K I S S • L. Hughes

Chapter • Nine

Ellerie's POV
"Spill what?" I asked.

"Ellerie, we all saw you and Luke last night." Mari said rolling her eyes. "Now quit acting stupid and tell you best friends what happened."

"Ok yeah sorry." I chuckled. "I mean I remember very well up until we played flip cup. And like when I turned to you he seemed jealous and such so I asked if he wanted to play flip cup."

"Ok yeah." Ryland said. "You guys have been like getting super close."

"Yeah." Mari responded. "And like I have no problem with him. He's actually a really nice kid and I think he's going to treat you well."

"So anyways continue." Ryland said getting excited. I explained to them what happened and how we slept in the same bed.

"Oh my god!" Ryland said excitedly. "And you slept with him!"

"No no no!" I laughed. "We didn't sleep together, we just slept in the same bed."

"Yeah I know but still!" Ryland shouted.

"Ok Ryland you need to chill." Mari laughed.

"But yeah I don't know what else do you guys want to know?" I asked.

"So you guys went to get food this morning?" Mari asked. The mood in the room immediately changed. Ryland and Mari are the only ones who know about my eating disorder.

"Yeah." I said quietly looking down at my hands. Ryland moved to sit next to me.

"We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." She said while hugging me.

"No I will it was actually super cute." I lightly chuckled. "When I said I didn't want anything he didn't push or get food for me. He just got me a small coffee and held my hand and was being super sweet."

The girls both awed.

"That's actually the sweetest thing ever." Ryland said.

"Yeah who knew a Hughes could be respectful of women." Mari laughed. Everyone at school knew that Quinn was quiet and didn't really talk to girls, Jack was the party animal who hooked up with every girl in sight and Luke was the brother who was over looked.

"Yeah I know." I laughed along with the other two.

Luke's POV
I was just chilling on my phone in the kitchen when Sasha, Dylan and Tyler walked in to the kitchen.

"So Dukes," Tyler said walking up to me. "Want to share why you were gone for so long last night with Elle?"

I smiled and looked down at my hands. "I mean what do you want to know?"

"We want to know what happened dumb fuck." Sasha said ruffling my hair.

"We just went up stairs and I got her a hoodie and like I don't totally remember but we kissed." I smiled.

"You kissed a drunk girl?" Dylan said.

"Hey dude we were both drunk." I responded defending myself.

"Oh we know." Tyler laughed. "We're just giving you a hard time."

"Yeah we all know you've liked her since like the middle of Junior year." Dylan chuckled.

"Yeah I guess your right." I smiled.

Ellerie's POV
The girls and I decided to take pictures on the dock since the sun was out. We were just posing and laughing together. After a while I walked back to where the boys were sitting. I sat down with Luke and he spread his legs so I could lay down on him. I laid back and Mari smiled at us the turned to Carter.