What The Heart Wants (Stereo Kicks/ James Graham)

Chapter 25

All the other contestants were finally moved in and holy hell, even though the house was huge, it was still crowded. Thank god the boys were right next to me otherwise I would lose my mind. The girls from Only The Young didn't even acknowledge me when they walked in. "Nice to meet you too." I mumbled under my breath while flipping the page of my book. Luckily they didn't hear me. With a sigh, I shut my book and went to Casey's room, but the only two there were Barclay and Chris. "Hey guys." I said and sat down on Barclays bed dramatically. "That bad huh?" Barclay looked up from the magazine he was reading. "Terrible. They haven't even acknowledged me. I don't see why I cant just sleep in one of the rooms with you guys." I complained. "Probably because there's a strict rule about no guys and girls in the same room." Chris spoke up. "What? Since when is that a rule?" I looked at him. "Uuhh, since always." He said. "That's dumb." I whined. "What's dumb?" Casey said as he walked into the room. "Apparently Arias roommates are worse than we thought they would be." Barclay said. "What did they do?" Casey looked at me, suddenly serious. Aw, he cares. "Well, to be fair it's not what they did, it's what they haven't done." I countered. Casey raised an eyebrow at me. "They haven't said one word to me. I mean, not that I'm complaining, but it's awkward and to be quite frank, it's just rude." I pouted. Casey let out a small chuckle and walked towards me. "Come on." He extended his hand to me. I looked at him and he just waited for me to take his hand. I grabbed it and he helped me off the bed and began walking to my room. "Hello ladies." He greeted once we entered my room. The girls looked at him and immediately smiled. "Hi." They smiled and began messing with their hair. Oh my god, were they seriously flirting? I tried not to laugh. "I'm Casey, and this is my friend Aria." He said gesturing to me. They didn't even look at me. Casey noticed this and said, "now ladies, isn't it customary to introduce yourselves? Especially to someone who you happen to be sharing a room with?" Why was he being so formal? It was getting really hard not to laugh. The girls tore their eyes away from Casey and glared at me. "Hi." They muttered and looked back at Casey. "See? That wasn't too hard was it? Nice to meet you, and have a nice night." He smiled and we both walked back to his room. Once he shut the door we both started laughing. "What just happened?" Chris looked up at us with a confused look. "Casey....girls....flirting...faces." I couldn't compose an actual sentence I was laughing so hard. I could see tears rolling down Caseys cheeks and laughed even harder. I could have sworn by the time I got done laughing I would have abs. I was wrong. Eventually Casey and I both calmed down enough to tell them what happened. They laughed, but not like me and Casey did. "You had to be there." I smiled. Reluctantly, I let out a yawn and the boys looked at me. "Someone's tired." Casey sang. "I don't wanna go to bed. What if they cut my hair in my sleep? It took me seven years to get it this long." I said. It was true, I hadn't cut my hair since middle school and it easily went down to the middle of my butt. "Don't worry. When they fall asleep, you can sneak in here and lay with me if you want." Casey offered. "Thanks," I smiled and gave all the boys a hug goodnight. Reece walked in the room just as I was leaving so I got to say goodnight to him too. I walked across the hall and knocked on the other boys' door. A shirtless Tom opened it and smiled when he seen me. "Well if it isn't the escape artist." He opened the door for me to come in. "What are you talking about?" I asked, confused. "Why'd you run off so quickly today?" Tom asked as he shut the door. "Oh that..." I didn't have an answer. Clearly I couldn't tell them I had the sudden urge to grab James and kiss him right then and there. So I lied, "I uh, I had to pee." Seriously? That's the best I could do? Dear god I need help. "Uh huh." Tom smirked. He could see through my lie. "Hey Tom, where's the--" James came bursting through the door but stopped when he seen me. "Aria. What are you doing here?" He asked me. "Oh, I just came to say goodnight." I tried to ignore the fact that he was also shirtless. It was incredibly difficult. I realized that I was checking him out and quickly averted my eyes. "So, goodnight." I stammered and walked past James, careful not to touch him. "Goodnight." He said as I walked by. I looked back and seen the hint of a smirk on his lips. Ugh. I need to go to bed. So that's exactly what I did.

A/N

OH SNAP. JAMES, PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON. JK, KEEP THEM OFF. LOL HOPE YOU GUYS LIKED IT! I KNOW IT'S SHORT BUT ATLEAST ITS SOMETHING! :) DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT LOVELIES! ♡
PS-PROBABLY GONNA TAKE A BREAK TOMORROW SINCE IT'S A HOLIDAY LOL