A Weird Love Story

Chapter 14- Nice To Meet You

Maria's P.O.V.-

After Grace left, Rydel invited Dianne and I to watch them have band practice and we obviously said yes! This is too much to handle, we would have never believed that this was happening! The girls had already had breakfast so the boys came running, like a herd of buffalo, down to the kitchen where I was serving myself a second glass of orange juice. Everyone was still in our pj's and we agreed to stay like this for most of the day. We're just weird like that.

"Hey Maria!"

"Hey Rocky." He opened one of the cabinets to get a bowl and another one to get a box of Honey Nut Cheerios then sits at the big table.

"You don't add milk to that?" I ask

"Not really. Do you?"

"Actually, not with that cereal but with other ones, yes."

"Cool. Then I guess we have something in common." he smiles then takes a spoonful of the dry cheerios. I sit down across from him, and slowly sip my drink until the other guys sit down.

"Aren't you gonna go hang out with Rydel and Dianne? Not that there's anything wrong with you being here." Riker asks.

"Oh! They are playing ping pong on the Wii."

"Who's winning?" asks Ross.

"Um I think Dianne is." I reply

"Uh oh." Ryland looks a little scared.

Now I feel scared. "Why 'Uh oh'?"

"Rydel tends to get a little compe..." Before he finishes, in the distance we hear a "No! Not again!" coming from Rydel then a "Ugh!' then a crash! "Sorry!" she screams back to us.

"...titive" Ryland finishes.

"Grace is like that. Sorta."

"We already know about Grace!" Ryland responds rather quickly. "Let's just get our stuff to practice." he gets up, takes his plate of uneaten toast to the sink then walks downstairs to the basement. Once the rest of them are done, we stroll into the living room to see the girls sweeping up pieces of a broken lamp. I speak to them "We are going downstairs for practice."

"Go on down and we'll be right there once we finish here." Rydel says.

"Ok just hurry." As we are stepping on the stairs, I hear Riker say, "You know you have to pay for the lamp right?" Rydel probably nodded because then he said, "Good, now pick up the rest and come down."

Ryland was sitting on the couch playing his guitar, looked up, then looked back down and continued playing. Then I heard footsteps rumbling and soon, Rydel and Dianne appeared into my view. They all grabbed their instruments and plugged them in. Since Ratliff is on vacation, Ryland puts down his guitar and heads over to the drum set in the back. Dianne and I sit on the couch super excited and wait.

"Any requests?" asks Riker. Dianne looks at me and we smile.

"Love me like that!" we say in unison.

"Ugh!" all the guys say. "Yes!" Rydel says forming her hand into a fist and thrusting he elbow towards her. The music starts and she starts singing,

I wake up and my hair's a mess

And I'm too lazy to get, to get dressed, yeah

I love the way you love me 'cause you love me like that

I love the way you love me 'cause you love me like that

I never took my driving test