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Chapter Four- She Fucking Hates Me

That's my story, as you see learned my lesson and so did she now it's over and I'm glad 'cause I'm a fool for all I've said, Trust and she tore my feelings like I had none she fucking hates me.

~Puddle of Mudd

The war going on between Pogue and Tallulah continued for the rest of the week. Insults flew back and forth between the two warring parties, followed by showers of hostile comments and petty little challenges. The innocent bystanders ducked to avoid the cross fire, limiting their exposure. Tallulah and Pogue both managed to receive yet another detention from one of their outburst, thankfully it didn't start until Monday, but it just gave them more reason to butt heads. The group was taking their now new normal seating arrangements at lunch when they started up again.

"If you just didn't make that stupid punk-ass, wanna be, feminist, bad girl comment we wouldn't have gotten detention." Pogue argued sitting down with his tray.

"Maybe if you took a moment to stop being such a stuck up, wanna be surfer boy jackass, you'd realize that I only made my comment because you're so inconsiderate and in need of some major attitude adjusting. Not to mention that you've got your head shoved so far up your ass you can taste your own shit when you talk. So, when you finally clean your mouth out maybe it'll give your brain the air it needs to actually function." Tallulah retorted sitting down at the table.

Tyler was rubbing his temples, eyes closed tired of the bickering. Aideen rested her head on her folded arms whispering to Tyler,

"Make them stop." She whimpered

Jenna slammed her tray on the table glaring at the two of them,

"Shut the fuck up already!" she yelled.

Tallulah and Pogue froze mid sentence looking up at, Tallulah looking more stunned than annoyed her baby sister didn't curse often. Tyler opened one eye as Aideen head lifted from the table. Caleb and Lucy's eyes just widened while Maureen merely blinked. Reid moved beside Jenna patting her shoulder,

"Whoa, Jen calm down." He hushed sitting her down with him.

"No, I'm sick and tired of the two of them fighting all the time. Lulu give the guy a break he just got out of a messy break up, because he's being an ass, only to see said ex hanging all over the guy they all hate, and Pogue grow the hell up. Stop acting like a petulant child and be nice according to your friends you have the capacity to do it. Ok we all agreed no more fighting? Good now I'm going back to my lunch." Jenna exclaimed pulling out the brown paper bags handing one to Maureen before setting out her food.

Tallulah and Pogue blinked looking at Jenna before looking at each other then back to their food muttering. Aideen was chuckling with Tyler, while Reid rubbed Jenna's shoulder,

"Feel better now?" he asked teasingly.

"Yes actually I do, you'd think her being the oldest would mean she'd act it instead of being scolded by her baby sister." Jenna explained.

Lucy shook her head before looking up at Caleb,

"Hey Caleb are we going to work on the project tonight?" she asked nicely

Caleb lifted his heavy head from its thoughts meeting Lucy's gaze and smiled lightly at her,

"Yea tonight would be good; I mean we'd only need this weekend and maybe next weekend to have it finished." He suggested.

"Great so after school meet me in front and I'll give you directions." Lucy explained

As Caleb was about to open his mouth Pogue looked down at him,

"Dude, Nicky's is tonight." He said giving him a look as if to say "Nicky's aka dark basement under the old Danver place to talk about stuff."

"Chill man I can still make it to Nicky's tonight no big." Caleb explained smiling.

Pogue opened his mouth to make another remark when Tyler interrupted, his friend would hate him for this but he didn't give a flying rat's ass,

"Hey I got an idea why don't we ask the girls here to come with us. I'm sure they haven't been to Nicky's yet and then Caleb and Lucy won't have to rush around on their project etc." he suggested feeling Pogue's hunter green eyes burning holes into his temples.

Jenna's mood shifted and smiled, "That'd be great that way you could all just come over and we could all hang out until Lucy and Caleb are done with their project for today and yea…" She trailed off feeling Tallulah's sapphire blue eyes burn her as Pogue's burned Tyler.

"That sounds like a great idea, getting to spend more quality time with you girls." Reid said putting his arm around Aideen and Jenna.

