The Brooks Boys

Chapter Eleven

As we get closer, I begin to see Luke clearer. He is standing next to a girl with lovely blonde hair that falls just over her shoulders and she looks a little smaller than me. She turns her body, facing my direction showing me her lovely deep hazel eyes. She says goodbye to Luke and walks away giving me a smile and a small wave to skip.

Daniel follows her, leaving Luke and I standing in front of the sports hall, alone.

"I thought you'd been kidnapped!" He laughs looking at the none existent watch on his left wrist.

"Yeah, I got a little lost on the way here, before I bumped into Daniel."

"Ok, did he say anything?" He says, his expression is immediately serious.

"What? No, like what?"

"Nothing, it's just that I forgot to tell you about what I told Daniel and James. You know? The story that goes behind your fake relationship."

I remember Daniel saying something about Jai and I knowing each other for long enough. But I didn't think it would have been Luke telling them the back story of lies. To me, that sounds like a very Jai-ish thing to do.

"Well he did say, that he thought we had known each other for a while and I should know that Jai's middle name is jealously. Or something along those lines."

"I might have, sort of, kind of told him that you and Jai had been talking over the internet through our friend Esme. Thats why I was just talking to her, and telling her about the dare and the story. I promise we'll tell James and Daniel when it's all over."

I feel bad and responsible that Esme has just been dragged into this whole mess by Luke. But I guess theres nothing I can do about it now. Nothing but be suspicious at the fact that Luke completely ignored my remark about Jai's jealously. I feel as though paranoia is getting the best of me, so I decide to just let this one go. I dramatically sigh and roll my eyes at Luke. This is not at all what I expected 'making friends' to be like.

"Okay, is there anything else that I should know?" I say slowly, raising one of my eyebrows.

"Nope." He pauses and looks down.

"Just remember that you've known Jai for three months and Esme used to live by you. It's believable because she moved her from England as well, about two tears ago."

"Oh okay." I try to be as blunt with Luke as possible, just to show him that none of this is acceptable. First he made me go out with his twin brother, then apologised for it. After that, he told all of his friends a load of lies to cover up this stupid dare and made it seem believable by dragging another innocent person into it.

"Alright then, I want to show you one of my favourite parts of the school." He exclaims with a cheeky smile. And with that he leads me away from the sports centre.

....

We begin to approach a glass building after making small talk to each other about how both of our mornings were. He turned to me and smiled before pushing the glass door open. Quite similar to the way in which Beau had opened the door for me yesterday, at Aprils. Before the dare.

Thinking of Beau takes me back to the kiss. When his lips were touching mine it felt so real. So spontaneous and natural. His embrace is the only thing I crave at this moment in time. For him to just waltz through the door and take my body in his arms and...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down Eleanor. My conscience warns me and grasps me back into reality. I can't fall for Beau! He's. You know. He's just, him! I can't conjure up a good enough excuse right now, but I'll find one. There are so many things wrong with him and I dating after this. I don't think that he would want to date me anyway. He kissed me a day ago and now he won't talk to me at all. Besides I like Troye and we'll be together soon and everything will go back to normal.

"I said, do you like it?" Luke shouts, waving a hand full of spread fingers right in my face.

"Erm, sorry what? I was miles away."

"Yeah I can tell. What's on your mind Ellie?" He asks softening his voice.

"I mean Eleanor," He corrects himself and continues. "You only like it when Beau calls you that. Don't you?" His tone is very serious but he still remains friendly. I know he is concerned but not even I know what my feelings for Beau are yet, so how could I possibly explain them to him.

He realises my silence and retracts his question.

"Okay, I know there is something going on in that head of yours Eleanor. You and Beau haven't been the same since your kiss in the bathroom."

"He told you about the kiss?" I sound more surprised than I actually am.

"Yeah. But not in the way that you think. He said that ever since he had laid his lips on yours, he felt different. As if he'd known you forever and that all he wanted was to do it again."

:::I know that I was meant to update this morning but I woke up really late. And then I had this thing called school, it's really crappy and boring and lasts for seven hours so unfortunately I couldn't update then. I will update again tomorrow, I swear! ;) Don't forget to vote if you liked it and leave me a few comments telling me what you think :):::