Palaye Royale Fanfic

Chapter 8 - The sleepover

Chapter 8 - The sleepover

Even though I felt much better now that I wasn't with Steve, and I knew it was the best decision I'd ever made, some part of me was still terrified when I stepped through the school gates on Monday and knew I'd have to face him.

The morning passed without any trouble and I'd almost made it to lunch when a girl who was in my history class stopped me at my locker.

"I heard you broke up with Steve. He says you cheated on him with your freak-looking neighbour."

I was dumbfounded, Steve had said that?

"No? I didn't cheat with anyone."

She scoffed and told me to watch my back before walking off.

I ignored it and sat with my friend May at lunch time, who was the only friend I had here aside from Emerson but he was in the year below so not in any of my classes. I told her what had happened and she told me to try and forget it - I'd done the right thing for me and that was all that mattered.

Coming out of school, I'd almost forgotten about the girl from earlier, until some boy shouted slut as he walked past me. I was too embarrassed to say anything so I carried on walking, but Emerson had heard and shoved the guy forward.

"Don't you ever talk to a girl like that again!"

"That's the freak that she slept with's brother," someone else shouted which caused Emerson to full on rage and beat up the two guys.

He got detention but told me to tell his brothers when I got home. I felt awful, this was all my fault! I knocked on their door and Sebastian answered.

"Emerson got detention for beating up two guys but it's all my fault because he was just trying to help me-"

"Hey, hey - slow down. I'm sure it's not your fault," Sebastian said softly.

Remington came into the room and I explained to both of them what had happened.

"Son of a bitch! He's told people I slept with you?" Remington shouted angrily. He was pacing the room and his jaw was clenching - I'd never seen him like this and to be honest it was kinda hot.

An hour later, Emerson was home and assured me it wasn't my fault at all. We rehearsed a few songs to take our minds off things before we collapsed onto the sofas from exhaustion.

"Ugh! I can't even move!" I joked, spreading myself out on the sofa which was nice and cold against my hot skin.

"Wanna sleep over? We can stay up all night and have a movie marathon if you want," Remington offered shyly.

"Yeah let me just check with Mum but I'd love to!"

Mum allowed me to sleep over and I was so excited!

Of course, the Kropp brothers didn't like anything normal or conventional, so our makeshift bed for the night was a pile of duvets, pillows, blankets and sheets all thrown haphazardly onto the living room floor. We all bundled on and ended up squashing Sebastian whose legs seemed to take up the entire room.

"Sure you don't mind sleeping like this? We used to do it all the time as kids but we can bring down a mattress if you want?" Remington fussed for the third time already.

"Honestly this is great! I've never had a sleepover before," I told him happily.

"You've never had a sleepover! What? We'll make this the best one ever!" Emerson chirped.

And they did.

We watched movies all night, made brownies - much to Remington's dismay who was a neat-freak so was telling us all off for the mess - and played never have I ever; which was interesting to say the least.

Sebastian fell asleep first, sprawled out in the middle of the room like a starfish. Emerson wasn't long after and curled up in a ball in the corner.

"He always sleeps like that," Remington chuckled at his little brother, who really did look little now.