precious ✦ why don't we ✓

[E I G H T E E N]

"hey girlies!" i yelled through the screen as my three beautiful best friends faces showed up.

"hey chick, how you doing?" christina smiled through the screen.

"i'm great!" i shifted position in my bunk and closed the curtain all the way. the boys were all huddled around the tv playing fortnite so i didn't want to disturb them.

"how's tour?" tate asked, taking another bite of her doughnut.

"it's really fun. i'm so glad i came! the boys and i have become really close and i found my way to three best friends i didn't know i needed, but am so glad i have."

"awe, your gonna make me blush." gabbie covered her face with her hand dramatically.

"tate, your making me hungry and there's like no food here." i complained, hopping out my my bed to go to the mini fridge near the boys.

"well, tell one of the boys to take you!" she exclaimed, smiling proudly at her idea.

i looked at the five boys who were now staring at me after hearing tate's voice.

"wow, your a genius tate!" gabbie shouted.

"i'm so proud of you tate, your brilliant." christina chuckles.

"albert einstein who? i've only heard of tate dahl." the boys were still staring at me. "oh yeah, do you all want to say hi to the boys? they're staring at me and it's kind of creepy."

"sure!" they said in unison.

i stood up and held my arm out high so all the boys were in frame.

"hey girls!" they all shouted.

"hey guys! listen, you're letting eden starve!" christina dramatized.

"if you let our best friend die before we even get to meet her i'm gonna be real mad." tate made a pouty face.

"yeah like wow, i can't believe you would do this to poor, sweet eden." gabbie cried.

"sweet and innocent my ass." zach rolled his eyes, recalling the prank everyone pulled on him a few weeks ago.

"can one of you, or all of you, take lovely eden here to get food? i'm sure you all are starving too!" christina made puppy dog eyes.

"i'll go!" corbyn jumped up.

"dang, bean, christina here really has you wrapped around her finger." i laughed.

all the boys soon agreed to come get food with corbyn and i. we stayed on the phone with tate, gabbie, and christina for about ten more minutes before hanging up the call to go and get food.

we were leaving the tour bus when i remembered something. "wait!" i screamed and everyone stared at me as i ran back onto the bus, appearing minutes later with my camera, causing everyone to roll their eyes.

"you never go anywhere without that thing do you?" zach teased.

i shrugged, "nah, not really."

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we ordered our food and sat down at the chipotle tables, waiting for our orders to be called.

"so, eden, i never really asked. are you dating someone?" zach asked and all the boys wiggled their eyebrows at us.

"no. with my photography and stuff i've never really had time to date." i admitted.

"oh... okay." zach made things awkward.

"eden there's some dude staring at you over there." corbyn said, pointing to a guy standing behind the counter with dark brown hair staring at me.

i shrugged. "and?" i couldn't help but notice zach glaring at him, which made me wonder why but i chose not to question it.

"and go ask him for his number." corbyn pushed me up out of my chair and towards the counter.

"uh, hi. my friends and i couldn't help noticing you staring at our table. is there anything you need?" i asked shyly, approaching him.

"oh uh no. i was just admiring your friend there." he said, pointing to corbyn.

oh.

"wait, are you...?"

"gay? yeah. and uh, do you happen to know if he's into... you know..." he hinted.

i held in my laugh by covering my mouth, i then patted his arm. "i'm sorry, i don't mean to laugh, really! it's just that i've never had this conversation before. but no, unfortunately he's not. none of them are. but if you gave me your name and number i could hook you up with some who is! they live in la though."

"i'm visiting la in a few weeks so why not give it a try?" he took out my phone as i took out my phone. we exchanged numbers and said our goodbyes.

i walked back over to the table of four smiling boys and one staring intensely at the man behind the counter.

"so how'd it go?" corbyn asked immediately.

"well, for starters he's gay." i laughed with the whole table and noticed zach visibly relax. "and i'm thinking of setting him up with james."

"look at you miss cupid!" jack joked.

i flipped my hair, "yep, that's me!"