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Chapter Three;
“You actually let him do that?” asked a shocked Chloe when I went home. I nodded vigorously and snagged a cookie form her kitchen table. I was staying here for a month and a bit, seeing as my parents were away and it was already agreed that I wasn’t trustable enough to stay on my own. I nodded and popped more cookies in my mouth. The sweet tasted of chocolate melted in my mouth. I was telling Chloe the incident that occurred in detention centre. I really didn’t want to think about it though. It was all too weird for me.
“Why the hell did you miss dentention? And tell me what’s the story with Blake Crawford?” I asked changing the subject. Chloe looked thoughtful.
“Well to be honest I didn't feel like it, now I regret it. As for Blake he is actually really funny and sweet. He’s so cute; he’s a bit shy though. Why he hates you so much is beyond me. Even when I mention your name he stiffens up and changes the subject quickly. It’s actually pretty funny; I’ve never seen a guy hate you,”
I groaned, just what I wanted to hear. Unfortunately he wasn’t in any of my classes today. Hopefully he will be in some of my other classes tomorrow. This bet was going to be a challenge. How the hell was I supposed to charm someone who didn’t even care if I existed! The real question was why this boy hated me so much! He didn’t even know me; he just looked at me and hated me!
“Will you forget about Blake and give me the 411 already! What happened when you guys were naked and Mr. Bones walked in?” Chloe squealed.
I winced at the thought of Mr. Bones walking in on us.
“What is the meaning of this?” yelled Mr. Bones again when he got no reply the first time.
Silence again. “WELL?! WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN?”
I had to think of something quick. I stood up and pointed my finger at him, “It’s all your fault we are doing this ya know!”
“What are you even talking about?” asked a blushing Bones his eyes wandered down to my body, “And for the love of god will you put some clothes on!”
I blinked, I forgot that I didn’t have anything covering my whole chest; I snatched my bra from Luke’s mouth and quickly clasped it on. I picked up my pink skirt from off the floor and placed it on my lap without putting it on. “Yes! It’s so damn hot in here and you wouldn’t let us open any windows or doors! So we undressed what else we were supposed to do!”
I glanced at Luke at the corner of my eye chuckling behind his hand. He still sat there in his boxers enjoying all of this.
Kelly stood up, “Yea! It’s hot as hell in here!”
Mr. Bones covered his eyes and repeated himself “Put some clothes on!”
I don’t know how she had the nerve to do it but she pinched his cheeks and said “Aren’t you adorable!” as if she were talking to a baby.
Luke couldn’t hold it in anymore and burst out laughing. My cheeks started to twitch; I was horrified, please dear god don’t make me laugh. Please god! Kelly who was still half naked was oblivious and carried on pinching his cheeks. Mr Bones had no idea what to do. So he just yelled, “OUT!”
“What?” I asked flabbergast.
“You heard me, OUT!” he said.
We didn’t need to hear it a third time, I ran out of the class without putting on my skirt, I saw Kelly go back and scoop up her clothes and she too ran out of the classroom. Luke was having difficulties, he was trying to run and at the same time put on his jeans, it was a funny sight to see and I couldn’t help but chuckle. Finally he came out, with his trousers just below his butt.
We fast walked out, and turned the corner, I stopped.”We’re safe now.”
I looked around and made sure the teachers weren’t lurking anywhere and quickly put on my skirt. Luke pulled up his trousers and then put on his shirt, though he didn’t bother to button up his shirt. Kelly was the only now that didn’t have her clothes on. I rose an eyebrow “fine, fine, I’ll put it on,” and she too quickly put on her clothes.
“Never again” I muttered darkly. Luke chuckled.
“Come on babe, you have to admit that was pretty fun.”
***
“What shall we do now?” I asked, her, sitting in her kitchen wasn’t very appealing to me, no matter how pretty the kitchen was, before she could reply the door bell rang. I raised an eyebrow at her. Who could that be? Chloe looked very mischievous and skipped towards the door without a word to me. I looked at her and saw her say “come on in” to someone.
