Aesthetic - Jaden Hossler

13.

Alice fell asleep between the boys. Her body was swaying back and forth until Jaden pulled her against his chest. She now had something lean against and was able to rest her head.

Josh stood up and gave up the rest of his blanket to the sleeping girl.

The others came back at some point and the big group reformed.

The young adults and teenagers tried to keep their conversation quiet, to give the oldest of them the rest she earned and needed. They may not have known here for a long time but they could see how tired she really was.

Alice stirred in her sleep, mumbled a few words, and dozed off again. It was quite amusing, to be honest.

Addison kept checking on her, astonished that she even fell asleep.

When they all got colder they decided to go back inside. Anthony and Avani went to his room as well as Griffin and Dixie. Kio also went to his room. That left Josh, Jaden, Bryce, Charli, and the Easterling sisters.

Charli led a sleep drunken Alice to Jaden and Josh's room, where they collapsed onto a bed. Addison joined them and the boys decided to take the other bed.

They were still talking for a while but one after the other dozed off, which left Bryce to kill the lights at three am.

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Four hours of sleep was a lot more than Alice was used to, so when she woke up, really warm because she was wrapped in a blanket and was still wearing the boy's stuff, and looked at her phone, she was shocked at first.

After wrestling herself out of Charli's death grip, she walked through the house, being super quiet, trying to not wake anybody else up.

She looked for her bag, she had left it in the bathroom in the hallway. In said bathroom, she brushed her teeth (she was really thankful that she didn't forget to bring her toothbrush) and got dressed.

She finally did her hair and dosed herself in deodorant. Alice picked up her beret and positioned it on her head. She also decided to keep her makeup simple and just did her brows and lashes and added some highlighter.

The boy's clothes were folded neatly in her arm as she tried to get the door open with full hands.

Alice finally got the door unlocked when it got opened from the outside. Anthony looked her dead in the eyes and started to laugh when he saw how focused she was on trying to get the door open.

"I heard you struggle, so I thought that I would help you but looking at you, you seem to have everything under control.

 Alice stuck out her arm.

"Can you please take the clothes, they are getting heavy."

"Oh you can keep them, the things are too small for any of us."

Alice blushed but didn't object, she made a mental note to thank the others as well. "Oh, thank you. That is very nice."

Anthony still took the clothes out of her hand and gestured for her to open the bag. Together they fit everything in the bag that was now way bulkier than it was before.

Alice put down her bag in front of the big door that led outside and followed Ant to the kitchen.

"We can pick up food for everybody."

"Do you guys always eat out?"

"Mostly yes."

"Can I make breakfast?"

"Please do." 

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For the next hour Anthony helped Alice to cook breakfast, well he just gave her the things because she obviously didn't know where they are.

They set the table and covered the bacon as well as the pancakes so that they would still be warm.

"Let's go wake the others!"

Anthony was a lot faster when it came to walking (his legs were a lot longer) and reached Kio's and his room first so Alice ran up the stairs again to wake the others.

In front of the door, she had to pause for a second and take a deep breath, her glasses were foggy, and she was breathing heavily.

Sport wasn't her thing.

When she walked into the room she stumbled over a pair of shoes and fell to the ground. It was honestly a mystery how everybody was still asleep.

Alice decided to be nice and littered kisses all over Addison's face while gently shaking Charli.

With tired eyes the looked at the small girl and pulled her back into bed. Alice struggled in their grasp

"I made breakfast."

"What time is it?"

"eight-thirty I think"

Addison suddenly shot up in position.

"I want to wake the Boys!"

The three girls now stood in front of Josh's bed where the three missing people were. The others had now joined them, Griffin and Dixie woke up from Alice's fall as it turns out. They were brainstorming on what to do. Griffin came back with water bottles and a camera. Alice gulped.

"Don't you think that it's mean?"

"They deserve it, Allie. It will be fun!"

Alice still wasn't sure, they had been nothing but nice to her, but she joined her sister in front of the bed while the others stayed back.

Griffin at the front, ready to film everything.

Alice counted down quietly, bottle open and ready in her hand. On the count of three, they drenched the sleeping boys that now shot up, looked around, registered what happened, and ran after the sister'.

Addison didn't get far, Bryce was there incredibly fast and had her flung over her shoulder. 

Alice had more luck, well that depends on how you see it. She ran out the door but now had Josh and Jaden chasing her.

We already established that sport wasn't her thing, now bear in mind that she was a full twenty-six centimeters shorter than the boys.

She sprinted down the stairs, desperately trying not to fall with Josh and Jaden hot on her tail, following them was the mob of people that were left over, Bryce with Addison over his shoulder first, followed by Griffin with the camera.

Downstairs she hid in a cabinet in the kitchen. The house full of boys barely had anything in their cupboards so when she crouched down, hugged her legs, and held still she was able to hide there well.

Turns out Jaden and Josh had been too cocky and had given her a little time and now weren't able to find her.

Anthony on the other hand knew exactly where Alice was hiding, they talked about it while cooking.