You Don't Know Me

Chapter 11| I Like Him

"I don't like him like that!" I protest. "Just get that in your head!"

"You are in denial" Will chuckles.

The guys are convinced that I like Brent. I don't.

"Then why are you always with him?" Jake smirks. "I'm not always with him" I say folding my arms.

"Ever since last week he's been talking to you at lunch and you guys play video games almost daily, he joined us for truth or dare, you went skating with him and you went to his house" Josh says raising his eyebrows.

"I. Don't. Like. Him!" I grumble.

"Then why are you always giggling and blushing when he's around. You even blush when you hear his name!" Will says frustratedly.

"No I don't!" I repeat. "Oh really? Brent. SEE!" Josh says pointing to my cheeks.

I run to the closest mirror which is is my bathroom that is attached to my room. Sure enough I look like a strawberry.

Does this mean that I really do like Brent?

The guys rush into the room and just smirk at me. Making me blush even more.

"I told you" they all say in sync. "How do you guys know my feelings before I even do" I mumble walking out of my bathroom and flopping my stomach on my bed.

I like Brent.

What am I going to do? He probably doesn't even like me back. I can't believe my friends figured out how I feel. Does he know I like him?

My head feels like it's going to explode from all the questions. The end of my bed sinks telling me one of the guys sat down.

"Am I really that stupid?" I say but my voice was muffled from my blanket. "No, we are just good friends" Will says. I give him my 'seriously-not-the-time' look which I give him often.

"What? It's true. Good friends are supposed to know their friends better than anything and we just figured out that you liked him." Will says calmly.

"What am I going to do?" I say rolling on my back and throwing a pillow on my face.

I hear sighs meaning they don't really know either. But seriously, what am I going to do?

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"Hey" Brent says matching my pace to walk next to me. "Hey" I say smiling.

It's even harder to talk to him now that I know I like him. Dammit. Curse the hot guy that has the nice personality.

"Want to come over tonight. We could ride the horses" Brent offers sending me a hopeful glance. "Sure" I smile.

Buzz Buzz

I pull out my phone and I have a text from Thomas. I open and I die from the sight.

It's a picture of me and Brent talking from right now and me blushing and him smiling at me.

Thomas: What is this?!?!

Alexandra: WTF that was taken just now!! How the hell did u get this?!?!

Thomas: I told you I have people.

Alexandra: u creep! I'm going to kill u!

Thomas: Just tell me! Do you like him?!

Alexandra: Why do u want 2 know?!

Thomas: Just tell me!

Alexandra: It doesn't matter! I'll talk 2 u l8tr

I block his number so he can't reach me or bother me. I'll obviously unblock him later but right now I don't want to talk to him. He really is getting on my nerves. Having people spy on me. Finding out who I like.

Seriously. I'm getting pissed. I sigh angry and put my phone away.

"Everything okay?" Brent asks looking worried. "Yeah just my brother" I sigh.

"What'd he do? If you don't mind me asking" Brent says with a bit of concern in his voice.

"He is having somebody spy on me" I say suppressing my anger. "Spying on you?"

"Yeah I mean he has pictures of me and he always asks me questions about them. And when I ask him how he got them he says 'I have people'" I say mimicking his voice with a high pitched annoyed voice.

He chuckles a bit at my little voice change there. Okay I didn't sound anything like my brother if anything I sounded like a five year old girl. I just imagine Thomas with a little girl's voice.

Okay that is pretty funny. "Well maybe you should try to ask your other brother. You have two brothers right?" Brent says trying to figure out a way to help me.

I love my brother obviously, but he's really taking his whole 'protective brother' act too far.

"Maybe I should. They're just always on my back because I'm a girl. I mean they don't underestimate me or anything like that but they treat me like I'm a complete different species. It sounds weird but I don't know how to explain it" I shrug hopefully not sounding crazy.

"I can understand. I was in their shoes once. I didn't have people spy on my sister but one time she was being bullied I kinda got really mad and did somethings I shouldn't have" Brent says sadly.

By the way he says it, I feel like he probably doesn't want to tell me what it is. So I don't pry it out of him.

"You have a little sister?" I say shock evident in my voice. "Yeah two little sisters" he says nodding.

"So you live in a house with 3 girls and 2 guys" I say in shock. "No just 1 guy, including me" He says. It's obvious he is trying not to sound sad, but I don't miss the bit of sadness when he says it.

"What happened to your dad? Of course you don't have to tell me though" I say in my comforting voice. I place my hand on his upper arm and look at him.

"He was killed" Brent says quietly. I hear the sadness but I hear anger. I should understand but I half don't. He said killed he didn't say, he passed, or he's dead. He said killed.

I can't help but wonder how he died. I of course don't ask. He would have said if he wanted to. He didn't so he doesn't want to talk about it.

"Sorry" I say. "About both things."

He gives me a look. One where he is confused. "Both?" He asks confused.

"Well yeah, sorry about your dad...... Annd the fact that you live with 3 girls and no other guys" I say. and tease a bit.

That joke broke the silence of his father and he smiled. "Tell me about it! It's absolute torture!" He says exasperatedly.

I smile and tease him some more.

We head into school together and we separate when the guys come towards us.

All of them are smirking. "What?" I say.

"You were with Brent again" Jake smirks. "Yes I was. Where are you getting to?" I ask raising my eyebrows.

"Did anything happen?" Josh asks mischievously.

"No. Why?" I say slowly. I'm slightly confused about this whole interogation thing.

"Well what did he say?" Will asks.

Okay seriously. This is getting weird for me.

"He only asked me to come over to his house tonight" I really want to know what the hell they're planning.

"What are you gonna do at his house?" Jake asks.

"What's with all the questions?!" I scream at them.

"Nothing" They all say quickly, and in sync. I don't even care anymore.

"Whatever" I say annoyed and I move past my friends and head into my first class.

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-Sarah