The Brooks Boys

Chapter Twenty

~Beau's P.O.V~

Shit.

I should've known it would be too late. He's already done it and it's all my fault.

The silence that fills the room couldn't be any more awkward. I look down at Ellie, she is already peering into my eyes and watching my expression. I fucking love it when she does that.

I smile at her and shrug my shoulders, pretending that I don't know what is about to happen.

"Slut, slut, slut!" They all slowly begin to chant as Yolanda and Jai make their way through the crowd, coming towards us.

What the fuck? This wasn't the plan.

She looks up at me again, the clear tears forming in her eyes.

She pulls my arm down to bring me to her level and whispers in my ear.

"Are they talking to me? W-Why are they calling me that?" She says, trembling. Her child-like innocence stabs me in the heart for what I have done. I want to reply, I want to tell everybody to shut the fuck up but I can't. I'm frozen. My legs won't let me move and my mouth won't let me speak.

"Well, well, well." Says the plum haired devil. "Look who we found creeping up the stairs with Beau." She points to Ellie. I feel like pouncing at her and ripping her crooked finger right off.

They boo and hiss at Ellie and I find the strength step in front her and shield her with my body. She grips onto my arms.

"She was not creeping. Eleanor didn't even want to go upstairs, he dragged her up there!" April says standing up for her best friend. It pisses me off a little, that she's trying to blame me, but fuck it. I'd take a bullet for Ellie any day.

"That was the plan dimwit!" Yolanda hisses through her teeth with a chuckle.

Oh shit.

"What?" The three of them say turning to me.

"Don't listen to her!" I say. I'm not letting anything ruin what we just went through.

I've decided to do what I do best. Deny everything. At all costs.

"No, he's right. Don't listen to me. Listen to your boyfriend." she says using air quotations on the last word.

Jai strides towards us and clears his throat as though he's preparing for a speech. Idiot.

"Well I'd suspected something was going on when I caught Ella, dear, touching my twin brother in the library." The crowd gasps and he pulls up a stool to stand on so he can talk over them.

"Yes, yes. I know, it's disgusting. But anyway, I had forgiven her. Shortly after, I kissed her, and she said my older brothers name. Now that truly broke my heart. Yolanda and Beau also thought this was unacceptable, so they helped me to create a plan, to stop her from reaching my father. You know how these sluts like to make their way through familys." I swear if he makes one more sly comment about her I'm going to kill him.

"So we invited her here, then Beau tempted her and she didn't say no. So thank you Beau for your co-operation."

Fucking idiot.

That is not what happened! Well it is, but not like that.

"You're a fucking lier!"

"Am I Beau?" he says and points towards Ellie. I swear I'm murdering the next person that points at her like that.

"Is this true Beau?" Ellie turns to me with tears now streaming down her face.

I can't lie to her when she's like this.