Mine

three

•Joanna•

I sat up straight as Chad opened the door. I observed the family walking in. Four guys and two girls. Four kids I'm guessing?

"Hello. We're the Bradens." My mother stand up and I take it as a cue to do the same. I straighten and tug at the bottom of my dress. She walks towards them and I follow right behind my dad. "Hi were the Espinosas." The older lady greets.

She shakes my parents hands and I find it quite strange and awkward but do it anyway. "These are my kids, Ryan, Dylan, Kristen and Matt." I look at each one of them.

Damn. Why are all the guys,my age,in California hot? I looked at Matt and gave him a small smile. He returned it and we sat back down.

"So did you guys just move here?" Matt's father asked my dad. "Yeah. Uh we used to live in Florida." He replied.

"Ah, was it nice?"

"Yeah very, we loved going to the beaches in the summer."

I gulped and pretended like I didn't hear anything. The thing is I couldn't really go to the beach. First of all because I was afraid of the water. And second of all because I was really insecure of the scars on my thighs, but that was my fault. I caused those scars and I wish I didn't. I no longer self harm and don't plan on starting again neither.

"Jo?" I hear a voice in the distance. "Joanna!" It comes again, sharper this time.

"What? Sorry." I'm snapped out of my thoughts.

"Raphael was asking you a question." My dad scowls. Raphael? Oh that must be Mr.Espinosa.

"Oh. Um Yeah?" I ask and try to sound polite.

Raphael chuckles. "So how did you enjoy Florida? Lots of cute guys eh? You probably had tons of boyfriends."

I stiffened. "Uh actually I didn't and there was certainly not as many cute guys there like there is here." My eyes widen and I quickly put both hand on my mouth.

What did I just say?

I feel the heat rising in my cheeks and Matt laughs making it even worse. I look at my mother and she scowls at me but tries to pull it off.

"Joanna you wild child." Raphael says.

I start choking on the water I sipped down and cringe.

What the hell is a wild child?

I look over at Hayes. I could tell he's trying to not laugh at me. I look at him and frown. "Sorry, I can't help it." He grins.

All the adults talk for the remainder of diner and I can't help but steal glances over at Matt. I caught him looking twice out of the six times I looked at him.

I start trying to focus on the conversations that are going on.
The dad's and older sons are talking about sports. Boring.

Kristen and the moms are chatting about some mom's club. I really rather listen to that than sports.

"Yes! I know exactly who would love to join!" Matt's mother cheers. "Christina! Shawn's mom remember her?" She asks Elizabeth.

"Oh yeah! She used to always buddy-buddy with Taylor's mother, Jane! We should ask them if they want to join us." Elizabeth replies.

I turn to Hayes who is now talking to Matt. "Oh hey Jo! I was talking to Matt." Hayes smirks and wiggles his eyebrows. I roll my eyes and look at Matt.

"Hey." He says. "Hi" I wave awkwardly. "Matthew this is Joanna and um Joanna this is Matthew." Hayes tells me. "Oh"

"You can call me Matt, Everyone does." I nod in agreement. "Call me Jo," I tell him. "So what were you guys talking about?" I ask butting in their conversation.

"About how Tay pulled that one prank on Shawn in the hotel room." Hayes bursts out laughing. Nobody seems to notice they're to busy with their conversations. I smile at him. "About that who are they?"

"Our friends. Well, Best friends." Matt answers my question. "Ah, do they live around here?"

"Yeah basically everyone does. All the boys and Mahogany live around or in this neighborhood." He says.

"What do you mean?"

"We were in this thing called Magcon but that ended so now we just all ended up being best friends." Hayes explains.

"We're basically internet famous." Matt takes a sip of his water. "How many of them is there?" I ask.

"Its Me, Hayes, Nash, Cameron, Carter, Jack Gilinsky, Jack Johnson, Taylor, Aaron, Shawn, and Mahogany." Matthew counts on his fingers.

My eyes widen. "Yeah, it's a lot. But we don't hang out with them every day maybe just when we have parties or nothing else to do." Hayes calms me down a bit.

I'm not really good with people. Maybe, this Mahogany chick can help me.

"Wait. So all of you live in a neighborhood?"

"Nah. Like three neighborhood but we do live pretty close."

"Oh okay."

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i didn't know how to end this chapter so. xoxo- Valerieeeee