He's My Romeo

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

I anxiously bounced on my heels at Ricky's doorstep the next day, mentally debating whether or not the ring the doorbell. I heard loud bursts of laughter from inside the house, and I immediately knew that Ricky's friends were all there.

Including Connor.

The very thought of him made my stomach ingnite into a frenzy of butterflies, though I had only met him yesterday. There was something.. charming about him, that I couldn't necessarily put my finger on.

After what seemed like forever of mentally arguing with myself, I rang the doorbell and a melodious chime sounded. I heard a few screams from inside, and I inwardly laughed and rolled my eyes at my best friend and his friends. 

I heard faint scrambling from inside and the green painted door pryed open to reveal the one boy that had been on my mind since yesterday.

Connor Franta, with a lopsided grin gracing his lips. 

I brushed my curly hair out of my eyes before smiling up at him. "Hey," I greeted, hoping that he didn't notice my voice wobbling a little. 

"Hey, Juliet," he greeted, with a slight stutter. I giggled before allowing myself in, only to be greeted with a burst of shocking water in my face.

Taking a moment to fully realize what just happned, I blinked between Ricky, Ricardo, and Jc, who all were stupidly holding buckets of water balloons and laughing their guts out. My hazel eyes narrowed at the band of idiots before I turned to Connor, who I could tell was holding back a laugh.

"Water balloon fight!" announced Jc, now pelting a balloon in Connor's direction. Connor ducked and the water splashed against the door frame.

"Connor's on my team!" I declared, taking one of the buckets of water balloons and dragging Connor through the hallway as the three goofballs burst into obnoxious laughter.

"What?" said Connor, dumbfounded as I pulled him along.

"Late reaction much.." I muttered with a giggle. 

Somehow, we found ourselves trapped in Ricky's closet, surrounded by an overwhelming amount of shoes and t-shirts. "Okay, so I'll go down the right hall and you go down the left and we'll meet back here," I announced, and Connor nodded in response.

"Let's do it!" he snatched a handfull of waterballoons and charged down the hall, but not before stopping in the doorframe and calling back, "Good luck, Juliet." with a wink.

I grinned and carried the remaining water balloons in my hands as I crept down the hall. I didn't hear any noise, which was strange since there were four teenage boys lurking throughout the house. 

Suspicious.

I continued to stalk down the hall until I heard a loud 'whoop' from somewhere near, followed by a splash of chilled water against my back.

I let out a strange sort-of strangled squeal as water trickled down my shirt, which thankfully wasn't white. That would've let to quite an awkward position as I was in a house crowded with teenage boys. 

I spun around on my heel only to see Ricky standing behind me, a mischevious grin plastered on his face.

And boy, I just wanted to smack that grin right off of him.

I immidiately started pelting water balloon after water balloon in his direction, but sadly my aim wasn't very 'praise worthy' and most of the time I ended up soaking the floor behind him.

"Oh it's on, Ri--" called a familiar voice from behind Ricky, soon followed by a loud thud against the wood floor and a chorus of laughter from Jc and Ricardo, who came to a stop around the boy sprawled on the floor.

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"Oh my gosh, Connor, I'm so sorry," my cheeks flushed pink as I apologized for the billionth time about getting the floor wet behind Ricky.

Connor's signature lopsided grin formed on his face as he shook his head. "Don't worry about it Juliet," he laughed. "And anyways, it wasn't your fault. I was running to fast, and I should've seen it coming." He tossed me a towel from Ricky's bathroom closet and I thanked him with a smile while draping it over my shoulders.

"Fine," I groaned. "But to make up for it, I'll get you an Arizona." 

Once we were all dried off, we situated ourselves along the couch with an overload of Arizonas and potato chips scattered across the coffee table. The boys all showed me a few of their YouTube videos, and I have to admit, they were absolutely hilarious. 

Especially Connor's, who would turn red every time they played his video.

In a way it was.. cute?

Yeah, maybe that was the word.

My generic ringtone sounded from the pocket of my jeans, and I immediately fished it out and clicked "answer" without bothering to check the Caller ID. My mom's voice came from the other line; motherly and level, with a hint of irritance. She claimed to have called me about three times, and that she got particularly worried when I accidently answered from my pocket and all she heard were screams from the water balloon fight.

After re-assuring my mom that everything was under control, I turned to the boys and said, "I've got to go, mother calls." 

And at that moment I could've sworn, Connor's usual sparkly green-blue eyes dulled a little, but maybe I was just imagining it. Ricky, Ricardo, Jc, and Connor all walked me to the door and gave me loose goodbye hugs and casual, "see you later"s and returned to watching old YouTube videos and drinking Arizonas, but Connor lingered. 

"I'll see you soon, right?" 

"Right," I smiled. A moment of silence passed between us where I didn't know what to say, and finally I nodded and threw him a small grin, which he gingerly returned before I swung open the door and walked out. 

It was safe to say I may have a little crush. 

omFG I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T UPDATE THIS IS 278940748 YEARS ACK

i'm sure lizzie wants to slap me right now bc i absolutely suck at updating. but hey, it's here right?! i really hope you all liked this chapter. c: thank you for reading, and pretty pretty please leave a comment down below and click that lovely vote button if you enjoyed this? or if you think connor franta is a sexual being of beauty. either or.

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