Arabella.

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/Arabella/

I had gotten lost on my way the Keaton's apartment so when I finally got there and got parked I ran all the way up to their house, despite the fact my sandals were not meant for me to be running in them.

Keaton must have been looking out for me because just as I appeared on his hallway I saw him standing outside his door looking. When he saw me jogging up to him he gave me the same big goofy smile.

"I got lost.." I said slowing down to a walk as we walked into a hug. "You really like hugging huh?" I said with a small laugh. 

"I just like hugging you." He said opening the door for me as I started to roll my eyes. He announced my presence and I was greeted by the two other boys who were sitting on the couch playing video games. 

"Hows my board coming?" Wesley said pausing the game and standing up to great me. 

Great, I actually took a picture of it do you want to see?" I said pulling my phone out of my small bag. I handed Wes my phone as he zoomed in on the detail of the sunset that still was in the process of drying for my dad to put finish on. 

"This is fucking amazing, excuse my mouth," He said putting an arm around me and giving me a hug. "You look just as good in a dress as you do in a bathing suit." Wes said making a funny face at me and tuggin at the bottom of my loose shirt dress and laughed. 

Wesley moved his hand from the bottom of the skirt to the necklace that hung low around my neck.

"Ive also been super curious about this." He said rubbing his thumb over the soft surface of the shell and the little gold star fish that worked as a charm. 

"My uh... A good friend of mine made it for me before he passed." I said remembering Kahiau, and taking the shell from Wesley.  Keaton was thinking the same thing but as to confirm he asked me is it was Kahiau. 

"Yeah. He died a few days after I told him we were moving here." I said making my mouth go into a straight line before taking a deep breath. 

"Lets talk about something different," Keaton said taking my wrist and pulling me towards the kitchen. "I'm making my world famous frozen pizza." He said giving me a toothy grin making me laugh. 

"I like your shirt by the way. Blink182 is one of my favorite bands." I said to Wesley before he went back to sit on the couch. I could tell he felt bad for bringing up Kahiau but it wasn't his fault and he needed to know he didn't make me too upset. The fact that I liked the band that was printed onto his shirt made his face light up.

"Whats your favorite song!" Keaton said sitting by me.

"Rock Show." I said smiling. "I used to have this water proof kit for my phone before I broke it and I'd always listen to it when I was surfing." I said smiling. 

"You are just way too cool Arabella." Wesley said as he plopped on the couch.

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"No, no you eat it! You eat it and its red!" Wesley said pointing at Keaton who had his phone pressed up against his head.

We sat around the kitchen eating our pizza and playing this game where you had to guess the word that was up on the screen of the phone, but you couldn't look at it. Id never heard of it  so the guys insisted that he had to play it.

"Is that a recording booth?" I said getting distracted as in one of the bedrooms I said a microphone. 

"Uh, Yeah kinda.." Keaton said standing up and in front of me as I moved to get a better look at it. 

"You don't know know Wes and Keaton are!" Tyler exclaimed clapping his hands and laughing as Keaton gave him a death stare.

"What! What don't I know about you?" I said looking at Keaton. This morning we had a pretty lengthy discussion over everything about our lives.

"Wes and I are kinda in a band, its nothing big." He said holding out his hands. 

"Do you have fans?" I said raising my eyebrow, amused about his idea of wanting to hid this from me.

"Well, yeah we have a few." He said and Tyler snorted in the back round.

"more like a few times a million Keat." He said. 

I looked at Keaton who was rubbing his temples and still shooting Tyler evil looks. 

"Common, Ill show you the stuff," He said taking my hand and starting to lead me into the bedroom. "Not you, you little shit." He said to Tyler to tried to hop off the counter to follow us. 

Keaton explained to me the whole thing. How his brother came down at 15 then him when he was 17 to be in this band called Emblem 3. Then went to tell me how they tried out for the X factor which brought attention to them and soon a record label. 

"I just wanted to be able to hangout with a girl I liked who didn't know about my music. After we became big its all I've wanted. You just get so tired of the girls who pretend they don't know who you are, yet they are kissing your poster on their wall, or they are just so over the top excited to be around me that they cant function." I smiled all through his ramble because of the fact that he liked me. Whether it was as a friend or a crush he admitted to like me and trust me to be his friend.

"Well it looks like I'm going to have to go hang a post up of you and kiss your face." I said softly swaying to bump my shoulder onto his. He laughed and shook his head.

"Please don't." He said chucking.

"Would it be weird for me to say, being the girl and all, that I'd like to hang out with you without your brother or friends, and not surfing" I said. His head snapped up and looked at me, the same goofy grin he had when he saw me in the hallway. "As Keaton the surfer though, not Keaton the person in that Emerald band." I said waving my hand. He laughed at my mistake and placed his hand on my knee. This was the first time I really focused on his touch. His hand was warm and soft on my leg and I wasn't sure if the feeling of him touching me was because I was a little chilly or if his touched made my entire body give a small shiver. 

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