Hitch Hiking • WHY DON'T WE [#1]

eleven

I sat in a beach chair overlooking the ocean. Despite the sun beating down on me I felt pretty relaxed. It's been a chaotic few days, from the Zach thing, to Corbyn straight up avoiding me, and Jack constantly making moves on Bea whenever Zach and I are around. It's starting to  get annoying.  

"Anslie, can we talk?" Zach asks not bothering to wait for a response as he sits next to me in the sand. I raise up in the chair and look at him, "What's up?" 

We've went along with the dating thing since Bea told everyone, in all honesty it was kind of dumb and it wasn't working. Bea doesn't like Zach and him "liking" me isn't going to change that. 

"I just wanted to apologize, you know, I see that you and Corbyn aren't really talking anymore and I can't help but feel like that's my fault. If you want we can 'break up' in front of everyone or somethi-" 

"You guys, look! It's my new ship, Zanslie!" Jack and Bea come darting down towards Zach and I. Jack had his phone out and was broadcasting. 

My eyes widen as does Zach's. 

"Hey, why don't y'all do something cute for the broadcast?" Bea mentions. 

I shake my head, "come on, you guys! The fans wanna see y'all kiss." She says shoving Jack's phone in my face so I can see all the comments.

Majority of them were wanting Zach and I to kiss. 

Zach looks over at me and I look away. "No way." 

Jack and Bea then proceed to pressure me into kissing Zach, fans had even started to tweet to us about it. 

I glanced at Zach and frowned. Before I had time to think Zach quickly pressed his lips against mine and pulled away. It was short and simple. A blush crept onto my cheeks as I stood up from my chair. "Happy now?" I ask, trying to sound as light hearted as possible since they were live.

"Very." Bea smirks. 

Zach grabs my hand and drags me away, "Come on, babe." He says it loud enough to where Jack and Bea can hear.

Once we're inside Zach and I sit on the couch next to Zander who's watching TV. 

"If you guys are gonna start making out please let me leave first. Bea couldn't keep her tongue inside her mouth when she and Jack were in here." Zander shudders and looks over at Zach and I. I stare at my baby brother for a moment, anger building up inside me. Bea's my best friend, I know, but who does she think she is? Coming into my family's house and making out with some dude we allowed to stay here for a bit in front of my baby brother? That's not how this works. 

"Oh look, here they come." Zach mumbles as Jack and Bea walk hand in hand back inside the house. Bea was giggling about something and messing with Jack's hair, I look away from the pair and turn my attention back to my brother.

"Hey, Zan, wanna go get ice cream at the place down the street?" I ask. Zander jumps up from excitement. "Let's go!"

"Ooh, can I drive the golf cart?" Zach grins, standing up as well. "Not after last time." I respond.

I grab my brother's hand and tell my aunt where we're going.

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I park the golf cart in front of the little ice cream shop and help Zander out of it. Zach holds the door open for us as we enter. Compared to outside in the heat the shop felt amazing. 

We go in, order, and find a seat. Zach sits across from Zander and I.

After a few minutes of us eating our ice cream, Zander lets out a small burp and announces that he's finished. I roll my eyes and shake my head. "That's disgusting." 

Zander pokes his tongue out at me before staring at Zach with a serious expression. 

"Do you like my sister?"

Zach looks taken aback as he looks to me for help. I shrug. 

"As a friend." He says slowly. Zander stands up in his chair which is one of those chairs that spin kind of so I grab ahold of him and pull him back down so he doesn't fall. 

"You don't like my sister but you're dating her?" 

"Zan, chill buddy, it's complicated." I calm him. Zander looks at me with narrow eyes and speaks, "Then why are y'all dating?" 

"We're not, actually." I inform him. My brother looks as if his mind had just been blown, "What?"

"We're not dating. I just said we were to make Bea jealous since Jack's only dating her to make your sister jealous." Zach says. I sigh and lean my head on my hand. "He's nine, Zach, I don't know if he knows what all that means." 

"Wait, Anslie, you like Jack?" Zander asks amazed. I shake my head, "Nooo, no I do not." 

"I'm so confused." Zander frowns. 

"I like Bea, but she likes Jack. Jack likes Anslie but Anslie doesn't feel the same, I guess she likes Corbyn." Zach winks at me, I go to protest but he continues, "And Jack wanted Anslie to like him back so he got with her best friend, Bea, because he thought maybe that would make Anslie jealous but it didn't, it only made me jealous. So, I was upset and went to talk with your sister because I didn't know who else to speak to, we ended up falling asleep and Bea walked in on us asleep and started jumping to conclusions and I thought maybe I could make her jealous if I said I was with Anslie but it didn't work. She then broadcasted that we were together on Jack's live and we haven't had the chance to tell everyone we're not actually dating." 

Zander stared at Zach as if he was trying to process everything that he had just said. He sat there for a minute before he opened his mouth to speak.

"Yeah, I'm nine, I don't understand a word you just said."

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authors note

hey look another update bc this is a short chapter and i decided why not lol

so how are yall

also thanks for commenting and stuff that's pretty cool 

thx 4 reading bye

10/5/17