It's Not Goodbye, It's BRB

Chapter 8

“Ugh! EWW!” my eyes fluttered open to see Kian and Connor standing by the bed “Dear god put some clothes on” Kian said covering his eyes and throwing me his shirt.

“Hey, I’m just glad they decided to do it while everyone was gone - imagine if we were like in the living room or something” Connor said shrugging.

“What even are you guys doing here” I said putting on Kian’s shirt and a pair of sweats laying on the floor. “I thought you were going out”

“We were, but Trevor got sick so we came back” Ricky said walking in the room eating a bowl of cereal “Damn that boy can sleep” he walked over to Jc poking him.

“Yeah he only really gets up if you lure him with food.” I laughed sitting on the bed “What time is it anyway”

“Like 1am or something” Connor said checking his phone “So you gonna come join us in the living room?”

“Sure, but let me pee first”

When I got into the living room all the boys started whopping and wolf whistling at me “Shut up - I’ll kill you.” I said chuckling as I plopped on the couch and burring myself in Sam, we chatted and watched reruns of Friends for a while.

“So are you going to wake up that boyfriend of yours, or just let him miss out on all of this ‘bonding time’ ” Ricky said smiling and cocking an eyebrow at me.

“Ugh, no don’t wake the beast” Ricardo said rolling his eyes - but I was already in the back room.

“Oh hey” I said seeing Jc lying in bed checking his phone.

“Hi” he said sleepily setting his phone down “people are pissed about me leaving vidcon early today” he sighed loudly

“Aww, I’m sorry babe” I said sitting on the bed - I kissed his cheek and grabbed my phone. I had a lot of twitter notifications, it was madness - I was used to like some, you know because I was friends with Kian and Sam but this amount was just ridiculous. I scrolled through seeing that they were all from viewers getting upset with me for what happened earlier with Jc - they were calling me a slut, cold hearted, and ugly saying ‘I didn’t deserve Jc anyway’ stuff like that.

“Kaitlyn, what’s wrong” he moved closer to me, rubbing my lower back.

“Here” I said hiding my face so he wouldn’t see the tears forming in my eyes - I handed him my phone.

At first he didn’t say anything he just pulled me into his arms and I broke down sobbing into his chest. “They’re wrong you know” he whispered in my ear stroking my hair “all of it is wrong” he kissed my forehead and continued to hug me - we just sat there like that for a while, until I was finally able to calm myself.

“All I wanted to do was wake you up so you could come out to the living room and ‘bond’,” I added making fun of Ricky - I lightly chuckled wiping my eyes.

“I’d love to” he said sliding off the bed. “Have you seen my sweats?”

“Oh, haha I think I might be wearing them” I said standing up and sliding them off and throwing them to him.

“Thanks” he slid them on as i rummaged through my bag looking for a pair of cheer shorts and pulling them on.

“Ok let’s go ‘bond’ ” he grabbed my hand and lead me to the living room.

“Oh round 2?” Sam laughed as we both sat on the couch.

“No” I looked at him “I wish” I laughed nervously.

“There was a bit of a issue we needed to deal with” Jc said

“What do you mean issue?” Kian’s head snapped from the tv to me his eyes full of worry.

“There were some people on twitter expressing their opinion about Kaitlyn and the situation earlier” Jc tried to explain the situation and just ended up handing Kian the phone. All of the boys huddled around my phone scrolling for what seemed like ages.

“Oh wow - I’m sorry hun.” Kian said coming over and hugging me “don’t believe them, hate is just empty words”

The other boys came over and gave me a hug also, reassuring me that those tweets were nothing and just to ignore them. I smiled and thanked them for being such wonderful friends.

“Oh hey! Mean Girls is on Netflix!” Ricky said his face lighting up.

“Put it on man!” I yelled throwing my hands in the air and accidentally hitting Jc in the face.

“Oww! Watch yourself girl” he said rubbing his nose. “I don’t need someone else abusing me” he shot a look to Ricardo. 

Ricardo smugly smiled. 

“Sorry babe” I turned behind me and kissed his nose “but you know…Mean Girls”

I positioned myself on the couch so that my legs were stretched over Kian and Connor and my head was in Jc’s lap - he played with my hair as we all laughed along with the movie.

I looked around and saw that Sam and Trevor had already dosed off, I lightly laughed. My eyes became heavy and I slowly fell asleep hoping that tomorrow would be a better day.