Ross’ house isn’t very far from where my house is; it’s a good 20-25 minute walk. We came up to his house and it was a white house, kind of big, it just looked very homey-like. We walked inside and took our shoes off and walked into the kitchen to find Rydel and Rocky singing “Good Time” by Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen totally off key. “Wow. Such beautiful singing.” Ross yelled out over top of their voices, I started to laugh and Rydel and Rocky look back at us. Rydel gave us a huge smile and went back to mixing. “Shut up Ross, our singing is great, you’re just jealous.” And threw a blueberry at Ross’ face and went back to cutting fruits. I put my hand over my mouth to cover my giggles; Ross picked up the berry, and threw it back at him hitting Rocky in the back of the head. Rocky turned back around and Ross had one of the most derpy smiles on his face. Ross then grabbed my wrist pulling me out of the kitchen so Rocky couldn’t throw anything else at him.
“Would you like a little tour of the Lynch household?” Ross asked looking down at me. “Sure I would!” I laughed, “Alright so this is the living room, were we live and play video games, sometimes eat.” Ross then grabbed my hand, grabbed my hand, and walked me upstairs “Here are the bedrooms! This ones Rocky’s room-” He pointed to the right of me “This one is Ryland’s room-” pointing to the left, his door was covered with football stuff, we walked down the hall a bit “This is Rydel’s room-” I looked into her room, it was very pink, and had Hello Kitty everywhere, I swear. “That’s Riker’s room-” You could hear, what sounded like McFly? “And lastly, this is my room.” He said opening the door to reveal his room. His walls were covered in spray paint with guitars everywhere and posters of bands.
“I’m guessing you like to spray painting?” I ask while walking into his room. “Yeah, I love to draw, and I dunno, spray painting just comes out really cool.” he replied running his hand through his blond hair, while looking at the art on his walls. There was this one big symbol that almost covered his whole wall, it was pink, kind of looked like a demented heart. “What does that symbol represent?” I point to it. He walks up to it and traced the left part of it, “Well this is and ‘R’ and its connected to the number ‘5’.” Tracing the right side attached to the ‘R’. “What’s ‘R5’?” I ask tilting my head up at him. “It’s the band I’m in! Me, Riker, Rocky, Rydel and Ratliff; Ryland isn’t in the whole instrument part but he’s our manager.”
“That’s actually so cool. I’ll have to hear you guys play sometime.” I say nudging him. “So, other than surfing. What do you like to do?” he asked walking over to his bed to sit down. “Well, back in Hawaii I played beach Volleyball with my friend Maria.” I walked over to join him “Uh... I like to eat food. And I love to paint.” He giggled “What are you giggling at?” He had a funny little giggle. “Nothing, I like eating food too.” He said and patted me on my head. “Come. Get. FOOD.” Rocky yelled out. Ross and I quickly got up and ran down the stairs. Everyone was in the kitchen serving them selves. We walked over to join them, Ross handed me a plate. I guess I didn’t realize how hungry I was; I grabbed 3 pancakes and fruit salad. We all walked into the dinning area and sat down; I sat next to Rydel and across from Ross. I looked around, and saw no parents or anything, probably shouldn’t mention it. “These are amazing pancakes Rydel” I say practically shoving them down my throat. “Well I’m glad you like them! I made them with love!” she said shrugging her shoulders up and smiling to herself. I smiled at her “Hey, hey what about the fruit salad. Yeah I made that.” Rocky blurted out. “Yes and it is just fabulous Rocky” giving him a smile “Yeah, it better be fabulous.” He said nodding his head and putting a piece of fruit in his mouth. Riker patted his head. “You did good, Rocky, you did good.” We all started to laugh. “Hey, where’s Ratliff?” Ross asked. “Oh he had to go; he forgot he made plans with Kelly to go for lunch.”Ryland answered. Everyone was talking and such when I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I look down to see a text from my dad:
Daddy: Hey sweetheart, I know I told you that I want you home by 5:30 but can you please start heading home, I need to talk to you. Thanks, love you see you in a bit.