Jenna just laughed it off but Aideen looked at his arm as if it were diseased.

"Do you mind? I don't want your arms around me." She shrugged it off her and shivered.

Reid smirked leaning down to whisper,

"You will babe, you will." He winked at her before receiving a sharp blow to his stomach. She hit him; she actually went ahead and hit him. Aideen smiled and went back to eating.

Maureen rolled her eyes; these days in school couldn't get any more boring than they were right now. Tallulah looked at them all an idea coming into action,

"We… they can't, because we have swimming practice until late, and then you know all the changing and stuff, plus Caleb would have to go home to get clothes and then drive all the way back to our house and by then it'll be even later and the boys probably wanna get to Nicky's, so maybe another time." She said smiling inwardly. The last thing she needed was to be around Pogue more than necessary; he pissed her off so much she could do something regrettable.

Jenna shot her a look her emotions a bit unstable today,

"We can wait Tally. What did you think we'd leave them here with you?" she asked sarcastically. Her sister was being completely unreasonable. Lucy sighed attempting once again to be the sane peace maker.

"Ok this is what is going to happen we'll stay for swim practice ok? Then when everyone is washed up and changed I'll go with Caleb so he can change and then get to our house. Moe, Tally, Aideen and Jen will stay here so the rest of the guys can change and then show them to the house. Ok? Ok good, I don't want to hear anymore bickering from anyone." She said with finality.

Everyone went back to their lunches before they had to head out to finish their remaining classes of the day. When classes finished out the guys made met up before heading to practice.

"I thought we were supposed to meet tonight to talk about what we were gonna do incase Chase came back for me." Pogue stated leaning against the wall.

"And we will Pogue but one night of us enjoying ourselves isn't going to kill us especially after the last few weeks we've had." Caleb explained.

"Dude you just want to spend time with Lucy." Reid teased.

Caleb rolled his eyes,

"It's not like that and you know it man, she's just a friend."

"Yea right a friend who's fucking hot and totally into you by the way." Reid commented with a smirk

"Lay off it Reid it's not like that." Caleb insisted.

"Sure man we'll see how long it's 'not like that' for ok?" Reid laughed.

"Let's just go tonight and have fun with the girls and worry about Chase tomorrow sound like a plan?" Tyler asked diplomatically.

The others nodded before they all made their way to the pool to start practice. Everyone was in the pool area listening to coach talk before he dismissed them to go change. The coach had told them they'd be there for about an hour or so, knowing he'd never get a full practice out of them on a Friday. Everyone changed and practice started, each relay group took their positions and ran drills. After the first half an hour Tallulah was starting to lose her focus and was screwing up. She pulled herself out of the water and went to the back wall trying to calm down and focus. The girls watched from the top a little concerned. The coach had called her aside,

"What's going on with you Knight?" he asked looking over his newest member of the team.

"I'm sorry coach I'm really trying to focus I swear." Tallulah explained feeling horrible.

"It's ok you're new and with being new there is a lot more going on than swimming right? Thought so, so go change and work out in the weight room for a bit get your head clear and be ready to wow me again next practice got it?" He smiled kindly patting her on the shoulder. Tallulah nodded going back up to change and go to the weight room.

Reid had been trying to listen in hanging back with the others.

"Wonder why Lulu has been losing focus today?" he questioned.

Pogue scoffed, "Her talent was a fluke and you're calling her Lulu now?"

"She doesn't mind and it's her nick name, and dude you seriously need to back off her she's not as awful as you're making her out to be." Reid defended.

Tyler sighed getting pissed, "Do you have to be such an asshole to her Pogue? She hasn't done anything to you since lunch."

"You know baby boy just because you want to get into her sisters pants doesn't mean you have to defend her." Pogue spat diving back in to finish out his laps.

Reid's eyes widened looking at Tyler than at Caleb.

"Is it just me or do we need to beat the stupid out of our dear friend in order for him not to be an ass anymore?" Tyler asked restraining himself. Reid raised his hand in agreement.

