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'Cullen is staring at you.' Emmett's low voice makes me jump out of my skin and I turn to him with an irritated expression.
We're queueing for food in the cafeteria.
Italia day, the only time I deem it worthy to eat the food in here.
Herbs and the sweet scent of tomato fill the air, concealing the usual odour of sweat and teenage anxiety.
Emmett is looking at me expectantly and I lock my eyes with his bright blue ones briefly.
'So?'
He rolls his shoulders, a task that would seem impossible considering the sheer size of them.
His voice lowers to a whisper, 'Do you think he knows about what your dad is trying to do to his?'
I study him for a moment.
At first glance you would assume that Emmett is stupid.
It's not just the thickly muscled physique that puts the sports teams to shame.
It's the curly brown hair that sits perfectly mussed on his head. The dimples that rest in his cheeks and the baby blue eyes that make girls and guys wet themselves.
Surely it would be unfair to gift someone so obviously gifted in every other way, with intelligence to boot.
And yet…
'No.' I answer him curtly.
I might be lying, but if I am, I don't know it.
I hope I'm telling the truth.
I don't know what it means if I'm not.
Emmett crosses his arms and shoots a threatening look behind my head.
After a moment, a satisfied smirk crosses his face.
There's a brief and blissful moment where I believe the conversation is over but then-
'So why is he staring at you?'
I take a moment to curse the fact that Emmett is not just a pretty…well, everything.
'Who knows.' I say disinterestedly, stepping forward to greet the cold, dead eyes of the lunch lady.
It turns out they're only dead for me, because they light up when Emmett flirts with her, telling her he's a growing boy and patting his stomach with a playful pout.
'Are you sure he doesn't know?' Emmett murmurs as we walk back to the table.
I shrug at him in response, but the question lingers in my mind as we sit down and I stab a piece of pasta.
He doesn't know. He can't know.
But what happens when he finds out?