I was debating about whether to go see or not when I heard Chloe footsteps coming this way. I stayed where I was sipping my juice. In came in Chloe with no other than Blake Crawford. I groaned silently, great I completely forgot about how they were going to be working together for the next coming weeks. He didn’t look very happy to see me either.
“Yeah, I’m not happy to see you either” I muttered quietly.
Chloe smirked at me, “Liv, we’re going to be studying in the games lounge seeing as the studying place is being rebuilt again.”
I nodded at her, and watched her grab the cookies from the kitchen table and dragged Blake with her. Now what was I suppose to do? I took my phone from pocket and decided to phone the one person I knew was as bored as me. I rang and prayed to god he wasn’t away. After a couple of rings he picked up.
“Yo.” Was the reply I got.
I smiled “Luke! Save me, I’m bored” I whined.
I heard him chuckle “Well if you want to help me babysit my siblings then come over. My parents are out and the nanny quit. So I’m kind of stuck,” this time it was my turn to laugh, that was the tenth nanny? I lost count at the fifth. It was known everyone Luke’s siblings are a bit out there. Well he does have seven of them.
“Alright, I’ll be right there” I chuckled and hung up.
I grabbed my car keys from the usual place and went to the landing “Chloe, I’m gone to Luke’s I’ll be back later” I yelled.
“HAVE FUN!” she giggled.
***
“Luke! Liv is at the door for you!” yelled a little red haired Harry who opened the door for me. I giggled and told him hello. It’s been a while since I last saw them all. He told me how he was 11 years old now. I heard Luke’s big footsteps come down the stairs.
“Hey,” he smiled shooing his little brother away into the house. His soft caramel hair was combed back but still had a messy look to it. He wore a Hollister v-neck and jeans.
“Hi, you’re little brother is too cute,” I said as he invited me into the house.
“Yea...wait till you see the rest of the six again...” he sighed and took of my coat and took it to the coat hanger. I walked towards the living room. The last time, I came here was nearly 1 year ago, and I wasn’t looking forward to a re-run of what happened last time. Let’s just say I went home a different colour then the colour I originally came in with.
“Let me cut your hair!” squealed a little Sara with scissors in her hair. She had long blond hair and was standing on top of the couch next to a little girl in the living room.
“No, Sara!”
“Come on! I practiced on my dolls!”
“And your dolls look hideous!”
“Luke! Melanie won’t let me cut her hair!” squealed Sara. Luke immediately rushed into the living room and snatched the scissors out of her hand.
“Who told you could use scissors? And cut someone’s hair! I better not see you with these scissors again, you understand me?” said Luke sternly.
“Yes, Lukey. I’m sorry...” said the Sara. Luke turned on the TV for them to some little kid show. They all sat on the couch in a line besides the two oldest. His 11 year old brother and his 14 year old sister.
“I’m sorry about that, want to go upstairs?” he asked.
“It’s totally fine, yea sure,” I nodded.
“Are you Luke’s girlfriend now?” asked Jade, Luke’s 14 year old sister. Before I could answer, Luke opened his mouth.
“No, now will you leave us alone?” Luke hissed. Jade snorted and turned to me again. She went on her tippy toes to whisper in my ear.
“I hope you’re his girlfriend one day, you’re very pretty. And you're the nicest girl I know, and I want to see Luke happy more. I’m pretty sure you can make him happy right?”whispered Jade.
Before I could respond Luke wrapped his arm around my waist and dragged me upstairs. I thought about what Jade said. Luke and I dating? Would they ever happen? I just couldn’t imagine us being a couple.
He led us into his room and shut the door. I looked around and noticed that his room was a mess. Clothes and shoes were strewed about his room in random places. He had three empty cups in all different places. The only thing really clean in his room was his bed. His bed was nice and neat.
“Ah,” he sighed in frustration.