"Just let it go Tyler you're bigger than that… let's just finish the swim and get the day over with." Caleb patted him on the shoulder and went back to the deck to dive off again.

When Pogue reemerged from the water walking back to his spot, Tyler walked past him to take his turn looking back to look at Pogue,

"And just because you want to get in Tallulah's pants and can't because you're a prick doesn't mean you have to take your anger out on me." He dove off leaving Reid laughing and Caleb running a hand through his hair, now he know how Lucy felt when dealing with her sisters.

An hour after Tallulah had left practice Aaron had slipped out past the coach, drying himself off quickly, to head up to the weight room. He slipped through the open cold metal doors, walking onto the somewhat worn mats, the school logo looking up at him from the center of the room. Standing up against the eggshell colored cement walls, watching Tallulah, she had the stereo playing some song he didn't recognize. She was lying down away from him doing crunches. He decided to just watch her a bit longer, as her routine changed from crunches to push ups, a sick, perverse smile coming across his lips, before closing the door. Tallulah heard the door but paid it no attention, someone else could have come in to exercise as well. She got up from her position on the floor wiping the small trickles of sweat from her temples going over to the sides to grab the boxing mitts. Aaron was sure she'd have looked up to see who it was, but he was sadly mistaken. Tallulah was in her zone and about to break from it, she turned to the punching bag and began working. Aaron slipped across the mat to the other wall behind her.

"You're a very aggressive girl Tallulah." He spoke coyly looking her over.

Tallulah froze as he spoke grabbing the bag to keep it from swinging. She sighed; she didn't need to deal with another asshole right now. She took a deep steady breath before responding,

"What do you want Abbott?"

He smirked coming up right behind her whispering in her ear,

"I thought that'd be obvious by now."

Tallulah clenched her fists turning to look the cocky arrogant asshole in the eye.

"Yes and I told you just three days ago no just like I did the first day I got her. So, what the hell makes you think I'd change my mind?" she questioned

Aaron stepped closer to her watching her back up right into the wall. He smirked blocking her in.

"I thought some mild persuasion would be in order." He explained

Tallulah looked at his arms then back to his face smiling cruelly,

"Move your arms now." She said sweetly

"And if I don't? What are you gonna do, scream for help?" he teased

"No I'll just beat the shit out of you and possibly break something." Tallulah answered calmly slipping the gloves off.

Aaron looked at her a little shocked. She surely didn't have the strength to hurt him like that.

"Yea right princess." He brushed it off scoffing.

"I warned you." She answered simply

She upper cut his jaw watching him stumble backwards moving to keep up with his stumbling form before side kicking him in the ribs. She watched him go down, sighing. She ran a hand through her hair leaning down next to him,

"God you're easy… eh oh well." She said disappointed, but before she could stand fully Aaron kicked her feet from under her. There was a loud thud as Tallulah came crashing down.

Aaron crawled over pinning her there smirking through the pain,

"You're good, but obviously not good enough princess cause as you can see I still got you on your back." He winked.

Tallulah's Thoughts

Ok I can't break his arms, or legs, coach would kill me… can't exactly kill him because we'd have to move again… Jen would cry and I'd feel bad. Hmm… my god he's fucking heavy. What could I do? Oooh I can break his nose! But he's got my hands pinned and he's rambling on about something. He likes to hear himself talk… ok…maybe a testicle retrieval operation? No I'll get kicked off the team… hmm swift kick no permanent damage? That'll do. Ew… he's still in a Speedo… I swear if I feel anything move or grow… fuck all consequences he dies.

Normal

Tallulah glared trying to throw him off, but failing, damn the male population for being heavier.

"Dude lay off the damn chips, my god you're heavy." She said wiggling to get away.

She arched up, attempting to throw him off of her, watching his eyes widen in disbelief thinking that she'd actually give in to him. She smirked setting herself back on the mat watching as he smirked in victory leaning down to kiss her neck. Tallulah rolled her eyes waiting until he was just close enough and head butted him hard. She proceeded to knee him firmly in his family jewels when he pulled back to hold his nose. Watching him roll off to the side she stood quickly looking at the clock, practice would be over soon.

