My broody boy

13. What if...

"So what is up?" Cole plopped down on his bed, his friend thinking way too much.

"Ethan and Sophie aren't home," Eve informed him. "And yesterday I spent all day with him. We laughed and joked and we flirted, a lot, and then the night ended and nothing!" she threw her hands up completely baffled.

"Oh Heyes," Cole shook his head, resting his head on his hand. "Maybe he is nervous."

"Or maybe he just doesn't like me," she frowned, slamming her head into his pillow. "I thought he did, but maybe I'm just stupid."

"Eve you aren't stupid," he objected quickly. "Normally getting a guy isn't that hard for you and this one is being an annoying challenge."

"He is and I don't like it," she pouted and he laughed. "I just like him Cole, I like him a lot."

"Why?"

"What?" Eve looked a little taken back by that one.

"Why do you like him Eve? How do you even know you like the guy?"

"I...I mean I just do," she told him like it was the easiest thing. She never really thought about it before, why she liked Jaxon, she just did. "I mean how does one know why they like someone?"

"If you care about someone Eve you know why, there are things they do that make you like him or he says or something," he shrugged.

"Well I..." she sat back up thinking for a few minutes. "He makes me laugh," she smiled at the thought. "And not a fake laugh, a real laugh that I didn't know I had in me anymore. And when he smiles I smile, like a stupid smile because I like that he is happy which is nuts because I don't know really much about him. And he protects me," she smiled at her favorite thing about him. "When we are out somewhere and he thinks I'm uncomfortable or in a situation that might turn uncomfortable he just jumps in, he saves me and makes me laugh and relax and no guy has made me feel protected in a real long time."

"Maybe next alone time you should go for it," he suggested. A happy Eve something he wanted for a long time and if this guy did it then it made him happy. "I don't doubt he feels something for you Eve but he has put himself in a very uncomfortable position."

"What do you mean?"

"Well first y'all meet and he has a little thing for you but then he finds out you are his best friend's little sister. Well after a little while debating it he decides to go for it and then I don't know if he lost his mind or finally gained-"

"Hey!" Eve squealed and he chuckled.

"Either way," he started again. "Either way he realized that it was wrong, so he is trying to control himself but now the one thing that was keeping him from getting around you is gone, he is alone in a house with you and even if he had made himself push his feelings away it doesn't change that he still has feelings for you, no matter what he does he can't just make them go away."

"I don't want them to go away," she told him. "I like him, liking me. Why won't he tell me he likes me Cole?" she whined a bit and he laughed.

"You sound like such a child sometimes you know that Heyes," he ruffled her hair she groaned.

"Well it's not my fault," she pouted and he again laughed. "I'm not use to liking someone and on top of that when I kinda do it's easy for me to get them."

"My Evelynn," he shook his head. "What are we going to do with you?"

"I don't know," she checked her phone, feeling a little guilty she left Jaxon alone. It wasn't like he knew anyone here other than her and she did leave him to spend time with Cole. He said it was alright, he was just going to hang out but she did feel kind of bad. "But I think I might head home," she slipped off the bed, grabbing her shoes from the floor and slipping them back on.