You Don't Know Me

Chapter 8| Surprised

Note: I thought this outfit was cute and something I can imagine Alexandra wearing so this is what I imagine she is wearing this part.

"Huh?" I ask Brent. He was supposed to be explaining a part of science, not teaching me a whole other language.

"You still don't understand?" Brent asks. He doesn't ask in some mean wow you're so dumb way he says it like he wants a confirmation that I don't understand.

"I just don't understand it" I say seriously. I expected a whine, a sigh, or a complaint but instead all I got was an, "Okay" and then another explanation but he was asking me questions like a tutor or something.

After he explained it. It actually made sense to me. I understood it. "Oh" I say "Thanks."

"No problem" He replies with a shrug. No tease, no complaint, nothing. Just help. Which I was grateful for. Usually when I have group projects and I don't understand they just get mad at me for being stupid.

We are almost done with the project. It's now 1:30 so we've been working for almost 2 hours. We finish working on one of the questions that needed to be answered. So we basically got a sheet of questions about our topic that we have to answer in a presentation. It's pretty simple except for the actual work part (surprising?). We have around 10 (just finished the tenth) out of 20 questions answered. So I'd say it's going well.

"You hungry?" I say getting up to go to my kitchen. "Sure, what do you have?" Brent question as he follows me into the kitchen.

I bury my nose in the cupboard to look for something. "I have granola bars, ginger snaps, kale chips, and popcorn"

"Ooo popcorn" Brent says sitting on one of the chairs at the kitchen island. "Popcorn it is" I say grabbing a package and throwing it in the microwave.

"So what do you do when your bored around here?" Brent asks looking around. "What?" I ask confused. "When your bored at home, what do you do?" He asks again

"Uh, I just play video games, why?" I say slowly. "You play video games?!" Brent says in shock, but I remain neutral. "Yeah, I have a bunch in the basement" I say grabbing the popcorn from the microwave and putting it into a bowl.

"What games?" Brent asks taking popcorn from the bowl I just set down. "Umm, GTA five, Call of Duty Strike Team and Call of Duty Ghosts, and a lot more" I shrug eating some popcorn.

"Wanna play them?" I ask him. "Sure" He says. I grab the popcorn bowl and lead the way downstairs. I place the bowl on the coffee table in between the couch and the huge flat screen tv.

I grab two big boxes full of games and bring them to the couch where Brent is sitting. "Woah you really do have a lot" he says in awe. "I don't think I even have that many" He says looking through the titles for something to play.

"It's a priority when you live with 3 guys" I shrug turning on the tv and putting into the right input. "3 guys?" Brent says switching his gaze from the games to me with his eyebrows raised.

"Yeah my dad, and my two older brothers" I say matter-of-factly. "What about your mom?" Brent asks. "My mom passed away when I was born" I say seriously. I was only a few months old when lung cancer took her life. I don't really remember her. I've seen pictures and heard stories, but that's about it.

"Oh sorry, I didn't know" Brent say softly. "Don't be of course you didn't know, and I'm fine with talking about her" I say respectfully. Brent nods dropping the subject and turns back to the games.

"Hole crap! You have Call of Duty Black Ops III!" Brent yells after a minute of him flipping through the box and picking up the game. "Yeah, I got last Christmas. Wanna play it?" I ask with a mischievous grin. Little does he know. Nobody has beaten my score yet. And I plan to keep it that way.

"Hell yeah I wanna play it!" Brent exclaims excitedly not even acknowledging my grin. I grab the box from his hand and put the disc in my PS4. I halfway through the game and I already have double the amount of kills that Brent has.

"How did you get so many kills?!" Brent asks in shock with his eyes still on the screen. "I'm just that good" I smirk making him chuckle. "The round's almost over" I say "Maybe next time."

"No! Noo!" Brent yells as I kill him (in the game of course). "Ha!" I say loudly. I look over the pouting Brent with a smirk pulling at my lips. Round Over comes onto the screen and then it shows the leader board. I'm 1st and he's 5th.

He actually looks really sad in a cute way when he pouts. Making me laugh all giddy, but it wasn't a giggle. I don't really giggle. Unless I'm nervous. Which I am not.

"Not bad for your first game" I say smirking. "Shut up" he says obviously joking because he's trying to suppress a smile. Wait if he's smiling after he lost doesn't that mean he's happy?

I thought all guys are sore losers. Mainly because every other guy I've beaten has been a sore loser. But not Brent. I guess it's good to finally find someone who won't call me a cheater just because I beat them. I like that.

We just play games and laugh and talk for a while. It's actually fun. Really fun.

"What time is it?" Brent asks after we play a few (more like 20) more games. "It's 7?" I say but it comes out like a question. I can't believe we wasted hours just playing games and laughing.

"Yeah I should probably get home" Brent says standing up from the couch. "Want to come over tomorrow at this time to finish the project?" I ask standing up as well. He responds with a nod and a smile.

He goes to the dining room to grab his things and I lead him to the front door. We say our goodbyes and he leaves.

I'm actually surprised by him. I expected this to be absolutely dreadful. But it was actually really fun. I'm pretty glad that we were assigned as partners.

I'm also looking forward to tomorrow. Maybe we can finish the project and play some more games again.

I sigh. "Who was that?" I hear someone ask making me jump out of my skin. I turn around to see a smirking Brian leaning against the door frame leading into the living room. "Don't do that!" I yell at him. "But it's funny" Brian chuckles.

I give him a look and he stops laughing. "But seriously, who was that?" Brian asks seriously.

"That was just Brent" I say casually. "Just Brent?" He asks and his smirk returns. "Yeah, we have a project together in science" I shrug.

"Okay" he sing-songs and turns on his heels and walks back to the living room.

I sigh again and head upstairs to go to bed.

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Note: Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm really loving this book, and I hope you're enjoying it too. I might update tomorrow if I can. If it's not It will most likely be up before Tuesday. I have a pretty busy weekend. But I'm going to try my best to get it up. <3

-Sarah