sweets || bryce hall

Chapter 43: BOR-ing

-less than an hour later-

Bryce POV

Rory and I lay on the couch, her cuddled into my arms as we watch her favorite TV show, NCIS. I like it... sort of. The episodes are so long, and it gets boring, but she absolutely loves it so somehow it's always worth it.

Although, it's annoying when I'm sitting here watching it, trying to pay attention, when she's sitting here, giggling while she texts someone. I want to get jealous, but to be honest, it's hard with Rory. She gets scared of any situation where she thinks I would get remotely jealous because she doesn't want to upset me.

Which isn't even remotely how I want her to feel in this relationship. I don't want her to ever fear me, or have me make her uncomfortable. So I hold back if I don't know anything.

Especially after that conversation we just had, I just want us to be happy.

Suddenly she sits up and looks at me, "Can I go over to Dixie and Charli's? We have an idea, and I need they're help." I raise my eyebrow, answering,

"I mean yeah, I don't care. Just be safe and text me when you get there and what your plans are?" She just eagerly nods, looking back down at her phone and typing away, probably texting Charli. I shake my head smiling at my girlfriend before looking back towards the TV and turning it off with the remote, cutting off one of Gibb's speeches.

Rory jumps up running to grab her favorite vans, slipping them on, before running back, pecking me on the lips, before giddily squealing and running out the door. I just chuckle and shake my head. I love the brief moments where she's like that. Where her personality peeks through all the trauma.

I guess I have to film some Tiktoks here alone now. And hope she remembered to order an uber.

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Rory POV

"RORY!" Charli yells, running up to me as I stand in the doorway. I felt awakened just walking into their home, but the door was wide open so...

She wraps me in a hug, pulling me into the front entry. Dixie walks over and hugs me, clearly excited, making me smile. I love these girls.

"Do you really want to do this?" Dixie asks. I look between the two taller girls, and nod. They both squeal, pulling me towards and up the stairs.

We all sit on Charli's bed, facing eachother and I take out my phone. Charli instantly snatches it and opens the app store, typing.

"We all saw the post that Bryce put up, are you doing okay?" Dixie asks, laying back on some pillows, holding her phone above her face.

"Yeah, I don't know. Talking to Bryce about it just made me realize, if I'm going to live here in LA, and date him, and hang out with all of you, I can't just ignore this whole side of all of you. I need to be on social media to some extent, if for nothing else but to support my besties!" I raise the pitch at the end making us all laugh. That's what we were texting about earlier, talking about if I had Instagram I could hype up Charli and how pretty she is, and Dixie for how beautiful her and her voice is.

Then somehow we decided I actually should.

"Okaaaay, Rory, what do you want your username to be?" Charli look up at me.

"What is normal?"

"You could just do your full name," Dixie suggests only for Charli to scoff,

"No! Rory has so many nicknames, that would be BOR-ing! What about roryhopexx or roro or something like that?"

"What about rorykins?" They both look at me strangely at the suggestion, so I shrug, "Josh said it the other day, I don't know."

"I can try it," Charli types for a second, "How about 'rory.kins' like with a little dot in between?"

"I like it," Dixie nods. Charli types a few things more, saying,

"Okay your password is 'xxrorykinsxx' and I'm going to connect it with your contacts. What about your name? Just Rory?" I shrug so she nods and type more. She looks at Dixie and asks something about making it private.

"Yeah especially until she talks to Bryce and everything is good. Does he know you're here doing this?" Dixie looks at me as Charli clicks things.

"He knows I came over here, but he doesn't know we're doing this. I know he'll be okay with it, but the idea of all of th-those girls being a-able to comment..." I start to stutter, but Charli quickly says,

"If it's private they won't be able to see what you do, only people who you accept to follow you." She smiles at me and I nod. "So we're going to follow me, Dixie, mom, dad, the family account, Noah, Curtis, James, Larray, Chase, Thomas, Mia, Kouvr, Alex, Paper, Patty, Calicin, Michael, Tayler, Nate, Kelianne, Chase, Nick, Ryland, Jaden, Josh, Griffin, Kio, Blake, Anthony, Avani, Mads, Addison, Sheri, Monty, Enzo, have you met Enzo? Eh whatever he counts, Tony, Ondreaz, Hannah, Sienna, Jack, James, Nikita, Nessa, Olivia, Bryant, Jaden Barba, Madi, Cynthia, Quinton, Ava, Lauren, Devi, who else?" She looks at me and Dixie and I just shrug. I don't know?

"Markell, Noen, Jason, Sommer, Jeff, Angel, Tana, Imari, Mario, Ravon, David? This is haaaard! We met all these people over time, yknow?" Charli nods as Dixie speaks, typing in the names. "Oh my god Charli!" Dixie exclaims in frustration, "You literally forgot Bryce, her boyfriend!"

"Ooooooooohhhhh yeah. That's important." Charli nods like ten times before laughing along with Dixie and I as she types in their names.

"I think that's a pretty good list for you," she hands me my phone, after we've all finished laughing, and I stare at the screen in front of me. My eyes are wide as I click some buttons.

"Oh my god, CHARLI! We have to teacher how to use it!" Dixie groans and I wince.

"I-I'm sorry, I can ask s-someone else to teach me or-" I start stirring at the annoyed look on Dixie's face, which instantly melts as she shoots up.

"No, no, no, Rory it's fine. I was kidding. It's just going to take a while, it's fine. We can go through this and then show you Tiktok." She smiles at me, Charli doing the same.

"We also have to text everyone and tell them to request to follow you, which will be a whole process. Otherwise though, you're account will get completely lost and none of them will find it. But that'll be fun, when we can post you looking pretty and stuff," Charli grins, clapping.

I smile, completely lost but kind of secretly excited.

"Thank you guys, seriously," I can't believe this is actually happening.

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PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHO I MISSED IN THE LIST FOR HER TO FOLLOW! I HAVE TO GET UP IN THREE HOURS, SO I RUSHED IT!  (ps later- i think i fixed it but tell me if i didn't)

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