My Sister's Boyfriend

Chapter 12: Challenge Accepted

"Why are you up this late?" I asked her, trying to sort of dodge the previous question.

"Answer the question!" She shouted from across the room, walking towards me. I stayed quiet the whole way until she approached me and waited for an answer. "Well?" She asked once again.

"I was with Lucy" 

"Don't even give me that, Nina. I know you went out with Lucy but at 4pm! and then you came back leaving your prom dress upstairs and then left.. again!" She started to accuse me "Question is, where to?"

I sighed, "I was just out Claire, you don't need to be all up in my business" I told her feeling a little guilty of lying but it had to be done. Besides, Ian was not going to fall for me or anything, so there's no problem with tutoring him, we're just friends and even though I want to, I would never try to steal him from Claire. Once tutoring lessons are done and he passes his final exam, I can tell Claire all about it and how wrong she was in thinking that we were secretly dating during lessons or something and we could just laugh about it. But for now, I had to lie.

"Actually, im your older sister so yes I do" She replied.

"Oh so now you care about me?" I rolled my eyes at her.

"No, I just wanna know what a loser like you would be doing staying out this late with your loser friends" She insulted me, smirking.

I simply scoffed at her and ran upstairs with her following me.

"Nina, I mean it. I want an answer!"

"I was at Phoebe's house"I whispered, trying to sound convincing.

"This late?" She asked raising an eyebrow. "And why didn't you just tell me that, weirdo." She asked.

"B-because it's embarrassing. I was gonna sneak out for a slumber party, and then I chickened out" I told her, surprised of what a good lie that was.

She stood there for a while and then started to laugh at me. "You really are pathetic" She mumbled before walking out of the room. My guess is, I convinced her.

Words couldn't describe how guilty I was feeling right now, I hated lying to anyone at all. I always felt guilty if I lied even if it was for a good cause and I hated the feeling! but if I'd told the truth, who knows what she would've done.

IAN'S P.O.V

I dropped myself on my bed realising it was pretty early to go to sleep. All I was thinking about was whether Nina had reached home okay and safely and it was pretty weird to me that I was. I couldn't help but think about it and I didn't know why. I didn't even ask for her number so there wasnt much I could do. 

I stayed there, laying on ym bed for a while until I thought it would be best to go outside and check if she was okay so I did. I made my way outside and looked around only to see an empty street with a piece of tissue flying down the street and the noise of a tin can rolling on the road. That was the only sound other than the whistling of the wind and faint sounds of birds chirping.

I made my way towards her house looking around to see if there was anything unusual or dangerous that could have happened but there wasn't and soon I reached her house until I realised how stupid and paranoid I was being, her house was only a few blocks away, she's probably fine  and why did I even care so much, anyways?! I thought to myself and turned around to make my way back home.

I had no idea what came over me suddenly and why I went to see if a girl who didn't mean much to me, well who I thought didn't, was safe. I thought it was just because I needed some sleep so I layed on my bed before I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, and as I slid it out, I saw on the screen that I had a message from Claire before tapping to open it.