Gwen's POV
"Thut up, Wetht!" was the first thing to come out of Liv's mouth... And the first thing to come out of Aly's mouth was a snort.
That missing tooth made her sound like my cousin Georgia did when she had braces and headgear and stuff. Hee hee.
"What happened to you? Did you run into a door or are you just finally losing your baby teeth?" Aly smirked and I bit back a giggle.
Liv glared at my sister. "You're tho funny, Oliver. If you mutht know, a thtupid dog knocked my tooth out."
One of Liv's trampy friends seemed confused by that. "How could a dog-"
"I don't know, Tharah!" Liv exclaimed, glaring at whom I'm guessing was actually named Sarah. "I jutht remember that it wath really ugly and thmelled like thewage."
Aly successfully hid how miffed she was by that statement. Which was good, since Liv still apparently didn't know that it was actually my slammed sister that jacked her mouth all up. "You poor thing," Aly said in a fake sympathetic tone. "That ith tho thad."
Liv super glared at Aly and promptly stomped off, her little posse right behind her. "Wow, Beckett," Aly muttered, her smirk still firmly on her face. "You're lucky to have a looker like her as a fake love interest. Jade's got a lot of competition."
Jade let out a scoff of a laugh and Beck tried not to look like he was laughing. But he totally was. "It's gonna be hard for her to say her lines when she's talking like that," I commented. "How's she gonna do the play?"
Beck's brows knitted together as he thought this over. "I didn't think of that..."
"Good thing she did," Jade said as she sipped her coffee. "Maybe we should have a talk with the director dude about that... The show must go on. Even without toothless skanks with busted up noses." She grabbed Beck's hand and dragged him away after we all said our goodbyes.
"Well, at least some good came out of your weekend adventures," I commented as Aly and I headed for our next classes.
"Does that mean you'll stop blackmailing me?" Aly asked, as I there was some hope of that happening.
"And miss out on an opportunity to mess with you?" I smirked. "Oh, Allison. What kind of a sister would I be if I did that?"
"An awesome one?" she suggested.
I held a finger up to silence her. "Save the compliments for the sneezes. Oh, and speaking of that..." I dug around in my backpack, pulled out a sheet of loose notebook paper and handed it to her. "I was kind enough to come up with a list of compliments for you to give me when the time is right. Feel free to word them differently."
"Will do." Aly rolled her eyes as she read over the list of super amazing compliments I came up with. "How long do I have to do this? And let you borrow my clothes?"
"Until one of us dies."
"No, seriously."
I shrugged. "Until my Davy comes back on Saturday. Once I'm in his arms, you're free, but until then, I need something to amuse me." I sneakily grinned. "This is working nicely."
Some random dude sneezed as he walked past us and I looked at my boozer of a sister expectantly. She sighed and looked at the list again. "You are the most amazing person in the history of amazing people."
I smugly grinned. "Thank you."
She shrugged. "I needed to get that one out of the way and I didn't want anyone to hear me say that. Don't get crud on my clothes."
I looked down at the purple and black striped short sleeved sweater dress, black leggings and purple peep toe heels I swiped from Aly's wardrobe this morning. "Not making any promises."
I snuck off to class before I could see her reaction. Having this kind of control over my big sis, the kind she's always had on me, made me feel totally BA.
So BA that I'm going to say the actual word.
I feel badass.
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Lunch time was back to our normal seating arrangement, since David was in dumb old Japan and Sean was spending lunch working on some project for history class. Aly was to my left, Beck to her left, then Jade, Tori, André, Cat, and then back to Robbie at my right. As much as I miss David, it was nice sitting with my friends again.
And Robbie has bad allergies around this time of year. That means lots of sneezing, lots of compliments, and lots of weird looks for Aly.
Wooters.
"And then after I got it off of Trina's head, I was able to-" Tori's story was interrupted when Robbie let out a sneeze, which he thankfully covered.
"Bless you," Cat sweetly said, handing him a napkin.
As he blew his nose, I looks at Aly, who had been poking at her salad. After hearing the sneeze, she looked at me and said, "Wow, Gwen, your hair is so silky smooth."
I let out a laugh and flipped my hair, which I had left down instead of putting it into my usual ponytail. "Why, thank you! I do my best."
Everyone looked confused. I don't blame them. Aly's not one to throw out compliments for no reason.
"Where did that come from?" André asked, confused.
Aly shrugged as she stabbed a plain piece of lettuce. "She's my sister. Can't I compliment her?"
"Trina hasn't complimented me in five years," Tori commented, more to herself than anyone else. "And that was only because she wanted me to take the blame when she broke one of Mom's good plates..."
"Compliments aren't the only thing she's handing out," Jade commented, taking a look at my- I mean Aly's- outfit. "Aren't those all Aly's clothes?"
"You never let me borrow any of your clothes!" Cat screeched at Aly, looking offended.
"It's laundry day," she retorted. "It was either let her borrow some threads or let her show up to school naked. And I'm pretty sure no one would want to see that..."
While everybody laughed at me and continued eating, I kicked Aly underneath the table. Hard.
I totes look good naked.
Just saying.
