Unexpected Blessings

Unexpected Blessings Part 3

She'd been with the boys for nearly two weeks when one morning she woke up and sprinted to the bathroom. "Shit, you okay?" Rudy asked from the bathroom door as she laid her head on the toilet seat.

Glancing back at the shirtless boy she nodded before sticking her head back in the bowl and puking again. Feeling him moving her hair out of the way he rubbed her back as she tensed at the contact before slowly relaxing.

Over the last two weeks she'd slowly begun to relax around them and the three had fallen into a routine.

The first few days had been rocky. Evaline had kept to herself refusing to engage with anyone. However, every night the boys would come home with one or two of their castmates, Rudy would make dinner, Maddie would leave a plate on the side table, and then Rudy would come get her plate after she was done.

She'd met most of their castmates by now and despite her claim of not wanting any friends she had to admit Maddie and their other female castmate, Madison Bailey, we're starting to wear her down.

The second time Maddie came over before she'd left she'd handed a piece of paper to Evaline with her phone number on it and simply told her it was just in case she ever needed a friend. Evaline had yet to use it, but she did find herself being pulled into conversation with the girl when she was over at the apartment. 

The first time she'd met Madison she'd simply come in, plopped herself down on a beanbag chair next to her recliner, and had asked what she was watching.

When the glare Evaline sent the curly haired girl didn't send her fleeing for her life she simply moved the laptop to where the girl could see it and they proceeded to watch The Walking Dead together.  Any time the girl came to visit she'd insist on watching whatever Evaline was and would sit right next to her.

Evaline had to admit the two girls had grown on her.

However, the only male castmate she'd warmed up to was Rudy. Probably because he was so damn persistent. Every afternoon he'd either text or FaceTime her to see if she needed anything.

The first few times she'd ignored him, but then she'd begun to feel bad when he'd come home after being on set all day, cook dinner, and clean it up all without bitching, complaining, or demanding to know why she had ignored him.

Almost a week after coming to stay with them after everyone else had left and Chase had disappeared into his room she'd found herself sitting at the kitchen counter as he cleaned up from dinner.

It became a nightly routine of her listening to some crazy story about him growing up in Alaska that usually resulted in her laughing. She appreciated the laughter and the fact that he never asked her to talk about herself.

To show her appreciation Evaline would keep the apartment clean for the boys. She'd begun to make them breakfast in the morning, despite Chase's claim she was trying to poison them. While they were gone at set she'd clean the kitchen, the bathroom, and would do their laundry for them.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" Chase asked harshly looking in on Rudy holding Evaline's hair back. "What the fuck does it look like, genius? I'm fucking sick," she retorted, flipping him off.

One relationship that surely had not budged in the last two weeks was that of her step brother. They continued throwing insults at each other and most days just resorted to not speaking to one another.

"Well stay the fuck away from me," Chase told her, before disappearing back into his room. "I should go throw up in his bed," she grumbled, causing Rudy to laugh, as he helped her up.