My Life with O2L

Chapter 7

I wake up to the guys yelling. I'm still on the roof, and it's still night. I check the time on my phone. It's 10:30. I peek over the edge of the roof and see the guys getting out of the car.
"Dude!" Kian yells. "That was so fucking awesome!"
A chorus of laughter falls over them. Just then, Ricky walks out the front door. "What took you guys so long?" He asks them. "I was able to finish helping Alex with putting her new clothes up and edit and post my video."
"Oh my god Ricky! You missed out big time! There was a fight!" Sam yelled, still laughing.
I didn't stay to hear the rest. I wanted to keep my new hideout a secret, so I figured I'd go ahead and get back in the house. Personally, I was exhausted.
I go down the stairs, and out of the closet. Then I head to my room and flop on my bed. I feel my eyes get heavy, and finally, sleep washes over me.
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"Hey," a voice says, shaking my shoulder. I groan and roll over.
"Come on, Alex! Get up."
"Never!" I mumble into my pillow.
"Fine then, I'll go get a bucket of water."
I shoot up. "No! I'm up. Don't worry."
Jc laughs. "Okay. Well, I was coming to say bye real quick. Me, Kian, Ricky, and Trevor are going to a friend's house for a collab. We'll be back later. Okay?"
"Okay," I say, giving him a quick hug and a peck on the cheek. "Have fun!"
"You too," he says. "Sam's downstairs when you're ready. Bye."
He starts to walk out of the room, but the rest of the guys push past him. "Our turns!" They yell. I laugh. I give Trevor, Kian, and Ricky a hug and a quick kiss and tell them bye. Then Sam comes up to me.
"You're not leaving Sam!" I say, laughing.
He pokes out his bottom lip and makes puppy dog eyes at me. I cave. "Fine." I hug him and peck his cheek. "I'm gonna go shower. What are we doing today?"
"I don't know," he says, sitting on my bed. "Wanna go to the beach? We have to penny board there cause the guys took the cars."
I freeze. Oh crap. I don't know how to penny board. Or skateboard. Or ride a bike, or a scooter. Perks of having a poor childhood, right? My face must've been a dead giveaway to my thoughts.
Sam's jaw drops. "No!" He says, standing up. "No! You poor fun deprived child!" He hugs me, and strokes my hair. "It's okay. Forget the beach. You will live yourself a proper childhood! I'm gonna teach you to penny board!"
I laugh. "Child? I'm only a year younger than you Sam!"
He lets go. "Ugh. Whatever. Now go shower." He points to the bathroom.
"Yes sir!" I say, and salute jokingly. I head to the bathroom and shut the door.
"That's right!" Sam yells, still in my room.
I laugh, loud enough for Sam to hear me through the door. "Get out of my room Sam!"
"Fine!" He yells back. I hear my bedroom door shut behind him.
I quickly shower, get dressed in shorts, a neon green muscle tank, and a black cotton bandeau. Then I blow dry my hair and straighten it. It takes forty-five minutes. A new record. I grab my phone and shove it in my back pocket. I slide on a pair of black vans, and head downstairs. No sign of Sam.
I look around. "Sammers! Where you at?!" I yell.
I hear footsteps on the stairs and turn around. "And there she is guys!" Sam says, already carrying his vlogging camera. Then he says to me, "You take forever to get ready, you know?"
I laugh. "So what? You decided to start without me?!"
Sam laughs. "Introduce yourself."
I look at the camera and wave. "What's up guys? I'm Alex! I bet you already know that though, thanks to that guy over there." I point my thumb at Sam.
"Oh well," he says. "Wanna explain what we're doing today or should I?"
"I'll do it!" I say, excitedly. "Sam over here is going to teach me how to penny board. Cause I don't know how."
"Well, you will soon enough! Come on. I stole Jc's penny board for you to use."
We head outside and Sam hand me Jc's board. "We'll stay in our driveway for now. Then once you get the hang of it, we can ride around."
"Okay! Let's do this!"
Let's just say, I started off horrible. I was wobbly, and leaning on Sam for support most of the time. It got so bad that he had to put his camera up so he could help me better. After an hour or so, I got it down pretty decent.
"I'm hungry Sam!" I yell. "Let's go get food!"
"Okay," he says. "Taco Bell?"
"Yesss!!!!" I yell already heading down the street.
"Hold on, Alex!" He yells. I stop.
"Hurry up!"
Then he passes me. I gasp. "You little terd nugget!"
"Try and catch me!" We raced to Taco Bell and Sam won.
"That's not fair!" I yell. "You have more experience!"
Sam smirks and says, "A sore loser, are we?"
"No!" I say, laughing. "Let's just get some food."
We order the twelve pack and two drinks and head to one of the tables outside. We eat in silence. Then I sit back and let out a deep breathe. "I think I over ate." I say.
"As long as you don't throw up on me, I'm good." Sam says. I fake "throw up" on him. We laugh. He finishes his taco and we sit there.
"You ready to go?" He asks. "Or do we need to wait a while before going?"
"Wait." I say.
Sam pulls out his vlogging camera and sets it on the table. "What's up guys? Right now, we're at Taco Bell. We just finished eating, and that one wants to sit here for a few before we leave. She overstuffed herself."
I laugh. "Not my fault! You put the food in front of me!"
We laugh. "What do you wanna do?" Sam asks.
"I don't know. 21 questions?"
"Ooh! This should be good!" Sam says, evilly rubbing his hand together.
"Not really." I say.
The game was pretty normal. At least until Sam asked, "If you had to date one of the o2l guys, who would it be?" "Well, let's see." I start, hesitantly. "Not Jc, cause that would be awkward. Dating my new dad? No thanks!"
