♜♔ Checkmate ♔♜ - RD

Chapter 2 - Cute guys

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After a quick shower and a change of clothes, Elle skipped downstairs to make herself (and herself only) something for dinner.

A pack of ramen noodles sounded good to her and she waited in the kitchen as they heated up.

Loud yells came from the living room, she peeked her head into the room and immediately rolled her eyes.

"Are you making dinner?" Tommy asked, finally taking his attention away from the game and noticing her after a second.

Elle scoffed, "Yeah, for me."

"Why can't you make some for us?"

"Cause first off, you'd hate my cooking. Second off, I'm not your maid."

Tommy rolled his eyes, "Fine, we're ordering pizza then."

Elle looked over to the couch seeing Rocky from earlier and another dude in a green shirt.

Rocky looked up at her with a smirk, she huffed and walked back into the kitchen where the microwave was going off.

The dining room table was connected to the living room but blocked off by a bookshelf and part of the couch. From the spot she sat down at she could see the tv in the living room and the love seat Tommy sat in. She ran upstairs and grabbed her latest chess book from her desk and her practice set from her closet. Everything was splayed out on the table, the bowl of ramen was closest to her and she held the book in her hand, carefully moving pieces and following along with the game in her head. Spinning the board around to see both opponents' strategies.

The Sicilian opening.

White pawn to E4.

She spun the board around to the other side, black pawn to C5.

White knight to E4.

White pawn to D4.

Black pawn takes white on D4.

"What are you doing?" Tommy said.

Elle spun the board around to the white side, "Studying a chess game."

White knight takes black pawn on D4.

"Well move, we need the table for the pizza."

"You can use the coffee table."

"Dad says no eating in the living room," he said.

"Your dad isn't here right now-"

"Our dad," he corrected her.

"That man did not participate in making me or raising me, so as far as I'm concerned he is not my dad."

Tommy rolled his eyes, "You still need to move."

Elle huffed, finishing off the last of her ramen before sliding her book under her arm and going into the kitchen to throw the empty dishes into the dishwasher.

"You forgot your-" Rocky started.

"I'm getting it."

Elle returned to the table, packing up the chess pieces into the board before closing it in half and latching it.

The doorbell went off, "Pizza's here!"

Elle rolled her eyes watching Tommy run to the door and shove the cash into the guys hand and taking the pizza.

"You sure you don't want some?" the boy in the green shirt asked.

"No thanks babes, I just ate."

"Babes?" he said, she could see the red covering his cheeks.

"Don't flirt with my friends," Tommy huffed, sitting the pizza down on the table.

Elle smirked, "I'll flirt with whoever I want."

"Not if I can help it," he said, "Bro code states sisters are off limits."

"I'm not your sister, and that code sounds really stupid," Elle said.

"Rocky and Adam are off limits," he said.

Elle rolled her eyes before turning and placing her arm on Adam's shoulder, "So, your name's Adam?"

Adam's cheeks flushed red.

"God you're really a brat aren't you?" Rocky scoffed, smirking at her.

"I'm the brat? Tommy's the one throwing a fit over the fact I'm flirting."

"Am not!" Tommy yelled.

"If you aren't throwing a fit then you won't mind me flirting with this one then," she said, smirking at Adam.

The sound of a car rolling into the driveway made them stop.

"Oh great," she said.

Tommy rolled his eyes, "Go away Elle."

She stuck her tongue out at him and stomped off to the stairs.

"Classy!" he yelled behind her.

Elle got up to her room, shutting the door before laying her chess board out and starting the game over again.

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