A new life || js

Chapter 17

I sat down at the table next to Joe and Cole and frowned at my uncles loud voice booming in the room.

"So, how long are you staying?" i asked Cole, he didn't hear me because he was too busy drooling over Zoey.

I hit him in the back of the head and he winced "Ow" he said with wide eyes

"When are you leaving?" i hissed and narrowed my eyes, he looked at me with a terrified expression and i breathed out, relaxing

"Well, dad's leaving tonight, and I'm staying for a few weeks" he smirked

My mouth was wide open "What?!" I yelled and stood up. Every eye in the room was on me, even uncle Frank stayed quiet.

I awkwardly sat back down and took a sip of my glass of water while looking down.

"So..Where are you from?" Tracy asked with an awkward chuckle.

"We're from LA like Eliza, but we were in Vegas for a month" Uncle Frank said loudly, Tracy pursed her lips in annoyance. But didn't show it.

I heard a ding in the kitchen and Tracy stood up and ran to towards the noise.

Cole excused himself from the table and went outside. Probably to smoke.

Before leaving he winks at me and I roll my eyes.

Cole is cute, but he's horrible. Like an annoying older brother.

"Eli?" Zoe whispered but everyone turned to her, she blushed and looked at me.

"Yeah?" she nodded her head to the hall and i stood up from the table, following her.

"what's up?" i look at her confusedly

"what's up? what do you mean 'what's up'?? You're cute cousin keeps looking at me!" she whisper yelled

"Is that a bad thing?" i raise an eyebrow and cross my arms

"Yes!" she looked worried

"why?"

"because i have a boyfriend" she frowned

realisation hit me hard in the face, and i looked at her with pity eyes.

"right"

"yeah, right" she crossed her arms

"and..why do you need me?"

"because you need to tell him" she frowned again, she looked down

"fine" i rolled my eyes and she smiled, hugging me

"thank you"

"yeah, yeah" i smiled

"you go back inside, I'll head out and talk to him" she nodded and left

I opened the front door and saw Cole smoking, i looked at him until he noticed me and smirked, "hey"

"yeah, hi" i looked at the smoke coming out of his mouth and grimaced

he chuckled, "wanna try?" he handed me the cigarette

"no"

"come on, just try it" he smiled

i looked at him sceptically and put it to my mouth, i saw him smirking at the corner of my eye and i inhaled, coughing a second later.

Cole chuckled and the door opened revealing Joe on the other side. oh no.

He looked at the cigarette and glared at me. I've never seen him like this.

"What are you doing!?" he yelled grabbing it and roughly handing it back to Cole.

"Calm down" i whispered putting my hand on his shoulder, he just shrugged it off and glared at Cole.

"It's your fault" he pointed a finger at Cole and angrily stomped back into the house slamming the door.

What happened next was something i was not expecting at all, Cole laughed.

I glared at him, "What is wrong with you?" i hissed, he rubbed the back of his neck "I'm sorry, i didn't mean for that to happen"

that's when i realized joe was overreacting, and had no right to tell me what to do.

When i arrived in the dining room everyone looked at me "I'm gonna head to bed, I'm not feeling so good" decent excuse, but it was partly true.

"oh sweetie, do you need anything?"

"no thank you" i smiled and went to bed. I guess skipping the dinner won't be so bad.

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I woke up to loud thuds coming from the hallway, i turned around and saw the time, 4:15 am. I groaned and dug my face into the pillow to try and drain out the annoying sounds.

I eventually fell asleep, but had to wake up again for school

When we arrived, people were mostly looking at my bod boy/sweetheart cousin, so I speed walked to my locker.

"Eliza!"

I turned around when i heard two voices calling mi name, Connor and Frankie. They glared at each other and narrowed their eyes at me, i was really confused and raised my eyebrows. They both sighed, and glared at each other again.

"okay, what's going on here?" i asked going closer to them.

"hey" Frankie smiled, but her eye was twitching and she only did that when she was frustrated about something.

"hey babe" Connor held his hand out and i raised and eyebrow.

He scoffed "you think I don't know you have skittles?" i frowned and handed him a few, he raised an eyebrow and i groaned, handing him more.

"that's better" he smirked

"what about me?" Frankie pouted

I swear they're gonna finish my not-so-secret-anymore stash of skittles. I didn't know if they had them here or not so i pretty much filled up half my suitcase with skittles. Not a great idea because the man at the security check raised and eyebrow at me when scanning my case.

"here" i handed her skittles "yay" she popped them into her mouth and the bell rang.

"you two are coming to Dominic's party on friday, right?" Connor said while we walked to class

"what? no" i frowned, Dominic was one of the popular kids. He's friends with Joe, but I'm positively not going.

"why not?" Connor groaned

"Cause i don't want to?"

"you're going, so go get something nice to wear. wait, i can help you! both of you! I'll pick you up at four. it'll be great, trust me. see you girls!" Connor walked away before we could say anything and Frankie sighed with a small smile.

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sorry for not upating recently :(

~sara