My Best Friend's Brother

Chapter 18

"Hey, Elena wake up." I felt Natalie shoving me violently, but I don't want to get out of bed. I'm too warm. "Elena, I know you hear me."

"Go away, I'm warm." I pulled the covers up a little more.

"Elena I swear if you don't get up I'll rip these covers off you."

"Do it, you won't." I snuggled back into bed after that comment.

At that moment, all my blankets came flying off me. I guess in my sleepy state, I forgot that my best friend is a psychotic bitch.

"Hey! What was that for!" I sat up and started rubbing my arms because I was so cold.

"You need to get up. It's noon. We need to go have fun. Whose shirt is that?" Shirt? I looked down at myself. Oh crap, this must be Nate's shirt. The black fabric felt so soft against my skin.

"Oh, um it's Nate's." Her face went from confused to smug in a mater of seconds.

"Nate's huh. You guys finally shag?" My face heated up as she said that.

"No! And why do you keep using that word?"

"Don't deflect. You slept with my brother didn't you? You know you can tell me. I won't be mad."

"I didn't sleep with Nate. But he did fall asleep here." I looked at the spot next to me where he was just a few hours ago.

"What's going on with you guys? Do you have the hots for him or something?"

"No. Definitely no." You're lying to yourself and you know it.

"Ok. I know I said I wouldn't be mad if anything happened, but I'd be scarred and severely disturbed. How did you get his shirt anyway?"

"He carried me back here and I didn't feel like getting my suitcase out, so he gave me his shirt. Then I asked him to lay with me." Remembering the way he wrapped his arm around me made me smile.

"Why are you smiling?"

"It's nothing." I remembered something else from last night too.

"It's clearly something. Spill, but not too much, it is my brother after all."

"No it's not that, before I went to sleep, he called me Ellie."

"Ellie? Like what he used to call you a million years ago when..." Her face dropped suddenly.

"What? What!"

"He called you that when he had a little crush on you. Don't you remember?" He called me Ellie for a good 4 years when we were kids. It kinda died down when we hit middle school, and he would only use it when he really wanted something.

"I remember." Im still confused. Why would he call me that when he hasn't in years?

"Elena, do you know what this means." Her tone dropped dangerously low.

"What?" I'm playing the innocent card, but I know exactly what it means.

"My brother has feelings for you. That's the only reason why he would call you that. What was the setting he used it in?" She's seriously sounding like a detective now.

"Well, I was a bit tipsy and I turned towards him in bed and kinda, um, snuggled towards him," it felt weird admitting this to Natalie, but I guess she really wants to know if she asked. "And when I was falling asleep, I felt him brush some hair from my face and say 'goodnight Ellie'." The look on her face was blank. I can't read her, which is scary. I don't know how she'll react.

"Oh no." Her face went pale. It looks like she's about to pass out.

"What?"

"Elena my brother may or may not be in complete and total love with you." What?