Theodore
"So when are you going back to school." I laid down on Liam's bed.
"Hey!" Liam said, "get off my bed."
"Liam!" I heard Layla excited voice as she rush through Liam doors and jump on top of him "you are finally back"
"Alright get off me, you heavy you know." Liam chuckle as Layla frowned at him.
"I'm just kidding," Liam said, "just looked at you, you look thinner than before and you have bags under your eyes."
"Well." She said as she rub her face with the palm of her hands in hopes that her tiredness will magically disappear, but it was still there. She looks like she hadn't been sleeping. Like she had been crying the whole night. "I have been watching late movies." She lied
"The fact that you think, I'm going to believe that story is amusing."
"Have you been eating?" Liam asks, giving her a once-over look.
"I should be the one asking you that question," she said. "Theo said that you roam around his house like a quiet creep."
Liam glare at me. I look at him and shrugged.
"Get out of my bed, you jock." I painfully landed on the floor as Liam push me off his bed.
"Are you okay?" Layla asks as I soothe the pain in my butt.
"Why are you asking, I'm sure he's fine," Liam said.
"I'm fine," I said, rubbing my shoulders. It felt like my bone shifted.
"Liam," Layla said, "what if you just seriously injured him?" Layla ask.
"From a bed fall?" Liam chuckle "I don't think so."
Layla came to me, helping me to stand, she sat me down on Liam's bed, and gave Liam a serious look "don't push him again."
Examining my shoulders, she asks "does it hurt"
I blush as I stare at her, "a little" I said. She was too close.
"Is something going on here?" Liam ask
"Can't you see what you did to him?" Layla said.
"Hmmm" she rose a hand to touch my forehead "are you okay? Your face is red."
"I, I, I'm fine." I stutter.
"Are you guys dating?" Liam ask.
"No, we're_"
"No, we're not," I said hurriedly, interrupting Layla.
"Then why are you both blushing" Liam said.
I look at Layla. She was avoiding my eyes. I shifted away from her but she hold the sleeve of my shirt.
"This is cute," Liam said, smirking.
"Shut up Liam," Layla said, glaring at Liam.
The sight of Layla getting angry at Liam because of me made me happy. It felt like I have finally won a battle, that I have been fighting against Liam.
"Excuse me, I'm to go and get something to drink," I said. "I'm thirsty" I stood up awkwardly and left the room. I stood by the door trying to calm my heartbeat.
"That coward is just running away," Liam said
"I don't think he's a coward." Layla said "yeah there are times I feel like he's afraid of some things. But he still tries his best."
"By some things you mean you." Liam chuckle.
"But what happened?" Liam asks "you are different around him now."
"What about him?" Layla asks worriedly. "Do you think he sees me differently? I mean more than his friend little sister."
"Theodore has never thought of you as just my sister," Liam said firmly. "Not even once."
"He has never even seen you as his little sister." Liam said, "I hope that guy isn't hiding behind the door, because he can kill me right now for what I'm telling you."
Layla giggles "let me check."
I hurry downstairs to the fridge, thinking of more than one way to kill Liam. He promise me that he would never tell her. Liam was supposed to be good at keeping secrets, but that guy is now destroying the one thing he's good at in my life. I'm trying to create a vivid image of me killing Liam, but I can't get it right, because I'm too happy to know that Layla has feelings for me.
Okay, maybe I wouldn't kill Liam only torture him a little. After all, he was the one who has push me to spend more time with her. Although it felt like he just wanted to have my house all to himself, I sometimes feel like he loves staying more at my place than his and my parents aren't even helpful, they love him and welcome him every time they were around. If Layla wasn't in Liam's life he would have moved in with me. But then again if Layla wasn't in his life I wonder if we would have ever been friends. Maybe or maybe not.
"Theodore," a gruff voice said.
I became stiff. Liam's Dad always gave me goosebumps.
"Is Liam in his bedroom?" He asked.
"Yes sir."
"I have been calling him but he hasn't been picking up my calls," he said "Did Liam say anything to you? Did he say anything about me?"
What exactly was he trying to find out. How about you just climb upstairs and ask him yourself I thought but instead, I said "no sir."
"So he has been staying at your place but he didn't say anything" he looks at me with suspicious eyes "or is it that he didn't stay with you?"
"We only talk about how he misses his mother." I lied. Liam had been acting strange, he kept saying that Richard killed his mom and that he was going to kill him. "Is there something you would like me to ask him, sir? I ask.
"No." He walked out of the house.
Mindlessly I climbed the stairs up to Liam's room.
"I'm just happy that it's Theo and not someone else," Liam says to Layla as I open the door.
"You took forever." Layla said, "where's the drink?" She asked.
"Ohh I... I forgot it."
"It's alright," she said "I will go get it." She got up from Liam's bed, smile at me, and left the room.
"What's up with you?" Liam asked "you look out of it. you know, I'm still depressed here so don't tell me about your obsession."
I look at him "I met your Dad."