Odd Ones Out (MINICAT)

♡Chapter thirty-eight♡

Craig's pov

It's been a few months since I've moved to LA and so far things are going pretty good. Chelsea and I have gotten a lot closer over the last few months. She's actually from here and she's gay! Just like me! Turns out people here are a lot more open and nice to gay people which made me love the place even more.

Tyler and I facetimed every night for hours along with Evan and the others. Tyler was coming to LA in just a few weeks and I was literally shitting myself from how excited I was. It's been months since I last saw him and that was at the airport back in town where he is now. God I miss him so much...

"Craig? Hey earth to Craig?" Chelsea says while waving a hand in front of my face. I shake my head quickly and turn my attention back to her. "Sorry, spacing out." I answer as she leans back in her seat and places her hands in her lap. "Thinking about Tyler?" She asks, tilting her head to the side. I chuckle and nod making her giggle. "Of course, that's all you can think about now a days. Say is he coming for the holidays?" She asks while writing a few things in her notebook as the teacher talked about music shit.

"Yes actually, I can't wait for you guys to meet him." I exclaim quietly while following in suit, writing what the teacher had on the board. "What does he look like?" She asks. I giggle and look up at the board from my paper. "Gorgeous." I answer making her laugh. "Whatever. He's probably ugly like you." She nudges my side making me roll my eyes playfully. I knew she was joking, we always did this with each other. Joked about crushes, or in my case Tyler and any girl she liked.

Chelsea was a very pretty girl I had to admit. Guys would basically drool when she walked by in the halls which always made me laugh because she was gay, and everyone thought she was with me which we both found super funny.

Just then the bell rang signaling class was over for the day, or for everyone else. Chelsea and I had a meeting with Simon about some shit, yay.

We walked down the halls chatting with each other until spotting him leaning against the doorframe of his office making us gulp. Don't get me wrong he's not a mean person he's just, scary.

We walk up to him and smile, he smiles back and gestures for us to go into the office to which we do and take a seat in the two chairs in front of his desk. He closes the door and walks over to the other side of the desk and sits down then looks to us with a grin.

"so Craig, how has your violin practices been going?" He asks. And yes, I have been taking violin lessons. More so forced too since at this school they wanted to widen your selection of instructments to play. Cause apparently the more the better, and I just had to pick the most advanced and difficult one to play. But I like a challenge.

"They've been going good I'd say." I reply while leaning back in my seat and taking a glance to Chelsea who was beside me. Simon nodded and looked to her. "And how have your singing lessons been going?" He asks. She goes on about how amazing and how much better she's gotten over the course of the last few months before Simon looks to me again.

"Now Craig, I heard you're going to be having some company over for two weeks was it?" He asks. I quickly straighten my posture and nod. "When will they be arriving?" He asks. I take a glance to Chelsea and then back to him again before chuckling nervously. "Well I don't know the exact date but in two weeks I think." I answer. He hums and leans back in his chair. "What's their name?" He asks. "Tyler Wilde." His eyes widen a bit making me confused. "He's the boy who got the other scholarship, isn't he?" My eyes widen also. "How did you know?" I ask, leaning forward a bit. "Me and your principal talked." I blush and lean back again.

"Anyways, you will be taking full responsibility of him, won't you?" He asks. I quickly nod, not being able to hide the smile forming on my lips. "Then it shouldn't be a problem with him staying, but I would like to meet him." I smile and look over at Chelasa again as she smiles at me. "Okay, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear about this." I say while pushing myself up from the chair, Chelasa following in suit.

"Good day to you two, hope to he seeing you again tomorrow." He says while waving us off. We wave back while making our way to my room. Chelasa and I liked hanging out there since we both liked watching the sunrise/sunset and then party all night.

"Hey Craig?" She says as she drops her bag on the chair by the front door of the dorm as I turn to her and fall back into my couch. "Hmm?" I reply while kicking off my shoes. "Can you call Tyler? I wanna hear his voice." I cock my eyebrow at her but do so anyways.

"Hey baby!" Tyler exclaims from the other side of the phone. I giggle and watch as Chelasa comes and sits beside me on the white couch. I bring the phone away from my ear and put it on speaker so she could hear as well. "Hey Ty, Chels is here by the way." I reply. "Hiiii!" Chelasa yells into the phone making me giggle. "Hi Chelasa." Tyler says making her giggle.

"Anyways why did you want me to call him?" I repeat as I look at her. "I wanna know what he sounds like so that if I somehow see him before you do I can greet him!" She exclaims. I giggle as does Tyler from the other side. "You guys are so weird." He says. We both look at each other and laugh before glancing back to the phone in my hand.

An hour or so passes and I'm still on the phone with Tyler. Chelasa had made us coffee and was sitting outside watching the sunset as I stayed inside and talked to Tyler some more.

"I can't wait to see you." I say quietly into the phone. "Same, what should I pack? All I have is sweaters since it's almost winter over here." I giggle, having completely forgotten about that. "A few sweaters since it's starting to get quite chilly here too. But some t-shirts as well. Shorts and Jean's. Stuff like that." I answer. Tyler hums before movement could be heard on the other line then a loud sigh from him. "What was that?" I ask, tilting my head and holding my phone between my shoulder and cheek. "Oh I was just packing." I chuckle and look out the window at Chelasa who was peacefully watching the sunset while sipping from her cup. "Isn't it a little early to be packing?" I ask. He chuckles himself causing me to become confused. "Oh Craig, it seems I forgot to tell you. I'm coming earlier then we planned." My eyes widen as I almost drop my phone. "How early are we talking about?" I basically whipser. "Two days." "WHAT?!" I yell, causing Chelasa who was still outside to jump slightly and almost throw her cup over the edge. She turns around and glares at me making me laugh. "W-what?" Tyler says. I quickly gain control over myself, trying hard not to squeal. "N-nothing! Chelasa was just startled by my shout." "YA THINK?!" She shouts from outside making both Tyler and I chuckle. "Well I better get packing, see you soon. I love you." "I love you too." With that I hang up on him.

I bring the phone to my chest before hearing the sliding door open and close to reveal Chelasa holding her now empty cup. "What? Why you got that look in your eyes?" She asks, raising her eyebrow at me and placing the cup on the coffee table. "Tyler's coming early." I say, the smile never leaving my face as I walk over to the couch and plump down. Chelasa giggles and sprends my legs and sits between them. We actually did this a lot, cuddled with each other, as friends of course. I never thought of it differently. We're just, super close. (I used to do it with some of my girlfriends when I had them)

I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her closer to me as she places her hands on top of mine. "That's amazing, are you going for your jog in the morning?" She asks. I nod my head as she leans back against me. "Wake me up when you do, I wanna tag along." I giggle but nod again. "Okay. Goodnight." She giggle and shifts slightly in my arms before sighing loudly and smiling. "Night Craigy." I roll my eyes and close my eyes. Even thought I had a perfectly comfortable bed this couch was also pretty comfortable.

I soon drifted off to sleep, thinking about Tyler and how excited I was to see him after such a long time.