Let Yourself Fall // sequel to My Ethan Karpathy

Chapter 97.

BRAIS POV:

I hear a door click, and we both are shocked awake. She bolts upright next to me and looks at me in the same, horrified stare as I am looking at her with. Mums home. Paisley leaps out from under the covers and digs around her pile of clothes, looking for her pyjamas. She eventually finds a pair of shorts and a random t-shirt.

"We're home!" I hear mum shout.

I pick up a random shirt that was at the end of my bed and put it on. I jump into bed, messing the covers up. I can hear mums heels in the kitchen, I also hear another pair of footsteps. Dad.

"Brai!? Why is your shirt all the way down here?" She calls. Shit, we left it down there.

Paisley slides under the covers again and pretends to sleep, so I do the same. I hear the heels coming up the stairs, and I force myself to keep my eyes shut. She stops outside my door.

"Guys, you need to get up. Brai, you have your drivers test today." she says, walking away. She knows whenever I'm faking something, sometimes I think she really is my mum.

I totally forgot about the test today, though. I leap up out of bed and run to my cupboard. I pull out random jeans and a shirt before quickly getting changed. I totally forgot about Paisley. When I turn around, I realise she's still there, but I think she's actually fallen asleep. I walk over and rip the covers back, earning an annoyed groan. She tries to reach forward to get them back, but fails.

"Get up." I order, hoping I didn't sound rude.

"Whatever." she whines, rolling over onto her back.

"You alright?" I ask.

"Sore." she replies in one word, somehow summing everything up.

"Sorry."

She begins to rub her eyes, but freezes suddenly. If this was a movie, I'm sure a giant 'dun' would've sounded, and dramatic music would've started playing. She pulls her arms away slowly and her eyes go wide in a shocked, and almost scared stare.

"Woah woah, what's wrong?" I ask, kneeling down slowly next to her.

"Did we use a condom?" She asks, her breaths unsteady, starting to freak out. It's then when I realise we didn't. We had enough to drink that we didn't think of little things like that. Wait, little things? What have I done?

"Brai, oh my god, oh my god." she freaks out, holding her head in her hands, breathing heavily.

"No, it's okay. It doesn't happen every time," I tell her, hoping to reassure not only her, but me as well.

"What if it does?" She asks, about to have a panic attack.

"No, it's not, we'll go to the chemist, and I'll buy you the pill, okay?" I tell her as she throw her arms around me.

"This can't happen again. Ethan.." She trails off. She cheated big time last night.

"He's not going to find out, and when you decide to go, I'm not going to see you guys again. I've done too much, he's never going to know." I tell her, knowing that I'm lying. I want to see them again, I want to see Paisley.

"What if I want to stay here?" She asks, pulling away and looking up at me. Does she like me now? What's happening?

"You can do whatever you thinks right." I tell her, wanting to sound sympathetic.

"You need to get out." she says, scaring me a bit.

"Wait, what?"

"I need to get dressed, silly." she laughs a bit, a wave of relief flowing through me.