Those Three Words - (Beau Brooks / Luke Brooks Fanfiction)

Chapter Eighteen - Secrets

As the steam rose from my damp body, I wrapped it with an oversized, white towel and unraveled the plastic bag from around my cast. Beau was still downstairs preparing the breakfast, so I had to rush.

I heard Be Alright by Justin Bieber playing in the other room, and once again, it reassured me. I hopped to my phone, and saw 'Harry' on the screen, I answered the call with a half hearted jolly tone, "hey, what's up?"

"Hey Bells, just checking we're still on for today?"

"Of course, why wouldn't we be?" I said with no emotion in my voice.

"Well, you were having second thoughts last night, so I was just seeing you were okay about everything."

"Obviously I'm not okay, but I need to get over it all and face up to it."

Harry then questioned me, "does Beau know about us meeting? I wouldn't want you keeping anything from him?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I'll rephrase, I don't want him to think you're keeping anything from him, hiding anything."

"How do you know about me and Beau?"

"I did my research." I was silent, knowing that he was grinning to himself. "Okay that was a slight exaggeration, but I might have asked around, I care about you Bells, I don't want you to get hurt by him.. He has a.."

"Has a what, Harry?"

"A... Reputation."

There was a moment of silence, then something slipped out of my mouth, "well Harry, you're not really one to think about hurting people, are you?"

I heard Harry sigh at the thought of my sly comment, "that's not fair Bella... I never meant to hurt you!"

"Harry calm down, I'm sorry I was completely in the wrong." I tried to apologise but he just hung up, leaving me with nothing to do but kick myself over what I just said.

I sat myself on my bed and buried my head into my hands.

"Who was that on the phone?" Beau asked from the doorway. I didn't want to lie, it would just make it worse, so I just told him the truth.

"It was Harry, and I was suppose to be meeting with him today, I guess not anymore."

"When did you plan this?" Tears gathered in my eyes. "Bella? What did he say to you on the phone? I'm going to kill him if he's said anything to hurt you!"

"Beau stop! It's me, not him. I was a complete bitch."

"Then why are you crying?"

"Why am I crying? Because I just ruined everything. Every possibility of us being friends again."

"I'm going to leave you alone for a couple of hours, ring me if you need me."

He kissed my cheek and headed for the door, "where are you going?" I questioned, not wanting him to leave.

"Out, not for long, I prom-"

"Where?" I interrupted, knowing he was going to lie about the whole situation.

"I'm just meeting with some friends, i love you." He then left. He left with more damn secrets.

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About an hour after Beau had left, I was ready with my natural hair, normal make up, a lilac floaty dress and high gladiator sandles. Enough time for a game of Black Ops 2 : Zombies. Beau got me interested in these games within a week of us dating, as well as me seeing Luke and Jai playing it all the time.