𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐏 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄, luke patterson

three

T H R E E
The Rules of Disaster

And when I wake up next to you I wonder how
How did we end up here

BECCA ALMOST DROPS HER BOOKS WHEN SHE HEARD HER SISTER.

"He— and what are you planning on doing?"

"Nothing! Tell him to fuck off and, I don't know. Get a restraining order."

"You don't want to sleep with him?"

"It doesn't matter if I want to or not, what matters is that he's in The Banned List. And I can't be the first Grey sister to break the pact. It's not cool."

"It kinda makes it more hot, you know? Like it's prohibited. Romeo and Juliet."

"It's definitely not Romeo and Juliet. He is not Romeo."

Becca and Lauren sat down at one of the benches at campus. The older Grey sisters have always been close. Pre and post car crash.

"Oh, but he could. He looks like the kind of guy who knows what he's doing."

"Are you forgetting that he already hooked up with Liz? And that there's a whole thing called Banned List that we created so this stuff doesn't happen."

"But technically you aren't breaking the rules. The rules say that you can't date someone from the list. There's nothing about hooking up. Besides, it would be a one time thing! You have to check the pros here."

"And what would those be?"

Becca pulled out her notebook and wrote pros and cons, making two different columns for each one.

"Pros... amazing sex," she wrote down quickly, making Lauren tremble. "You'll get distracted for a while. You haven't done it in a long time."

"You are making it sound like I have spider webs down there."

"Well, don't you?" Lauren rolled her eyes. "Cons... Nothing comes to mind."

"Lizzie... Lizzie comes to mind!" She exclaimed, writing down their sister's name.

"That was a year ago, she has to move on. It was in the bathroom of a club, probably he doesn't even remember her. She has to forget it and just... take him off the list!"

"You cannot ask her that. She said she really likes him."

"She has to move on. Besides, we are talking about cons that affect you, not Lizzie. And I don't see any."

"That I hate him with all my guts? And that probably if I ever do it with him aliens will come down to Earth and life as we know it would end."

"You are a real buzz kill. However, hate is a good sex trigger. Use it."

Lauren looked at her sister for a few seconds. She couldn't be serious.

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Luke has never been nervous in his life. Not even before a gig, he was always excited before great things.