Consider Me

Chapter Twenty-One: Lily

Lucas left a little after ten. An hour before Mom came and asked me what the lingering smell of coconut was in the living room. I told her it was some recipe I was trying and not Lucas's body wash but I don't think she believed, especially after she found a yellow Post-it note attached to the refrigerator with handwriting that was definitely not mine. 

Thanks for tonight. 

It made me smile and my mother frowned. I told her a friend stopped by, not going deep into the explanation about Lucas and my shifting interest in him but enough to stop her prying questions. 

It was weekend tomorrow and I received a text from Lucas right after dinner. I was in bed, watching a romcom because I had watched a horror movie with him earlier. We even ate some of the biscuits as snacks before he left. I can't believe he ate it. Only mom eats my cooked food, however bad they are but when I saw Lucas eat the most chewable biscuits that could pass for chewing gum, something shifted inside. 

I could hear the crumbles of my walls. 

The fact I recognized he was having a bad day just by his sad, sullen face, I couldn't stay still. I didn't push him to tell me anything. It was surprising enough he thought of me during this time that I had to notch down a whole of unfamiliar feelings with the talks of horror movies and food. 

My phone buzzed again and I put the laptop on the bed and lay on my stomach, a pillow under my chest. 

Lucas: Thanks Lily for not asking me anything.
Lucas: Are you asleep?

I smiled and answered him. 

Lily: Yes. This is me sleep-texting you.
Lily: (Thanks Lily for not asking me anything) *Replied* Not a problem. *Smiling emoji*

Lucas: You should've sleepwalked to my place. That is so much better than sleep texting.

Lily: Aren't you supposed to be I don't know not flirt with me and act polite? 

Lucas: This is me being polite. 

I laugh. 

Lily: Your politeness and my politeness seem kind of different.

Lucas: That's cause yours is boring. 
Lucas: Mine is twisted but there nonetheless. 

Lily: Sure. I think one of your politeness got buried under your snores.

Lucas: I don't snore. *Side eye emoji*

Lily: How do you know? You're unconscious when you do it.

Lucas: Just like I know Harry deserved to die in the movie.

Lily: How dare you? Take that back. Harry was such a sweetheart. 

Lucas: *Eyeroll emoji* Everyone is a sweetheart to you except your own boyfriend?

I know I am blushing. I can feel it. My cheeks hurt with how hard I am smiling. 

Lily: Mr. Boyfriend I think you're forgetting what you need to do if you want me to accept you as one. Right now you are just a boy who I know from the school.

Lucas: Just a boy my arse. I declared you as mine in front of everyone. 

Lily: Can we agree that was a bit irrelevant though? And not required. You could've asked me. 

Lucas: And have you say no to my face?

Lily: I still said no.

Lucas: Yeah but you don't mean it now.