My Best Friend's Brother

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

I could tell that Laurane was upset with me, and I knew that she was going to go on a date with Jesse no matter what I said.

Why wouldn’t she?

Laurane liked Jesse, and he ‘liked’ her – at least she thought that he did, anyways.

Nothing I told her would change that.

Strangely enough, though, I wasn’t upset with Laurane myself. Well okay, maybe it wasn’t so strange.

I technically didn’t have any good reason to be upset with her, and besides, I was the one who was sneaking around Laurane’s back with her older brother, for God’s sake.

Because of this, it wouldn’t have felt right being mad at her anyways.

Oh boy, I was mad at Jesse, though. I was going to have to have a talk with him.

I certainly wasn’t going to let him do to Laurane what he had done to me so long ago. No way.

The talk was going to have to wait, though, since I knew that Laurane wasn’t going to let me go near him right now.

Also, because I actually had things to do – like homework.

Laurane apparently didn’t want to talk to me at the moment, so she sprawled across her bed, silently writing an essay.

Rolling my eyes at how childish she was being, I tried to convince myself that she would get over it, while simultaneously working on my math homework.

An hour later, I looked down at what I had accomplished and I smiled, proud of myself. Then I went and pinned it on the wall above my bed and stared at it, admiring it.

For a whole hour I had managed to put off my math, and instead I had drawn a very lovely picture of an elephant eating some hay and peanuts.

Honestly, though, I was a horrible artist, and my elephant looked like something out of a very badly animated cartoon. Oh well.

I hung my drawing up next to all of the other things I had drawn before while putting off all of my Algebra homework – I had horses, sunsets, people being killed, the list went on and on.

I liked to think of it as my little wall of math-induced artwork.

Laurane looked up from the essay she was writing and rolled her eyes when she saw that yet another piece of art had been added to me little ‘gallery’.

But Laurane was still in a pissy mood, so she didn’t say anything. Usually she would laugh and inform me that when I failed Algebra – again – maybe I could get credit in Art for my drawings.

But tonight she was silent. Hmm.

I pretended that I didn’t notice that Laurane was ignoring me, and I went to get ready for bed.

After I had my pajamas on, I climbed into bed with my phone, and I saw that I had a text from Aaron.

“Goodnight babe, sweet dreams. I’ll see you tomorrow. Xoxo!”

Aww. Aaron was really sweet. I smiled at the text and giggled, and I saw Laurane look curiously at me.

Usually I would tell her all about texts like this that made me smile or laugh, but I couldn’t show her this one, for obvious reasons.

Besides, Laurane was still mad at me anyways.

I sent a text back, and then I put my phone on my dresser.

I actually wanted to get a good night’s worth of sleep tonight, because I always felt better in the mornings when I did, which unfortunately wasn’t all that often nowadays.

Half an hour later, though, I knew that I wasn’t going to be getting very much sleep tonight.

I couldn’t fall asleep because I kept on thinking about everything that had happened today.

Today, I had officially became Aaron’s girlfriend, I had drawn a pretty neat picture of an elephant – okay, so that part wasn’t so important, but whatever, I had gotten Laurane mad at me, and I had actually thought about what had happened between Jesse and myself for the first time in a while.

Wow, it was a pretty productive – not to mention busy – day today.

Wanting to get at least a little sleep tonight, I pushed all of these thoughts out of my head.

I looked over at Laurane, and I could just make out her shape in the darkness of our room.

She was fast asleep, probably dreaming about Jesse. Ugh.

Honestly, I felt kind of bad about not telling Laurane about how I knew that Jesse was no good for her, but at the same time, I knew that I just couldn’t.

It had been my secret for so long, and I felt a need to keep it that way.

I would honestly rather tell Laurane about Aaron and I, then Jesse and I.

I knew, though, that I would probably never end up telling Laurane about either.

My mind was finally beginning to feel worn out and even tired, and I welcomed the sleep that washed over me, wanting it to stay with me as long as possible.

Authors Note:

Sorry this chapter is kind of short, but it’s pretty much just a filler chapter…really interesting stuff will be happening later in this book, I promise!

And when I say ‘interesting’, I mean…reallllllly interesting. ;)

I’m just going to leave it like that…you guys can think about what’s going to happen!

Hehe. :)

Anyways, comment, vote, follow!

Xoxo.

-Maria