Everything turns south as Eleanor Stevens moves ten hours away from her uppity rich family and into a house with her mother-like best friend, Addison and her boyfriend Brett. What happens when her secret crush and Brett's brother, Hunter is also inv...
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My eyes stay glued to the ground until I come up with enough courage to finally let them scan around the room. I lift my eyes and slow and take in the incredibly sexy guy in front of me. Hunter is wearing a pair Nike shorts that fit loosely around his hips, as my eyes continue to scan I notice he's wearing the dark gray hoodie I had gotten him last Christmas that brings out the brown specks in his eyes. Speaking of eyes, I slowly look up at Hunter's face which has a to die for smirk on it. I pause before smiling lightly at him. I suddenly realized that I was still holding on to Hunter's muscular arm. I smile even bigger, and remove my hand from his tan arm awkwardly. He has a girlfriend, he has a girlfriend.
"Dinner's ready," Addy calls from the kitchen.
Hunter and I walk silently to the dining room. We sit down at the small table, followed by Brett, and finally followed by the food and Addy. Addy had made lasagna and garlic bread, it was probably one of the best meals I've ever eaten that she had made.
Dinner was unusually quiet. Addy was sending death glares to Brett every couple of minutes. When my eyes darted between Addy and Brett, trying to decipher what they were arguing about. I made eye contact with Addy and she gave me a tight smiled and a look in her eyes which suggested that I shouldn't press the subject. Shortly, afterwards everyone was finished with dinner. Soon after everyone was headed to their rooms to go to bed; I went to my room, finished unpacking my numerous things I had brought. I lay on my bed, looking up at the ceiling, trying to force myself to go to sleep. I couldn't, there was just something missing.
After hours of constant tossing and turning in my bed, I finally convinced myself that I wasn't going to go to sleep. I grabbed my fluffy blue robe off of the back of the desk chair and tip-toed quietly to the backdoor. I turned the lock quietly, and slip out the tiny crack of the opened door. As I stepped out of the house, and cold breeze hits me. My wood of the porch of unusually cold for it being June, my feet jump at the coolness, I regret not wearing socks. I race to one of the many chairs on the porch to save my feet. Once in the chair, I rest my head against the back of it and look out at the shadows of the mountains that the moon had created. It's peaceful out here, totally different from the hectic place that I grew up in. My mind begins to wonder back to my old home, and my friends. What would they be doing now? Do they miss me? Does my family miss me? In the end it didn't matter who missed me, because I didn't miss them. My mind slows from its rapid thoughts and my eyes slowly start to drift close and I welcome sleep.
Crrrreeeaaak. I wake up with a start, and look around noticing that I'm outside on the porch. I try to look over at the door to see who opened it, but my eyes couldn't make it out in the dark.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. I just couldn't sleep," Hunter says.
I catch my breath. "No need to apologize. I was just about to go in." I lie.
I get up from the chair and stumble a bit at the new weakness in my legs. I walk blindly towards the door, and accidentally bump Hunter, almost flipping over the side of the porch. Hunter grabs my hips, before I even touch the railing. My head starts to blur and all I can think about is Hunter's lips and how much I want to kiss them. I lean in closer to him, he leans in closer too and his lips brush mine. His tongue licks my lips, asking for entrance into my mouth, I obliged. Our tongues swirl together in a frenzy, Hunter deepens the kiss and a moan escapes the back of my throat. Man this boy can kiss. Wait, I'm kissing Hunter!!! I pull back from him suddenly and reach for the door. I open it and run to my room, shutting and locking the door before Hunter could come after me.
The panic of the aftermath of the kiss finally sunk in and I couldn't sleep the rest of the night, even though I willed it. I felt guilty. Why in the world would you kiss a boy who has a girlfriend? I cursed myself. The sun turns the sky bright and I still hadn't had a minute of sleep; I roll out of my bed, and grab my cheetah print Nike shorts and a volleyball shirt from my old high school and walk out to the kitchen. I immediately smell batter and an unfamiliar scent, I turned the corner and found Addy making pancakes.
"Well good morning sunshine. These will be done any minute so be ready," she says as she flips a blueberry pancake.
The pancakes were finished and I saw no sign of the two boys. I took advantage of the opportunity to stuff my face, by the time I was eating my third pancake, Hunter came into the kitchen. He had on a pair of basketball shorts and a tight sleeveless shirt that made his muscles look even bigger. I stare in awe at him until I almost choke on a piece of pancake, remembering what I did last night on the porch.Hunter flashed me a smirk and I glared back and rolled my eyes. Stupid. I don't stop to chew the pancake, I rush to my room and grab my tennis shoes and my iPhone and run out the door, leaving my destruction behind.
I had no idea where I was going. I was letting my feet do the thinking. I travel along the dirt road not bothering to stop, I soon approach a fork and I just closed my eyes and went on one of the paths. All parts of this seem stupid, and I knew I would probably regret it later. I was desperate to get away and was hoping that I would eventually forget that I had become the "other girl". Even though my legs started cramping I continued to slowly jog. After a while I stop on the side of the road, and my music stops suddenly. I pull out my iPhone from the strap on my arm and look down at it, which was completely dead. Shit. I look around me and notice that I'm nowhere near a phone, in fact I'm surrounded by trees and dirt. Way to fucking go Eleanor. I turn back into the opposite direction, or I at least hope is, that I was running in. I couldn't possibly think about the despicable thing I had done, or who I affected in the process. All the while, the sun started to dip in the sky, and it soon got dark. My heart began to race- thanks to my anxiety- and I started to think that I was lost forever, and would eventually die out here alone. I was on a dirt path in some forest in a soon to be developed neighborhood and I didn't have a clue which way would lead back to the house. I continue to run south, or was it north, down the road, my foot catches a rock and I fall and rolling down a little ditch filled with rocks, I begin to cry. I turn over and every bad thought that ever cross my mind bursts out in my tears.
The tears soon start to run dry, and I continue to lay there unmoving. Bright lights woke me up from my dreamless state, the lights only came closer and closer, and brighter and brighter. I try to stand up, thinking for sure they were going to pass me, but I couldn't. My ankle had given out and there was no way I'd be able to stand up in time. I lay limply on the cold rocks, knowing for sure that I wasn't going to make it home. I fight to keep my eyes open, and come up unsuccessful. I hear the silent shriek of brakes. Two car doors open, two sets of feet come rushing closer and closer and stop only inches from me. A pair of arms scoops me up and carries me back to the vehicle.
"Hey babe, uh huh. Yes, Hunter has her. She's a little beat up, and her ankle looks a little swollen. No, Hunter says she doesn't need to go to the ER. Addision, she's fine. Okay," Brett says into the phone. After that, I slip back into the dreamless state.
Shortly after, all movement from the car has stopped. I hear the sound of a car door close, then the one above my head open. I'm carried once again by the arms, I groan in pain.
"We'll get some ice on that foot, Ellie," Hunter whispers.
I hear a door open again, and the hushed whispers of a woman. Another sound of a door opening, I'm being laid on a soft surface and covered with something warm and I slip into darkness.
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