The Boy Who Sneaks Through My Bedroom Window

Part 32

I shook my head. "No, let her sleep. If she wakes up hungry then I'll make her something," I said quietly, as I started scoffing my pasta, hungrily. He sat on the foot of her bed just watching her sleep for a little while. "She'll be alright, Jake," I promised.

He sighed and nodded. "Yeah I know. G'night, Liam." He smiled sadly as he took my empty plate and Amber's untouched one and slipped out of her room. I wrapped myself back around her and watched her sleep until I couldn't stay awake anymore.

Chapter 17

~ Amber ~

When I woke up in the morning my head was pounding. I groaned. I really didn't need a headache on top of everything else that was going to go wrong today. Liam was still asleep so I crept out of the bed, trying not to wake him. I headed to my bathroom for a shower. I stood under the spray, trying desperately not to cry as I thought about my father and his 'new family'. What on earth was I going to say to this Johnny guy? I sighed and got out of the shower, wrapping myself in a towel.

Silently, I tried to convince myself that this boy Johnny probably won't even want to talk to me today and that I was getting myself all worked up over nothing. It wasn't this boy's fault that my father married his mother and made him move here. Hell, he probably needed a friend right now because he would have just left everything and everyone he knows behind.

Walking over to the bed, I looked down at Liam. He looked so peaceful that I almost didn't want to wake him up. I sat on the edge of the bed and took his hand, knowing we needed to get ready for school. "Liam?" I whispered. He woke up almost straight away, which was unlike him, he usually took forever to wake up in the morning.

"Hey." He sat up and looked at me sadly.

I smiled reassuringly; he was worried about me I could tell. "Hi," I replied, moving onto the bed with him and pulling him back down with me. "I'm fine. Stop stressing," I promised, smoothing out the frown lines on his forehead.

He sighed and shook his head. "I'm here if you want to talk to me. You know that, right?" he asked, looking at me intently.

He really was just too adorable to me sometimes, I really didn't deserve it. "I know, Liam, but I'm fine. Let's just get this over with and see what this guy says today," I suggested, shrugging. He bent his head and kissed every inch of my face, making me giggle before he pulled away to go in the shower.

When we pulled into the school parking lot an hour later, Kate came bouncing up to the side of the car with a huge grin on her face. She wrenched open my door. "I'm officially in love!" she announced to me proudly.

I laughed. "Really? OK, well congratulations," I replied sarcastically, whilst rolling my eyes.

She laughed. "I'm serious. There's a new guy started today, and he is hot!" She fanned her face dramatically. I stopped dead in my tracks; I bet that was him, my new stepbrother. Well that's just perfect, now Kate's going to be falling all over him and I'll be forced to hang out with him. Great, just freaking great.

"New guy?" I asked quietly. Liam rubbed his hand down my back gently.

"Oh, heck yeah! You should see him, he's yummy. But you've got Liam so I've called dibs," she said, grinning and skipping along beside me. "I don't know his name yet, Hottie McTottie suits him though." She waggled her eyebrows at me and I couldn't help but laugh at her.

Jake threw his arm around her shoulder. "You know, I'm not used to you not wanting me, Kate. I'm not sure I like this new behaviour," he stated, giving her his flirty smile.

She sighed dreamily. "I'll always want you, Jake, there's just some fresh meat to drool over. I guess you'll have to work harder for my attention from now on," she teased, winking at him as she shrugged off his arm. He actually looked genuinely shocked and a little pissed off. "So, I need to find out everything about him, want to help me?" she asked, linking her arm through mine.