Sam laughs. "I think I'll go ahead and eliminate Trevor too, cause he's younger. More like a younger brother. Then I'll take off Ricky. He's a great friend, but to have to deal with that much sass all the time? No thanks. I can handle sass, but as long as I can return it to someone else at the end of the day."
Sam is grinning. "What about me and Kian?" He asks.
I let out a deep breath. "I'd probably eliminate Kian. I love the guy, but sometimes he can be so loud and crazy you know?" I ask.
He nods, still with the goofy grin on his face. "That leaves me."
"Eh. I guess you're the best option."
He laughs. "Well duh! That's why you picked me!"
We both laugh. Then he picks up the camera and turns it off.
"Ready to go?" He asks.
"Yep!" I say, grabbing my penny board. "I'll race you home!"
I take off and I hear him call after me, "Oh, you're so on!"
I make it a little over halfway home, still in the lead, before it happens. Jc's penny board gets tripped up by a rock, and I fall. My knees, and parts of my arms scrape up against the concrete.
"Ow," I groan. The pain is bad, but not too bad.
"Alex!" I hear Sam yell. Then he's kneeling down next to me. "What happened?"
"Stupid rock," I say. I use him to pull myself up.
Sam laughs. "Those are some pretty bad scrapes. Let's get you back to the house so we can clean them up."
"Okay," I say, wrapping my arm around his next for support. He picks up the penny boards, and somehow manages to help me walk. After about five minutes, we make it to the house. Sam has me sit on the porch while he opens the door and sets the penny boards inside.
Then he comes back and picks me up, carrying me bridal style to my bathroom. Sam sets me down on the counter. "Hold on let me go get the peroxide and band aids. I'll be right back."
A few seconds later, he comes in and says, "Doctor Sam to the rescue!"
I force a grin. "That's nice, but can we hurry up?"
He nods, and gets to work. "This might sting a little." He warns me, before putting the peroxide on my legs. It's not a horrible sting, but I feel what he's talking about.
For the next few minutes, I watch him clean and bandage my scrapes. He looks cute when he's concentrating like this.
Wait, WHAT?! God, the pain must be having some effect me. I've never really thought about guys (or girls) like that before.
When Sam finishes, he looks up at me. "Done," he says. I didn't realize how little space was between us until then. All my brain cells went dead; all common sense out the window.
Then the worst possible thing that could've happened, happened: Sam leaned in. Oh my god. I leaned in too. There was no going back. Oh good god.
Sam's lips touch mine in a soft kiss. It's slow, and warm, and nothing like I thought a kiss would be. I always thought kissing was disgusting. But this- this was different.
Suddenly, Sam pulls back, a horrified look on his face. "I'm sorry." He says. "God, I'm so stupid. Jc's gonna kill me. Heck, you're probably gonna kill me." He sits on the edge of the tub and puts his hands in his head.
I stare at him. "It's okay, Sam." I whisper. I slide off the counter and go to sit next to him. "It's okay. I won't tell the guys. Especially Jc."
He looks up. "Was that you way of forgiving me?"
I shrug. "What is there to forgive?"
Sam breathes a sigh of relief. "Thank you." He hugs me, then pulls back. "So it's not awkward?"
"Never," I say grinning. Then, just for the heck of it, I kiss his cheek and grab his hand, pulling him out of the bathroom. "Come on! We have a video to finish!"
I limp/walk out of my room and stop at the stairs. "Sam! Help?"
He picks me up and carries me downstairs. Then he sets me down on the couch and sits next to me. I grab his camera and cut it on.
"Hey guys! We're back! I kinda had a little accident on the way home, so now we're here."
"Tell them what happened!" Sam says eagerly.
"No! It's embarrassing!" I cover my face with my hands. Sam takes the camera from me and starts to tell the story. When he's finished, I uncover my face and say, "Oh, the horror!"
Sam laughs. "You are such a dork you know that?"
"Yep! That's me!"
"Well how did the dork like hanging out with me today?" Sam asks.
"Eh. It was alright I guess." I say, shrugging.
Sam gasps. "You know it was better than this 'alright' bull crap!"
I sigh. "But you do have to take into consideration, that your day's activity got my knees and arms all scraped up."
"Alright," he says. "I'll give you some lee way for that. But other than the injuries?"
"It was pretty fun." I say.
Sam does his outro, and just when he's about to go edit his video, the guys walk in.
"Sam! Alex! We're home!" Jc yells.
"We're in the living room!" I yell back. I get up from the couch to greet them.
I hug Jc and then the others. In the back of the group stands someone completely new to me.
"Hi Alex!" He says hugging me. "I'm Connor! It's so nice to meet my best friend's daughter!"
I stand there awkwardly, not knowing what I should do. I don't know this guy.
He pulls back. "Sorry, I'm really happy right now."
I laugh. "I can see that." I go back and sit down on the couch. Sam says a quick hi to everybody, then goes to edit the video.
The other guys go in the kitchen to get food. Jc sits down next to me and I put my head in his lap. "How's my lil girl doin?" He asks.
"I'm alright. Sam taught me how to penny board. But I ran over a rock on the way back from Taco Bell and I got these." I showed him my bandaged arms and legs. He gives me a sympathetic look. "But it's okay. Doctor Sam cleaned them up." I smile.
"That's good," Jc says. "Tomorrow is Jc day. What do you wanna do?"
"I don't know," I say, thinking. "You pick."
"Okay," he says. The other guys come back from the kitchen. I spend some time getting to know Connor. Apparently, he was in o2l not too long ago. But then he quite. He also loves coffee and cats. Very random, but whatever.
"Jc," I say. "I'm gonna go upstairs."
I get up and go to my room. That's when I get a text from Jenn.

