c h a p t e r • 24

^RIP Cameron Boyce/childhood crush❤️❣️😭^

*i literally cried watching that (and every other videos with him in it)

Lili's POV

The next morning, guess what I woke up to.

You're probably wrong.

I was really hoping to wake up to a not specific sexy face but, no.

The universe thought it would've been better to wake this bitch up to a massive hangover AND as if that's not enough, DUCKING DISGUSTIING DOG DROOL!

Don't get me wrong, I love dogs.

What I definitely don't love is freaking dog drool or any type of drool on my face, AT FREAKING 7AM!

I groaaned as DJ jumps of my bed, wagging its tail.

"Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew." I grimace as I hurriedly walked to the bathroom.

I wash my face with some face cleanser and thank the Lord, no drool got in my mouth because that would be disgusting.

DJ walks in my bathroom, innocently wagging its tail and looking at me sheepishly.

"I really can't stay mad at anyone as adorable as you." I ruffle its head and walk out the bathroom with the dog behind me.

"Oggy! Please play with DJ, I really need to sleep!" I yell and smile when I hear his footsteps running to my room.

How the hell did he hear that? I must be really loud despite my brain exploding.

Oggy comes rushing in and frantically looking around.

"Where is he?!" His head moves left and right and stops when his eyes land on the fluffy animal behind me.

"There you are!" Oggy says and chases him around until they finally leave my room and I, in peace.

Finally.

I sigh and plop on my bed like the potato I am.

"You look horrible." A voice says from my doorway and I groan but it's muffled by my bedsheet.

"I should really lock that door next time." I mumble into my bed.

Landon sits himself on my bed and ruffles my hair.

I look up and glare at him before slapping his hand off.

"Hair is off limits, pretty boy." I say and he puts his hands up in surrender and chuckles.

"I'm glad you finally got out of that little bubble you were in when I last saw you about 3 years ago." He smiles softly.

"Not as glad as me. I used to let them walk over me like I was the floor. Literally." I roll my eyes and he laughs lightly.

"True. What made you finally give in though?" He asks with an eyebrow raised.

"What are you doing here?" I ask, trying to avoid that topic.

"The whole fam is here. Now, tell me." He says and a huge grin makes its way on my face.

"You mean everyone?!" I say, excitedly.

"Yes, everyone. And you won't meet anyone until you tell me." He narrows his eyes at me.

I roll my eyes. "I used to get bullied a lot and it got worse when Heather decided to backstab me and ditch me for popularity. I wasn't just mentally bullied, but physically too and when she made out with a boy which she knows I liked I just couldn't take it anymore. After they gave me a beating? I ditched school and went home to pack my stuff and hopped on a plane to England."

To say he looked mad was an understatement. He looked ready to kill and I'm not volunteering to become his first kill.

"Now, can I meet them?" I jump up and down.

"Why didn't you tell anyone?" He asks.

"You know how I am. I tend to keep these stuff to myself, Lan." I say and he hugs me, catching me off guard.

I hug him back and smile.

We pull away and he smiles at me.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't be there for you." He apologises.

"Shut up. You did nothing wrong." I slap his arm.

He rubs his arm and glares at me playfully.

"What do you eat, woman?" He mutters.

"I didn't even hit you that hard." I say. "Now let's go!" I pull him by his shirt.

He chuckles and we walk downstairs.

Everyone were engaged in conversations and I grin when I see someone special who's sitting on a couch.

I sneak behind him and put my hands over his eyes.

"Guess who." I say in a deep voice.

He chuckles and hums as if thinking hard.

"Is this person, really short, has brown hair, really annoying and hates mint ice cream?" He says.

"Wrong! Yes, I have brown hair and I hate mint ice cream but I am not short and I'm not annoying." I giggle and remove my hands from his face.

He stands up and turns around.

"Look at you! You look so different since the last time I saw you." He says, engulfing me in a warm hug.

"Well, to be fair I was 12, the last time you saw me, uncle Ashy." I smirk.

"Just like your dang mother!" He rolls his eyes playfully.

"That's my girl." My mum chimes in and I laugh.

Finn (Jenna's son) walks in from the kitchen and we look at each other for a while before grinning and jump into each other's arms.

"I missed you!" I say, into his shoulder.

"Missed you more." He says. "You've grown so much. But you look like you got attacked by a flock of birds."

I glare at him and flick his head.

He glares at me and I smirk.

"Lili, you should really change for breakfast." Finn whispers into my ear.

"Yeah sure." I say. "Morning people." I mutter, walking up to my room.

A certain someone catches my eye and I make eye contact with him.

Why is he everywhere? Not that I'm complaining.

-•-

After catching up with everyone and finishing breakfast, I ended up in front of a sink full of dishes.

You may be thinking; aren't they loaded? Where are the maids? Yes, we are loaded but we still have to do chores. The maids are not allowed to do our chores and sadly, today it's my turn. And what's worse, we have to clean the dishes by hand.

I was busy scrubbing and cleansing off my sins which were really stubborn, when I feel someone's presence behind me.

"Need some help." He asks, inches away from me.

"Maybe." I mutter, still scrubbing.

He goes to my side and grabs a pair of clean gloves before rolling his sleeves up.

Holy shit, that's hot.

He starts washing off the soap from the dishes which I had applied earlier.

"Never thought I'd love to see the day Mr. Giraffe himself, do dishes in pink gloves." I smirk.

"Only for you, Shortcake." He winks at me.

He did not!

I gasp and put my hand over my heart.

"Ryder Blacc, did you just...flirt?!" I say, dramatically.

He rolls his eyes and gives me a blank look.

Finally, finished with the dishes we put away the gloves and wash our hands.

I was about to thank Giraffie but saw that he had some dish foam on his hair.

I stiffled a giggle.

How the hell did that get there?

"What's so funny?" He asks without a hint of emotion.

"Your hair..." I trail off and stand on my tippy toes but this diddlehead is too tall.

"If you could just..." I trail off and he magically becomes taller.

I put my hand on his shoulder to make him shorter but all I felt were tingles.

I groan and huff.

"Fine. If you want foam on your hair then so be it." I say.

A small smile makes its way onto his face and he crouches down a little.

And finally, the annoying foam is gone.

I don't know why I was so hell bent on getting rid of it.

I thanked him for helping me and I was about to leave, when he grabbed my wrist and traps me in between him and the sink.

I can't bare the cliché.

"I already thanked you, no need to go all beast on me." I roll my eyes. A hot beast.

"I don't like it when you get all touchy with that Finn guy." He narrows his eyes at me.

"And I care why?" I say in a voice that sounds like I'm talking to a 4-year-old.

"You don't want to know." He says in a husky voice.

"He's literally my bestfriend and like a brother to me. And what if I want to know?" I smirk.

"Then-" He got cut off by Aunt Tessa entering the kitchen. He immediately moves away from me and I distance myself from him a little.

She looks at us shocked before grinning mischievously. She takes a glass of water while we just stand there awkwardly.

"Don't mind me, lov-uh kids. Just thirsty." Aunt Tessa leaves the kitchen and goes back to wherever she came from.

"I'm just gonna go..." I trail off and hurriedly walk to the living room.

I see Sam talking to Landon. Well, it sounded more like arguing with Landon.

I rush over to her and grab Sam's arm.

"I'm just gonna drag her out of here before you guys destroy something." I say before muttering, "like the house."

I drag her to the theatre, where it's private and quiet. After that, we just talked and talked about life.

-•-

A/n: at this point I have no idea what I'm writing anymore...it's just a bunch of things I think in my head and type it down. Lol. Who else missed Ashy wushy?

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