The Enemy

One Tear After Another

Ch. 7

Katie's POV

Luke rushes over to Mark and grabs him by the shirt. Luke pulls Mark up and stares angrily into his eyes. "What do you think you're doing? You know that's my sister right?!?" Mark cowers a little. He may be on the football team but so is Luke and Luke is two years older than him. "Get out!" Luke says with a voice like ice.

"Wait," I say finally finding a voice.

"You stay out of this!" my brother yells at me. I was a little taken back. Luke rarely ever yelled at me or any one for a matter of fact.

"But you haven't even heard an explanation of what happened," I protest.

"I don't need to hear an explanation of what happened. This idiot," he said glaring at Mark whose shirt was still gripped in his hand, " tried to kiss you."

"But..."

"No buts, no nothing. I don't care what you say because I know in some way you're going to twist up what really was happening. " Luke now turns and stares at Mark again, "And you. Get out of this house now and stay away from my sister at school. " Luke lets go of Mark's shirt and he quickly says goodbye and leaves.

My eyes start to water up. "Why in the world would you do that?!" I cry. "You know I have a crush on him and you know that he's a nice guy so why did you scare him off? You suck. " I have tears rolling down my face now. "Get out of my room, Luke."

"I am only trying to..."

"Now!" Luke leaves my room. I put my face in my pillow and cry. I can't believe he just did that. The guy I've liked for two years now finally seemed interested in me and Luke blew it. He scared him off. I'll probably never get to talk to him again.

When I woke ( not even realizing that I had fallen asleep) I found that I was really thirsty. I went downstairs to get a drink. I opened the door to the kitchen to see Luke sitting in there with Joshy. "Why are you sad?" Joshy asks.

"Because I hurt your sisters feeling," Luke replied.

"How?"

"I made a mistake and made her cry. I'm sorry I did that and I wish I could tell her but she probably won't want to talk to me. " Luke hung his head. It was at that moment I decided to walk into the kitchen. Luke turned around and looked at me with sad pleading eyes. I just kept on walking and got a drink. I wanted to forgive him but I couldn't. He hurt me and scared away someone I cared about.

"Katie, please don't be mad at me," he pleaded.

"Why? So you can yell at me again. Not likely. " I started to walk away.

"But Katie, I was just..."

"You were just what?" I said cutting him off. "You yelled at me, didn't let me explain, and scared Mark away so that he'll probably never talk to me again. Why should I forgive you?" Wow. I was surprised at what I was saying. I usually can forgive my brother for anything. I even forgave him that time he smashed a cupcake in my face at my birthday party and all the kids laughed at me.

"You're right." Luke whispered. Did he just say that I'm right? "You shouldn't forgive me. I wouldn't if you had done what I did. I didn't let you explain and I should have. I'm sorry. " With that he got up and walked away. I was shocked. Did I really hurt him that much?

"Sissy, why are you mad at Luke?" I turned around to see Joshy standing there with tears in his eyes. I felt so bad he had to see me blow up at Luke.

"Because he did something and hurt my feelings," I said trying to make it simple for Josh to understand.

"Are you going to be mad at him forever?" he said looking at me with big blue eyes.

"No, not forever. "

"Are you going to yell anymore?"

"No, Joshy I'm not. Did I scare you?"

He nodded his head yes and my heart sank. I pulled Josh into a hug and told him I was sorry. He forgave me and then had a smile on his face again. I also apologized that Mark had to leave so quickly and that next time he came over ( if there was a next time) that Mark would play with him. Since he couldn't play with Joshy, I decided to and we had lots of fun.

When I was on my way to bed, I decided to peek into Luke's room. He was laying in bed with his eyes close and his earbuds in. Right as I was about to leave, I could have sworn I saw one single tear roll down his cheek. I stayed to see if I was correct about my assumption and I heard Luke mumble, " I'm sorry, Katie." I choked my tears back so as not to cry. I wish I would've run in and said I'm sorry but a reoccurring thought kept coming in to my head. 'He chased Mark away. It's all his fault that Mark probably won't talk to you ever again. Why should I forgive him?' That's what my mind was saying to me so instead of rushing in his room, I kept walking down the hall into my room and went to bed.

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AN

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't updated for awhile but I've been really busy with school being my first year of high school and all. I hope u like the chapter. Vote and comment what you think of the story or what I could do to make it better.

Asela

Ps my b-day is this Sunday. I'm so excited!!!