Chapter 3 - Mike's House

4th December 2001:

2 Days later and I was at Mike's house, giving him a huge hug. "Good to see you again, come in and make yourself at home." He opened his arms letting me inside his mansion. The smell of his aftershave blocked my nose from any other smells. "Heh, not really interesting right?" Mike seemed like he didn't think his crib was amazing "Not really interesting? You gotta be kidding me, this place is awesome!" Everything was expensive and of high quality, I felt broke at that moment. My eyes shifted to a slender figure walking about 20 feet away from me. "Is that.. Chester?!" Chester appeared from the silhouette. I stuttered. "Oh hey its you Ruby. Mike's been telling me all about you" Mike's had been talking about me? Oh my God.. "Don't be shy come here!" I walked over and rested my head on his shoulders, we were the same height. "Taller than expected haha. I'm short" Chester spoke into my ears, I felt as if I were in heaven hearing his voice right in my ear. I chuckled a little and he wrapped his arms around me. 

"Anyway, lets sit down I wanna have a chat with you about something" Chester let go of me and threw himself onto the brown leather couch, followed by Mike doing the same. I calmly sat and laid back, waiting for the question Chester wanted to ask me. "So, do you like writing?" I looked flustered cause it was an unusual question "Yeah, why?" It was something I liked at the time "Do you wanna help me and Mike write some music?" I gasped a little and saw a bright smile carve into Chester's face "M-me?" Both boys nodded at the same time. "Oh my.. I um.. don't know if I'm THAT good" I added emphasis on the word 'that'. My poor confidence was smothering me but I pulled up the strength to take up the offer. "Fuck it, I'll do it. It's not everyday you get to write songs for your idols right?" I shrugged "Exactly, we ain't rushing you. You could start writing a day or week from now. Heck, even a year from now we ain't planning on making music for a few years" Mike made me intrigued for the future, the questions came to my head "What year are they releasing new music?" "What genre will it be?" and so on. "Be right back I'm gonna make some food. I'm fucking starving" Chester sprung from his seat, rushing to the kitchen.

The footsteps of Chester got quieter and I caught Mike staring at me intently "Ruby?" He leaned closer to me slightly making me go red. "Huh? Yeah?" I was too busy getting lost in his eyes. The butterflies were creeping into my stomach cause Mike's face changed from serious to flirty in a matter of seconds. "Can I tell you something? I can't keep it in" Redness spread around his whole face, this was something I eventually got to love more and more from him. "Go on" I scratched the back of my neck waiting for his response. He took a while to answer, I slipped out a quiet groan while growing impatient. I didn't realise how loud the groan was until Mike's face changed. "Sorry.. I uh.." He fell silent. I felt bad so I mumbled, "No its fine, I should be saying sorry. I'm just really impatient at times" His shoulders slowly went down, suggesting he was tensed up. How could a small girl intimidate a tall dude like him??

"I've grown to slowly love being in your company, I rarely feel like this but you're really cool" The rest of the tenseness in his body left like a balloon being popped. "Wow.. Uh really? How can a hot guy like you like being around a crazy fan girl huh?" I let out a bit of laughter cause I was so embarrassed "C'mon you know I go crazy over compliments!" Mike was fully red. "I didn't actually know that, well now I know how to tease you" I gave him a seductive look. Chester walked in with a sandwich and sat inbetween us. "You guys ok?" He raised one eyebrow while taking a glance at me and then Mike. "Uh yeah" I tried to think of a reason to look so red but Mike beat me to it "It's hot in here, don't ya think?" Mike rushed up and opened a few windows "Yeah I agree" I watched Mike open the windows "It's winter. How are you so hot?" Chester laughed. We all put on TV and watched it.

Later..

After all watching TV for a while, Chester jumped out his seat and ran to the door "What's up with you?" Mike asked him, "Sam has gone into labour" He began running again. Sam was his wife and she was pregnant. "Well I guess its just you and I now, heh?" Mike blushed "Yeah.." I was also blushing. "Wanna see some unseen footage from one of our shows?" I gasped a little as the words left his mouth "Of course!" I sat up cause I was slouched on the couch. Mike was gonna let me see some unseen footage, obviously I would wanna see that. Mike stood up, got the tape and slid it in the DVD player. The tape said "Hybrid Theory live November 19th 1999" Wow back when the band was called Hybrid Theory, which was now used for the bands first album.

By the end of it we were cuddled up and laughing "Can't believe my hair was blue back then" Mike laughed loudly "I love it, you look so cute" I cuddled him more "Wow you think?" Mike was rubbing my shoulder slightly, his palms were so warm. I nodded slightly and took my Nokia from my pocket to check the time "Shit, 7pm. I gotta head off Mike" I stood from the couch followed by Mike. We smiled "Thanks for today, i really enjoyed it" Mike hugged me tightly and we rocked side to side "You're welcome Mikey, bye" I rose on my tip toes to give him a goodbye kiss on the cheek. He opened the door for me "Bye" He looked shocked by the kiss which made me blush like crazy. 

When I got home I couldn't get mike outta my head "Why am I so crazy about him? He's just a boy, not a big deal" I paused in my thoughts "A hot boy though.." I said aloud, not meaning to. All I wanted was for Mike to cuddle me more and tell me I'm his. I snapped out of my fantasy I was in and went upstairs to bed..