The Brooks Boys

Chapter Fifty

The songs for this chapter:

Everything Everything - Cough Cough.

Twenty One pilots - Migraine.

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"Hi Jai." I say into the phone.

"Yeah. Hi Eleanor, I presume you got my text?" he whispers back.

"Yep, I did. I was wondering if you could come over." I say over the shuffling ruckus upstairs. I thought the house was empty.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" He asks as I walk up the stairs following the noise.

"Wait. Why wouldn't it be? I thought you wanted to-"

+"No, no it's okay. I'll be over in fifteen." he sighs and hangs up. I'm not even going to dwell on his suspicious behavior because to be quite honest I'm more interested in the sound coming from my room. Maybe I should have asked Jai to stay on the phone a little longer, since the coarse scrapping noise is setting goosebumps up along my arms.

"Hello?" I ask as I open my door slowly. Unveiling:

Beau.

"Oh hi Ellie." He says casually, struggling to wiggle through my blinds.

"Hi. What are you doing here? And how long have you been here?" I asked him crossing my arms over my chest.

"Well I said I'd crawl through didn't I?" He shrugs and steps into my room. "I swear I'm going to shred those shutters." He chuckles, stepping closer. But I back away a little. I know it's not like me to avoid Beau and his affection but, I'm really not in the mood at the moment. Considering the fact that I potentially just lost one of my best friends.

"What's the matter babe? Didn't you have a good time with April?" He comes closer and places his hand onto my shoulder.

"No, not really. I took a mild attack on Yolanda and Esme completely took her side." I sulk, plopping myself onto the bed.

"How upset are you?" Beau asks, standing patiently in between my legs.

"Pretty upset." I choke.

"That Es is a real bitch. I swear the next time I-" he starts.

"Not that upset." I laugh.

"Okay sorry, I meant: That Esme is a real..." He searches around for a less offensive word.

"Turd?"

"Yes! Turd. And I won't be entirely happy the next time that I see her." He finishes and taps my nose.

"That's better." I sigh.

"You know I'll always stick up for you baby. No innuendo intended. Even if you're in the wrong I'll be on your side. But just out of curiosity, what did you say to her?"

"Well we were on about dresses and personalities and stuff and she said something about the dress that I chose and how it wouldn't suit Esme's personality. So I was like 'how would you know?' Then I said something about her leaving Esme for dead and she got mad at me! Out of order right? I mean I was only trying to stick up for her but obviously she enjoys Yolanda's company more than mine." I huff throwing my body back onto the bed.

"Oh dear, why would you say that to her? You're not usually one to throw out snide comments." He smiles.

"Because she was winding me up." I whine, pulling my face into a frown after noticing exactly how childish I sound.

"Aren't you always the one that's always to telling me to 'just ignore them'?" He raises a firm brow down at me.

"Yes but-"

"No buts. Next time she winds you up please just walk away. I don't want you going up against Yolanda, you don't know what she's capable of." He strokes my hair softly, with worried eyes.

"Listen: April and Esme don't know what they're doing. They're confused. Imagine if you had a friend for quite sometime, then she just turned, for the worse of course. And as soon as she did, you made friends with a new girl that was probably the best thing you'd ever seen. You'd forget about your other friend right?" He moves closer to me on the bed.

"Yeah I guess." I shrug, trying not show him that he's right.

"Well that's how they feel, they found something a lot better than Yolanda, being you, and now that we spend a lot of time together and Yolanda's not so crazy anymore, I guess they're trying to patch up their old friendships. Meaning that their only instinct would be to defend Yolanda from you because she already went bat shit crazy when they got too close to you. If that makes sense." He smiles again and lifts my hand to his lips. 

"Yeah, yeah. I understand." I rush him discreetly. I don't want to talk about this anymore, I'll do anything to get my mind off the subject of Yolanda.

"Well I guess that that's not your fault. All of this stuff with Yolanda being back in our group will take a little getting used to." Wait what?

'Back in the group.'

What's that supposed to mean? 

Does anyone remember the things that she's done wrong? Or is it just me with the constant memory of one of my best friends sprawled helplessly across a hospital bed.

"What's the matter babe?" He pouts.

"Nothing. No I-I completely understand." I shudder pushing the monsters in my memories back under my theoretical bed. "I mean the same thing happened with me and my best friend Autumn, back in England."

"Oh really?" He's smiling but I can tell by the way that his body has shifted away from me that he's uncomfortable with the mentions of my past.

"Yeah, we grew apart once Aislinn came and well-"

"What?" his emotions completely drop from his face and he shifts on the bed again.

"Aislinn. She was the new girl. I mean she did live in England for about two years but she was new to our school." I explain but Beau's obviously too spaced out to hear.

"Aislinn?" he mutters to himslef.

"Yeah, do you know the name?"

"No, no. But I thing I should go now." I shudders, maintaining his distorted expression.

"What's the matter?"

"Nothing I'm just running late for something so I'll call you later." his lips hardly move as he forces the words out.

"You can use the door if you like." I prompt, my heart is lined with sympathy, yet my tone has been dipped in anger.

"Okay. i'll see myself out. Bye Ellie." he murmurs.

"Bye Beau." I retort as he slams the door shut.

::: Ooooooo, snap. Who knew the word 'Aislinn' could cause such a huge shit storm??? Thank you for reading you little Munchkins :) xxxx I know It's short but don't worry! There will be another one in less than three days so prepare for the secret to come out! Well one of the secrets anyways ;) Hope you have a good day or night xxx See you in the next update Munchkins (No I won't...#Awks) :::