Me: Alright see you in a few, just leaving.
“Guy’s I’m really sorry but, I have to go. My dad wants me home; he has to talk to me about something. Sorry” I apologize, picking up my plate “Thank you so much for brunch it was really good!” I say giving Rydel a side hug and Rocky a smile. “Wait, wait. I’ll walk you home!” Ross volunteered as he stood up with his plate. Everyone looked confused, “Is everything okay Kairi?” Riker asked “I think so, he didn’t say what he wanted to talk to me about.” I said shrugging my shoulders “Oh okay, well bye! We’ll all have to go surfing again.” Riker exclaimed. Everyone yelled their ‘goodbyes’ and agreed to us all going out to surfing again. I quickly walked out of the room with Ross behind me; we put our plate in the sink and walked out the door.
We walked outside to receive a cold breeze; it wasn’t the sunniest day today. Out of nowhere these dark clouds rolled in, and it started to spit. I started to shiver and I put my arms into my shirt. Ross saw me shivering and put his arm around me and hugged me close. We didn’t really talk, it started to rain half way to my house and Ross hugged me tighter. I felt nice having his body next to mine; he was warm even though he too was shivering. We quickly got to my house; Ross walked me up to my door. “Thanks for having me over.” I looked up at him “Anytime! I’m happy I met you today” I smiled “Hey, I never got you’re cell number.”I said, he smiled down at me and held up his finger, and pulled out his phone, and I pulled out mine, we exchanged phones, putting our numbers in each others phone. I returned his phone, and he returned mine. We stood there for a bit, he looked down at his phone. “Hey, Kairi, would you maybe like to the go surfing with me tomorrow, just you and me though. I’ll lend you one of Rydel’s surfboards.” He said looking up from his phone into my eyes. “I would love too Ross.” I got up on my tippy-toes and kissed his cheek, “But I think I should go inside now, dad’s waiting. Text me when you get home” He smiled “Will do.” He gave me a quick hug and walked away. I opened my door.
“Dad! I’m home.” I yelled out “I’m in the kitchen.” I walked over to the kitchen to find my dad doing the dishes. I plopped myself on the counter. “So what’s up? Why did I have to come back so early?” I asked looking at the clock, 12:34. “Well, it’s nothing really major, just that the doctor called to day. Your tests came back...-” A bout a month ago, I went into get a whole bunch of tests done because I keep fainting, and I’m always dizzy, and I out of no where had really bad memory. “-You have both low sugar and low iron count. He said that you’ll need to take these special pills to keep you balanced with your iron count; he said it’ll take away the dizziness and such and with your blood sugar he also said that you’ll have to prick yourself 15 minutes after you eat a big meal. When I got off the phone with him, I went out and got the pills and the little pokey thing; I have no idea what it is called...” I just sat there trying to process all that he said. He looked at me, I looked at him. “Kairi, did you eat?” I nodded my head and he walked over to me. “Okay I’m going to just show you how to use this.” He pricked my index finger and put pressure on my finger so it would bleed. I just sat there watching all this. The blood came out of my finger and the little contraption read a number. “Alright so it seems that you’re good right now.” He handed me the thingy and the pills and gave me a hug, and patted my head. I for some reason couldn’t wrap my head around to when he just said, probably why I need pills... “Alright, well good talk. I’m just going to go play with Gub-Gub” I said, and hopped down the counter, “Or maybe shower, I feel like the ocean.” And started my way out of the kitchen, “Alright hun, you do that.” My dad called out to me. I ran up to my room and closed the door behind me. I walked in the my bathroom to put the pills and stuff on my counter and walked out to sit on my bed, Gub-Gub jumped up to sit next to me, I didn’t even have to touch him and he was purring. I just sat there, until my phone vibrated, I looked down to see that I got a text from Ross.
