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chapter 11; awkward hands

Chapter 11 - Awkward Hands

"Can we get something to eat?" Andrea asked as we drove past a cafe.

"You want to stop for lunch?" I asked her, looking at her through the mirror, although this time, she was sitting in the front with Zabdiel. Zabdiel had taken the keys from Christopher to stop him from driving because the boys "wanted this drive to not be their last drive". I had pushed Andrea to sit in the front with him, saying that I already sat in front yesterday, so it was now her turn. The boys were actually fine with not sitting shotgun.

"No, I want something to snack on," she replied.

"Me too," Zabdiel answered as he turned to park it by a small cafe.

"Anyone want anything?" Andrea asked everyone as she took off her safety belt to turn around. The boys started telling Andrea what they wanted and after 2 orders, she took out her phone and started writing down.

"I'll go with you," Richard offered. After the two left, Christopher stretched out his leg to put it on where Richard was sitting, which was fine, but I was sitting in between him and Richard so his leg went over my lap. I raised my hands awkwardly, not knowing what to do with them. They were in my lap but now Christopher's legs were on my lap. If I don't put it on my lap, where am I supposed to put them?

Cálmese Dani. you're friends and you know Christopher. Cálmese. He's normal and fine. You should be normal and fine.

"What are you guys going to do here?" Joel asked. With my hands still awkwardly in the air, I replied, "We're working in her brother's company. I'm not sure when we're starting."

"What are you guys working in?" Zabdiel asked, looking at us from the mirror.

"She's in marketing and I'm in finance."

"So you're good at math?" Erick asked me, causing me to turn around to look at him and Joel. Before I could reply, Christopher had answered -

"Her math is really good. She used to help me with math."

I smiled and looked down at my lap, well, Christopher's legs. My hands were still in the air when Christopher chuckled and put my hands on his legs.

"I remember that you once threw an eraser at my head when I wasn't listening to your explanation."

My cheeks warmed up further when he said that. 

"I'm not surprised someone threw something at you. We knew it would happen." Erick said and the boys started laughing and cheering. They held out their hands for a high five. Christopher turned to look at me and stuck out his tongue.

Out of instinct, my hand reached out. Andrea too had a habit of sticking out her tongue at me and usually when she did, I would reach out to pull her tongue. When I realised what I was about to do, I coughed and pulled my hand back, looking down on my lap.

Andrea and Richard returned and they passed out muffins. Andrea looked at Christopher's legs on my lap and gave me a suggestive wink.

"Cállate." I told her, rolling my eyes but holding my hands out for the muffin.

"I didn't say anything," she said, smirking.

"Your eyes did all the talking," I replied, gesturing at her face. She stuck her tongue out at me and I reached over to pull her tongue and I grabbed it. She glared at me while the boys started laughing. She then proceeded to move her head slightly so that she could bite my finger. I quickly removed my hand and she sniggered. She then walked to the front and quickly sat down since everyone except for us.

"She almost grabbed Christopher's tongue when he stuck his tongue out at her," Erick told Andrea. Once she took her muffin from Zabdiel, who was holding it for her, she nodded and raised her eyebrows at me. I flipped her off and she flipped me off in return.

They showed us where their studio was and some of their favourite cafes and restaurants. Since Andrea was sitting in the front, she had her phone plugged in and she played some songs. Before that, she had taken 10 minutes to 'filter her playlist', which meant that she was either creating a new playlist that did not have their songs or she was removing all their songs from one of her car playlist.

Vente Pa' Ca started playing and she looked at me through the mirror and winked at me. It was one of our favourite songs. She had a massive crush on Maluma and I liked Ricky Martin. A lot. The boys and Andrea started singing and you would have thought it sounded pleasant, but they were not singing, they were screaming and I was sitting in between two of the loudest ones. I started laughing slightly at them.

Andrea laughed so hard that she stopped singing when Christopher and Erick started dancing in their seat. They were moving around in their seats and made comments and were winking which made me blush. I was in a car filled with good looking boys and the lyrics of the song was not helping me at all.

"What are you guys doing tomorrow?" Joel asked us with a smile on his face. Oh my god he's adorable. I sighed internally. I was starting to think like Andrea.

"We're probably gonna unpack," Andrea answered and look at me with her eyebrows moving and had a tiny smile on her face. Yep, she was definitely thinking the same thing as me. I nodded in agreement. We were here for 2 days and all we did was spend time with these boys. Even though we did get all our belongings delivered, they were all in boxes. We did not even have groceries. The only thing that we took here ourselves were some of our clothes and some tea that we had packed into our luggage.

"So we probably won't see you tomorrow?" Christopher asked me while looking at me.

"We'll probably be home the entire day, you guys can swing by if you're free. We don't know anyone except the five of you." I replied with a small smile.

"So we're your first friends in Miami," Erick stated, smiling. Andrea and I smiled at each other through the mirror and she answered -

"You guys are our first friends in Miami."

Translations:

Cálmese - calm down

I could've updated earlier but YouTube kept distracting me.

Ps, Ricky Martin and Maluma are both baes even though they're 30 and 10 years older than me ;p