My Knight In Shining Leather

Chatper 7: Out With The Old, In With The New

"Hmm that wasn't so bad" I said as I got off the motorbike.

"Are you kidding me!" Drake laughed, almost crying.

"No, don't, I'm going to die!" He said in a whiny girls voice, which even he could make sound hot. Eurgh no, I can't like him, he's a tease.

"I don't sound like that, jerk." I muttered under my breathe.

He rolled his eyes at my childish comment.

"C'mon little baby, let's get you inside." Eurgh he is frustrating.

Okay so maybe the ride wasn't as smooth as I'd like, but he was going like 120mph down the road. That is not safe by any standard of the law. But I wasn't whining like that.

Okay maybe I was. Motorbikes aren't safe. I will never get on that thing again. Ever.

I shut the front door after Drake and went to the kitchen to get a drink. I climbed up on the counter to reach the top shelf where I keep my cups. I poured myself a cup of tea and went into the living room to watch telly.

Except my brother had other plans. I had barely turned the telly on when he went over and turned it off.

"Hey I was watching that!" I complained. He looked majorly pissed off. Guess the school rang.

"You have no right to complain Stephanie! I have had the school on the phone telling me how you were late and then you skipped half the day! Do you have anything to say for yourself?" His nostrils were flaring and his stare was cold and hard.

"I didn't think any one would find out?" I giggled sarcastically, only half joking.

"Oh no, this is no laughing matter! You skipped school. I can deal with misbehaving, I can deal with you being sent to the head teachers, but I'm drawing the line at skipping off, and you're not going to the club, nor are you having friends round late if you can't even get up for school in time!" I've never seen him this angry. Even when I crashed my car, or when I broke his nose.

But wait, it wasn't solely my fault I was late.

"Hold up! There were three other people here this morning, why the hell didn't any of you wake me up. You know my alarm broke, why didn't you wake me up! You are not stopping me going out or having friends round. If you'd woke me up I would have been late and I wouldn't have had to take your car. I admit I shouldn't have skipped-"

"You took my car without asking!?" Whoops. Now he's really pissed. I forgot I left it at school, guess I'm catching a lift with Em tomorrow.

"I'm sorry, yesterday was so stressful and Coby wanted to talk and I found out he cheated on me more than once." I don't know when I started crying but once I thought about my last two days, I realized how shit it had been.

Nate's face melted from his hard scowl to a soft loving expression. He wrapped his arms around me and I buried my face in his shoulder. I sniffed his jumper and suddenly it hit me, I missed being close to him, I missed when we were younger and we used to hug all the time, I missed my brother.

"I'm sorry Steph, just make sure it doesn't happen again." He whispered into the top of my head.

I half nodded because I could barely move from my brothers embrace.

The rest of the night was uneventful, me and my brother watched some classic 80's films and ordered a pizza, Em asked my brother if she could come round but I saw him type that he was having some sibling time, awh softie. We didn't see Drake until 11:43 when he came stumbling through the door reeking of alcohol. He went straight upstairs though.