After being cheated on by her fiancé, the last thing Lydia wants to do is room with her brother and his 2 roommates, but what happens when she has no where else to go?
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Devastated by a betrayal...
He'd either been spending too much time with our mother or he was really starting to believe the rumors himself, and if that was the case then I couldn't be around him anymore.
I needed to find a new place to live, and that didn't mean moving back to my parents.
There was a dream I'd always wanted, one just out of reach because I was too scared to say it aloud, mainly because when I'd voiced it to Nate he laughed in my face and said I'd never be smart enough to achieve said dream.
Maybe out from Nate's thumb, I could do it, without my family holding me back anymore.
"You okay?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, just lost in thought I guess."
"Are you worried about going to the club tomorrow night? We don't have to, you know."
"No I'm not worried, I was just...going through what I was going to say when I saw Rafael. It's going to be hard to pretend I'm into him when I know how much of a disgusting cretin he really is."
"Well then you don't have to pretend to like him. I can have your friend come too and be a buffer for the two of you, that way you're never really by yourself with him. I still say you stand him up and I can talk to him when he leaves..."
"No I want to be there."
"Okay, well then I'll invite your friend. She seems like a good enough cock block to me."
I jokingly hit him on the arm while we laughed together, but all too soon the lazy and quiet atmosphere was disrupted as the sounds of the rest of the house waking up filled the room.
"I guess Lucas and Reed are up, I should probably sneak out so he doesn't bite my head off," he said, and I reluctantly pulled my arms away from him, immediately missing the warmth that came with his body.
He slipped out of the room and it was only a few moments before I heard him arguing with my brother. Here we go again.
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"Did you just come out of Lydia's room?"
"Yeah, she asked me to stay with her."
"Dude. I thought I made my thoughts on that clear. I don't want you dating my sister! You're living together and she's been through so much, she's not ready for anything like that yet."
"I think you can let her make her own decisions. She's twenty years old, she doesn't need you playing her parent."
Lucas sucked in a breath of air trying to puff up his chest, but if he thought that I was about to fight him he had another thing coming.
"Come on man, what are you doing?"
I wasn't trying to mock him, but he was into computer sciences and I asked him to work out with me once. It didn't go well.
"Why don't we settle this like men."
"I seriously don't know why I was born a male," Reed piped up from the corner, sipping on his coffee watching the scene before him with disinterest.
"I'm not fighting you over your sister. We're not doing anything I swear, ask her yourself."
"Fine, I will. Lydia!"
I heard her groan out loud all the way from her room and stifled a laugh, finding myself not able to wait to see her perfectly tousled hair and cute pajamas once more.
"What do you want, I was about to go back to sleep?"
"Your brother wants to know if you're doing Emmett."
She started laughing at Reed's words, which in turn made all of us laugh. Well, all of us except Lucas.
"No, Reed. You can tell my brother I'm most certainly not doing Emmett. But I'll let him know if that changes and I'll tell him all the details and-"
"No, no that's not necessary. Okay I get it."
"Can I go now?"
"Dismissed young lady," Reed said, eliciting another laugh from Lydia.
"Still wanna fight me now?"
Lucas gave me a begrudging look and focused his attention on the stack of papers in front of him.
"You don't know what it was like, after what happened back home. She just attracts the wrong guys, so I figured if you were into her then you wouldn't be good for her. Just...go slow with her, if you want to pursue a relationship."
"She's already way ahead of you. We've already had that conversation. She knows what's best for her, and I don't doubt that you know what's good for her too, but just trust your sister. She knows what she's doing."
"And that's on respectful relationships, thank you Emmett. Now, I have to go meet Jeremy before class, I'll see all of you later."
After Reed left, there wasn't any remaining hostile air between us and I was able to leave for practice without any lingering drama.
That is, until I pulled up to a fuming Marnie and Drayton Merrick in my parking spot at the new training center for the Patriots recruits.
