Megan cam beaming into his room the following day after school, her checks flushed and her face glistened in sweat.
"Dylan I need your phone. Like now." She had run all the way from home desperate to make this phone call. As soon as he pulled it from his pocket, she snatched it from his hands and ran from his room to the sofa. Flinging herself onto her back, she unlocked it. She already knew his password, he kept no secrets from her. She picked up after the first ring.
"Ally? He asked me. Toby asked me out!" She screamed down the phone. Dylan entered the room and stood at the end of the sofa, watching her intently.
"A boy asked you on a date?" He asked louder then he had intended too. Wasn't thirteen to young to date?
"Dylan, shut up. I'm talking to Ally." She rolled over onto her side so she didn't have to look at her older brother whilst she talked. "Yeah, today...No we're going out tonight...Can you come round?...Awesome see you in a bit." She hung up and chucked the phone back to him, he caught it with one hand.
"You're going on your first date?"
"Don't go all big brother on me now Dylan. I am so so excited." She jumped up and down on the spot.
"I'm not too sure I like the thought of my little sister going on a date. Let me come with you."
"You're so funny Dylan." She laughed at him. He hadn't meant to be funny he was being deadly serious. "Ally will be here in ten minutes, she's just finished her shift."
"Why is she coming round?"
"To help me get ready. Dur." She rolled her eyes at him. Megan liked Ally. She didn't talk to her to get through to Dylan like the other girls, who were only nice to her so they could talk to him too. If anything Ally was being nice to Dylan to become friends with her, the thought made her smile. Finally there was a woman who liked her for who she was and not who her brother was. She hadn't spent time with an older woman since her Mum had died, and whilst it wasn't the same she really enjoyed it. Ally was cool. She was straight up and didn't talk to her as if she were a little girl, like Beth Hills. It annoyed her when adults only talked down to her, like she was a five year old, because they felt sorry for her. Ally talked to her as an equal. When they had been talking about her parents Ally hadn't given her a sympathetic smile, instead she told it how it was. 'Its beyond shit, Megan.' And it was. She appreciated how Ally hadn't sugar coated her parents death. It was shit, beyond shit.
When Ally knocked on the door fifteen minutes later Dylan answered it, hoping he could have a few minutes alone with her until Megan stole all of her attention. She had stayed over again last night after they had watched the movie and had left early in the morning before he woke up, which pissed him off. He wouldn't have minded waking up to her naked body. She had obviously gone home to shower first before her shift. She wore different clothes and her hair hung loose around her shoulders. He loved her hair like that, especially when it was tangled around his fingers. She stepped through the door and he pushed her against it, kissing her, closing it as he did.
"Sorry I didn't call." He broke the kiss.
"Dyl, I left here only nine hours ago." She stepped around him. "Besides you didn't need to ring me anyway. I know what this is."
"I know but I wasn't too sure." If it had been any other girl he wouldn't have bothered to call them, only if he had wanted them in bed again but he didn't want her to feel cheap.
"Dylan, you have no responsibility when it comes to me, so relax. Okay? I can look after myself." She placed a brief kiss on his lips as Megan come running in.
