My Brother's Best Friend

7. Girltalk

Friday afternoon I come home to Grace already sitting on my bed. She is relaxed back and eating my hokey pokey ice cream straight from the tub.

I toss my bag on the floor and jump onto the bed with her. I grab the spare spoon and shovelled the largest chunk of ice cream possible into my mouth. So creamy and cold and delicious.

She giggles as I struggle with a too large chunk of frozen stuff in my mouth. I spit it into my hand and consider throwing it into the trash can under my desk. But I know from experience that this begins to stink and I don't wAnt to clean it. So I promptly toss it out of the open window instead.

"Ems!" Grace squeals half laughing. It looks disturbing too because she is half eating ice cream at the same time as laughing. I shrug and scoop a more manageable piece this time. I pull my precious letter that I had kept in my top pocket all day and smirked at her while placing it on the bed. Her face immediately lights up.

"What is this?" she whispers with excitement as she picks it up and turns it over.

Her eyes are round and flicking between the letter in her hands and my face.

"Only the first love note of many more to come. It is from my soon to be boyfriend, who is currently a major secret," I drop the bomb and watch as her face contorts. I'll admit I'm torn between excitement to share and concern on how she will take the bomb that I've kept from her for a whole week!

"What the fudge has been going on? This all happens and you don't think to message me!?! Are we even best friends?" She hollers at me.

I slap my hand over her mouth to keep her quiet.

"Shhh!" I place a finger over my lips and point towards the direction of Harris' bedroom.

"Omg are you secretly dating Ryder Winnow?" She whispers loudly.

"No? Why on earth would I be hooking up with Ryder Winnow?" I frown at her.

Her face drops into confusion for a moment.
"Because he is Mather's football rival? He is hot too. Isn't that why it's a secret? Who is it then?"

"No I wouldn't do that..." I say in an indignant whisper, "it's Lucas!"

"Lucas? Is he a guy from your school or something?" She asks. I give her a deadpan look. Her face scrunches up when I see the penny drop. "Lucas! Like as in Lucas?" She asks as she points in the direction of my brother's room.

"How many Lucas' do we know Grace?" I give her my most exaggerated eye roll.

"Yeah but it's...Lucas!" She pulls a disgusted face at me. This is why I loved her, she truly saw me as a person, not as an open door to the football team. Some girls were pretty transparent on how much they wanted to be besties the moment they learnt who my brother was. "You're serious aren't you?" She looked horrified.

"Yes. Why are you so shocked? You don't think think that he is a douche do you?" I worry.

"No, if anything Lucas is one of the less douche-y of the whole team. But I just don't see it, you've never crushed on him before. Like yeah he acts protective of you but he always just like there like a... blob of a shadow next to Harris," she says confused.

"A blob?" I respond. "He is in no way a blob. He is the hottest, ripped blob I've ever seen," I sigh falling back on my back on the bed.

"What the fudge! You're smitten. How has this happened? When did it start? Have you secretly liked him forever? Tell me everything!" She hits my face with a pillow. I grab it and snuggle it like it could be Lucas.

I launch into the story as she constantly butts in with questions.

By the end she is squealing with excitement and bouncing on the bed hugging my other pillow.

She picks up the letter to read it. At the end she frowns at me. "You know that isn't his hand writing and he hasn't signed his name,"

I snatch the letter back and tuck it in my pocket.

"Duh he obviously practiced or had someone help him to write it to make it look so beautiful, he is so romantic. I was mad too because I thought he hadn't apologised," I grin at Grace.

"Ems has any other guy hurt you recently?"

"Nope, and hopefully this classes as our first fight so we can have a hot and heavy makeup make-out session. How long should I we wait until we have sex?"

"Don't just yet. If he is all that and a bag of potato chips just hold out. If he is taking you serious he would be holding out too." She looks a little sceptical now.

I scowl at her.

"My hormones are making me cray cray for him! He is the best kisser in the world and when he touches me my skin feels like it's electrical," I give an unexpected shiver at the mere thought of his hands on me.

"Well lets start getting ready now," she states she leaps off the bed and walks towards my en-suite yelling back at me, " I have to be home by midnight, violin practice first thing in the morning and volleyball training has started. I stuffed some new dresses you might like in my bag if want to try some on," I can hear her jump in gin the shower with the door ajar. We always do this so we can keep talking while showering.

I jump up and rummage through her bag. She has 6 new cute as f$&! dresses. I can't decide which one so I wait to get in the shower first and get her help after.

After both trying on my favourite dresses and her new dresses we decide to both wear white mini dresses that had cute details and little ruffle skirts.

According to Grace they were flattering on our bodies and well fitting without showing too much. Our rule is always one or the other - breast or booty never both. 

Booty it was tonight with the mini skirts. They weren't high neck or anything they just didn't show any cleavage at all.

Normally we would both wear white sneakers but today with Lucas on my mind I chose some nude heels instead because they made my legs look so long. I kept looking in the mirror. I normally put on some make up and do my hair but tonight we went all out with the most natural style of make up and hair and tan possible while still putting a lot on and it payed off. We looked hot. We giggled and took a few selfies and tiktoks and posted them. Before jumping into Grace's mini out the front and going to the party.

I know I should get dressed up for me but seriously I couldn't wait to see Lucas' reaction when we walked in looking as fly as we were tonight.

A/N Confession- was meaning time write a lot more hot and steamy stuff... but there is all this other stuff that needs to come in too. I literally planned this around sex scenes but it's turning into more of a story 😂 with a wait between the make out sessions.

Question: what's your favourite genre of published books? Have you ever switched genres for the sake of trying something new and becoming obsessed?