A/N - Thanks to everyone whose read this. I hope you all liked it! Eloise and David do have all the odds stacked against them but just wait a few chapters cos things are about to get a whole lot worse!

Three weeks later and Eloise and David had kept their word. They had gone back to being just brother and sister. Not dating, not kissing, not anything. At times it had been so hard for Eloise. Sometimes she just wanted to scream but she knew it was for the best. What would happen if they were to date? To go public? They'd probably be forced out of school, given dirty looks in public, have to move away. That was no life. Not for anybody. It was better this was. No one having known. Like they had said - it was their little secret.

Eloise forced all thoughts of David out of her head and went back to her math problems.

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David stood outside Eloise's door, contemplating whether or not to knock. He hadn't stopped thinking about her in the past three weeks. The Sunday they had spent together had been the best day of his life and he didn't want it to be the last day they spent together.

He raised his hand towards her door, pausing just before the two made contact. What if she said no? Told him he was being stupid, disgusting even? What if she laughed in his face? He didn't think he could deal with that. He stared at the door for another 30 seconds. He couldn't knock, he didn't dare. It was better of he never gave Eloise the chance to reject him. Just as he turned to walk away he heard the door behind him open.

"David? Did you want to see me?"

David sighed and turned towards Eloise, "It was nothing important. I just wanted someone to talk to"

Eloise saw what he was trying to do. She took a step towards him and took his hand. "It's hard for me too y'know. But it's for the best"

David relaxed. She missed him too. She felt the same way. She wouldn't reject him. On impulse he grabbed her and kissed her right there on the landing. The fact that their parents could walk I on them at any minute just made it more exciting. They continued to kiss, all the frustration and longing of the past three weeks coming to the surface. It was Eloise who first broke the kiss.

"David we can't. Not here"

"Later then. We were meant to be going for a meal remember? We can get out of it. We can talk"

Eloise looked torn between what was right and what she wanted more than anything else in this world. She followed her heart

"Sure. I think we need to talk"

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"Hey Belle!" Eloise said to her little sister as she walked into the kitchen later that night, "You all excited about dinner?"

Belle nodded her agreement and Eloise laughed at the small child's enthusiasm. "Hey mom!" she asked before Monica walked away, "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure baby what's up?"

Eloise took a deep breath. She had never liked lying to her mom, no matter how many times she did it. "I don't think David's very well" Monica looked concerned but Eloise refused to let her talk, instead she said her next sentence in one breath, "He's not really ill but he should stay at home. I can stay with him if you want I don't mind" Eloise looked hopefully up at her mother. She willed her to say OK, she wanted, no needed to talk to David tonight.

Monica looked at Eloise, weighing out the pros and cons of each situation. Eventually she spoke, "OK, but you'd better do some work and not spend all night on the phone"

Eloise smiled, "I promise I will not lay a finger on that phone" That was one promise she intended to keep.

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David looked up as Eloise entered his bedroom. God he had missed her. He missed the feel of her lips, the way she smiled and the way she always made him feel like the most important man in the world. He knew that if they didn't sort things out tonight he would have to leave. He hadn't told Eloise yet but it was just too hard to be in the same room as her and he didn't think he could do it anymore. His whole body ached for her and at times he felt it would be better to die than to never hold her again.

"Hey" she said softly as she gingerly walked into his room, "You wanted to talk?"

David nodded and gestured for Eloise to join him on his bed. He felt a shock of electricity as she sat down next to him. "I think. . . . I mean. . . . . I don't know what to say"

"I know" Eloise replied. She slowly moved her hand and placed it on top of David's, rubbing it reassuringly. "But what are we going to do? We can't be together and we can't be apart"

David looked at her again. In the dull glow of his bedroom lamp she looked so beautiful. He couldn't live without her, he loved her. If being with her meant he had to move then so what? He'd rather be with her in a strange place with no money that never feel the soft brush of her lips against his. For the second time that day he acted on an impulse. He leaned forward and kissed her. For that moment he was lost in the kiss, all he could think about, all her could feel was her.

To Eloise nothing had ever felt as right as this did right now. She wanted David more than she had ever wanted anyone in her life. She allowed his hands to roam her body and when he laid her down on the bed she didn't object. Suddenly David broke their kiss,

"Are you sure?"

Eloise nodded, "As I'll ever be . . . . . "

David smiled and tentatively eased her shirt up, he felt Eloise's hands reaching for the zip on his jeans and realised how right this felt. He didn't care what anyone would think this felt so right that it couldn't be wrong. As they continued Eloise also smiled. This was what heaven was like.
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Eloise reluctantly removed herself from David's embrace and stood up. She picked her pink sweater up from over his desk chair with her smile remaining on her face. Earlier she hadn't been sure if this was the right thing to do. Now she was more than sure she was convinced. She loved David, she knew people would think she was stupid after all she was only 15 but she knew if she lived to be 100 she would never feel this way about anyone else. She and David had always been close. They'd met when they were 2 and become brother and sister when they were three. They'd been best friends ever since that first meeting and to Eloise this was just the natural progression of their relationship. That was all.

As soon as she was dressed she walked over to David and kissed his sleeping form. He loved so beautiful when he was sleeping, she could just watch him all day. "Hey" she whispered softly as she saw him stir. He looked up at her, his deep brown eyes full of love. Love for her. He also looked surprised, and she had to say a little bit angry. It took her a minute to remember how much he hated being woken up. "Sorry" she said kissing him again, "But mom and dad will be home soon" David simply nodded and kissed her on the nose before falling straight back to sleep.

Eloise walked into her own room and collapsed backwards onto her bed laughing. She had had the most amazing day. She and David were together and he loved her. Her life was perfect. If only he wasn't her brother. Her brother. Her brother. Her brother. The words reverberated around her skull. He was her brother. She had just slept with her brother. Maybe he wasn't her brother by blood but to the rest of the world they were Eloise and David Bing. Monica and Chandler's kids. Brother and sister. Eloise shook her head as if to clear away those thoughts. She didn't care, she told herself willing herself to believe it. When she was with him he wasn't her brother, the one she used to goof around with when she was 10. He was David. The man she loved. The man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. And nothing and no one was going to stand in the way if that.