Everglow

Chapter Fourteen: Suspicious Minds

[Mini recap of the end of the last chapter because it's been so fucking long since I last updated - if you need to read previous chapters to keep totally up to date then please do so.]

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Savannah huffed. "See you at school." She shot a sadistic smile at me before dramatically walking off with Paisley and Lucy following behind.

I heaved my own sigh and turned to Victoria and Eva.

"Are you okay?" Eva asked

I nodded and looked back to find Finn walking in our direction. He passed Savannah and her friends with a frown before he stopped only a few steps away.

"What happened here then?" He looked between the four us.

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Rowan's POV

"It's nothing.." I brushed off Finn's question.

I'd rather not make a huge fuss right now. I've worried my brother's enough this past week, there's no need to add more to it.

"They were Melissa's friends." Victoria said to him, completely not understanding my concept of 'it's nothing'.

"What did they say to you?" Finn aimed his next question towards me.

"Not much." I shrugged. "Anyway, can we go now?"

"Rowan." Finn put a hand out to stop me from walking past him and he raised his eyebrows at me. "I saw you shove her to the floor when I was parking up the car. So she must've said something for you to do that to her."

I rolled my head in a slight moment of frustration and stepped back next to Dallas.

"They were just trying to get a reaction out of Rowan." Dallas spoke up before I could. "Kept mentioning Melissa and she shoved Rowan first."

Finn's cold expression disappeared as I watched the realisation hit him of who the boy stood next to me was; The situation between me and Melissa's friends briefly forgotten about.

"Dallas, right?" A ghost of a smirk appeared on my brother's face as he reached a firm hand out to him. Oh god.

"Yeah thats right." Dallas accepted the handshake.

"Rowan's told me a lot about you." I could kill him.

Dallas nervously chuckled.

I widened my eyes at my brother but he was purposely avoiding looking at me.

"He's lying." I tried to dig myself out of the hole that Finn had thrown me into. "He knows nothing about you besides your name and that we share the same english class."

I looked up at Dallas to find his cheeks slightly tinted red.

"And which brother are you, again?" He asked Finn.

"I'm Finn. Rowan's favourite brother."

I scoffed at him. "Yeah, not right now you're not." I muttered under my breath.

"Oh that's right." Realisation hit Dallas this time. "Aaron's the older one, right?"

"Yeah." I confirmed for him. "And I'm kinda wishing he was the one that was here right now." I said through gritted teeth.