"I wanna dance with somebody! I wanna feel the heat with somebody" Eli nudges my shoulder with his and I giggle.
He's crazy.
He has been trying to convince me to be his partner for a project Ms. Lonio just introduced. The reason he is trying too convince me is because Luke also asked. They both asked me at the same time.
Luke has been touchy with me all day. Putting his hand on my lower back when we're walking somewhere, brushing his hand over mine occasionally, and when I look up at him he's always looking like nothing ever happened.
Speaking of that, I feel Luke's hand come around and rest on the back of my chair. A second later, his hand is brushing up and down my arm.
"You can't do that! That's cheating!" Eli shouts, smacking Luke's hand away.
"Shut your mouth Eli."
Eli narrows his eyes, huffs, then mumbles something along the lines of "seducing is not allowed."
"Please! Please just be my partner!" Eli begs.
"No!" Luke argues pulling me closer to him.
"Yes!"
"No."
"Ye-"
"I'm gonna work by myself," a smile threatens my lips when the guys stop the argument immediately.
"What!" They say simultaneously.
"You guys can just work together," I smile.
"No we can't! He's mean!" Eli points to Luke.
"Yeah? Well you're an idiot!" Luke retorts.
"See!" Eli throws his hands in the air.
"Sorry, but good luck though!" I smile as the bell rings.
They start leaving to go to practice but before they're out of sight, Luke turns and gives me one more pleading look.
I smile at his handsome face, shake my head before walking, and meet up with the two girls.
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Once I get home I start working on my project. At about 6, I hear the doorbell go off.
..People elect officeholders.
*Ding dong*
I finish my sentence and place my pen on my project board and hop off my bed.
*Ding dong*
*Ding dong*
Good gosh, somebody's impatient.
I open my door and see three things.
Luke's tinged, angry face, Eli's smiling face, and Leo's cute puppy face.
I open the door wider for the guys to come in and they do just that.
"What happened?" I look between both of their annoyed faces.
Eli's face turns melancholy and Luke looks disbelievingly at him.
"He is being extra mean to me today boo-boo," Eli sighs sadly.
Oh, poor thing.
Eli comes forward and buries me in a hug, sighing sadly once again.
"Bullshit!" Luke tugs the back of Eli's backpack, making him release me.
"You said Au- something, that I didn't like!" Luke catches himself with a slight blush now on his face.
"Mhm, and what did I say to make you so mad?" Eli questions with a smirk on his lips.
"You know what you said," Luke mumbles angrily and Eli snickers.
"This is why we can't work together!" Eli flicks his hand at Luke.
"Then just stay here and work on your project with me," I suggest with a shrug.
"That is exactly why we came!" Eli ruffles my hair.
"Bitch," Luke mutters to Eli as we walk upstairs.
I turn and give Luke a look.
"Sorry," he smirks.
We make it up to my room I sit in the middle of my bed. Luke sits on my right, Eli sits on my left, and Leo sits on the floor at the end of the bed, keeping watch over the two guys.
The guys take out their work and I continue on mine.
"Move your damn foot," Luke sneers at Eli after only ten minutes of working.
"You move your leg!" Eli retorts.
Still looking at my project, I grab a pillow from behind me, and shove it in between their legs.
"Thank you," Luke pats my thigh and I puff out my cheeks in an attempt to cover the blush.
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I snuggle deeper into my pillow and come to the realization that I had fallen asleep.
Why is my pillow hugging me?
I blink open my eyes and I see a chest. Luke's chest actually.
I lift my head and see he's peacefully sleeping.
He looks so handsome and calm.
I look behind me to see where Eli is and he's asleep with one leg on the ground, his head under a pillow, and his arms are spread out, making him take up most of the bed.
I turn back to look at Luke and I see his gorgeous grey eyes staring brightly back at me.
I blush and hide my face. I feel his chest vibrate and I look up to see him laughing quietly.
"You're so beautiful," he looks back down at me.
"Thank you," I smile shyly.
Luke starts leaning in and I feel my heartbeat quicken. When he's only about an inch away, we hear the loudest groan escape Eli's lips.
I look over and see him still sleeping in the same position he was only a minute ago.
"Jackass," Luke sighs and I giggle.
Luke unwraps his arms from me and we both sit up. Luke stands up and goes to the other side of the bed where Eli is still asleep.
Luke grabs Eli's leg and pulls him off the bed. He lands with a thump and jumps awake.
"Oww," he moans, getting up slowly, holding his back.
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*Next day*
"Guess what!" Izzy excitedly asks me.
"What!" I ask back excitedly as well.
"Anthony Mackle asks me to homecoming!!!" She squeals.
"That's great! Who is that?"
"He's the hottest guy on the soccer team!" She smiles.
Kelsey used to play soccer. I would never play it though, too much running for me.
"Then I'm happy for you!" I smile and give her a hug.
