❝everyone you will ever
meet knows something
you don't.❞
-billy nye

Her brothers' obnoxious laughter continued to echo throughout their hotel room as Cordelia nervously paced.

How could she have let this happen? How could she have been so stupid and grabbed the wrong luggage while not checking if it was hers? She had a feeling Charlie would probably be laughing with tears in his eyes.

"I'm delighted you find my problem amusing." Cordelia scowled as she waited for the stranger's message that he had arrived in the lobby.

"I'm sorry, Skeeter." Chris said, sitting up. "It's just you're one of the smartest people I know yet──"

"──Yet you've managed to do one of the dumbest things ever!" Scott completed and, with this, they erupted again into a fit of laughter.

She groaned. "Ugh! I swear if it weren't for your last minute change of plans I wouldn't be in this mess!"

She felt her phone vibrate in her hand and saw that it was a text from the person who had held her luggage.

TEXT FROM: UNKNOWN NUMBER

Here at the lobby. By their coffee shop.

The coffee shop? It was practically deserted there. But, nevertheless, Cordelia was desperate to get her luggage back and abundantly apologize to the stranger for the mix-up. She just hoped it wasn't a snobby up and coming movie star or singer.

"But, Skeeter," Scott piped up as his older sister was heading out the door. "What if the person is a serial killer? Or a stalker? Or someone who'd want to kidnap you?"

Cordelia scoffed, knowing he was probably watching too much cop shows and crime documentaries. "I'll be fine."

"Skeeter, please don't die." Chris added, "if you die, then Mom's going to kill us."

Laughing, Cordelia made her way out of the hotel room with the black luggage in tow. While inside the elevator, she checked the bag's luggage tag so she could at least put a name to the phone number. To her surprise, it was blank.

The lobby of the Haven Hotel was quiet and bled gold in their walls. It made sense that Chris would pick such an underrated hotel since he liked his privacy. The hotel was known for their top security and didn't have a lot of paparazzi lurking around.

Cordelia's blue eyes scanned the room until it landed on a tall figure standing by the coffee shop. Beside him was a black Kipling rolling luggage exactly identical to hers. From what she could tell, the man had a tall yet muscular build with dark medium length hair that went a little beyond his shoulders. His beard looked like it could compete with Chris'.

She walked right behind him and cleared her throat. "Uh, excuse me."

The man turned around and Cordelia widened her eyes just a little. She had seen this man before. Maybe he was in one of the movies that Chris and Scott had watched a lot when they were younger. When his kind brown eyes met hers, realization slapped Cordelia in the face.

"Keanu Fucking Reeves." Cordelia said under her breath.

Oh. My. God. This was the actor that her younger brothers practically worshiped growing up. As for her, she never really paid attention to what was on TV since she was busy with either soccer, homework, or baking.

However, she recalled their grandmother, Ruth Evans, taking Cordelia and her older sisters to the cinema to watch Speed when it was released way back in nineteen ninety-four. She was fifteen at that time and didn't really grasp why her older sisters were gushing over the main actor and that "they'd never look at a white t-shirt the same ever again".

Forward to the moment Cordelia was standing in front of Keanu Reeves in his white t-shirt and leather jacket glory, she finally understood the statement.

"Uh, Cordelia?" He said, unsure. "I think this is yours."

"Right." She said and rolled his luggage to him. To her relief, their hands hadn't brushed so he wouldn't get to feel how sweaty hers had become. "I'm Cordelia by the way." She cringed, "But, you already knew that. People call me Cora."

"I'm Keanu."

A few minutes of silence passed between the two since both were unsure what to say. Cordelia kept her eyes glued to the ground but she could still feel his gaze on her. She looked up and found his brows were furrowed as if he was trying to solve a puzzle.

Cordelia opened her mouth to apologize. "I'm extremely very sorry about the mix-up."

"No, no. It's okay."

"It's my fault, really. You see, I was on the phone with my dad because he had trouble finding his medicine."

"No problem. I understand."

"And then my battery died."

"I'm glad you replied to my texts."

"Would you like some coffee?" She offered, "My treat since I made you come all the way here."

"It's fine, really."

"Or I could pay you back for the Uber you took. It's no hassle at all."

Their over-lapping voices dissolved into quiet laughter both having bashful smiles on their lips.

"I'm sorry──" They both start. Out of habit, Keanu covered his mouth with his hand and Cordelia's eyes find their way back to the ground again.

