8.
I stopped breathing.
There Blake was, standing by my door like the perfect girl she was. Her brown hair was blowing in the breeze and it looked like her Ford Escape was smoking from the hood.
Lily grabbed my hand and towed me to the house. Her trickling laughter was loud and we walked up to my little hotel room. I saw Blake's face as she took in the beautiful girl by my side who was holding my hand. I saw her face change in a few different emotions, but nothing I wanted to see.
"You have the key." Lily said. I scrambled to get the key into the hole and twisted it. Then she looked at Blake. "She's even prettier than I pictures when you talked about her."
I flushed and got the door open.
"Thanks." Blake said and when I turned to look at her, her face was turned away, smiling.
"Come on it." I said before realizing what sate my room was in, but Blake was already walking inside. When I looked around my room was in order. "Thanks." I whispered to Lily as she laid on the bed.
"I'm tired." she said.
I turned to Blake. "Not to be rude, but why are you here?"
She snorted. " 'Not to be rude'? You've been rude to me ever since I saw you." her eyes breezed over my room.
"I'm sorry. I just don't fit in that much. Its better than having them turn on you." I smiled, thinking of Alex.
"You sure get along with Amanda." did I hear a note of jealousy on her tone?
"Old friends."
Blake shoved papers in my hand. "Those are for you."
I looked down at my missing assignments. By her posture I knew she wanted to leave as soon as possible. I tried to not show how much that hurt. "Thanks." I muttered. "You need help with your car?"
Blake looked out the door. "Yeah." then she glanced at her watch. "Shoot! I'm late for cross country practice." she looked at me impatiently.
"Sorry for burdening you with rude things." I said before walking to her car, Lily's soft snores following me. I opened her hood and smoke burst out, engulfing me.
"I didn't mean that." she said apologetically.
"You sure?"
"What is with you?" she let out in an exasperated tone. "First you be all hostile to me, then you're nice and smile at me, then you get all rude towards me. Then when I come here and once you start to sound like you care, here you make remarks like that. I don't understand you, Logan."
I looked at her shocked. Had she been holding in this the whole time. We'd only known each other a day and I've been really irritating her.
I breathed in and adjusted to look at her radiator. "I'm sorry, Blake. Its not you, I just can't really tell you. My life is really complicated." I looked at her listening, beautiful face. "I wish I could."
"Maybe your girlfriend can get you to talk."
I busted out laughing. I wiped a fake tear from my eye and looked back at Blake, who was just staring at me like I was still rude. Is topped laughing, but I couldn't hide the smile that dominated my face. "Lily isn't my g-girlfriend, Blake." I could hardly say the word I was laughing again. "She's my sister."
"What's that supposed to mean, Logan. I'm not pretty enough?" Lily voice came from inside, then I saw her body flash at the door. I put a warning in my eyes, which she ignored.
"No you are way to beautiful, honey. That's why I have to beat up Alex every time I see him." I winked at her while she huffed and went back into the room. I chuckled and turned back to the car.
Blake was smiling. I opened the jam that was in her oil and shut the hood. "Good to go." I said.
"Thanks, I owe you one, Logan. Maybe we can talk sometime and you can explain to me your life."
If you only knew, I thought. How would she react if I took off my shirt and showed her my wings hiding every so slightly in my back side? Not so well I bet.
"Want a ride to practice? I heard you were pretty good."
"What else did you hear about me?"
She ignored that. "Get changed and get back here in five minutes, or I'm leaving and you'll have to walk."
I smiled. I would beat her truck in a foot race, but there was no way I would tell her that. I ran into the room and changed quickly into some shorts and once of my old black shirts with AstroBoy on the front. Yeah I know it's stupid, but who can resist Astro? (I know I'm a geek)
She laughed at my shirt when I shut the door, but Blake didn't comment as she drove on. She parked at the school ten minutes later and opened her door. I got out of mine and walked with her in silence over to the track, which already had people warming up. Some eyes were on us and we walked up to the rest of the group, but I walked away from her. I went straight to the coach.
"Logan wait up!"
I turned to see Lily running towards me with her shorts and work out shirt on. Or was it mine?
"What are you doing here?"
"Why didn't you wake me, you jerk?"
Touché.
"Never mind." I made it to the coach who was also the athletic director for the school. "Hello."
