The Ford Twins

chapter one part two - she isn't my girlfriend

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Recap:

Huffing a breath, I drop to the ground into a criss-cross position and crossed my arms over my chest, my feet scraping against the concrete only a little bit. I could see the amusement below the surface of Percy's face, but he said nothing as his eyes found something more interesting than me. What on earth has stolen my lovely brother's attention away from me?

Then without warning the barely-there feel of raindrops vanishes from above me. Startled I scan my surrounding to see the puddles around me still padding with sprinkles, how peculiar for it to rain everywhere but on me...

With that in mind, I look up to the sky only to see a canopy of thin black fabric attached to a curved stick. How I loath umbrellas...

Chapter One Part Two:

My eyes refuse to stray onto the boy I knew would be holding it and instead found my brother and directed a harsh glare his way. How dare he betray me like this! To make a threat like that only to have already gone thru with it?

"Wynter?" His velvet voice spoke from behind me, rocking me to my core. Why did my twin have to use him against me? Of all people.

Percy only smiles, tipping his imaginary hat at me and waltzing away, probably off to see Calvin, his untameable best friend. I hope he was fully prepared for a silent treatment, not that it would last longer than eternity, or rather, five minutes.

"Wynter isn't here right now; please come back another time. Perhaps when the world is over," I offer, still refusing to look his way.

"Now what could cause the end of the world?" He asks, to him he was playing along, but I knew that he knew I am serious. There were many different possibilities that I thought about often.

"I like to think it will be flying pigs, but not the cute kind, the mean and burly kind, the ones with the bunched up fat faces and greasy, hairy skin," I could hear him laugh slightly, the sound making me crack a smile. I may love his laugh, but this is certainly not a good time for it, "Just like your girlfriend."

His laughing halts immediately at my last comment, his gaze burning a hole in the side of my head as he moves to sit beside me, the umbrella somehow staying in the same place over my head. If I had been holding something up for that long, my arm would be shaking as much as a fish out of the water, but Axels remained as still as a rod, annoying proof of all of his mindless hours wasted inside the gym.

"Wynter she isn't my girlfriend, you are."

My ears perk up at that information, my eyes finally turning away from the wet concrete to the boy sitting next to me. His black hair was soaking wet, the long strands at the front that he usually swept up, sticking to his forehead. I wanted to sweep it away as it was a distraction from his deep evergreen eyes that somehow managed to look like glass, mirroring my image a thousand times.

I'm not known for being able to focus on things. Actually, I am known for the complete opposite, but all that seemed to change when I saw this boys eyes.

He wanted to know what would end the world? Well, I was sure those eyes of his would end mine.

Percy said that I wasn't born with any sanity but to make up for it God made Axel. Whenever I was what Percy referred to as eccentric, he would call Axel, and the bore would bring me back to earth. They worried about me a lot, I don't know why.

"You wish," I replied, leaning into his side with a sigh. I knew that it was actually the other way around. But Axel was unavailable, I have known him since we were young and playing tag in my backyard but things between us have never drifted from only platonic.

He was the handsome soccer jock with endless girls following after him. Completely untouchable, I mean, who could resist those eyes and those undeniable dimples whenever he laughed or smiled.

Thinking about that I turned my body a little more towards him and brought my finger up to poke his right cheek, "Smile!"

Axel laughed at my demand, and if I were standing, the sound would have brought me to my knees. He had the best laugh, the kind that came from deep in his stomach and rumbled through his entire body. He didn't even know how lucky he was, how wanted he was.

His heavy arm came around my shoulders in a comforting embrace and my body sunk deeper into his side. If the water in my hair was soaking through his cotton t-shirt he made no comment of it and stayed quiet, giving me whatever time outside I needed.

I've had plenty of people say I wasn't human but that was exactly how I felt with Axel. There was no one like him, that was nice, like actually lovely, the kind of sweet that never went unnoticed and not many people had. Not to mention his looks, it was no secret that the renowned school's soccer captain had a prestige body but it's was his symmetrical features and sharp jawline that really got all the girls attention.

None of them bothered to get to know him, they just wanted him for his looks. I knew it hurt him whenever he realized that about a girl he was interested in. Though, even so, Axel Pike was untouchable, on the field and in the dating pool no matter how close we were or how much I knew he cared about me. It was for that very reason that he would not risk hurting me. Or at least that was what I hoped, that he never made a move on me because he was afraid of ruining our wonderful friendship. 

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