"I warned you." She laughed going to her things and grabbing her phone and taking a picture waving before she ran down stairs unable to hear Aaron call weakly "you bitch".

The guys were already in the locker rooms and the girls were waiting for them outside when Tallulah came down laughing hysterically tossing Moe her phone calling back, "The latest picture!" as she ran down to the girls locker room. Maureen opened the Verizon razor going to her pictures, seeing the one of Aaron doubled over and in pain.

"Oh my god… she ha-ha." Maureen started before cracking up. Lucy took the phone laughing at the sight before quickly handing it off to Jenna and Aideen.

"Oh damn he's gonna be in pain." Aideen said happily. Jenna tapped her on the shoulder pointing to Aaron as he was hobbling down the steps still in his Speedo.

The girls cracked up while Aaron glared flipping them off trying to make it back down to the boy's locker rooms.

"Haha oh my God his nose is still bleeding." Aideen laughed. Jenna took the phone and quickly texted the picture to Tyler waiting to hear the laughter from the guys.

Tyler had showered quickly was half dressed when he got the picture.

"What the hell? Why the hell is Tallulah texting me?" he asked looking at the others.

"Who knows man what's it say?" Caleb asked grabbing his shirt.

Tyler opened the message looking at it strangely before scrolling down reading the small print. Lulu kicked Aaron's ass! =) Tyler broke out into laughter,

"Holy shit, no way!"

Caleb came up beside him giving him a questioning gaze,

"What?"

Reid soon followed in his towel peeking over Tyler's shoulder,

"What? What?" he asked excited.

"Dude look…Pogue get over here." Tyler called

Pogue came over in his sweats annoyed,

"What is it man?" he asked

"Dude you got to see this it's fucking amazing!" he explained as Aaron limped his way into the locker room. Tyler showed them the picture as Reid almost doubled over in laughter.

"Dude she's my hero." Reid exclaimed looking over at Aaron cracking up even more.

"Dude… you got your balls handed to you by a girl!" he practically screamed.

Aaron glared at them,

"What the fuck are you idiots talking about?" he asked pissed off.

"We're talking about this dude!" Reid roared with laughter pointing to Tyler's phone.

Aaron pushed past Reid to go shower, pissed off that Tallulah managed to get a picture now too. Tyler proceeded to forward the text to everyone he could think of. Pogue was looking at the phone happy that Aaron got the shit kicked out of him as he wondered if he pushed Tallulah's temper that far if she'd beat him up too or at least try. Caleb patted him on the back,

"Best not be pissing her off again." He whispered going back to dressing.

When the guys reemerged from the changing rooms Tallulah was already downstairs laughing with her sisters.

"Dude I swear if I had felt anything I would've made sure he'd need a hospital." Tallulah explained finishing her story.

"Felt what exactly?" Reid teased.

The girls laughed a bit shaking their heads.

"Something you don't have Garwin." Aideen explained.

Jenna rolled her eyes her mood changing once more,

"Let's go guys, Lou we'll meet you at home ok?" she asked while pushing Reid down the hallway before he could start another fight with Aideen.

"Ready to go Caleb?" Lucy asked quickly. He nodded and laughed heading outside with her.

Tallulah shook her head walking after the others Pogue not too far behind. Aideen laughed a bit looking at Tyler,

"Let's go tall boy." She stated walking side by side,

"So… Ty-Ty, tell me… do you like my sister?" Aideen asked randomly.

"Yea your sisters are nice. Maureen is a tad bit dark but funny, Lucy is always sweet, Tallulah is funny and a bit scary after what she did to Aaron, and Jenna is nice as well, easy to talk too, like you. Watching you and Reid fight is hilarious." Tyler explained looking down at her.

"I didn't say sisters Ty, I said sister, but I'll let it go for now." Aideen teased poking him in the arm.

Tyler just looked down at her and shook his head watching Jenna tug Reid along, and Tallulah and Pogue avoiding contact. He could hear Reid babbling to Jenna about something to do with their room.