The coach turned around. I saw a big man with muscles twice the size of mine. He was bald and had these eyes that made you want to not look at them directly. He wasn't really ugly, but I don't judge guys, but he was wearing these awesome pants-wait a minute. Did I really just say that? Am I turning gay? Oh god, please no!
"Are you are?"
I didn't flinch at his cold tone. "Logan Masters, Coach. I wanted to run with you guys."
He laughed, and so did some of the others. "You don't just decide to run, Logan. Come see me at another time." he turned away.
"I'll race your fastest runner for the spot."
That made me him look at me again. He looked like I was joking, but he nodded and chuckled again. "I'll call the nurse in case you faint. Hey Ivan! Want to race?"
A guy walked over that looked more like an adult. His hair was thick and long, about to his shoulders. He reminded me of Fabio for some reason. His leg muscles were huge, bulging from every angle. His eyes were cold as they looked over me and smirked. "Won't be much of a race, coach, but I'll do it."
People cleared as we made our way to the starting point. We each bent over, ready to go at a moments notice.
"Okay boys, ten laps. Go!"
Ivan was the fastest runner they had? I breezed by him in a matter of minutes. They probably thought I was wasting too much energy sprinting like I was in a one hundred meter dash, but soon they figured out this was my pace. I ran hard, but not too fast. I then figured out that Lily was right by my side. How did she get into this? Heaven only knows.
I wanted to race her all out so bad, but we couldn't. We would break the world record by a matter of minutes.
We got to the end of the ten laps, not even out of breath. Ivan was only on his third. He stopped when he saw me at the finish line. I looked around and everyone was staring at me and Lily. I thought coach was going to have a heart attack.
When Ivan caught up to us I tried so hard not to laugh, but of course, knowing my own self control, I failed. Lily stood there like a real lady and shook his hand. I on the other hand was too busy trying to breathe to even hear coach say I was on the team by a mile.
I smirked.
Practice was easy, for us anyway. It wasn't a work out at all. More like a really soft warm up. Not even that. We ran a few miles and then sprinted a few meters and then ran another five miles. Lily and I were always the best no matter what he put us in. Coach wondered where we have been all his life. And if that didn't make steam come out if Ivan's ears I don't know what would.
"Are you coming over?" I heard Blake ask someone. I glanced up at her voice and say her talking to Jeremy who was in a football practice jersey. I tried not to walk right up there and strangle him, but I was lucky Lily was here to hold me back, literally.
"Of course." he kissed her lips and she giggled. When she saw me looking at her she smiled. "Party at my place, Logan. Wanna come?"
I looked at both of them in disgust. How could she ask me that? Didn't Blake notice how bad it hurt me to see them together? Of course not, I was such a good actor sometimes I even fooled myself. It would be so much easier if I hadn't of fallen for her, but alas (why do I keep freakin' saying that word!?) when has that plan ever worked out?
I smiled coldly. "I think I'd rather pitch myself off of a ten story building, then go there with you."
I walked quicker, now dragging Lily by the arm s I could get out of there fast, but not fast enough.
"He's so bi-polar!" she yelled. I think she meant me to hear it, oh and she succeeded, but it still faded into my head like a soft whisper. It cut my heart into little pieces more than it really affected my head.
Lily half smiled as we walked down the road. "What was that about?"
"I just hate him!" I exploded. "I hate seeing him with her, touching her, kissing her, then for Blake to smile at me like I'm something special. Its just so frustrating."
"Logan, you are special."
I whacked her in the back of the head.
"Sorry." she smiled again, trying to keep up with my long legs. "But you know what I mean. maybe if you opened up…"
"I can't do that, Lily. Darius would be the first one to kill her if she knew."
She gasped. "I'm not telling you to spill the secret. I'm just saying to act more like yourself. She's confused and upset because she doesn't know who you are and you keep switching emotions on her. Just act like you want to be around her and she'll want to be around you too."
Why didn't I think that?
Girls are just too smart.
"Did I ever tell you I love you?"
Lily started to run a little faster. "Feel free to say that as much as you want. Oh and most people thought we were a couple."
How can they think that though? We look like twins. Like freaking Siamese twins. Put me and Terry together and it would be like Fred and George.
"I know. Its humans remember?"
"How can I forget?"
