure I'm at uh, a friends house"

"Oh okay. Just let me know what's happening"

I walked back to the couch where Johnny still was.

"Josh and Sean are coming home soon. Maybe I could drive you home now?" He said.

I didn't want to go. This was fun.
"Yeah." I smiled grabbing my bag as we headed out the door.

I played the music on the drive to my house but the whole time all I could think of was why did it matter if Josh and Sean were coming over? Did he not want them to meet me or something? I shook it off as we pulled up to my moms driveway.

Johnny handed me his phone. "Gimme your number and we can hang out again sometime." I smiled and typed in my contact.

"Bye. Thanks for the ride." I said as I got out and walked into our small house. We live in one of those square houses with four apartments. We've lived here for a while now and I still don't know what it's called.