"Jen! Jen! Our room is right there stop tugging me will ya, I mean I know I'm irresistible and all but please woman if you wanna do this we'll have to send the others away I don't do free shows. Ty doesn't mind hanging out somewhere else." Reid explained wriggling free of Jenna's grasp. She turned back glaring at him swatting him on the shoulder,

"Ew Reid I'd never sleep with you that's gross. It'd be like sleeping with my brother and I am not one for incest, you're nasty… go change." Jenna said her nose scrunched up.

Reid pouted, "Ok ouch, I never thought I was the brotherly type, but fine you'll get over that eventually." He said looking at her sighing, before looking at Aideen "What about you Aideen? You wanna join me?" he joked wiggling his eye brows.

Aideen coughed, "Reid please I don't want to throw up my lunch." She explained trying not to twitch.

Tyler rolled his eyes walking into their room to change. Pogue headed further down the hall to change his clothes as well. Reid sighed in defeat following in after Tyler. Maureen had remained silent most of the time holding back from saying something crude, desperately feeling the need for a drink mixed with a lot of alcohol, maybe that would numb the mindless dribble coming from her sisters and the guys. These boys were transparent and her sisters she'd slap later for being so sad. Reid poked around his dresser and wardrobe looking for his jeans. Tyler ruffled through his things as well grabbing a long sleeved white shirt while looking for his band tees.

"Reid did you take my shirts again?" he asked tossing a few onto his already messed up bed.

Reid scoffed, "Dude why would I wear your shirts? Have you seen my black long sleeved one with the thing on it?" he mumbled from inside his wardrobe.

"No dude no idea what you're looking for." Tyler answered finishing up getting dressed and grabbing his jacket.

Reid finally found what he was looking for wife beater, red t-shirt and black hoodie. He grabbed his glovies and his beanie and headed outside with Tyler to see the girls. By the time they came back out Pogue had already returned in his normal black muscle t-shirt and leather jacket accompanied by jeans waiting against the wall.

"My god you guys take forever. Did you lose your make up or something?" Aideen sighed pushing off form the wall to head out to Maureen's car, she was happy her sisters came separately today she loved riding in the mustang.

Jenna sighed shaking her head having already gone through her head of what she was gonna wear etc. Tallulah had been planning too, maybe make Pogue eat his words and regret pissing her off. Reid looked over the girls, their uniforms still not in,

"You guys are gonna change before we go right?" he asked

Tyler sighed hitting Reid in the head, when Jenna looked at him,

"No Reid we're going to stay in our uniforms, no you moron we'll change." She answered.

Maureen grumbled walking out the front doors going to her blood red mustang, sighing happily.

"Aideen you coming with me still?" the annoyed sister asked already on her way to her car. Aideen ran to catch up calling back to Jenna,

"You give them directions Jen!"

Tallulah rolled her eyes, "It's not that hard pull out of the school make a left, at the light go right for about half a mile at maple go left again for about five minutes than there is a dirt road turn on it, it's the big white house at the end of the road, can't miss it. Just follow us and try to keep up." She explained stopping by Maureen's car to grab her helmet.

"There is room in my car if you wanna drive with me, I won't mind dropping you guys off again later tonight, save gas and time." Jenna offered nodding toward her baby.

"Yea thanks Jen." Tyler said dragging Reid with him to Jenna's Expedition. Pogue was right behind Tallulah when he went to his bike, memorizing the directions.

Aideen sat in the mustang looking at Maureen with a smirk, "Dust them?" she asked

Maureen only chuckled darkly in response and took off out of the parking lot, Tallulah not far behind and Pogue right beside her. Jenna took up the back and shook her head, "One of these days Lulu or Moe is gonna get in another accident." She mumbled following.

With Caleb and Lucy at the Danver's house

The trip to Caleb's house was light and comfortable, barely any awkward silences, and gave Lucy and Caleb the chance to talk. When Lucy saw Caleb's house she was kind of in awe.

"Caleb your house is beautiful." She whispered looking at the mansion.