“Sorry about the mess, I haven’t had time to clean watching the little munchkins before you came over,” he explained.
“Nah, I don’t care,”
I sat down on his bed and looked at all the other stuff he had. He was into soccer. He had about 15 soccer trophies all lined up on a shelf in the corner. He had three soccer balls on stands and autographs of famous soccer players.
“Well you sure do like soccer,” I said. He glanced at his trophies, smiled, and nodded smugly.
“Yeah, it’s my life. I hope to become professional one day, but that’s never going to happen...”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know, I’m good but I can be better, I don’t really have any support,” he said. Support? Does he mean his family?
“You mean you’re family?”
“Yeah, they never really come to my games and all. I can’t really blame them it would be a horror bringing all the kids to a game but...” he trailed off.
“I can-,” I was interrupted by the door bursting open revealing a little boy covered in band aids.
“Look Luke! I’m the band aid monster! Arggghhhh!!!” roared Matt. I couldn’t help but laugh about it. The little boy was so cute and literally covered head to toe in band aids. Luke’s eyes widened and he picked up the boy and carried him.
“How on earth did you reach the band-aids?!” asked Luke.
“Sara climbed on top of the sink and got them for me!”
I’m guessing Sara was the little troublemaker of the group.
“Well let me take them off,” said Luke putting the Matt down and began peeling off the band aids. I kneeled down next to him and helped him peel the band-aids off the Matt. Matt pouted but let us continue.
In 10 minutes all the band aids were off and the boy left the room.
We talked for about an hour with 4 interruptions. And they all involved Sara. Sara tried to make spaghetti and spilled the noodles all over the floor, Sara spilled syrup all over Hannah, and Sara lost the batteries to the TV remote.
Luke decided to put on the radio and flipped through the channels. I heard the intro to a Thousand Years by Christina Perri. But he skipped right through.
“No wait! I like that song!” I yelled and flipped back the channel and kept it on.
“Ugh, you’re going to make me listen to this?”
I nodded happily and he groaned.
“Well the least you could do was dance with me then,” he said. I was shocked. Did Luke just ask me to slow-dance with him? This was very unusual. He held out his hand and for some reason I took it. I wrapped my hands around his neck and he placed his hands carefully on my waist.
“I have died everyday waiting for you, Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years,” she sang. We both swayed to the beat of the song slowly. The moment was perfect. It was so romantic. We both just stared into each other’s eyes and said nothing. Everything was perfect until my foot got caught onto shirt. I stepped back and fell pulling Luke down with me.
“Ahhh!” I screamed falling on the floor with a thud and Luke’s heavy body falling down with me.
I burst out in laughter as Luke did too. How could we go from dancing to falling on the ground dying? Only me. He stayed on top of me but put his hands on either side of me lifting his body up not crushing me. Luke stopped laughing and stared into my eyes with so much passion. Which caught me a little off guard. I tried to ignore it and laughed it off some more.
“Omigosh that was so-,” He cut me off by smashing his lips into mine. What the hell...
It took me a few seconds to react but I began kissing him back. I don’t know what came over me but I kissed him back and I didn’t let go. His lips felt so good connecting with mine. He bit down on my bottom lip wanting to deepen the kiss. I eagerly let him enter and opened my mouth. He slipped his tongue inside letting our tongues roughly battle with each other. I wrapped my arms around his neck pulling closer to me not wanting any space between us. He lifted my body up with one hand and ran his fingers through my hair with another. A little moan escaped my throat which surprised me. Luke smiled against my lips and continued kissing me.
BANG! The door collided with my head; I broke away from the kiss and held my head in pain.
“Ouch...” I said. Sara had busted open the door and hit me in the head. I rubbed my head and saw Sara with her hand covering her mouth.
“Oooo!! You were kissing a girl!! I’m telling mommy when she gets home!” said Sara and ran off.
“Oh god...I’m so sorry. Is your head okay? Do you want an icepack?” he asked worried.
