His Biker Girl

iv

"Your sister is pretty cool." Elias mumbled when they made their way back to Kat's room, which wasn't exactly as he'd imagined it. It wasn't all dark and full of posters. There were posters (of her favourite bands and a few with quotes from authors), but they didn't plaster her walls like wallpaper; they were tastefully few and small. The walls themselves were white-washed and her furniture a light birchwood. Her bed was a mess of colourful pillows and blankets and a white duvet and a teddybear peaked its nose over the edge of one of the blankets. 

"She can be, but she's a bitch if she wants to, which is most of the time." She laughed and pulled her work out of the pile of books on the floor.

"Shall we?" Elias nodded and they turned back to Keats.

Sometime half-way through La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Elias noticed that Kat's eyes were drooping

"I just think that she's being pretty badass even though the men die in the end." Elias chuckled.

"I agree but we can't write that into our analysis." Kat looked up at him and grinned sleepily.

"And why not? It'd be funny to see the look on Mr Kennal's face." Both of them laughed before Elias reached out to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.

"D'you wanna pack up for now and go to sleep? You look about ready to drop." He smiled and she smiled back at him with a lazy smile and mumbled something along the lines of 'I'm tired anyway'. When she closed her eyes, Elias picked her up from the floor and grinned at her startled gasp.

"What're you doing?" She hissed and Elias grinned down at her.

"It didn't look as if you were going to get up from that floor anytime soon, so I thought you'd appreciate a lift to your bed." She didn't respond to that, simply let him carry her and when he turned to leave the room for her to get changed she laughed.

"You're such a gentleman." He turned around at the sound of light laughter in her voice.

"Is that a problem?" He asked and she simply shook her head, so he turned back around and was about to leave the room when he heard her whisper:

"Just not used to it." He pretended like he didn't hear her and continued on his way to the bathroom down the hall.

When he came back, changed into his boxers and an old shirt, he had to fight hard not to stare, because Kat was dressed exactly like him, wearing what looked like her father's shirt judging by the size of it.

"Took you long enough." She laughed and he rolled his eyes when he pulled the sleeping bag out of his bag and got comfortable on the ground next to her bed.

"Good night, gentleman."

"Good night, biker girl." He retorted and her soft giggle accompanied him in his dreams.

The next morning they were woken up by Mrs Moore's singing from the kitchen.

"Ugh, why?" Kat groaned and Elias laughed.

"Your mum's a good singer." And he wasn't even lying.

"She could've been an opera singer, but she didn't like the life style and all that came with it, so she settled for opening a book shop." Kat grinned at his surprised expression.

"Your mum owns a book shop?" Kay nodded.

"And my dad is cliché: he owns a garage." She laughed some more at Elias' dumbstruck face before she got out of bed and walked to the door.

"I'll be like, 5 minutes. Don't go anywhere unless you want to be eaten alive by my family." She joked and left the room. Elias hurried to get dressed and by the time Kat had come back, he was just pulling his shirt over his torso.

"Hmm~ I always liked Rugby players. If only you were older." Elias recognised Evelynn's voice and laughed a bit awkwardly.

"Erm-"

"Oh my god, can you not, Evie?" Kat groaned and slammed the door in her sister's face.

"Fine but there's tattie scones for breakfast and I will eat them all." Elias watched as a look of horror made its way onto Kat's face and she was at the door in a milli-second, following her sister down the stairs.

Elias took that as his cue to follow and when he came downstairs, the kitchen smelt heavenly and he sighed.

"Good morning, Elias. Come sit, Dylan will have breakfast ready in a bit." Mrs Moore instructed and Elias managed to catch a glimpse of Mr Moore in the kitchen. The massive man looked almost comical hunched over the cooker but, as Elias soon discovered, the man made the best breakfast he'd ever tasted in his life.

"Finally!" Kat exclaimed as she fell back onto her bed. "I can't believe that took us so long." Elias laughed.

"You realise it's taken us two days whereas others have been sitting on this for the last week or two?" Kat grinned at him as she pushed up onto her elbows to look at him where he sat on the floor.

"We're just too smart for them." She winked and Elias laughed again, pushing himself up off the floor. 

"What time is it?" He asked as he stretched. 

"Um- dunno." Kat sounded distracted and when Elias looked down, she was staring at his stomach that had been revealed when he stretched. 

"Who's staring now?" He grinned and she grumbled something as a faint blush dusted her cheeks. Elias laughed as he pulled out his phone to check the time.

"It's 7pm... I should probably head-"

"Why? It's shorter to Calum's from here and you have everything you need here right?" Elias nodded and Kat pushed off the bed to stand in front of him.

 "You can take a shower and then get ready wile I shower; don't be silly and walk home- you can have dinner with us and then we'll head over." Elias sent her a hesitant smile.

"Are you sure? I feel like I'm eating all your food away." Kat made a dismissive sound.

"You should see my brothers eat. You're like a fine lady compared to them- not that you're a lady or anything." She added on, which made Elias chuckle. She was too cute. 

"Don't worry. D'you have a towel for me?" Kat motioned for him to follow him and went into another room, that Elias guessed was one of her brothers' rooms and emerged from it with a white towel that she handed to him. 

"There you go. Don't take too long, or maybe you are a lady after all." She winked and Elias laughed before he headed into the bathroom. 

He emerged from the bathroom 15 minutes later, the towel wrapped around the lower half of his body and his old clothes in his hand and made his way back to Kat's room, when Mrs Moore came up the stairs. 

"Why-" 

"Um- I was just taking a shower because we're heading to Calum's party after dinner, it's not-" Elias hurried to explain but Mrs Moore just laughed. 

"Elias darling, don't worry about it. You'd be a nice change from the usual crowd she brings in." Mrs Moore's eyes twinkled with a mix of emotions that Elias couldn't place. 

"That doesn't mean that my husband wouldn't come after you if you hurt her, but I can see the way you look at her." She went to walk passed him as he stood there a bit dumbstruck. 

"Take care of her tonight." She whispered and patted his shoulder as she disappeared into the room to his right.

"Dinner in an hour!" came her shout from behind the closed door and  Elias shook his head before he entered Kat's room. Kat was lying on her bed, reading a book and looked up as he came in. 

Elias watched as her eyes traveled up his body and she wolf-whistled. Elias shook his head and rolled his eyes, but inwardly he was screaming like a child on christmas. 

"Go shower, biker girl. Your mother said dinner would be ready in an hour." Kat put the book away and left the room with a smile. Elias sank down onto the bed and rubbed his hands along his face. The party felt almost like a test now- a test that her mother had set him.