A Year To Remember

Chapter 6: The Bet

A/N: Pic is once again Kaya Scodelario who plays Bex there were no new characters so I just posted this. *Lazy shrug*

Bex's POV

I stumbled into the house exhausted. I fell asleep the whole car ride and when I woke up, I was leaning on Eric's shoulder. The awkward part is that Eric didn't mind, but I knew he was awake the whole time...

As I made my way towards the stairs, my mom came walking towards me. I guess she was home early today because Eric was here, "Oh sweetheart, I know I never told you about a transfer student coming to stay here, but we all thought it would be nice for you to have an older brother here while Devon's in college." My mom said hugging me (really hard too).

"Then why couldn't Cam just move in? Better to have someone I actually know." I said, glaring pointedly at Eric.

My mom just gave me a look and went over and hugged Eric, "Eric, welcome. I hope Rebecca hasn't cause any problems. It's so like her. I really want you to like it here." She turned to me, but she was still talking to Eric. "Rebecca could show you around and give you a tour of the house. If you need anything sweetie, just call me, I'll be in my office."

I rolled my eyes when my mom said it's was so like me to cause problems, and I was about to say something about giving Eric a tour, but she left before I could object. I went up to my room to put my stuff away, and then went back down so I could give Eric that tour my mom offered.

I went around the house showing Eric the important places: the bathroom, the Kitchen (very important), his room (which I just told him to pick any room on the floor), my room, mom's office, the study room, the dining room, the family room, the butler's room, stair case 1, 2, 3, the elevator, and the list goes on and on.

After the tour, we went back up to the second floor with all the bedrooms so he could decide which one he wanted, he picked the one right across mine. For 'convenience' he said. I was too tired to argue so I just shrugged. "Snacks on the kitchen table, if you're too lazy to go all the way downstairs, like me, there's a snack cabinet and a mini fridge on every floor. For 'convenience'." I told him, " and if you need me, I'm sorry, but I'll be asleep in my room." I told Eric, and with that, I disappeared into my room.

I fell on my bed completely dead tired as I heard Eric's door slam shut. I was really tired, but I felt so sweaty and gross. I really wanted to sleep, but the thought of falling asleep with all that sweat building up... just had to take a shower, so I did.

I walked to the bathroom and locked the door. I filled my Jacuzzi with warm water, stripped off my sweaty school uniform and laid down. Oh my god, it was so relaxing.

After a while, I started getting a little bored and decided to watch some Netflix. There was a 13-inch flat screen TV in every bathroom for this specific reason. I strained to reach the remote off the counter without having to get up and once I got it, typed: Madagascar 3. After the twenty minute mark, I decided that I took a long enough bath and I jumped into the shower place.

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After I was dressed and situated, I couldn't fall asleep. So I was sitting on the couch, kindle in my hand playing fruit ninja. I was about to slice a frozen in half when there was a knock at the door. I sighed and got up expecting to see Devon there to ask to borrow my laptop or kindle or something like that. But instead, I saw Eric standing there with a towel wrapped around him.

Then it hit me, Devon was in college. I had completely forgotten that. I was just staring at Eric's abs and heard him say, "Hey Bex, how do you use that remote control thing in the bathroom? It has so many buttons, I don't know what controls what. They should really make instructions on how to use that thing."