"Alright students! Listen up," Mr.Wills announces, "I will be handing out your field trip permission slips! We are going on a nature tour a few hours away in two weeks time, exactly a week after homecoming." He passes out the permission slips.
"Turn these in by this Friday and get back to work," he says before sitting back down at his desk and typing on his computer.
"Yay, this will be so fun," Izzy sighs and rolls her eyes.
After Geography, Izzy and I start making our way to the girls locker rooms for P.E.
We walk in the locker room and start changing our clothes.
I feel someone harshly bump into me causing my head to slam forward. I feel my nose clash with the metal locker and my eyes automatically start watering.
I bring my hands up to my nose and it feels wet. I look down at my hands and see that they are covered in red.
I turn around to see who bumped into me and I see Katrina.
Did she purposely bump into me? Why did I deserve that?
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Izzy yells at them. She looks over at my face and she sees all the blood. Her eyes widen and she calls over a girl who's already dressed.
"Mae, can you take her to the nurse please?" She asks pushing me towards a pretty dark-skinned girl.
"Oh God!" Mae's eyes widen but she nods, and leads me out the locker room.
As soon as we step out, we're met with Luke, Eli and the twins.
"What the hell happened?" Luke asks, totally forgetting his conversation with the guys.
"Oh!" Mae jumps startled, "Um, someone pushed her into the lockers an-"
"Who?" Luke asks with a clenched jaw.
"It doesn't matter, It's just a nose bleed," I say trying to loosen some of the tension.
"I'll take her to the nurse, you can go back to the gym," Luke wraps his arm around my shoulder and pulls me into his side.
"O-oh okay," Mae nods and she walks back into the locker room.
Luke pulls me away from his side, and bends down to my level. He puts a finger under my chin and looks at my nose.
"Poor thing," he removes his hand and kisses my forehead, "let's go to the nurse."
"Bye boo-boo," Eli covers his eyes from the sight of my blood.
Luke and I walk to the nurse, with me tucked into his side once again.
"Seriously, who did it?" He asks.
"Katrina," I mumble so quietly that he can't hear me.
"I definitely heard what you just said," he says sarcastically.
"It was Katrina."
"But I'm sure it was just an accident," I add once I see that his jaw is clenched once again.
Luke looks down at me unbelievably.
"Why do you always make excuses for everyone?" He stops us only a few rooms from the nurse.
"It's not an excuse. I don't want to make a big deal out of nothing." I look down at my feet quickly, not wanting to make eye contact with Luke.
"Aubrey, look at you! If you're hurt, especially bleeding, than it's a big deal. At least to me it is." He says stubbornly.
I just nod not wanting to argue and we continue to the nurse's.
Luke opens the door to the nurse's and he lets me in. An elderly woman dressed in pale pink scrubs sees me and immediately jumps out her desk chair.
"Oh sweet goodness! Here, here," she hands me a gauze pad and ushers me to sit.
I take a seat and Luke sits beside me.
"Okay, I'm going to show you what to do," she says before coming closer to me.
She tilts my head foreword, and she applies pressure to the bridge of my nose.
"Hold it just like that okay?" She gives me a kind smile and I nod.
"So, what happened?" She asks therapeutically.
"She got pushed into her locker," Luke answers before I can. I turn my head towards him and give him a look, he just shrugs.
"These children are so mean sometimes. Why would anybody want to hurt you?" She shakes her head.
A few minutes later, she takes the paper towel off and looks at my nose.
"The bleeding has stopped, thank heavens. Your nose is probably going to be sore for a while but there shouldn't be that much bruising."
"Thank you," I smile gratefully and Luke and I start heading back to the gym.
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"Are you okay Miss Wilson?" Mrs. Siding asks me as Luke and I take a seat.
"Yes ma'am," I nod.
"Alright class, today we'll be taking it easy today. It's a beautiful day outside so we are going to walk the track!" She smiles and ushers everyone to get up and start going outside.
"Oh I'm so going to tell Olivia about Katrina! That way, each of us will have one to beat up. She can take Ana and I can take Katrina," Izzy says with an evil tone.
"I don't think it's that serious Izzy," I laugh. Izzy's eyes go over my head and she looks as if she's listening to someone behind me. I turn my head and see Luke right as he's turning his head away.
He looks back at me innocently and smiles.
"I swear, they need to make the track closer to school. I can't walk up here, it is too far," Eli groans.
"Lazy ass," Luke mumbles.
"Huh? What was that Lucas?" Eli smirks evilly. Luke turns and glares at Eli.
"You're a little shi-"
"Luke!!" An excited yell is heard coming from the track. We make it to the track and enter.
The track has a whole bunch of elementary school kids walking around it.
A group of little boys run up to Luke.
"Hey guys!" He smiles down at them.
"Luke! I went to the game last Friday!" A boy with dark brown hair and a school football shirt says.
