The Christmas stranger

Chapter 3

I looked around the room and realized that I had successfully shut them up.

“Well?” I asked.

They all groaned except for Alice and James. They both grinned at me. I smiled back at them.

“Fine, my name is Brandyn Yousef, I’m 22 years old, and I love to hang out with my girlfriend Amy.”

The guy Brandyn said while smiling at Amy.

Allistar rolled his eyes but said,

“My name is Allistar Granger, I am 22 years old, I’m this brat's cousin.” He said while nodding in Amber’s direction.

“And I love to play video games,” he smirked.

Amber began grinning and said,

“My name is Amber Skerretti, I’m 21 years old, I love to read, and I’m currently writing a novel.” When she finished saying that she began giggling because she was so excited. I grinned at her.

I looked at Amy and who I now knew was Blade. I didn’t have to ask any one to talk because Amy began talking.

" My name is Amy Brown, I’m 21 years old, and the only thing I like to do is hang out with my boyfriend Brandyn.” She ended her part by jumping up and doing a back flip.

All of us looked at her with shock, except for Blade and Brandyn. Blade was looking at his phone and the only thing Brandyn did was smile and lift one of his eyebrows.

A shocked but smiling Alice said,

"Not in the house Amy.” She made a sheepish expression making everyone laugh. Well except for Blade. Blade was ignoring everybody.

I kind of expected him to go first, but instead, he looked at me, narrowing his eyes. I looked away and covered up the word Fucker with a cough. I caught Alice looking at me with a shocked smile. I looked down grinning.

"Okay, my name is Alice Dawson, I am 22 years old, I love reading and writing short stories, and I am engaged to James." Alice said, grinning at her lover. I smiled softly. And thought to myself,

'I wish I had someone.'

"My name is James Verwood, I am 23 years old, I love reading too, and I am in love with Alice Dawson." James said, also grinning at Alice. Okay, my turn.

"My name is Phoenix Parker, I am 20 years old, and I love to read the A Court Of Thorns and Roses series. I also love to throw a football. And it appears that I am the youngest person here. great." I muttered the last part to myself, or so I thought. I heard snickering and realized that Blade was looking at me and he was the only one snickering and the others were smiling at me. Well, more like smirking. There were four people who were just laughing with me. Me, forgetting that I had a wound on my forehead, brushed the hair out of my eyes and went to sit down so Blade could introduce himself. But instead he asked, sounding a little concerned,

"What happened to your head?"

"Oh that." I blushed awkwardly.

"I fell off my bed yesterday morning."

All he did was burst into laughter and looked back at his phone.

"It's your turn to talk, brother." Alice chided Blade. I looked at them confused. But no one answered my silent question.

"My name is Blade Dawson, I am 22 years old, I am Alice's older brother."

"By two minutes! "Alice interrupted.

"Whatever Alice. To continue my introduction, I also love to play football." He looked at his phone, then he looked at me and smirked. I made a face and looked down. I felt my butt pocket buzz and pulled out my phone. I put in the password and went to my text messages. I saw that Angel (my cousin) had texted me.

Angel: Yo, you left without saying goodbye!

Me: I'm sorry, Alice called me and told me to get on the road. So that's what I did. Plus you were asleep.

Angel: next time, WAKE ME UP!??

Me: wow, you're really mad. I'm so sorry.

Angel: You already said that!

Me: Again, Sorry

Angel: b***h STOP!

The next thing I know is she was face timing me.

"Really?" I asked, irritated.

"What's wrong?" Amy asked me.

"Oh, my cousin Angel is face timing me and she is really pissed at me. So hope and give me some luck." I said and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room. I answered the call and only listened.

"Hello Fucker, When are you getting home?" Angel asked me right as I pressed ok.

"Um, I'm not even sure. Hopefully, after my 21st birthday. Maybe even later than that." I told her quietly.

"Wait, when is your birthday again?" She asked me, making a face.

"January 15th, and you should know that because I keep saying that -"

"Yeah yeah, that the character, Azriel the shadow singer from your favorite books, the A Court Of Thorns and Roses series, has the same birthday as you." She said huffing at me. I looked at her shocked and irritated at the same time.

"What?" She asked me when she saw my face.

"You know that I don't like being interrupted and that I'm shocked that you remembered Azriel was my birthday twin." I said, grinning.

"Yeah, yeah what ever!" She said scowling. I began laughing really hard.

"Okay, see ya later. Talk to you tomorrow?" I asked her.

"Sure, I guess" She told me rolling her eyes. I grinned at her and ended the call. As I looked at my other text messages, I felt like someone was watching me, so I looked up and saw Blade looking at me. My jaw dropped and I couldn't stop the shocked sound that came out of my mouth. His eyes narrowed a little, but he smiled at me. I raised my eyebrows at him and he stalked closer to me.

"What are you doing standing there?" he asked me.

"Oh, I had to answer my cousin's face time call." I said looking back at my phone, but I wasn't seeing a thing. I could only listen to my crashing heartbeat. My heart began to beat faster when i realized something.

I had a crush on him.