Sang's reserve (COMPLETE)

"Cupcake!" (part 1)

I'm going to assume you can probably guess who this POV is from just from the title, even if you hadn't from all the hints I've been dropping!

Luke POV:

Since I told Corey something odd is going on. I've been watching my brothers. I know that they've told me not to repeatedly, in the past, but I can't help it. Something weird is going on and my gut tells me it is to do with Kayli.

I really can't see my brothers appeal to her. Sure, she is kind of pretty, ok stunning, if you like the long legs model worthy smile and jet-black hair. Fine, she's beautiful, amazingly so, almost unearthly, yet something seems off, almost rotten about her. Like something inside has festered.

Her eyes sometimes flash with laughter, but not the kind of light-hearted prank laughter, more of a cruel cunning one. I'm not the only one who sees it, I know Corey does, which is why I talked to him. I'm also almost sure that Gabe is, at the very least, uncomfortable with her, but she is still trying to get claws into him. Yet, whenever he talks to me his eyes are clear, not like some of the guys who are acting less and less coherent every day.

Marc's not having a great time with his supposed girlfriend either, while his still trying to spend time with her, his not getting much, if anything, in return. I have a theory, that it's something to do with real laughter or happiness, but I haven't told anyone, because it sounds stupid, even to me!

Uncle and Erica don't like her either. Though they seemed to be trying their best, or at least they both were, now Erica is acting odd and as though she doesn't really want to talk to Kayli, I can understand the feeling! Uncle has sort of followed her lead, but to be fair he never really tried to get on with her. What makes Erica's behaviour strange though is that she was trying so hard to be friends with Kayli, before a few months ago, and it is not like Erica to give up... so there has to be some other reason? Maybe?

I'm even more weirded out when, speak of the devil, I get a very cryptic text from Erica.

E: Found your dream. Lunch. Sunday. Mine!

What exactly am I supposed to say to my almost mum? My dream? What the hell Erica? My phone pings again.

E: 1 o'clock!

It seems Erica decided that I need reminding when lunch is, as if! I really hope she's not cooking! The last time she tried when I was there, me and my baby bro had to use a fire extinguisher on the cooker.

But I can't say no, she did practically raise us with Uncle, and I know that Kota's been arguing with her a lot recently, which has got to be hard for her. Which is another weird thing, before about a month ago I had never heard him say a negative word about Erica, or his sister, but now... Another text interrupts my thoughts.

E: Don't worry. I'm not cooking!

I smirk it's as if she could read my mind. Even though it's Saturday, and she literally wants me there tomorrow, there is no way I can really say no. Plus she made a point to say that she's not cooking, which means someone else is, and while Jess is decent, she's not 'make a point to say that she is cooking good'.

E: Please.

The final text comes in as almost an afterthought. I have never seen Erica say please in a text. Sure, she's super polite in real life and an amazing maternal figure, but in a text, it's type as fast as possible, get rid of the phone. Until today the only text I had from her on my phone was a 'hi Erica' one from over five years ago, when Kota and Jess finally persuaded her that she 'needed' a mobile phone. Realising that I haven't replied I send her back a quick.

L: Sure, can't wait see you tomorrow at 1😊

Then because I'm in a sightly bored frame of mind, what can I say this movie is mind numbingly boring, I add.

L: Any hints on this dream?

She comes back after ten minutes of the little box telling me she's typing with.

E: No.

I can't help it, ten minutes to type 'no' makes me laugh, hard. When North gives me an odd look from the other side of the room at my snorting, I can't say anything, I'm way too busy laughing, something I haven't done in months. Not since... no not thinking if that...

It's when most of them are glaring at me, that I look at what's happening on the screen.

Oops, I think the main character is dying. Dam, now Kayli, North, Axel and Mr. B are all glaring at me. Double oops, my giggles subside quite quickly.

"Care to inform us what was quite so amazing hilarious Mr. Taylor senior?" I shake my head to Mr. B's question. He scowls at me, making me mutter out an answer.

"Something on my phone!" his scowl deepens. My foot starts tapping, I can see Kayli glaring at it, but right now I can't be bothered to make the conscious effort to bother controlling it.

"Please refrain from using it while the film is on,  or go into a different room if you feel the need to snort like a pig!" Kayli lets a giggle out at Mr. B's words, it grates the wrong way in my ears, rather than amused it feels like nails on a chalk board.

"And stop tapping Lucien!" North yells from the other side of the room. I flinch, he knows I can't help it, Gabe tenses beside me, ready to yell back at North, I just grip his arm, and when he looks at me, shake my head.

"I'll go!" I mutter standing to leave the room. The second I'm out of there it feels as though I can breathe again.

As I said, weird. The thought of North yelling at me for a reason I can't control forces me to blink back tears. The enjoyment I got from Erica's texts gone, now overshadowed by the fact that my brother isn't acting like my protective baby bro anymore.

At least I have lunch with a 'dream' at Erica's to look forward to tomorrow...

This is the first half of Luke's first chapter, don't worry more to come!

Hope you like how I write Luke, no offence to the others but he is my favorite!!!

(Edited 21/08/21)