Bent - Jaden Hossler

12.

Because of the size of Alice's apartment, Quinton liked to call it compact like it's owner, sleeping there with nine people was a nightmare. 

Most of them were just a pile on her bed but Noah was smart enough and brought a big air-mattress, so people were laying on the ground. 

Josh, the tallest of them, decided that he would sleep on the small couch which looked uncomfortable. 

Alice didn't sleep at all. 

It was too warm, even with open windows so she stayed on her balcony with the cats. It was like therapy for Alice. 

Just sitting there in the dark and cool night air while drawing a little and reading. 

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The sun was rising again when Alice looked in her cabinets how she could make breakfast for ten people. She couldn't so she left them a note, that she would go to the nearest ihop and coffee-shop. 

While she was gone the boys woke up. 

Not all at once but when Bryce let a glass fall, they all were up. They quickly got ready, knowing damn well that Alice was already done. 

Seeing as it took a while to get so many breakfast menus and ten coffee's, they all were ready in time, starting to set up the filming equipment, so that they could film while eating. 

They would have to sit on the bed in rows and on the ground as well. 

Alice struggled to open the door until Blake had enough and ripped it open. He was laughing loudly at what he saw. 

The cartons of four coffees were stacked upon each other, so high that he could barely see her face. Still laughing he took the hot drinks from her, setting them down on the kitchen counter. 

Jaden had taken Alice's keys out of her pocket, to get the rest out of the car. 

"Oh wow, you guys are done already." 

"Yeah, we thought that we could eat while filming." 

"Yeah sounds good. Are you sure that everybody will fit?" 

"We'll make it fit." 

Alice was surrounded by boys and it looked hilarious. She sat in between Kio and Quinton so that she wouldn't look too small but that didn't work out too good. 

Kio still was 5'8 and Quinnie was 5'7. She had told the boys to leave out the screaming part at the beginning, not wanting to scare her neighbors off. 

"Okay, guys. The promised video: Asking Alice questions that boys wanna know. We asked you for questions and we have some of our own." 

"We can do it clockwise." 

"Yeah, so Anthony would begin." 

Alice took a sip of her coffee and picked out something she wanted to eat. 

"Okay, I'll ask a simple one. Why do ya'll go to the bathroom, in groups?" 

"Well for one, it's safer in groups but also you have to touch up your makeup, somebody has something you need, you want to talk shit about people at the table, you make escape plans. It's basically a way where we can talk about everything." 

"Oh dang, that actually makes a lot of sense." Josh sat down his cup on his knee. 

"Okay, do you ever call guys 'slut' or something like that?" 

"Well you have to see it like that: If a girl has a high body-count, she's a slut or a whore but if a guy has a high body-count, he's a macho or charming. When girls are called sluts in those situations, guys should too. So yeah, I personally do that. Not often but when I really mean it. Bryce, your turn." 

"How common are push-up bras and why do you wear them?" 

"I personally don't I think my chest in proportion to the rest is quite big an-" 

"Jaden just laughed and nodded." 

"Why, you gotta snitch on me?" 

"But people just wear them to feel better, some tops, need them to look good, and some just like them. I can't tell you if it's common'" 

"I think Jaden is next up." 

Before he asked a question, he handed her the food she had set down, so that she remembered to eat. "What do you have in your purses?" 

"That's a good question!" 

"I have a power bank and every available cable and adapter for it in there, lipstick, tampons, a flashlight, tissues, pepper spray, makeup, sunglasses, my wallet and phone oh and snacks when somebody gets hungry." 

"Is it heavy?" 

"Sometimes, depends if I bring water but it's okay." 

Quinton handed his cup to Alice, knowing that her coffee was empty and that he wouldn't be able to drink it anyways. "Do girls honestly like the nice guys?" 

"Well, that depends on the girl Quinnie but yeah. I feel like we fall for the bad-boy-type in the beginning and we end up hurt. We either learn from that and go for a nice guy the next time or we don't and go for a bad boy again." 

"What do you feel like, like what is Jaden?"

"I think, he just looks like one of them and sure, he has done fucked up things but he is a really warm-hearted person and when he smiles, he can't even pretend like he is a bad boy." 

"Thank you for snitching on me Allie. What's with you guys today?" 

"That's what I am here for. Kio?" 

"What is the problem with leaving the toilet seat up? I know you get mad at Jaden sometimes."

"I don't get mad. I get annoyed. I just think that it's not very clean and hygienic and quite honestly it also annoys me looks-wise. Aside from that, Pebbles likes to play in it." 

"Oh yeah, Alice got cats." Blake and Noah let Alice through. She picked up the two cats that were laying on the counter and handed them to Kio and Quinton before she went back to get Mittens herself. 

"Okay the cat in my arms is Mittens, Kio has Peaches and Quin had Pebbles." 

"Who's turn is it?" 

"Noah's I think." 

"Okay. Why do you get so much satisfaction out of cuddling?" Alice had finished her food and everybody could see how she was struggling with the last few bites. 

"I honestly can't give you an answer to that. Some like it, some just don't. I can be a touchy person when I really like you or when I am really comfortable with you but some just aren't and when they finally cuddle, it's like a relief, it's like they are touch-starved. But it's different for everybody." 

"That's okay, so Blake has the last question." 

"This is really douche-baggy of me and the question is a shitty one but people asked me to so here I go: Why does it offend you, when we look at your chest or butt, it's meant as a compliment."