Falling for My Best Friend's Brother

Chapter 1

Gwen's POV
It's been a week since Ross came back from the hospital. Our little secret is still hidden and hopefully will be for a while. Ross is slowly recovering, though his injuries were pretty bad.

I go to see him every once and a while when Aria is out. I'm currently making breakfast for my dad, before I go to school. Today is the last day before summer break and I'm honestly not excited, that means more work for me and more beatings.

"Hey, Gwen, is my food done?" my dad asked as he walked down the stairs.
"Yes, sir." I replied, knowing if I didn't then I would get a beating.

"Good." he came over and snatched the plate from me and started eating.
"I'm going to go get ready for school, is that ok?" I asked.
"Yes, get out of my sight." he snapped.
I walked upstairs and got dressed for school.

As I walked down the stairs, my father slapped me.
"The food was terrible, try harder next time or it will be worse." he glared at me.
"I'm sorry, I will do better next time." I promised then walked out of the house.

I got into my car and drove off to school. Once I got there, I looked in the mirror and covered the red spot with counselor. I walked out of the car and met up with Aria and the others.
"Hey guys." I said and put on a fake smile.
"Hey! Are you excited! It's the last day of school!" Aria smiled. No.
"Yes!" I smiled back.

Ross gave me a look, knowing that I was lying, I mean he does know about my horrible life. We all went our separate ways to our classes. As Aria and I sat in our history class, I decided to draw. I took out my supplies and started drawing.

Minutes later the bell rang. I packed up all of my school supplies and then my drawing.
"Hey, what's that?" Aria asked, she was about to grab my picture but I pulled it away.
"U-h n-nothing, it's nothing." I stuttered. I could not let her find out I drew a picture of her brother.
"Ok?" she looked at me confused and continued packing up her supplies.

Soon enough it was lunch time and Aria, Jasper, Ross, Layla, and I were sitting at a table with some of Ross and Jasper's friends. Everyone was talking but I was just thinking about what to make for my dad for dinner when I get home. Crap, what would he want tonight? Chicken and rice? Enchiladas? I was brought out of my thoughts when Aria spoke up,
"Uh, hello, Gwen? You ok?" she waved a hand in front of my face.

"Yeah, sorry, I'm fine, what were you saying?" I rambled.
"I was talking to everyone about the picture you were drawing in class this morning. What was the picture? Why didn't you show me?" my eyes widened and my face turned red.
"Oh, uh, it's nothing, it's just a picture of a cat." I lied.

"Well then, why don't you show it to us after school?" she smiled.
"Ptft, no it's really bad, I don't want y'all to see my horrible drawing techniques." I fake laughed.
"Ok, whatever, I guess" Aria said and turned back to the group to take to them.

I looked at Ross and he was staring at me, looking at me like he is trying to figure out what I'm hiding. Anyway, back to what I'm making for dinner.

My friends and I ended up going to get ice cream after school to celebrate that it school was over. Just something small, we didn't want anything to big.
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Once I got home I quickly got changed and ran downstairs to make dinner before dad got home. It was late, since my friends and I went to go get ice cream, so I had to hurry. I decided on chicken and rice and hoped he would like it. I started whipping up the food and right when I was finished, the door opened and my dad walked in.

"Better have made my food right this time." my dad said as he walked upstairs to get changed.
Once he got downstairs, I handed him his plate, he instantly dug in and I started to sweat. Please like it! He looked up at me and frowned.

"It's ok, but that's not good." he walked over to me and punched me right in the eye. I quickly bent over and held my eye.
"I told you to make it at least good but you can't even do that!" he yelled and then stormed upstairs.

Tears slowly rolled down my eyes as I walked upstairs. I took a shower and got ready for bed, before climbing into my bed, I curled up with tears rolling down my face.