King of my heart

part 15- Brothers

I'm doing my hair even if it's just early afternoon because tonight I have to go to Brooke's for the sleepover she told me about when I was at the infirmary. Me, Brooke and Austin will be at the sleepover. I hope Hardin doesn't get too jealous. Although speaking of jealous boyfriends...I still haven't told Nate about this sleepover and I haven't told Austin I'm with Nate yet! Because yes, we are officially together after last night and I am the happiest person in the world. And he's the luckiest, obviously. I'm not very self-centered, huh? But no joke, I'm just too excited that everything is finally going well.

Straightening your hair isn't difficult, the real problem is when the time comes to curl it or rather making it wavy. I know there's no point in dressing up for a sleepover, but I know Brooke and at the very least she'll force me to make 4000 videos to post everywhere. Not to mention the video calls he will force me to make with all his more distant friends. That's right, everyone loves her.
I'm seriously a lost case, I just burned myself with the straightener.
Oh no it's turning red, it's better if I put a wet cloth on it. The situation is certainly better this way but I can't stay with the wet cloth on the
neck for hours. My hairdressing skills are somewhat embarrassing but I'll pretend otherwise.
I pretend nothing happened, I remove the cloth and continue to settle down. As time goes by, as I get to the front strands I see that the burn has now turned purple. Just what we needed, right?
"Oh shit" I mutter to myself.
"What's wrong?" Nate asks me as he hugs me from behind. When did he enter in my room? Never mind that's not the final point.
"Hi babe" I greet him turning and standing in his embrace which then ends in a long and passionate romantic kiss. It's so perfect.
Returning to the question I answer: "I got burned and it's turning purple."
"Where?" I point to the spot on my neck with my finger to point it out to him, "here, on the neck" I tell him.
I hear him chuckle.
"Well, it matches all the other purple marks I left on your neck last night..." he says taking me by my hips and kissing the purple spot. He's so sexy.

We are observing our bodies united in warm gestures in the mirror. He portrays us as a single figure while his too intense eyes observe me from the mirror as if by magic.
"Nate, I'm going to a sleepover at Brooke's tonight. It's me, her and Austin." I begin by telling him this information as he picks me up and places me on the sink ledge.
"Mhm Austin? What does that have to do with anything?" he asks as he plays with the tails of my straightened hair. I see his jealousy fill his eyes even though he tries to remain calm.
"Hey hey, stop, you know we've been best friends for a long time. And then I only want you and you know..." I tell him in response, pointing at him with my index finger. I place my hands on his neck and pull him towards me, kissing him on the nose.
I see him emotional and lost in this situation.
"It's okay princess. Swear to me that nothing will happen between you and Austin." he asks me to promise him something so banal. He's really jealous huh? I love him for this too.

"You and Hardin are brothers for real huh. He also cares about Austin for Brooke. How can we explain to you that we are b-e-s-t f-r-i-e-n-d-s" I tell him jokingly and spelling the last words to make fun of him. He seems to be curious though. He doesn't know that Hardin had come, it occurred to me now. His puzzled face is clearly asking me to explain the Hardin reference.
"About a week ago Hardin came here. He's a good guy, he just wanted to
talk about Brooke. He also told me that he would like to have a relationship with you, a lot. He's sorry that you think he's the cause of your parents' breakup... you should give him a chance. I misjudged him too, thinking he was grumpy." I try to convince Nate to talk to his brother, stepbrother. I hope he accepts, Hardin seems like such a good person.
"Rachel, have you lost your mind? He didn't talk to me for years and now he wants to. I don't know how to trust him." he tells me. And he's partially right. I can't blame him. The first time he actually talked with Hardin was at the bonfire party. It wasn't even fair from Hardin to stick up for Nate.
"Nate, Hardin defended you at the last party. Don't you think it's a sign of his desire to establish a relationship with you?" I ask him this question to make him reflect. Seriously, I don't want to meddle in his life but I love him too much not to help him.
"While you, princess, will be at the sleepover I'll call Hardin. I'm not joking and know that I'm only doing this for you." he tells me making fun of me.
"Mhm Nate I love you."
"I love you too."