"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
I was laying in my bed watching TV as the party roared downstairs. I don't know what time it was when Lucas came into my doorway.
"Hi," he said softly.
I propped myself up in my bed on my elbows. "Hey, how's the party?"
"I'm up here with you, how do you think it is?" he said smiling. Something had happened to Lucas Scott in that moment that made his bad boy exterior melt away. His eyes seemed different, warmer.
"Must be bad," I said teasingly.
"How'd you know about Brittany?" he said softly.
"Nathan told me when I was asking about you..." I didn't want to rat Nathan out, but I assumed not many people knew the real Lucas.
"I was crazy about her," he said sitting down on the bed next to me. "She made me feel, amazing. Do you know I haven't been able to feel that way since her?"
"Lucas, it's not like you try..."
"Touche," he said smiling.
"You should let people in. Yeah, sometimes, you do get your heart broken. But the reward for letting someone in is worth the risk. Just let someone get past your walls," I said. I smiled shyly at him. It was weird having a real conversation with Lucas. I thought that at any moment, he'd suddenly say, "just kidding! I'm not sensitive! Got ya!" and run out laughing.
"I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts."
We spent a few more hours talking, although it flew by. We heard the house clear out while we talked about what we liked in a boyfriend/girlfriend, we heard Rachel screaming Lucas's name to find him (with him giving no response) while we discussed our pasts, and then we heard Nathan cleaning up while we discussed our futures. That was our cue to end our little bonding session and help out.
"Alright, let's go help Nate, California," Lucas said standing up. I looked into his eyes, his blue gorgeous eyes, and realized who I wanted.
Lucas was adventurous, unpredictable, and to my suprise, had a heart underneath his sexy body and jerk-attitude exterior. He just needed someone to listen, to relate to. To care. And I liked being able to bring that out in him. He was smart. I would never have guessed he was smart when I first met him, but there we were, sitting on my bed a few minutes before, him telling me how when he went to college, he wanted to be a writer. He liked John Steinbeck books, and Shakespeare. We had discussed our favorite music, too. He was into all these bands that I had never heard before.
"You're different from who you try to be," I said suddenly. He was different than he appeared. And I had judged him wrong. But I was happy my inital attraction to his looks had led me in the right direction. "I'm sorry for judging you."
He reached his hand out to help me up. "It's not like I didn't judge you, babe." He said winking. I saw his walls go back up almost instantly. His eyes changed. They were warm when we were talking about everything, but now that we were about to leave the room, they became cold again.
I put my hand into his and let him pull me up. As we walked, he wrapped his arm over my shoulders.
"You're a great girl, you know that right?" he said, stopping in his tracks.
I felt my cheeks get warm and pink. "Thanks. You're not so bad yourself, once you get past the ridiculous attitude, asshole-tendencies and walls you put up."
"Tomorrow, you and me, gorgeous, we're going to the beach," he let his sexy, adorable, smile show.
"Sounds good to me," I said smiling. We walked downstairs and into the main room where the party had taken place.
Nathan was throwing beer cans and cups into a black garbage bag. "We came to help, little bro," Lucas said, his arm still around my shoulder.
"Oh, now I see where you guys dissapeared to... the bedroom," he sneered.
"We were just talking, Nathan," I said softly.
"Lucas Scott and a girl, just talking?" he laughed.
"Nate, what is your problem little bro?" Lucas said, putting his asshole attitude back on in full gear.
"You, and your little games with every girl in this town... that's my problem," Nathan said defensively.
"Why don't you mind your own business?"
"Why don't you get your act together?" Nathan said stepping toward Lucas.
Nathan went to push Lucas, but he stopped himself. "If I hit you right now, I'll be down to your scum-bag level. So I'll top myself. I don't want to be anything like you." He turned around and stormed off.
"What was that about?" Lucas said, confused.
Something in the pit of my stomach told me it had something to do with me.
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