You [l.h]

Chapter 6 : Long Days

It was already past 6 in the evening and I still didn't want to go home any time soon.
"You wanna taste it, Lily?" Helen asked.
And surely I was still with them.
"Ew, what's that?" She handed me that ice cream-like thing made of sand. She giggled, "It's called ice cream duh."

"You mean, sand-cream." I rolled my eyes. Then it hit me. "Wait! Why don't we go to ice cream shop? I know one around here and they make really good ice creams."

"But it's evening. I don't think it's a good idea." Said Helen.

"It's okay Helen. We don't do this all the time. Just today." Luke spoke for the first time since the last time we argued.

"Let's head to the ice cream shop!" He walked away.

I raised an eyebrow at Helen. Why was he so excited? He looked like a kid.
Helen seemed to notice what I wanted to ask because she grinned and said, "he can't resist the temptation of ice creams" she whispered. I laughed, loud enough for Luke to hear.
"What are you laughing at?" He looked bothered, "nothing Luke haha, it's nothing." I said between laugh.

"Okay okay. So, what are you waiting for?"

"Okay, come on Helen." I said and took Helen's hand in mine.

I can't believe today. Helen's being really friendly with me. I thought she would be shy to me forever.
And Luke. I knew something more about him. The fact that he had never brought any girl to his place before me somehow made feel.. special. If that was even possible.
And he was a bipolar, might I add. Not in a serious way but his change of mood was worse than mine. I didn't know if he considered me his friend but I didn't really want to care. I knew someday, he'd be a good friend to me. I smiled at the thought of him.
Where did the hatred go?
It's only been a week.

I got home around eight. After I took a shower, I decided to just lay in bad and do nothing. I was tired, so I closed my eyes.. but then I heard my phone ring. Oh, I should've turned my phone off.
An unknown number again. Was this Luke? But I thought I already saved his number..

"Hello?"

"Um.. Hi, Lily." No, that wasn't Luke. Was I expecting Luke to call me?

You know it'll never happen, Lily.

"I'm sorry but, who's this?"

"It's Ashton. You know, we accidentally met at school."

We met? Ah, that glasses-guy.

"Oh, yeah. I remember you. But.. where did you get my number?"

"You don't need to know that." It started scaring me. I kept silent 'til he continued, "Oh, it's not what I meant. I'm just.. it's an embarrassing thing to say." I sighed in relief, then chuckled.
"So, you aren't mad?" He asked.

"What? Mad? Do I have any reason to be mad?"

"I don't know. Maybe because you think I'm weird? Because I think I am." He giggled. Aw, he had a cute giggle for a guy.

I talked with this Ashton guy for about half an hour. He was fun, we had some things in common. Such as.. we liked to read books, we liked to listen to musics, we were kind of independent. Yeah, something like that. Ah, and I just realized that we had Music class together when he told me. How foolish of me for not noticing.

I felt so tired. Today was fun. I was happy and I decided to sleep.

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I felt something hard beside me. I groaned. Ugh, what's this?

I opened my eyes slowly.. "ARGH!!"

How did a guy manage to get into my room and sleep in my bed?!

I hit him with my pillow. Who was he? He slept in my bed. In. My. Freaking. Bed. God dammit! I kept hitting him 'til he woke. "Ah! Stop it, Lily! Are you crazy?!" This.. is my brother's voice? I turned the light on and found him rubbing his head. "What are you doing here? You have your own room for God's sake!"

"It's freaking cold in my room."

God, this brother of mine was really weird. "You'll let me sleep here won't you?" He said, showing his puppy eyes.
I gave in. "Okay, whatever. You can sleep here. But don't you dare touch me. You're disgusting." I pulled my blanket over my body. He was right. It was freaking cold.

"Rude."

I woke up to the sun rise. I smelled something familiar. Pancake. I ran off to the dining room. There were my bro and my mom. "Morning mom, Grey." I yawned but then smiled, "Whoa these smell so good."

I grabbed a plate of pancake and ate it all. "Um, Grey.. when did you come?"
"Last night, duh." I nodded. Then I remembered he was sleeping in my room. If mom knew it.. "You were sleeping in my room."

My mom choked. I handed her a glass of water and then she started to speak, "what?! You were sleeping in Lil's room? What the hell were you thinking?" Grey glared at me. God this was hilarious! I tried to hold my laughter, I didn't mean to mess up with Grey. But, I knew my mom would be reacting like that, so yeah I did it. I was evil as you can see. "Mom, I'm her big bro. I didn't even touch her."

Mom shook her head. "Still! I don't like it when Lily has to sleep with a guy. Next time I find you try to get into her room, you know what I'll do."

"How can she get a boyfriend?" Grey asked, more to himself. But unfortunately for him, mom heard that. "Say that again and I'll kick you out."
Now it was my turn to choke. I couldn't hold back my laughter, so I excused myself to my room. Once I get in, I laughed. Hard. I didn't care if they heard me. The face of my mom. God, it was so funny. I had no problem of Grey sleeping in my room. He was my brother, why should mom be so overprotective? Then again, if Grey was here, that meant I'd be safe from anything bad, right? He wouldn't do anything wrong.

"I knew mom would react like that."

"Sure you knew. That's why you said it."

"Yup." I was on my way to school. Since Grey was here, I didn't have to take the bus 'cause he'd drive me to school.

"I'll drive you home when you're done with your classes." He said when we arrived at school. "Yeah yeah whatever."
I slammed the door and walked to my first period, math.
I had never liked this lesson, ever.
The bell rang and the teacher walked in the class.

Mr. Clarkson said he couldn't be teaching us for a week because he had a job out the town. His substitute teacher was a woman.

"Good morning, class. I'm gonna be Mr. Clarkson's substitute for a week. I'm Liz Hemmings."

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