"Are you staying here by yourself?" He asked and hoped she didn't think of him as. . .perverted.

Keanu was just merely curious. After reading the torn up page in her luggage, he hated to see such a beautiful──okay, so he had to admit that Cordelia Evans definitely had a smile that could make any man weak in the knees──woman felt so alone. Upon seeing her, Keanu would have guessed she had dozens of suitors lining up.

"Oh, I'm not." She answered, "I'm staying here with my brothers."

Keanu smiled. At least she wouldn't be alone. "That's good. No one deserves to be lonely. I mean, everybody needs somebody, right?"

Cordelia shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. But, not everyone finds one."

"Oh, you'll find your somebody." He checked his watch, "I should go. It's getting late."

"Right."

"It was nice meeting you, Cordelia──"

"Cora, please."

He nodded his head, his lips twitching into a smirk. "It was nice meeting you, Cora. You seem. . .lovely."

"Goodbye." She said with a bashful smile to which he returned.

As Cordelia made her way back into her hotel room, two things were on her mind:

1. OH MY GOSH KEANU REEVES THOUGHT I WAS LOVELY!

2. What would a successful Hollywood actor know about loneliness?

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chrisevans: a picture of skeeter as
she pays for our happy meals.
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username1: lol remember when we thought she was chris' girlfriend?? gOOD TIMES

username2: the evans family have good genes 🤩

username3: unpopular opinion: skeeter evans is actually the hottest of them all
───username4: AND she's a doctor 😲 talk about beauty and brains yummMMM
───chrisevans: can't believe ya'll find this mosquito ATTRACTIVE
───scottevansgram: username3 usernam4 thank you!! -skeeter
───scottevansgram: chrisevans i smell jealousy 😏 -skeeter

bambigray13: wow skeeter is getting more beautiful everyday!!!!
───chrisevans: why do you make it sound like she's your child, bambina 😂 she's OLDER than us
───scottevansgram: chrisevans yOU SALTY PIECE OF CARDBOARD AGE IS JUST A NUMBER -skeeter
───scottevansgram: bambigray13 bambi, break-up with my brother and be with me instead pls -skeeter
───bambigray13: scottevansgram sure thing, skeeter!!

username5: the fact that their older sister bought them happy meals and scott lets skeeter use his instagram account warms my heart frozen heart 💞💗💖💖💖💓💖💓
───username6: my brother sobbed when he found out our mom gave birth to me :/

username7: wait wait wait wait there's another evans?! how many are there??
───username1: username7 there's five of them: ruth, elizabeth, skeeter, chris, then scott
───username7: awEEE SCOTT IS THE BABY OF THE FAMILY
───scottevansgram: username7 i'm the cutest one too 😌
───chrisevans: scottevansgram debatable

username8: is chris still in la?? i thought he was getting married
───scottevansgram: username8 chris, skeeter and i are having a pre-bachelor party and it's gonna get wild
───chrisevans: username8 translation: we're inside our hotel rooms watching disney movies and, when scott says "it's gonna get wild", he means that we're about to switch to pixar movies 🙃

username9: did momma evans hate skeeter or something?? i mean, her siblings have normal names yet she's called skeeter
───username10: username9 she's a skeeter boy
───username9: username10 she said see ya later boy
───username4: username9 username10 ya'll very PUNNY
───scottevansgram: username9 it's just a nickname 😊 -skeeter
───chrisevans: scottevansgram BECAUSE SHE BIT OUR GRANDPA
───scottevansgram: chrisevans LIKE THERE WAS LEGIT BLOOD COMING OUT FROM HIS ARM BECAUSE SKEETER WAS WEARING BRACES THEN

anthonymackie: this family concerns me

imsebastianstan: LEAK THE PICTURE OF SKEETER WITH BRACES LEAK THE PICTURE OF SKEETER WITH BRACES LEAK THE PICTURE OF SKEETER WITH BRACES
───scottevansgram: imsebastianstan i was going to say that i missed you but now i wish you'd get eaten by a shark when you go swimming in hawaii -skeeter
───imsebastianstan: scottevansgram awee skeeter honey i was just messin with ya 😅

username5: HOLD UP SKEETER AND SEBASTIAN????

username6: whAT SKEETER AND SEB WTF

username9: Q & A WITH SKEETER EVANS PLEASE

AUTHOR'S NOTE
bambi gray is my
oc from my chris
evans fic so there's
that teEHEEE