Default Title - Write Your Own

eight

Fortunately, the landing was quite large so fit all of us in. Jimmy opened the door that he was going to be my room and I was astounded of how nice it actually was. It was themed like the rest of the house with the dark flooring and light walls. There was a bed in the corner, a wardrobe and a mirror on the wall but that was about it furniture wise. There were boxes all over the place though, on the bed, on the floor all stacked up and it was a little dusty, I guess that's when they meant when they said 'sort out' the room.

"Geez when was the last time any of us came in here?" Zacky wondered, poking his head round the door.

"Probably when we first put the boxes in there." Jimmy shrugged.

"What even is all this crap and why do we have it?" Brian asked as he climbed over some boxes into the room.

"I've got an idea of what..." Zacky claimed as he starred at Jimmy and climbed over some boxes to join Brian. He then quickly opened up one of the boxes. "Just what I thought." He smirked and held up the contents of the box – it was a tom drum.

"Oh shit yeah I forgot I think there's another whole set in here!" Jimmy yelled excitedly as he stepped over the boxes, not needing to climb like the other, and began ripping them open like it was Christmas.

"Right so where's this all gonna go?" Brian wondered, pointing around the masses and cardboard.

"Well I can add all these to my drum kit in the music room or I can take some down to my one at Matt's." Jimmy said but then paused. "But this isn't all gonna be mine, we've gotta look through them first."

"No, what we've got to do is clear this room." Zacky snapped back.

"Sure whatever mom." Jimmy sniggered and hopped back over the boxes to join me. "You guys pass, I'll put them out here and in some rooms and Ana if you don't mind could you go through some?" Jimmy asked and I nodded.

"Bri go help Ana, don't need you in here as well as me causing havoc." Zacky insisted and Brian just shrugged and re-joined me on the landing.

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It must've been at least an hour. Not because there was too much to do or get through, mainly because we all were messing around the whole time and procrastinating getting anything done. Just the more time that went on, the more comfortable I felt with them.

In most of the boxes, it was just drum things which we had piled it in Jimmy's room and at the top of the stairs, leaving just enough space to squeeze past. In some other boxes, we found whiskey that Brian said he'd out away and completely forgot about and in others just small contents of furniture and other crap.

"That was the last one!" Zacky yelled, gesturing around the now clear and clean room and like I'd observed before, it didn't look too bad.

"Yeah but now there's empty boxes and boxes of crap everywhere." Jimmy sighed. "WAIT! I have an idea!" Jimmy yelled and started pushing as many empty boxes as he could manage down the stairs so they were at the bottom of the stairs. He then ran down after them and pushed them into the living room. And that was the last of it.

"Um... okay..." Brian shrugged. We decided for now to just equally share out the spare boxes with the junk in between our rooms and see if Matt, Val or Michelle wanted any of it before we threw it all out.

Just as we finished doing that, a phone started ringing. I looked around confused but realised it was just Brian's mobile as he slipped it out his pocket and swiftly answered it. There were a few "yeah," and "okay," from him then a bye and the line went dead.

"Val, Matt and Michelle are on their way over." Brian announced. It then hit me that this would be the first time seeing Michelle since I left. I didn't remember much about her, I only knew she was Val's sister and she had once been with Brian from what Val told me.

"Convenient." Zacky shrugged and then grabbed what little was left of his beer and went downstairs.

"So what now?" I asked putting my hands on my hips. I saw him subconsciously lick his lips slightly and look me up and down without moving his head but I just ignored it. Before Brian could answer, Zacky was shouting us from downstairs.

"Guys, I think you better come see this!"

Brian and I looked at each other in confusion then made our way downstairs. Zacky was standing in the doorway hall with the arms crossed looking into the living room with a strange look on his face. "Someone kick him out already." Zacky said nonchalantly, shaking his head, just aloud in general. Brian and I looked into the living room and just saw the pile of empty boxes, adding to our confusion.

That was until Jimmy popped his head over the edge of some of the boxes, emerging from the middle of it.

"I made a fort!" He announced proudly with a childish smile. Brian and I both started giggling. He had his one hand over his face and turned to Zacky.

"Yeah he definitely needs to go." Brian laughed and Zacky nodded in agreement.

"I wanna join!" I exclaimed, throwing my arms up in the air, bringing a bigger smile to Jimmy's face as I joined in with is childish attitude. He moved over as I found an opening at the back of the 'fort' and crawled in, bringing my head the stick out over the boxes like Jimmy.

"Come on you two have to be in the fort to!" Jimmy yelled, beckoning them over.

"Yeah I'm okay." Zacky laughed and shook his head.

"Brian?" I asked, cocking my eyebrow at him.

"Nah I'll stick with Zacky." He scrunched up his nose and started to head toward the kitchen.

"I took all the beer so don't try looking in there!" Jimmy announced as he pointed to a big box of beer he had stolen from the kitchen. Brian rolled his eyes and come up the edge of the fort, holding out his hand.

"Hand one over." He asked but Jimmy shook his head.

"It's for fort members only." Jimmy raised his eyebrows and sat back down so he was no longer visible to Brian and I did the same.

"Come on, Anastasia will you pass me up one?" He asked, looking over the edge of the boxes.

"Nope, it's up to the leader." I giggled and crossed my legs. Brian sighed before giving in and started crawling through the gap I had which was proven more difficult for him because he was much taller than me.

"God Jim how the hell did you get him here?" He asked and he finally managed to take a seat amongst the boxes without knocking them over.

"I didn't I built it around me." Jimmy shrugged and ripped open the box of beer, handing one to each of us.

"Hey, shouldn't we save some for Matt, Val and Michelle?" I wondered.

"Well yeah but they're not having any unless they get in here too." Jimmy remarked quickly.

"There's no way all 8 of us will fit in here." Brian scoffed and took a sip of his drink.

"9 if Johnny brings his girl." Jimmy corrected him. I looked around and saw Brian was right, there was probably just enough room for Zacky in here as well as us, let alone another 5 people.

I started to think about what it would be like with all 9 of us here. If it would be awkward or we'd got along fine. It was Michelle really that bugged my mind the most. What if she didn't like me? What if she was offended that I barely remembered her but I did partially remember Val?