“Whoa whoa! You guys kissed! I knew it!” yelled another voice. I looked up and saw Jade in the doorway. She gave Luke a wink and me thumbs up and ran out the door. I laughed.
“Omigod...” Luke sighed.
“Ahahaha,” I laughed. He looked down at my head and kissed the top of my head.
That definitely made it feel better.
***
Coming home with a grin on face was a joy sometimes, but it being quickly wiped isn’t. I stayed with Luke for another two hours and left around 8; 30 thinking Blake was long gone by now. But now, fate had other things in mind because coming of Chloe’s house was Blake, I ducked behind the big fence and eavesdropped on them.
I saw Chloe laugh at something the jerk said. How the hell was I suppose to make that idiot fall in love with me when my best friend who made the damn bet was making him fall all over her? This sucked hard core. I saw Blake nod, then he walked the opposite direction of the street. I sighed with relief; I waited until I saw him turn the corner and then came from behind the fence.
I walked towards the front door of the house and walked in without bothering knocking on the door. I saw Chloe in the big longue that was straight in the house she was watching a movie on the TV. I walked straight in and plopped myself next to her on the arm chair.
“Someone is looking happy” I said casually. Chloe ignored me a carried on watching the TV. I smirked so this is how she wants so play eh. I grabbed the remote from her hands and turned the flat screen TV.
“So, what did he say about me?” I asked interested.
“When?” She said.
I rolled my eyes “when I left you dolt.”
She laughed out loud, “he said let’s get to work and we talked for a bit, he is so adorable Liv!”
I gritted my teeth “I’m supposed to be making him fall for me, how am I suppose to do that with you fawning yourself on him?”
Chloe laughed and patted my cheek, “oh, you thought it was going to be easy eh, well think again babe, I really don’t want you to win, you think you have a chance now?”
My nostrils flared, I wanted to smack that mischievous grin out of her face, but I couldn’t blame her, I would have done that if I was in her place. It’s such a chore when your best friend is a duplicate of you.
“I will win” I promised her.
“Oh yeah, how are you going to do that?” She asked.
I shrugged, the only one way is to change appearance so he knows it isn’t me, but that near impossible because a) everyone would know it’s me and b) he would think I’m even lamer than before.
Drastic time call for drastic matters I thought.
I grabbed my phone from my pocket, and phoned the one person I knew that had a good idea’s, well usually if they didn’t end us in trouble. The phone was picked up at the third thing.
“Yo hoe what’s crackling?” Was what she said straight away, I rolled my eyes at her knowing she couldn’t see me.
“Who you talking to?” Asked a nosy Chloe.
“Ooooh, I forgot you are at Chloe’s house. What’s up?” asked Kelly.
I ignored Chloe’s and said “I need your expertises on fashion, can you come round? And bring lots of clothes will ya?”
“But it’s a school night and wait one second, KEVIN GET YOUR ASS FROM THE DARN CUPBAORD DON’T YOU DARE JUMP.”
I moved the phone a good five centimetres away from my bleeding ears. After she finished yelling at her brother I told her “Bring your stuff around and stay the night, your mom won’t mind”
She gave a few ‘hmmms’ and finally said “I’ll be there in 10 and I’ll bring some clothes with me.” I nodded and told her goodbye. “Kelly is staying the night” I informed Chloe.
She rolled her eyes “Yeah I heard. Though why do you need Kelly’s hand in fashion may I ask?” I shrugged “I have a plan” I told her.
Five minutes passed and she kept on pestering me about what it was. The door banged open and I could hear someone footsteps coming to the longue and in came in Kelly heaving a big bag and dropped on the floor. See what I mean about no one knocking around here? Kelly only lived around the corner while I lived up the hill, a good 5 minute walk.
“That was quick” I raised any eyebrow.
“Yeah, yeah, let’s get to business” she said with an evil glint in her eye.
I gulped maybe this is such a bad idea after all.