From: Jenn😎
Hey girl! Are you free Monday?

To: Jenn😎
Should be... why???

From: Jenn😎
Tell Jc I'm kidnapping you Monday @ noon for a girls day! I got some peeps to introduce you too!!😆

To: Jenn😎
Okay! See ya then!😝😝

From: Jenn😎
See ya!!

After that, I decided to go up to the roof. Maybe try and take some stuff off my mind. That can also be interpreted as Sam.
I change into sweats and go up the stairs and onto the roof. But it seems like I'm not the only one with this idea. Sam's up here too. Of course. I come up here to get him out of my head, yet he's up here. He hasn't seen me yet, so I have time to go back downstairs. I don't, though. Instead, I go sit next to him, feet dangling off the edge of the
"What's up?" I say, bumping him with my shoulder.
Sam smirks. "Nothing much. I come up here sometimes when I feel like I could use some peace and quiet."
I nod. "Sam? Do we need to talk about it?"
"We don't have to if you don't want to." He said.
"Why did you kiss me?" I ask.
Sam laughs. "Straight to the point? Um, I kissed you cause I kinda have a crush on you." He blushes, and it makes me blush.
"Why me?" I ask.
Sam sighs, exasperated. "I don't know Alex! You're beautiful, and fun to be around."
I blush. Then I do something I don't expect. I kiss Sam. Right smack dab on the lips. Soft at first, but then he has a hand on my waist and have put mine around his neck. The kiss gets deeper, and I slowly start to slip from the world. Before I do, I pull back. Sam rests his forehead on mine. My heart is beating a million miles an hour. Finally, I pull back and stand up.
"Goodnight Sam." I say, walking toward the stairs.
"Night Alex." Sam says.
I walk back to my room and lay on my bed. I can only think about one thing: Sam.
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Sam's P.O.V.
Oh my fucking god. She kissed me. I can't stop smiling. Who knew a kiss could make someone so happy?
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A/N
Hey guys! I'm horrible at ship names, and I think I picked the worse two names to try and ship. Help??? I need a ship name for Sam and Alex!!