Chapter 6

"ARE YOU MAD?"  Was screamed from Simon's room, causing me to jump.  It had been a week since the segway incident, and honestly?  Harry had been on my mind a lot more lately, Aaron never once told me I was beautiful.  Although he hadn't stopped texting me that he was going to figure out where I was and get me back.  JJ still didn't know about that, and until it escalated to something more, I planned on it staying that way. 

    I opened Simon's door without knocking, thinking he might have been dying or something.  Only to find out that of course he was playing a video game and not in any actual danger.  He looked back to see me in there.

    "Sorry," I whispered, going to close the door.

    "No wait, come here."  He beckoned me over.  The camera was obviously on, recording him, but I still went over by him, careful to stay out of shot.  There was a headset sitting on top of Simon and muffled voices could be here.  "It's Kelsey," he replied to one of of them and then looked straight into the lens of the camera.  "Kelsey is JJ's best mate, she moved in about a week ago.  Say hi," Simon looked at me as if he knew it was something that I had to do, for myself.  To change.

    So I did just that, and more.

    I pulled up another chair right next to his and plopped down.  "Hey...Everyone?"  It came out more as a question because there was no one actually around and who knew who would watch this video.  "What are losing at?"  I nudged Simon.

    "Trivial Pursuit and I'll have to know I'm in 2nd right now.  Ethan is in last, as usual.  Vik says hi by the way."

    "Isn't he in the other room?"

    "Yeah."

    "Tell him I said hi."  Watching Simon play this game was enough to make me cringe, so many questions he had gotten wrong, most of them were too easy.  Like the question that was the literal reference to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.  These bloody brits all got it wrong, even if they hadn't known it, that would have been the most acceptable guess.  "I can't believe you lot got that wrong.  It'd be way too easy to beat you all.  Who's winning anyway."

    "That's a lot of talk for the girl who hasn't even versed me in Fifa after losing to JJ.  Josh is winning, like always.  Maybe if he stopped picking the geography questions I'd have a chance."

    "Okay for the last time it was by one point and he cheated.  Maybe I should go into Josh's room to be on the winning team."  I could here Josh cheer about me being on his side and Ethan complaining about the questions not being fair.  It seemed fast, how quickly I've grown more comfortable with these guys, but living with people and seeing them everyday, it was almost inevitable. 

    Simon narrowed his eyes at me.  "If you really think you can do better, next time we all play, you're joining in." 

    "Fine."  In the end I actually did whisper a few of the answers to the blond boy and helped him get all the wedges he needed to come in first place.  The other boys knew he obviously cheater and still called Josh the winner.  While closing the video he thanked everybody for watching and told me to say goodbye.

    "Leave a like or a comment if you'd like Kelsey to start a channel of her own.  She's been wanting to but I think she could use more encouragement.  Thank you again, see ya."  Simon shut off his camera and looked at me with a goofy smile.  I couldn't believe he had said that, even though he could easily edit it out, I knew he wouldn't.  JJ had been telling everyone to pressure me into making videos, said it'd be good for me or something.  Like he would know.

    "I can't believe you did that!"  The fake anger in my voice was easy to see through.  I didn't care enough about the videos to have a reaction to them.

    "Honestly just make one, what's the worst that could happen?  You don't like it and delete it?"  We stared at each other while he basically forced me to think about what he said. 

    "You know what?  Okay.  But you need to help me because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing."  That was how I spent my morning.  Coopt up in Simon's room while he showed me how to make a channel and edit my profile better than most people who were just starting out.  To start off, he offered to record our Fifa game and post in on my channel.  As tempting as that sounded, an easy way out was to just make gaming videos like everyone else in this house.  But it wouldn't be something I was good at, there'd be no quality to my videos.

    "So what would you want to make?"  Simon asked when I told him that wasn't what I wanted my channel to be like. 

    "I don't know, I like doing makeup, not too bad at it.  Do you think that could work?" 

    "Yeah!  Why didn't I think of that?  Your makeup is always so nice," he replied without thinking causing my face to turn a deep red.  Then looked at me like he didn't mean to say it out loud.  Probably because he didn't want me to get the wrong idea, which I didn't.  "So, uh, when are you going to make your first video?"  Simon continued right after. 

    "Simon!  We're going to the field in about an hour for some football videos!"  Josh called from downstairs.

   

    "You sure you don't want to come with us?"  JJ asked for the third time as him, Josh, Vik, and Simon were all heading out the door.  I said no again and ushered them all out the door, shutting in and taking a breath of relief.  Only a week and a half here and I was already excited to get some alone time.  Being around all guys all the time I started yearning for female company, not that I have ever had any.  Then again I never had any friends at all.  I think I was just starting to realize that now that I was capable of having people care about me, I wanted it to expand from the people that were handed to me. 

    Alone time was amazing for the first couple of hours, then I ran out of shows to watch and hygienic routines to follow.  Even though I was still hesitant, today was the perfect opportunity to record a video.  No one was around to watch me and there was absolutely nothing else to do. Grabbing the video camera from JJ's room I went to my room and set it up so it was standing right next to my mirror in hopes that the people who might watch it can see what I see and am doing.

    Instead of making a tutorial on how to a natural look or a going out look that so many other people do, I wanted to use my makeup skills to the best of my ability.  Using only affordable, everyday makeup like foundation and eyeshadow, I made a simple full faced zombie for Halloween time.  It wasn't something new to me, having so much time on my hands before, getting good at makeup was just the first step.  Eventually, doing a normal routine got boring. 

    I did the best I could to explain everything I was doing and keep it light with a lot of energy.  It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, I guess watching the boys do it all  the time made it easy to catch on.  There were even a few jokes thrown in there every now and then, even though they probably weren't funny.  The only problem was I didn't know how to edit for shit so I would have to wait for one of the boys in get home to show me how to do that before I could even start. 

    In the meantime I migrated to the bathroom to wash the pound of makeup I was sporting off of my face.  All of the blacks and grays I had on my face swirled around the sink before going down the drain. 

    If you had asked me two weeks ago if this place was going to change me I would have laughed in your face.  The truth is, I was changing, fast and there was no stopping it even if I wanted to.  I still had a lot of anger inside of me, and was determined to close off whatever past I had.  But now I had ambitions, wanting to do something different and it's all because of these guys who wanted me to be happy. 

    A knock on the door made me jump.  Anyone who would come here would have just walked in.  I almost didn't want to answer it at first, then laughed at myself for being paranoid.  It could literally be anyone. 

    As soon as I opened the door I immediately regretted it.  On the other side stood the one person I never wanted to see again.  With his dark long hair and eyes to match.  Those eyes that hurt me more than anyone should ever be hurt.  I thought he had only existed in my nightmares from now on.  I was so wrong.

    It was Aaron.

Sorry for the short as fuck chapter but I wanted it to be left as a cliff hanger even though I'll probably post the next chapter like tonight if I have enough time. I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read this and the plot should be picking up so that's exciting thank you everyone be sure to comment and vote please<3