Chapter Four
"Shh, before you wake someone up." Austin hears. He opens his eyes and sees Layla and Leland sneaking out of the room. He rolls his eyes at them and begins stretching out, he almost hits Taylor with his arm forgetting she was next to him.
"Close one." He hears. He jumps and turns to his left. Chloe smiles at him and sits up.
"Jesus, you scared me." He whispers not wanting to wake anyone up. She laughs lightly.
"You just scare easily." She replies with a whisper. Austin glares at her and she shrugs taking out her phone.
"What time is it?" He asks sitting up.
"5:23." She says and he shakes his head.
"Then I'm going back to sleep." He says laying back down.
"Careful how close you get." He hears from Chloe. He turns towards her confused. "Taylor will kick you if she wakes up with your arm around her."
"I'm not going to do that, but thanks for the warning," Austin says and Chloe laughs.
"I know, but your face was just too funny." Austin shakes his head at her childishness and closes his eyes.
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"Ok, everyone up," Leland yells. He looks between Jack, Analyze, Julia, and Carson, but none of them move. He huffs and pulls the blankets off of Jack and Analyze. Analyze begins grabbing for it, but Leland pulled it off of the bed. "Analyze wake up, and then please get Jack up." He says and then walks over to Julia and Carson.
He pulls the covers and gets yells from both of them. "Get your lazy asses up." He says before walking to his sister. He smiles and shakes his head at her. She's sprawled out with the blanket half on her and her hair is completely covering her face.
"You plan on waking her up or am I going to have to?" He hears. He gives his girlfriend an amused look.
"Have fun." He says and gets ready to watch the show. Everyone else ends up in the living room and watches Layla go towards Taylor. Layla carefully goes to the other side and then begins tickling Taylor.
Taylor wakes up screaming and laughing trying to push her way. "I'm up, I'm up. Stop." She says pushing against her friend.
"You sure you're up?" Layla asks taking a break from tickling her. Taylor nods and then sees people in the corner of her eye. She turns her head and realizes everyone's staring at her. She turns back to Layla nervously. Layla notices Taylor's discomfort and turns to the group.
"Alright, people in the showers you all stink, and there's continental breakfast downstairs for about another hour." This gets everyone to scramble. "You alright?" She asks.
Taylor, still having her arms wrapped around herself nods. "F-fine." She says bringing a forced smile to her lips.
"Well, let's go get some breakfast before everyone else eats it on us." She says standing up and holding her hand out. Taylor smiles a little and takes her hand. Layla pulls her up and sees Austin's still in the room. He's by the mini fridge, but she knows he didn't want anything from it.
Taylor catches Austin's eyes and quickly looks away. She grabs a sweater that was on the floor and pulls it on. Judging by the smell she realizes it's her brothers. Layla and Taylor make their way down to breakfast and Taylor smiles as she smells the waffles.
"Oh, you liar." Analyze says slapping Jack as he chuckles. Taylor leans to Layla's ear.
"Why aren't they dating?"
"He hasn't grown to balls to ask her out." She replies and Taylor laughs. She then takes another raspberry from her plate and puts in her mouth. "You're obsessed with those."
"They're amazing," Taylor says putting her hands over them protectively.
"They're not that good," Layla says and Taylor gasps.
"How could you say that?" She asks and Layla rolls her eyes at her dramatic friend. "I could say that about chocolate."
Layla stops bringing her fork to her mouth. "Don't you say it." She says pointing her fork at Taylor.
"Chocolate is" Layla covers her mouth, but she still hears the end part, "gross."
"It's the best thing in the world, you're just messed up," Layla says crossing her arms. Taylor mimics her and smiles.
"Sure, I'm the messed up one," Taylor says and Julia laughs.
"You two act like little kids, but Layla is right. Chocolate is the best thing in the world." Julia says.
"Ha, two to one," Layla says and then she smiles. "Ok, everyone." She says getting everyone's attention from the table. Taylor shakes her head knowing what Layla's going to do. "Carson, you like chocolate?" She asks. He nods his head confused. Layla puts up another finger making it three. "Analyze?" She nods, making four fingers. Jack and Chloe also nod making it six fingers. She skips Austin knowing what he'll say and then turns to her boyfriend.
"You know I like my chocolate." He says and Layla smiles.
"Told you, you're the messed up one. Seven to one." She says and Taylor shrugs.
"Seven to two," Austin says.
Layla glares at her cousin. "But, you'll eat it occasionally." She says and he nods. Layla looks back at Taylor with a smile.
"So out of nine seven out of nine people like chocolate, so what?" She says and Layla smiles. She stands up and pulls her chair out a little. Taylor's eyes open wide and she shakes her head.
"Ok, you win, you win, just sit your butt down," Taylor says as Layla's about to stand on the chair. She smirks and sits back down in her seat. "Meanie." She mumbles and Layla laughs at her.
Once everyone's finished they head back up to the room, Julia calling the shower and Carson making a remark about it causing everyone to laugh. The group gets into the room and begins getting their clothes or items they'll need to take a shower. "Can I have my sweatshirt back?" Leland asks. Taylor takes it off and hands it back to him feeling cold. "Where'd you put yours?" He asks and Taylor shrugs looking around the floor for it.
"You left it in the van," Austin says walking past her to the other side of the bed. She nods her head and stops looking for it. She instead grabs a blanket and begins folding it. Austin helps and grabs the other one.
They put the bed back into a couch silently and Taylor mumbles, "Thanks," before walking to Layla. "You say I've meet your cousin, but I don't remember him one bit." She says glancing back over at him.
"It was my eighteenth birthday party. The drunk guy tripped into you spilling his drink all over your dress and Austin gave you his jacket for you to cover it up." She says trying to get her to remember him. "Um, he helped you find me so you could change after. Oh, he kept asking you to dance that night." She says and Taylor's eyes open wide.
"Wait, that cousin. The one that carried me after I broke my toes?" She asks looking back at him.
"Yeah," Layla says with a laugh.
"He looks so much different." She says watching as he talks with Jack about something.
"He's still got that crush on you," Layla says under her breath and Taylor turns to her.
"He does not." She says and realizes that she said it really loud causing everyone to look at her. Layla laughs and nods her head.
"So, you think he's cute?"
"What? I didn't say that." Taylor says wrapping her arms around herself. She knows her face is bright red and Layla keeps laughing at her.
"But you didn't say he wasn't cute." She says causing Taylor's face to redden even more. Just then Julia yells for Layla to hop in the shower. Layla pulls Taylor to the bathroom after her. Taylor still can't form words and Layla's dying of laughter.
"He also stopped that one guy that wouldn't stop hitting on me," Taylor says beginning to remember him.
"Who?" Julia asks getting dressed.
"Austin, at my eighteenth birthday party," Layla says and turns the water on.
"Oh," Julia says and then they share a look that Taylor doesn't understand. Layla hops in the shower and Taylor leans against the wall confused.
"How could I have not remembered him?" She asks to know one.
"Well, it was like..four years ago, we all were a little tipsy, and you did break three toes. I mean if I were you the only thing I'd remember was breaking my toes that caused me excruciating pain." Julia says beginning to put makeup on.
"Oh, I remember that, trust me." She says and wiggles her toes.
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"Everyone grabbed everything from the room right?" Leland asks after double checking. Everyone nods and continues to walk to the elevators.
Taylor takes the driver's seat and Chloe climbs into the passenger seat, while everyone else goes in the back to find a seat. "Here we come Flordia," Analyze says and the scream with delight. "Aka, time to get burnt," Carson says looking down at his very pale skin. Everyone laughs a little before getting comfortable.
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