A Christmas Love Story (Ricky Garcia)

Chapter 2 - Joby's niece

Ricky's P.O.V.

Me and the boys were in the studio with Joby. We were going through our schedule of gigs that we were having before Christmas and also practised abit. After a while Joby had to go and do something important but he told us that he'd be back in an hour. Me, Emery and Liam stayed in the studio and talked with our fans abit on twitter as it was #talk2metuesday today. We talked to the fans for quite a long time and then we talked abit before Joby came back. As soon as Joby came through the door I noticed that he wasn't alone. Behind him came a teenage girl around my age with hair that ended a bit after her shoulders and was darker at the roots and then got lighter and lighter further down (see the pic above) and bright blue eyes. Even though her hair was up in a messy bun, she had no make up on and she wore sweatpants and a hoodie she were so beautiful. I couldn't take my eyes of her and neither could Emery. Everytime I liked someone he'd like her too and the girl would always pick him. I guess it wouldn't be any different this time. Joby introduced her as his niece Zoe and she said hi. We then continued to talk and finished by practising our new christmas song Celebrate for the gig tomorrow. I glanced over at Zoe a few times. She were listening to something in her own headphones. All of a sudden she took them off and said to Joby that she wanted to go out and take some air. I watched her walk out through the door and I then finished singing the song with the guys. As I was done I said that I needed to go to the bathroom. I opened the door and walked out.

The first thing I heard when I stepped outside to the hallway was someone saying.

""I miss you mom... please come back to me...."

I heard sobbing and there a few meters away was Joby's niece. She were sitting on the floor and leaned back on the wall. She was crying and seemed broken. I slowly made my way over to her.

"Hi... are you okay?" I asked carefully.

Zoe looked up and right at me. She wiped her cheeks and shook her head. I slowly sat down next to her.

"Do you want to talk about it? I mean it's okay if you don't, you don't know me and... " I said.

"Have you ever lost someone really close to you?" She said in the cutest british accent.

"Not really, or we'll my dog Bruno died about half a year ago which was really sad..." I said.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that..." She said.

"Eh it's okay... I mean he still lives on in my heart and he always will" I said.

"My mom will too...." She said.

"Your mom? Is she..." I said.

"Dead? Yeah... since a week ago. Some stupid man decided to drive when he was drunk and hit my mom who were walking home from a dinner with her friends..." She said and a tear fell down her cheek.

"Oh... I'm so sorry to hear that... I can imagine how hard it must be. I don't know what I'd do if I lost my mom..." I said.

"I still can't believe it, that she's not here anymore and that she'll never see me graduating from high school, get married or get kids. It was hard enough growing up without a dad... Now I have no parents at all and the fact that it's christmas soon and I should be happy makes it hundred times worse. I usually love everything about christmas and now I'm not in the holiday mood at all..." She said while crying her heart out.

"It's okay to be sad even if it's almost christmas. I mean you've lost someone you love and it takes time to heal. I'm sure your mom will watch all of your big moments in life from the sky. Just like my dog Bruno, she'll always be with you inside of your heart and I'm sure she'd want you to continue to live your life and be happy." I said and looked at her.

"You're right... she'll always be with me and watch over me like a guardian angel..." She said and wiped her tears.

"Yeah... she will... I need to get back to the other's now. They are probably wondering were I am..." I said.

I stood up and looked at her one more time. There was something special about her, I knew that. As I turned around to walk back to the studio I lost my balance and tripped. I fell to the floor and heard someone burst into laughter. I turned my head to see a laughing Zoe.

"Sorry I shouldn't laugh but that just looked so funny" She said while dying of laughter.

I couldn't help but smile and joined in on her laughter while laying on my back on the floor. I made her laugh, I actually made her laugh.

"There you are Ricky, we've waited for you for ages and what's so funny out here?" I heard Joby's voice say.

I calmed myself down and sat up. In the door to the studio Joby stood with Liam and Emery behind him.

"Sorry I saw Zoe out here and we kinda started to talk" I said.

"I can see that, but you made her smile which she hasn't done since the accident so that's good" Joby said and smiled.

"He's a great listener and advicer. Also he's really clumsy and fell which looked so funny" Zoe said and chuckled.

"Yeah very fun" I said sarcastically while I got eye contact with Zoe who smiled really bright.

"Well that's Ricky, he's a great guy. I'm happy that you two gets along" Joby said.

I looked over at the boys and noticed that Emery didn't looked that happy. Is he jealous of me because I made Zoe smile? What if it won't be the same this time. I might actually win over him and get the girl. I really hope so.