Coast to Coast: a House Fan Fic

Chapter Two

           

Everleigh and I both walk into our new apartment, mouths gaping open. I twirl in the living room a few times before collapsing on the floor and staring at the ceiling. Harper looks at me for a moment just taking my dramatics in.

            "You good," Everleigh asks.

            "Hmmmmm? Oh, yeah. I'm so good! Just in shock and a little like what the eff. It'll pass, just give it a minute," I mutter continuing to stare at the ceiling. After a minute I shoot up to my feet, "You guys! It just hit me! We're in freaking Los Angeles, California! How did we manage to make this happen? I'm so beyond happy we're all here! Harper, is this the place from your dream? Remember, you told us about the dream you had where we all lived together? Did it manifest like it usually does?"

            "Well, not exactly, but I'm not mad that we found this place. I can't believe were actually here! That's a premonition I'm so glad actually came true," she says with a giggle.

            After we have all chosen who gets what room and taken a quick tour of the apartment, I look at my phone, "Guys, the trucks should be here soon. Do you want to go sit by the pool until we get the text letting us know they're here?"

            "Yes, please," Everleigh says as she takes off down the hall, "I need some West Coast sun!" We all rush down to the pool and sit for a few minutes still gushing and trying to comprehend our new future as roommates.

            "Y'all, I just had the craziest idea," Harper says smacking her chair in excitement.

            "What is it," Everleigh and I ask almost in unison.

            "Well, I hope you don't think its stupid, but since I already have a channel, and Ev, you were talking about starting 'ForEverleigh and Always,' and Gracie, you mentioned always thinking about starting a channel, what if we all started a channel together? I think that would be so fun," Harper says with an apprehensive smile.

            Everleigh and I look at each other, thinking the whole idea over. "I'd be so down You'll have to teach me how to edit, so I can put in just as much work as you guys," I say with a sheepish grin, "We'd be like the girl version of O2L, or a smaller, more female version of The House. What would we call it?"

            Ev slowly nods her head, "Yeah, I could be into that. Let's table the name for now because I just got a text my truck is here."

            Harper and I check our phones and see we got similar texts. We all walk to the trucks parked out front of the building. We each begin hauling boxes off our trucks and put them onto wheelie carts. I begin pushing mine down the hall with the girls following behind.

            As we come around the corner and enter our hallway, I say, "Not to jinx myself, but no one ever lets me push the shopping cart because I always run into things, but so far so good."

            Just as I finish my sentence and make the corner into the homestretch, I see the boxes starting to sway on my cart. I quickly stop, trying to steady the boxes to prevent an avalanche, but I don't give Everleigh enough warning. My abrupt stop causes her to run over my heal with her cart, which, in turn, causes me to trip and fall into my cart. The boxes on my cart all go flying, and slam into the walls, while I land sprawled on the floor.

            "OOOOOOOOOOW! Son of a Monkey," I shout, once again forgetting the fact that we have neighbors.

            "Oh my God! Are you okay, Grace? I'm so sorry," Everleigh rushes to pick up the boxes as I check for blood. Luckily, I managed to make it out unscathed.

            "I'm good," I say as we all continue to restack my cart, "I knew I shouldn't have said anything." I continue with a chuckle. Just as I walk across the hall to pick up a box that crashed into the wall across from our place, the door opens. "Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I'm such a klutz. I totally didn't mean to disturb you," I babble out of instinct before looking at Everleigh and Harper's faces. I turn around to see the one and only Kian Lawley leaning against his door frame.