"I never get any attention," A sad voice says quietly from beside me.
"You poor thing," Izzy says sarcastically.
I feel someone pull the back of my shirt lightly and I turn around.
A cute little girl with pretty beach blonde hair is standing behind me and looking at me with very green, wide eyes.
"Hi," she says shyly.
"Hi!"
"Can I walk with you? Nobody else will let me," she says sadly.
"Of course you can!" I say excitedly, "I'm Aubrey!"
"I'm Keeley," she answers happily.
"Oh my gosh! I love your name Keeley!" Izzy says from beside me, causing a huge smile to break out on Keeley's face.
"Thank you!"
"Do you wanna meet my friends?" I bend down and ask her she nods a little reluctantly.
"This is Izzy," I point to Izzy, "and this big guy right here is Eli."
"He's really funny," I add once I see she looks hesitant about Eli.
After only ten minutes, she really warms up to us and she is even swinging in between mine and Eli's hands.
I look up at the field in the middle of the track and I see Luke playing football happily with the group of boys.
"That one is the red is my big brother!" Keeley points to a taller boy with the same beach blonde hair as her.
"He's in fourth grade. I'm only in third." She explains.
"I thought he looked just like you," I smile, "what's his name?"
"Ryder! I call him bubba though," she smiles talking about him. She really loves her brother.
Growing up, I used to want to have a sibling. It could get really boring just playing by yourself. After a while though, I got used to it.
"Ryder wants to be just like Luke. He goes to almost every one of his football games," she giggles.
I think it is so adorable how all those little boys look up to Luke like that.
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*LUKE'S POV*
"Who's that girl with Keeley?" My favorite little buddy, Ryder asks.
I look up and my eyes search around the track for a little blonde headed girl. I finally spot her clinging on to Aubrey's hand. A smile automatically makes its way onto my face.
I look back down and I see all the guys huddled around waiting for my answer.
I bend down, "Why? Do ya'll think she's pretty?"
They blush and look at each other while I smirk. I knew that would get a reaction out of them.
"Do you?" One of them fires back.
"I think she's the prettiest girl I've ever seen," my eyes find Aubrey once again.
"Oooh, Luke's got a crush," they coo at me.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I roll my eyes and chuckle.
"I'm gonna go tell her!" Derron shouts as he starts running towards her.
Well, shit.
"Derron! No," I shout back at him and before I know it, all of them are running towards her.
Why did I tell a bunch of 8 year olds that?
I run after them and barely get there before Derron does.
Aubrey looks up at us and her eyes widen.
"Keeley come here!" Ryder tells his sister.
I narrow my eyes at him and give him the "don't you dare" look.
That doesn't work and he bends down and whispers in her ear. A second later, Keeley is jumping up and down happily.
Guess who's not my favorite little buddy anymore?
He definitely told her. I need to meet up with the superintendent of the school and I need to tell him to raise funds for another school track. We can't keep sharing with the elementary school.
"Aubrey!" Keeley runs up to Aubrey and hugs her waist.
"Yeah Keeley?" Her angelic voice asks.
"Luke thinks you are pretty," she giggles. Aubrey blushes and looks up at me.
I give her a smile and she looks down shyly.
"Seniors! Let's go!" Mrs.Siding calls out.
Eli comes beside me as we walk in and I can just tell he's looking at me with a smirk on his stupid face.
"Stop."
"Why won't you just tell her already?" He groans as we walk inside the gym.
"I just haven't found the right time," I shrug and start changing my clothes once we're in the locker room.
That was not entirely false. I really haven't found the right time. The other reason I haven't done anything is because, even though I hate to admit it, I'm scared of her rejection.
For the first time in my life, I'm scared of a girls rejection.
This girl, she's really something.
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"Ole Miss isn't going to make it Ryan. Look at their stats, they are going dow-" I cut myself off when someone sits down on my lap.
I shove Katrina off my lap and she hits the ground with a thud.
"What the fuck Katrina?" I clench my jaw.
That place is reserved for Aubrey and Aubrey only.
Well, if she wants it.
"Oh Lukey! Sorry I scared you," she giggles annoyingly and gets up and she comes back over to our table.
Eli gags at the nickname she just so thoughtfully gave me and Ryan laughs at him.
I look at her in disbelief and the rest of the guys do too.
How desperate can someone be?
"Katrina, you need to understand that I want nothing to do with you." I grit out.
She looks around the cafeteria and she sees all the people looking at her.
"Fine then," she huffs and she leans closer to me, "but when you get tired of that bitch Aubrey, call me."
I glare at her back as she walks away.
I turn back to the guys with the glare still preset on my face. They look at me reluctantly and the rest of lunch, our table is pretty much silent.
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I have an idea for the next chapter so it should be up pretty soon. Also, sorry this chapter was a little shorter than most.
*Remember I don't edit*
Word Count: 3044
-Ashlyn M.