A Beautiful Mess

Ch-4 Dinner

Chapter -4

 Dinner

 ^^ Andrew’s P.O.V. ^^

I take a shower and put on a random t-shirt.

A lot of things are going on in my mind to care about my looks.

I have this guilty feeing that is going to eat me one day.

Tyler is my best mate and I should not let him do this or help him in doing the things that he is up to.

I thought Scar would know about it all but no. this basturd plans to keep it a secret from his own sister. If I was in his place, Anna would know everything.

 If only she knew about the mess Tyler is in, she might help him in undoing things.

May be he might listen to her and stop risking his life like this.

 I was this close to revealing the secret to Scar but I did not. It is not my place to say this. She will find out one way or another and Tyler will be sorry.

 I know he loves his sister too much to do something stupid like this but I have no idea what has gotten into him.

 My phone rings breaking my thoughts and I answer it right away.

“Hi Anna.”

Think of the devil and my sister calls.

 “Hey Drewy, guess what?”

Drewy? Argh!

 “Please Anna, call me anything but that awful name.”

 “Bleh! Drewy! You can’t run away from it. By the way, I will be coming home next week.”

 “That is so good of you Anna to warn us. I will tell everyone that the devil herself is coming over.”

I could imagine her rolling her eyes at my comment.

“Haha, very funny Andrew, I need to go right now but I have loads of things that I wanna tell you.”

“oh so little devil has been onto something other than mischief?”

 she giggles at that.

“yes Andrew, I have and it is something good. Okay, so bye I need to go.”

“Alright bye.”

 I hang up and decide to go to Scarlett’s room.

 I knock on her door. Once, twice, thrice, still no response.

That is weird. I knock again and this time I knock loudly.

 No answer.

I turn the knob of the door and walk in.

Great! she is sleeping.

Her legs are dangling on the side of the bed and she is hugging herself. Maybe she is cold.

I close the open window and put her legs on the bed.

I don’t really want to wake her up and so I am about to go out of the room but before I could do so, she opens her eyes and looks at me.

 I woke her up. Well, I seem to be doing a lot of wrong things today.

 “Thank you for not waking me up.”

She says sarcastically.

 “you are welcome but I had no intention to do so.”

“I know.” she says with a smile.

She washes her face and then we go down towards the dining room.

Mother, Tyler and Liam were on the table already.

I took the seat across from Tyler and she took the seat beside me facing Mother.

  Dad is usually out of the country for business and Anna is in a boarding school in London.

Our family always has dinner together and mom loves being a host.

That is one of the reasons why she is happy about Tyler, Scarlett and Liam staying with us.

 “Why don’t you introduce our guests, dear?”  Mother says this.

Yes, it completely ran out of my mind.

 “This is Tyler Reed, you know him already.” I say motioning my hand towards him.

I continue after clearing my throat.

“This is Scarlett Reed, Tyler’s sister.”  I glance at Scar and carry on.

“And this is Liam Pettyfer; he has been a buddy of mine since a long time.”

 “Oh hello, I am Evelyn. It is so wonderful to meet you all.”

Mother says with a warm smile.

 Mother, Liam and Tyler were engrossed in a conversation while Scar and I ate our meal in silence.

After what seemed like an eternity, Scarlett cleared her throat and spoke.

“So, you are British?”

I did tell her that. Did I not?

Or maybe I did not. I should’ve.

“Yes, I am British.”

Is it bad or is it good? I mean, her tone was just kind of bored or maybe… I don’t know, my brain has started working at snail’s speed.

Mother does hear her asking this question.

 Mother loves telling her stories about growing up in England.

She tells scar everything and she seems to be enjoying the stories.

 By the end of the dinner, Mother and Scarlett are already friends and are laughing about something. I hope mum is not telling her my childhood stories. They are just embarrassing.

 After dinner, I go to my car and get the shopping bags of Scar.

Damn, she did shop a lot. Good thing that I have so much patience.

A small smile appears on my face when I think about today’s events.

I have no idea why, but it is just so much fun to tease Scarlett.

 I carry the bags to her room and decide to knock on the door but I think the better of it and just walk into the room thinking she might’ve fallen asleep as she seems to be so tired.

 I walk in the room and keep the bags in a corner.

A voice startles me and I jerk my head in the direction of the sound.

“Don’t you knock?” Scarlett says with her hands on her waist.

“I thought you might be sleeping and I did not want to wake you up.”

“It is cool; I was just planning to go to sleep.”

“Oh yeah, um good night.”

“Yeah, good night.”

With that, I close the door behind me and go to my room.