A/N: I am on vacation right now so I may not be able to update more then I'd like to.
Chapter 4.
"Neville how was your first day?" Lena asked me. Jude, Callie and I shared a look. I'm trying to figure out if I should lie or not.
"The actual school part was good. Afterschool? Not so much." Lena glared at me. Jude butts in to the conversation.
"Neville had a little trouble helping me afterschool. We were doing a tutoring session." Callie nodded her head agreeing with Jude. "I was kind of being uncooperative…" Jude laughs. I smile at him and mouth "Thank you." He mouthed "We'll talk later." I nod my head and paid attention to my foster family for the rest of the dinner.
"Tomorrow we are eating out. You better plan to be here." Stef says to us.
"Can't! I have dance practice." Mariana blurts out.
"You dance?" I ask her. She nods her head. "Can you show me some moves? I been wanting to learn how to dance." Mariana looks scared. "Actually you know what? Maybe I can stop by and see you dance, I'm very observant so I learn things quickly from just looking at you." Mariana looks at me and thinks about it.
"Maybe the next time we have practice. Not tomorrow of course, but maybe another day. You can come look." Mariana says.
"Ok. , we'll wait for you to come home before we leave." Stef says to her. She smiles at me. "Are you and Jude going to do another study session tomorrow? Since we have to wait on Mari you guys can do another if you want." I look at Jude who nods his head.
"Yea we'll do that." I smile at her.
Minutes later.
"What did you want to talk about Jude?" I ask him while we were playing video games. I think we were playing Killer Instinct but I may be wrong. Jude pauses the game.
"This would not be the greatest place to talk about this." Jude looks at me with this look. I trust him on this. We finish the fight then walk outside, I sit on the chair and he sits next to me. "I shouldn't be telling you this at all. I want you to stay here with us but…"
"You like me." Jude looks at me with this serious face. "I could tell." I lied. Callie doesn't deserve to be outed. The feeling in my chest comes back. The same feeling I had earlier today.
"Yea I do like you." He says. He stops looking at me. He was hurt, his mood was radiating from him.
"You also like Connor." I say to him. Jude looks at me surprised. "You forget how observant I am." I take out the note I wrote, it had Connor's confession on it. "Here. Something from me to you." Jude takes the note and reads it. His face becomes an immense red.
"Connor likes me…?" I nod my head.
"He doesn't know you like him however, Do you want to change that?" Jude shakes his head no.
"I want to figure myself out. I don't know who I like more, you or Connor." I nod my head, The feeling becomes worse than it was before. Jude looks at me with this look of hurt on his face. It then changes to a worried face. "Are you ok Neville?" I didn't even noticed my facial expression even changed. I nodded my head.
"Yes I'm fine. I was thinking about something." I lied, Jude looked at me curiously. "What would happen if I was adopted into this household? It's my second day yet I'm already thinking about this." I smile at Jude. "You know how much I like this family then." Jude smiles.
"I honestly don't know what would happen." He gets closer to me. I let my guard down. The feeling in my gut is like tearing my insides apart. Everything in me screams "Kiss the boy." Like Sebastian the crab would pop up at any time and start singing. My brain knows it's wrong but my heart says go ahead.
"I just know one thing." My face gets close to him. "I might not be able to do this in a way that I would like it" Our lips connected. We are there for a good 5 seconds. I pull back and blush. Something I haven't done in a while. The first time I've done it for a guy. Jude then kisses me intensely. When we both pull back, I lay my hand on top of his.
"Yea you won't be able to do that at all…" Jude says to me. I get up.
"We can't tell anyone." I look at Jude who's nodding his head. "I think. You should hook up with Connor. I know that it would be bad to use him as a cover-up but." I glare at him. "I know you like him. It would be better this way." He nods his head.
"I don't want you to leave. I'll do it." I smile at him and give him a peck on the cheek.
"Thank you. I know you may not like the idea, but it means much that you still want me to stay and be your foster brother." I say to him. It was getting pretty late. I yawn. "Goodnight Jude. I'll see you tomorrow." I say.
"Night Neville." He says smiling at me. I hear him say "I'm glad no one saw us." I look around the courthouse just in time to see someone peering out the window. Callie. I go up to her room and knock. Mariana opens the door.
"What's up Neville?" Mari asks me, Callie glares at me. Her eyes say "I can't believe you."
"Mari can you do me a huge favor and leave?" Callie asks her. Mariana's face goes from confused to surprise in about a millisecond.
"She can stay. I want her to." I look at her, "She has to promise whatever is said in here stays in this room and between us 3."
"4." I hear a voice say behind me. Jude had come inside and heard the conversation.
"Fine." Callie says. Jude and I walk in and Mariana closes the door.
"What is this about…?" Mari asks me. Jude looked scared and Callie looked hurt/mad. I was about to speak when Jude interrupted me.
"I told Neville I liked him." Mariana gasped. Callie nodded her head. I closed my eyes and said reluctantly,
"And… I-"
"I kissed him." Jude says to them. I whisper to Jude.
"You don't have to take all the blame."
"I know, I wanted to." I smile at him. Curse my mind. I wish I didn't like him like I do or we wouldn't be in this situation.
"What will you do if Moms find out?" Callie says. I hear a threat in her voice. Jude hears it too.
"Please don't tell them Callie!" Jude tells her. Callie just scoffs.
"What? Are we just supposed to let this pass? It's against the rules for foster brothers and sisters to date." Callie glares at me. "How would they feel if they found out Neville kissed you?" Jude then turns stone cold.
"What about you and Brandon?" Jude glares at Callie. "You broke the rule as well. You forget that you are also at risk because you aren't adopted yet."
"Don't say that." Callie says to him. I cling onto Mariana who hugs me back. I've been scared before but this is terrifying.
"Do they fight like this often?" I ask Mariana who shakes her head vigorously. Callie looks at me.
"I told you to stay away from him."
"It's not his fault I went to him!" Jude yells at her.
"Jude I was trying to keep you safe."
"You don't need to do that anymore. I'm fine on my own." Jude says to her.
"I apparently do because you just made a stupid choice."
"Yea, 1 against how many of yours? 100?"
"That's beside the point-"Callie gets cut off by a sudden outburst from Jude. Something I don't want hear again.
"You are not my sister." Jude leaves. Callie looks like she is about to cry. Mariana goes to hug her.
"Jude's going to need some time to himself for a while." Mariana tells me. I nodded my head slowly.
"Jude was going to cover this up by dating Connor, who he also likes."
"So much happened…" Mariana says. I nod my head and leave.
I go into my room. I grab my backpack I was given and packed some clothes in it. I decided this was for the best. It's my second day and I already caused this much discord. I wrote a note for Jude to show him where I went. I put it in my room and told him not to tell anybody. I opened the door downstairs when everyone was asleep and left the Fosters household.
Bye everyone…
A/N: Predictions anyone? What do you think the Fosters will do with Neville?
