Crippled Hearts (on hold)

Chapter 3: Saved by the ringtone

I had come to realize that Carter and Jordan were Luke's best friends, Laura was friends with them too, which meant that they were going to be spending a lot of time at my cousins' house.

Damn and just when I thought I could avoid Carter.

I didn't know how I would deal with his constant cocky attitude. His aura just screamed player. Not that it didn't for Luke or Jordan either but he just seemed more conceited. I sighed thinking about the countless times that Laura and I had to listen to Luke talk about his many, many conquests. I would be on the phone video chatting to Laura and Luke or we would be on holiday when he would start that topic of conversation. Both of us disapproved of his actions but we were unable to convince him to stop since being a player seemed to be the norm when it came to teenage boys in this generation. I honestly don't know why they chose to act like that. I always just blamed it on peer pressure and the fear of acceptance but it was honestly terrible.

Don't get me wrong, you could often find the odd few who were committed or in serious relationships. I thought I found one too, but lo and behold I was wrong. Now I was stuck with the eye-opening memories of empty 'I love you's, a lot of regrets and the lacking ability to trust.

Looks like I drew the short straw on that deal.

Forgetting about the ever growing list of sad thoughts related to my haunting past, I focused on what was going on around me. The trio of boys were sat on the couches shouting multiple obscenities as they played COD on the Xbox. I was never very good at Call of Duty even though Laura and I often played it with Luke on the rare occasion when I was here.

I looked back at Laura who was sat beside me on one empty couch while we talked. Not really listening to the conversation as I had been stuck in my thoughts.

She had blonde hair just like her mom while her dad had brunette hair similar to my mom's hair.

Laura's hair almost looked golden with its natural highlights. It was Luke's natural hair color too although a year ago he decided to dye his hair a brighter, more platinum blonde. At first Laura and I disliked it but admittedly it didn't look too bad. However Laura and I had rolled our eyes multiple times when we heard the reason behind it. He had said he dyed it because his groupies would love it, which they did.

Laura was a little shorter than me while Luke was about half a head taller than me. They both were blessed with a mix of blue and green eyes that I was always jealous of. This trait was passed to them from their father. Laura had plump lips, similar to my own, but Luke had thinner lips. They had similar facial features since they were twins except her face was more feminine with higher cheek bones, a more elegant nose and perfectly shaped eyebrows while his face was more defined with a sharper jawline and eyebrows that were a little bushier. They both were only a little tanned even though they lived in Miami.

Laura had a good body especially since she was in her cheerleading team at her school, proving the stereotype wrong that blonde cheerleaders were dumb since her marks weren't all that bad. Luke had a strong build as he played in the boys football team in his school, though they would argue that it was called soccer. That argument still hadn't been resolved.

"Alex! Are you even listening to me? I swear it's like I'm talking to a brick wall." She released a loud huff when she noticed I wasn't paying attention.

I just smiled sheepishly. "Sorry L, I was thinking. What did you say?"

After realizing that 'Laura' was a really hard name to shorten into any nickname, we decided to just call each other our first initial, the idea coming from when we watched Gossip Girl together and drooled over Chuck and Nate. Oh the good times.