Rulebreakers

Oh Luuuuuuucy!

Luke  

I wake up in the morning and stretch as I get up and walk out of bed. Last night was… different. I guess I’m just not used to having a bunch of people around me that care about me, and support my decisions. I ended up sharing a room with Taylor. I slept on a air mattress but they said it was just for the time being. I tried telling them it was fine, but they just didn’t change their decision.

I walk over towards the door when I notice there are clothes sitting at the end of the bed with a note that said ‘Here you can borrow these. :) ~Tris’ I smile and go into the bathroom to change. I brush my teeth while I am in there. I look at the mirror and notice that I need to shave. But oh well. What would I look like with a beard. What if I grew one of those mustaches like in the cartoons where the ends are one of those circles that turn into smaller circles? That would be so awesome. I walk out of there and into the kitchen.

“Hi Tris.” I say.

“Hi Luke, how did you sleep last night?” She asks me.

“The best I have in a long time. You want some help with breakfast?” I ask as I see her cooking eggs, pancakes, and breakfast meat circle thingys that no one really calls them by their name.

“You know how to cook?” Tris asks me.

“I haven’t in a long time, but I know the basics.” I say. Memories of me baking with my mom when I was about five pop into my head. I smile at the memories.

“Well, I guess you can work on the pancakes.” Tris says and hands me the spatula. We end up talking as we bake. I learned quite a bit about Tris that I didn’t know before. Like that one time when she was in Dauntless and some people commented on her not eating a hamburger before. I heard the sound of footsteps, a lot of them by the time we were done cooking.

“Breakfast!” Tris yells and I see other kids enter the room, I recognize them as Taylors siblings. I see the dog enter the room, only for a small girl to try to ride him like a horse. The dog just lays down and licks the girls face. I laugh. I see out of the corner of my eye Tris look between me and the child. I wonder what she is thinking. I also wonder when Sherlock will get me that pet unicorn…

“Luck! Luck!” The little girl says as she runs over to me and pulls on my pant leg.

“Luke, I’m Luke.” I say with a smile.

“Up?” She says and raises her cute little arms. I smile at her and lift her up and put her on my hip. Her finger moves up towards my nose, I follow her finger with my eyes. She lightly pokes it and says, “boop.” I laugh and set her down and lightly tickle her for a couple seconds. I let her go so she doesn’t think I am mean or anything. I get stand back up and see the rest of the family staring at me. Did I do something wrong? Did I turn into a unicorn?! I look down, I am not a unicorn. It would be cool if I was though.

“What?” I ask.

“Nothing.” Tris says. I walk over to the table and we eat a normal breakfast. Afterwards when we all go our separate ways to for whatever we are doing that day, I am surprised when Tris calls me to Taylors’ room. I go there and walk in,”Yeah?” I say as I close the door behind me.

“So I heard that you like Amnesia.” Tris says with a smile. Oh great, its one of THOSE talks. WEll, this is gonna be awkward.

“Is it that obvious?” I ask.

“I’ve seen the way you look at her, that’s how I know.” Tris says.

“ok.” I say.

“So is it true?” Tris says happily.

“Yeah.” I say and look to the floor because I know I am probably blushing.

“EEkkkkk! I knew it! I knew! I kneeeew iiiiit!” Tris says doing a little dance party because she is so happy. Girls can be so weird sometimes… I let her calm down then say, “your not going to tell her, are you?”

“Only if needed.” she says. I sigh of relief, it would be so awkward if she knew I liked her before I tell her.

“So, who was that little girl earlier?” I ask her. I need  to learn everyone's names…

“Oh, that was Lucy.” Tris says with a smile.

“ok.” I say. Lucy was pretty cute for her age.

“Oh, that reminds me, you asked earlier when we were all looking at you earlier, we were just surprised at how well you get along with kids.” Tris says. I’ve liked little kids for as long as I can remember. they are always so cute and aren’t afraid to make new friends.

“I like little kids.” I say with a shrug. Tris giggles.

“Yeah,thats because you are one.” She jokes.

“Well, I am a little kid at heart.” I say with a smile.

“Ok, we should get out of here before Taylor complains about a boy being in her room without her.” Tris says and we walk towards the door when we hear taylor say,” Ya got that one right mom!” She heard our conversation!

I rush towards Taylor.

“How much did you hear?” I ask and walk/jog over to her but she starts running.

“All of it!” She says.

“please don’t tell her!” I say as she runs into the kitchen and I do the same.

“Maybe I will, Maybe I won’t.” Taylor says.

“Please don’t tell Amnesia!” I say as I chase her into the living room.

“Tell me what?” I hear Amnesia’s voice say.

“Luke like-likes you!” Taylor blurts out. I look at Amnesia’s face to see what her reaction is. She looks like she is shocked, that means the girl doesn’t like you back right? I feel my heart sink and I say,” I’m sorry for complicating things Amnesia, it was a silly crush that I shouldn’t have had, sorry.” I say and start walking out of the room.

I am almost out of the room when I feel her hand grasp mine. I turn back towards her confused, I though she didn’t like me? Why else would she be shocked when she found out?

“Luke,” Amnesia says then goes on her tippy-toes to whisper in my ear. I bend over a little to make it easier for her.

“I like-like you back.” She says.