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Chapter 01 {By Ramey}

Rylie's POV

Neptune and I walk along the boardwalk. Her with a cone of birthday cake and chocolate ice cream, and I have a cone of mint chocolate chip.

"Hmm..." I try to think of a truth for our game of truth or dare. "Is it true that you stole one of my pins?" I ask.

She smirks as she pulls an All Time Low pin out of her pocket and hands it to me.

"I knew it!" I exclaim.

"Truth or dare, Rylie?" She asks after taking a lick of her ice cream.

"Um... dare, I suppose." I say and bite into the cone.

"Okay..I dare you to catch one of those pigeons." She says.

I hand Neptune my ice cream cone, and walk up to some pigeons that were eating an old churro.

I snatch at a pigeon and it jumps away.

I pick up the churro and throw it somewhere else.

I sneak up behind them again and pick up a pigeon with both hands.

It sits there calmly and it turns its head around to examine its surroundings.

"Take a picture!" I laugh.

Neptune pulls her camera out and snaps a picture of the pigeon and I.

"I wanna keep it." I say.

It pecks my fingers.

"OW! Nevermind" I set it down by the old churro.

"Okay, um...Truth or dare?" I ask

She hands my ice cream back.

"Dare." she says like she's ready for anything I throw at her.

I look around, examining my options.

My eyes land on four boys sitting around a table.

"I dare you to go sit on that table, the one with the four guys. Then start asking them what shampoo and conditioner they use. Five dollars if you hold one of their hands." I smirk.

She looks at the table and hands me her ice cream.

Neptune sits on their table and they all look up, confused, possibly even startled. Her cheeks turn a light shade of pink.

"Uh..can we help you?" One with light brown hair asks.

"Yeah. Uh. What shampoo and conditioner do you use in your hair?" She asks.

I try to contain my laughter at the guys' faces.

"Uh..Tressumé?" One with blonde hair says and I burst out laughing.

"I don't know." One with dark brown hair says.

"I use my mom's." One with dirty blonde hair answers.

"Hey can I ask a favor?" She says.

"I mean, why not." The dirty blonde hair boy says.

"Can you hold this?" Neptune asks, and I know what she's about to do.

"Uh sure, yeah." He puts his hand out.

She pretends to hold something and instead of setting something in his hand, she grabs his hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Woah, wait what?" He laughs.

The rest of the guys kind of Stare, confused.

"Okay bye gotta go" she says and jumps from the table and runs away.

We're both a laughing mess and we begin to walk home.

"Jeez bro you deserve this" I say, handing her a five dollar bill.

"No, I don't. All of those boys were hella cute and that one guy's hand was so soft." She laughs, pushing away my money.

I unlock the door to my house and we head to my room.

"Wanna watch some YouTube?" I ask.

"Yeah sure." She shrugs and sits down on the bed next to me.

I scroll through covers on my laptop.

"Wait a minute!" Neptune stops me.

"What?" I ask.

"That vid! That one! Click it!" She yells.

"Jesus calm down." I click on the video.

It's four guys doing a cover of Teenage Dirtbag by Wheetus.

Not just any four guys.

"It's...them" Neptune says.

"Oh my god they're in a band!" I laugh.

"That's fucking gold right there." Neptune laughs.

"Well, they're actually not that bad." I say.

"Yeah they just need to keep their vocals under control." Neptune says, probably referring to the blonde one, who keeps over-singing.

"Yeah you're right." I say.

We click on their channel name to reveal a few other videos. 5 Seconds of Summer.

We click on one that only has one with dirty blonde hair boy and light blonde hair boy.

"Hey, that's michael..." The dirty blonde haired one sighs. "I mean I'm Michael, this is Luke."

'Luke' laughs.

They begin to do another cover and it's really good.

"Rylie! Come here please!" My mom yells.

"Come with me" I say to Neptune and she nods.

We head downstairs to see my mom at the door.

"We have new neighbors." She smiles.

We walk to the door and my mom steps out of the way to reveal an older woman, a young girl, around 10, a boy that looks 8, and then him. HIM.

"Oh my god." I whisper.

"You..." He says, trailing off.

Me and Neptune look at each other.

"You're from earlier!" He exclaims.

"Okay, it was nice meeting you Mandi, I'll bring the kids around tomorrow." Their mom smiles.

"Bye!" My mom says and shuts the door.

"She seems nice." My mom smiles and walks away.

"OH MY GOD YOUR NEIGHBOR IS HIM! THE DRUMMER!" Neptune yells.

"Oh god this is gonna be fucking embarrassing." I laugh.

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Okay, this chapter is by hibyepiegirl_ . All chapters are edited by yours truly.

This is really good, Ramey!

-L💕