"Thanks." He chuckled parking the car before climbing out and doing the gentlemanly thing and getting her door for her. Lucy climbed out muttering a thank you.

"Mom! Mom I'm home!" Caleb called pulling off his blue blazer, and loosening his tie.

"Caleb I'm in here." Evelyn Danver's called back from the den.

Lucy looked around seeing all the animals stuffed and positioned in different places around the room.

"Hello mother." Caleb greeted going over to hug her and give her a kiss on the cheek. She'd been doing since that woman had been by the house earlier in the week. Lucy remained in the door way a simple smile on her face.

"Hello sweetheart, and who is this?" She asked pointing toward Lucy.

"Hello Mrs. Danvers it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Lucy Knight. I'm Caleb's English partner." Lucy introduced walking more into the room.

Evelyn fought not to show her surprise, she just smiled and went over to shake the girl's hand.

"It's nice to meet you as well Lucy. Hopefully you can keep my boy in check with his grades." Evelyn teased trying to play this awkward meeting off flawlessly; she'd have to have a talk with Georgianna later.

Lucy smiled answering in the same teasing manner, "I'll do my best, might be a bit of work."

Evelyn smiled letting go of Lucy's hand looking at Caleb smiling lightly whispering

"She seems very nice son, least I'm not meeting this one right before your first dance." She teased.

Caleb rolled his eyes, "Mom please don't."

Evelyn just smiled hoping she was fooling her son, "Go along and change I promise not to tell your friend any embarrassing stories."

"What is it picking on Caleb day?" The boy asked looked at them both.

Lucy simply nodded, "Yup Tuesday was Pogue's day, Wednesday was Tyler's day, and Thursday was Reid's day but then we decided that every day was Reid's day so today is yours." She explained matter of factly.

Caleb laughed, "I see so when do we get to pick on all of you?" he asked

"Oh please Caleb, we out number you plus we're craftier." Lucy explained shrugging.

Evelyn just watched not seeing her son smile so much in the past week than she had right now. Caleb rolled his eyes jokingly nudging Lucy's shoulder. Lucy nudged back,

"Go change mister, we have a lot to do, plus leaving my sisters and your friends alone is so going to end badly so scoot." She "pushed" him toward the stairs.

Caleb laughed nodding running upstairs to change. Lucy sighed looking back at Mrs. Danvers who was smiling ushering her to come and sit with her. Lucy blushed a bit smiling before sitting down.

"You have a lovely home Mrs. Danvers." Lucy explained looking around, spotting the piano.

"My little sister Jenna would love your piano." She smiled once more.

"Thank you Lucy, so tell me where did you move here from?" Evelyn asked.

"Oh we're originally from Ireland. Yea, now it's a big old house full of girls, my mom and my four sisters." Lucy explained.

"Wow that is a lot of girls. How do you like Ipswich so far?"

"I love it so far, I miss home of course but I'm getting settled, Jen likes it. Moe not so much, Aideen is kind of indifferent and Tallulah, I think is missing home." Lucy explained.

"That's good; you and my son seem to get along well."

"Caleb a great guy, you have a wonderful son, he's been a good friend to my sisters and I."

Evelyn smiled lightly worrying how close these relationships were growing, as Caleb reentered the room, dressed simply but handsomely as always. He came up to the couch looking down at Lucy.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yea let's go," she began as she stood, "I had a great time speaking with you Mrs. Danvers, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your night. Bye." She said. Evelyn nodded and smiled in return.

Evelyn smiled at her standing to show them both out, "It was a pleasure to meet you as well Mira. Feel free to bring your sisters over any time. It's refreshing to have more girls around, and I'm sure Caleb wouldn't mind." She suggested watching as the two went pink.

"I'll be home later tonight mom." Caleb said kissing his mother on the cheek before quickly walking out to the car with Lucy and looked down at her,

"What did you and my mom talk about? You know before her embarrassing display." he asked curiously.

"We were about to get into when you were a baby and she was going to get pictures but you came back early." Lucy teased climbing into the car.

Caleb shook his head chuckling climbing in and peeling out of the drive way heading to the Knight Manor.