A/N: So here is chapter two thanks for the reviews so far :) next chapter the GSE boys make an appearance.
Steve looked around the busy café, his brother had yet to make an appearance and Steve had a pretty good idea why. Pulling out his phone and dialling Pete's number again, Steve sighed after he had walked in on Ella and Pete this morning it was becoming impossible to get a hold of Pete. Nothing happened between the two but Steve could tell if he hadn't interrupted that something probably would have. Ella was a nice girl, she had moved over to London and left her family and friends back in Australia to work as Ben's nanny. How would it look if his baby brother fucked her over and ended up being the reason she went home. Steve would never live it down, Shannon wouldn't let him.
It's not to say that Steve thought Pete was a bad guy but in his whole life he had never held down a serious relationship. There were a few girls he'd bought home to keep Mum off his back but they all looked like he'd scooped them off a night club floor. To Steve, Pete was the love em and leave em type of guy and he wasn't about to let Ella become another victim. Whenever Pete decided to make an appearance Steve would tell him straight up to back off Ella and find some other little play thing.
Ella lay back onto her pillow and bought her phone up closer to her face. Ben had just gone down for his afternoon nap allowing Ella to quickly log on to Facebook and IM her best friend Anna about what had happened with Pete. Ella found Pete to be annoying as hell but she wasn't blind he was an attractive guy. She knew she wasn't Pete's type; he probably went for the busty dumb blondes who were only up for one thing. Ella had taken this job to get away from Sydney for a while; she'd had a bad break up with her ex-boyfriend who had left her for some girl he'd hooked up with at a party. When she saw Shannon's ad on a nanny directory website she applied straight away. A whole other country would be just the space she needed to get over the hurt. Anna had written back and had advised Ella to not get involved with someone who would obviously just hurt her again. Ella sighed best just to forget this morning ever happened.
Pete leant up against the bar as Terry poured him another beer. "Your brother's been calling here looking for you." Terry said as he passed him the beer.
"Yeah well he can just come on down here and talk to me if it's so urgent." Pete took a long sip of the cold bitter liquid and ignored Terry shaking his head as he moved down the bar. Steve wouldn't come down to the Abbey not after the promise he made to Shannon. That's why Pete had chosen here to hide out; he wasn't stupid Pete knew Steve wanted to give him an ear full for what had happened with Ella this morning. Truth was Pete had been thinking about it all day, thinking about her.
He knew he annoyed Ella; hell he did it on purpose. It was who he was, he'd always shit stirred Shannon and since Ella had starting working for Steve and Shannon it had been too easy to not just rope Ella into the fun, until he'd had her up and close next to him this morning. Pete shook his head he didn't get like this over girls there was more important things to worry about. Swallowing the last of his beer and moving away from the bar Pete decided to just forget about this morning, wasn't worth the trouble.
The kitchen was filled with laughter, as Shannon watched Ella make aeroplanes noises as she moved a spoon across towards Ben who was giggling and flinging his arms around. There was pumpkin all over him, his high chair and Ella. As the spoon successfully reached its target Ella declared Ben finished. "I'm going to take mister messy here up for a bath." Shannon said as she pulled him out of his chair and disappeared up the stairs.
Ella shook her head still laughing at the mess, she loved that little boy. She began picking up some of the bigger bits of food and placing them back into the bowl, the front door opened and closed it was probably Steve coming home. Ella hoped he didn't make a big deal about what had happened this morning.
"Oi, Oi what exploded in here?"
Ella almost dropped the bowl she was holding. Wrong Dunham she thought locking eyes with Pete as he strode into the kitchen. "Don't you have your own house." She muttered as she quickly moved over towards the sink. Pete smiled, this morning had obviously affected her too, and she couldn't put space between them quick enough. "I left my keys here this morning. Plus I'm a loving uncle thought I'd come say hello to my nephew." Ella rolled her eyes as she looked over at Pete already having gotten a beer out of the fridge and inspecting the dinner waiting on the bench for Steve when he got home.
"Well your nephew is upstairs having a bath and that is your brother's dinner so hands off." Ella lent across the bench moving the plate away. Pete stuck his tongue out and laughed as Ella rolled her eyes again. "Don't your eyes ever get tired of that." Pete had realised coming over here wasn't the best idea he had planned to give it a few days but after realising his keys were here there wasn't much he could do about it. He moved around closed to Ella, smiling at her appearance there was dried orange crap on her cheek and in her hair but she still looked amazing to Pete.
"I think you might need a bath too." Pete said handing Ella a towel and leaning closer to her. Ella accepted the towel but didn't say anything; she moved over towards the sink and started washing up. Pete watched as she avoided him, poor girl was embarrassed. Pete followed her over to the sink. "About this morning, let just forget it ever happened. Ok?" Pete said as he picked up some more plates and placed them in the sink. Ella smiled. "I don't know what you're talking about." She watched as he nodded, but quickly looked away again as he turned to look at her. Something about having him this close to her was making her want to re live this morning but following through with their almost kiss. Pete reached for the sponge out of her hands. "I'll finish this you go have a shower." He said letting his hand linger on hers for a little longer than necessary. Ella looked up into those piercing blue eyes as she felt his hand tighten on hers. They seemed frozen staring at each other, their hands intertwined in the warm soapy water.
"You can't leave well enough alone, hey little brother."
Ella jumped at the booming of Steve's voice as he stormed into the kitchen. She felt Pete let go of her hand and move away from her. "Now bruv calm down I was just helping her with the dishes." Pete said with a laugh grabbing the beer he'd abandoned and taking a quick swig. "Ah yeah just like this morning, hey, in the past twelve hours I've found you bailing up my nanny in the kitchen twice." Steve said standing over his brother. He looked over at Ella and felt like a prick, she hadn't seen this side of him before. "Ella, honey go on upstairs." He said to her with a smile. She smiled quickly back at him before making a move to get out of the kitchen. Pete quickly jumped up and grabbed her arm. He looked over her head at his brother who was shooting daggers at him with his eyes. "Just wanted to say sorry" Ella nodded, she didn't want them fighting because of her. "It's fine, really." She said aiming the last word at Steve more than Pete and continued to walk out of the kitchen.
Steve watched her leave the kitchen and grabbed a beer out of the fridge and pulled his plate of dinner in front of him. He looked over at Pete who was looking anywhere but at him. "Seriously mate there isn't some chick down at the abbey you can put the moves on. Plenty of girls down there to keep you interested"
"For fucks sake I ain't putting the moves on her bruv. Don't know where you got that idea from I was helping her wash the dishes she doesn't do anything for me, I like sexy, not some plain Jane. I can find bigger and better then her any day of the week" Pete said grabbing his keys off the table and walking out of the kitchen and out of the house. He was too quick to notice the brunette haired girl sitting on the stairs swiping away the tears his harsh words had caused.