help //m.c.\\

chapter fourteen

         The house has gotten no work done on it whatsoever since we've been here. Four hours. Five of us. What the hell? I walk back into my room and grab my speaker and take it to the living room. I plug my phone in and look for a song to play. Let Me Love You by Mario starts to play and all of the boys just look at me.

"What the fuck is this shit?" Luke asks me with a confused look on his face.

"One of my favorite songs. You should've known that. Now get your ass up and clean please." They all groan, but Ashton gets up and follows me to the kitchen to get the stuff we need. When the chorus of the song comes on, Ash grabs my hips and sings along to the song slowly dancing to the music.

"Get a room!" Calum yells and throws a pillow at us. The next song was my one of my mom's favorite songs and the playlist I had playing was something these boys would have to get used to.

"Gotta change my answering machine, now that I'm alone. Cause right now it says that we can't come to the phone." I sing along to the song.

"Its ridiculous." Cal sings along. I guess two boys know what good music is.

        I didn't realize how long it took to clean one room. There was so much left to do and it looked sorta clean. Michael had done nothing besides complain, Ash followed me around not doing much, I have no clue were Luke went, Calum was the only one who actually helped me.

"Screw this. I think we should just bulldoze the house over so we don't have to clean it." I sat down finally sitting down.

"If we do that, we'll have to clean up what is left over from the house and that will take longer." Calum states.

"Where is Luke? He disappeared a while ago."

"I think he went to go sleep in your room." Michael says

"That fucker." I get up and walk to my room to see Lucas curled up into a ball sleeping. I go into the kitchen and fill up a glass of cold water.

"Teegan, that's going to piss him off."

"Okay. I'm still going to do it, so there is no point in telling me to stop." He should've helped us clean more. Michael sprints into the room with his phone pointed at me pouring the full glass on Luke.

"WHAT THE FUCK! SHIT THATS SO COLD!" Luke screams and jumps up almost falling off the bed. All of the boys are laughing hysterically. He looked at me and glared.

"Teegan? What the fuck?"

"Get your ass up and help us clean."

"You're not my mom so I don't have to do what you say." I laughed at his stupidity.

"Fine. I'll just go get Liz and tell her that you-"

"Fine! Fine, I'll help." He said giving in. I smirked and walked out of the room.

      I eventually got all of the boys to help me clean and we got most of it done. Right now, we were sitting in the middle of the floor trying to think of something else to do other than clean. Hamlet ran up to me and laid down on my lap.

"Why did you want a dog Teegan?" Luke questions.

"I never had a pet when I was younger and my mom told me that she would eventually get me one, but she never did. My other mom got it for me." I said bringing Hamlet up to my chest, cuddling him.

"I love dogs a lot." Cal said.

"You've made that clear." Ashton giggled.

"I'm bored." Michael said dragging out the D.

"What should we do?" Luke asked him.

"I have old bikes in the garage. We can take those out for a spin."

"Please lets do anything, I just want to get out of this house."  Ash said jumping up. We went to the garage and it was dusty as fuck. There were dead bugs all over the place and spider webs everywhere.

"You can go get them Ash." I pointed to the old bikes.

"Why can't you go get them?"

"Because I told you to go get them."

"You suck. I don't like bugs." He rolled out each bike one by one. They were bikes styled from like the 1970's. I chose the yellow one because it looked the coolest. Ash and Luke fought over the blue one and Luke ended up with a green one. Hamlet ran along with us and I could tell he was enjoying it. We rode down to the back roads and I didn't ever realize how pretty it was down here.

"Fuck!" I heard Mike screech from behind me. I stopped and saw that he had fallen off of the bike and clutching his knee. His pants had a hole in that spot and he was bleeding. It wasn't a very big cut, but it probably hurt like a bitch.

"Oh get up you pussy." Ashton said pulling up next to him.

"Shut up Ashton." I said shoving him and helping up Michael.

"Look! A turtle!" Luke yelled excitedly. He got off of his bike and went to go pick it up.

"Can we take him with us?" He asked.

"How will we carry him?" He shrugged and just sat him down.

"Oh! I have a sharpie. We can write on his back and if we see him again, we'll know who he is." Luke said writing the date down and naming it 'Turt'.  He is such a dork.

          We rode for a little while longer until it got dark. Liz had called wondering where we were. Before we drove back into town, I wanted to sit and watch the sun go down. I stopped and sat on a big rock with Hamlet by my side. Michael came over and laid his head on my shoulder.

"Its so pretty."

"Yeah, you are. I mean it is."

"What did you just say?"

"I, uh, I said it was pretty." He said awkwardly. I giggled and laid down on the rock.

"We better go. My mom is going to be freaking out." Luke said holding a hand out for me to get up.

"I don't want to leave." I stuck out my bottom lip.

"C'mon Teegan, we gotta go."  I sighed and got up. The ride back was fun and fast. Ash was telling us cheesy jokes the whole way home and his laugh is the most freaking adorable thing ever. We laid the bikes down by the porch of Luke's house. Jack and Ben were home too. Hamlet wouldn't go see them though. He stayed by my side.

"Luke have you started packing?" Liz asked.

"Nope and I don't plan to do it any time soon." I just realized that we hadn't gone to school in months. It doesn't affect me to much because I hate that place anyways.

"We leave this week Lucas. You need to start packing. Boys have you started?" They all shook their heads. Liz sighed and mumbled something none of us could hear.

"I'll help them pack. I promise it will be done before the end of the week." I said reassuringly. Oh boy, what a week this should be.