Aly restrained herself from kicking me back and continued eating her salad. I reached for my drink and in the process, I 'accidentally' knocked over the pepper shaker, sending some of the sneeze-inducing stuff airborne. "Oopsies!" I held a hand up to my mouth. "I'm such a klutz!"
As André and Tori started to hack an wheeze, Beck sat the shaker back up and said, "Be more careful next time, okay?"
"Will do," I said with a nod, trying not to laugh.
Tori let out a loud sneeze and Aly exclaimed, "Gwen is the most talented artist at Hollywood Arts!" André let out a sneeze himself and she added, "And her short stature only adds to her adorableness!"
"I'm just lost now," Robbie quietly said, staring at Aly like she was a weirdo.
"When are you not?" Rex asked.
"Seriously, what is going on?" Beck asked, raising an eyebrow. He looked suspicious. Oh boy.
Jade joined him in his suspicion. "Yeah, you two are acting weird... Weirder than usual."
Luckily, Aly and I didn't have to think of an excuse, because the bell rang and lunch was over. It was good, because it distracted the gang from figuring out what was going on, but it was bad, because I had to go to class and couldn't mess with my lovely sister anymore.
Boo for Gwenny.
Aly's POV
"Uuuuuuuuuuugh," I moaned as I shut my was leaning against the locker behind my door, looking a bit concerned.
"Nice to see you too, Al."
I sighed. "Sorry. I'm just bummed."
"What about?"
"I sang Lady Antebellum to my sister and now I'm under her control and she got ranch dressing on my favorite leggings and I never noticed before how much people really sneeze," I blurted out at once, too frustrated to give him more details.
Judging from the look he gave me, I figured I really should give them to him.
"I drunk dialed Gwen, like, five times on Friday. She found out we went partying and she's blackmailing me. I have to let her borrow my clothes and give her a stupid compliment every time someone sneezes for a week or else she might tell my parents or Beck. And even though that would be worse than what I'm going through right now, this still sucks."
I leaned my head against his shoulder and he rubbed my back comfortingly. "It looks like young Gwendolyn's a little more like her sister than I thought. I knew I liked that kid."
"Shut up," I muttered, tucking my hands into his back pockets so I could get a good feel of his amazing ass. A loud, obnoxious cough came from behind Sean and I lifted my head off his shoulder. The cougher was Beck, with Jade and Gwen by his side. What perfect timing.
I pulled my hands out of Sean's pockets and crossed my arms. "I have dance practice after school and Dad's picking me up. So you guys are just going to have to go on without me. I know that will be hard for you guys, but I think you'll survive." Jade did her smile that's not really a smile and Gwen looked disappointed. I guess she was hoping that she'd be able to squeeze some more torture out of me.
Haha to her.
Beck gave me a kiss on the head and shot Sean a quick glare before he walked off, Jade and Gwen in tow. That left me and Sean, who had football practice after school again.
"Coach doesn't make us start for another half hour," Sean mentioned. "Same here," I sat down on one of the benches outside, where I was barely able to see Beck's car driving away from the school and down the road. That meant me and my man were free to do whatever we wanted.
And somebody could sneeze up a storm and I wouldn't have to say a darn thing.
I love dance practice. But not just because of the dancing.
"So, sounds like you need to be more careful with your phone at the next party," Sean mentioned as I laid my legs over his lap. He placed his hand on my knee and smirked at me as I rolled my eyes.
"Tell me about. Next time, I might not be so lucky and Gwen won't have taken Beck's phone to make sure he didn't get one of my drunk dials." I sighed, then looked back at him. "So... I'm guessing by you saying that, you have another party lined up for us?"
"You bet," Sean said with a grin. "And it's hosted by yours truly."
My boyfriend the party hoster. Awesome.
"My dad and step-mom are out of town," he continued, "and my dad has a ton of booze that Chase can easily replace." He raised a mischievous brow at me. "What do you say? You, me, everybody who's anybody at Hollywood Arts... Except for Beck, of course."
While I was somewhat glad that Sean thought my brother was somebody, despite all he had put him through, I wasn't even thinking about Beck. I wasn't thinking about how he would be more likely to hear about this party and its host, how everybody he knew would be there, how one of them could easily mention to him that they saw me there, getting drunk off my ass and grinding with my boyfriend. But I still wasn't thinking about that.
I was thinking about getting drunk off my ass.
I wanted that. I needed that.
I would have to come up with another excuse as to where I was going to be. Gwen would be too busy hopefully letting David cop a feel as a welcome back to America, so maybe she wouldn't be so suspicious. And I'd make sure to turn my phone off so I wouldn't have to give her a reason to blackmail me again.
"You better I believe that I'll be there." I smirked, giving him a deep kiss. "When's this sexy party going to take place?"
"This Saturday night, after it gets dark..." Sean leaned closer to me and whispered, "Because we all know the best things about a party happen after dark..."
I loved it when he was so close to me. I loved when he whispered in my ear.
God, who am I kidding, I just love everything about this boy. I need to tell him how I feel. I just wanted to blurt it out right then and there, but I resisted the urge to do so. I wanted to do it someplace special, like at his party. I need to tell him, and I need to know that he feels the same way about me that I feel about him. He has to love me back.
I hate to quote Ke$ha, but his love was my drug.
