AUTHORS NOTE:
Hey! Thanks so much for all the awesome reviews! I'm not 100 sure where this is going, but thanks anyway for all the enthusiastic reviews that keep me writing new chapters!
Ok, so this is kinda dorky of me; but…………. If any of you are big Shane West fans, then you might just like this……….it's the link, to the trailer of his new flick 'A league of extraordinary gentlemen';
Just go to my little 'profile' thing, and you'll see the link in my 'webpage' section- cause I couldn't cut and paste it into a word doc and make it appear on fanfiction for some reason!
……….. I dunno, check it out if you are a fan, it looks really cool.
Ok, as you can see, I turn into a gushing schoolgirl at the mention of anything to do with Shaney Babey! Lol, how embarrassing……….anyway, on with the story!
Eli spooned his cereal; examining the soggy, sad corn flakes.
"I know exactly how you feel," he muttered into his spoon, before shoving it into his mouth.
Zoe stared at him curiously "talking to you're spoon?" she asked quietly, raising an eyebrow at her stepbrother when he looked at her haplessly.
Eli ignored her, and went back to stirring his cereal.
"Right-o" Zoe said sarcastically, and slid off the kitchen stool, to put her bowl in the sink.
Lily came bouncing into the kitchen- dressed smartly in black pants and a light blue shirt; her broad smile only sickened Eli.
"Shouldn't you be getting ready?" Lily asked, walking over to the coffee maker.
"What for?" Eli asked glumly, as he stirred his cereal around.
"He was in the middle of a conversation," Zoe explained to her mother, before leaving the kitchen to get her back pack.
"Oh" Lily said, looking strangely at Eli, who appeared to only be eating cereal.
"For work" Lily said, remembering her question.
Eli looked up at her, his eyes still half closed- "nah" he said simply, and shoved the spoon into his mouth.
Lily stared at him for a moment- though, for Eli, it was an eternity.
"Excuse me?" she said, now even more confused.
"I'll call in sick" Eli muttered, hoping that she'd get off his case if he spooned a large amount of cereal into his mouth- it didn't work.
"Well, are you sick?" Lily asked, outstretching a hand to place on his forehead.
"No-" he said, moving away, "just anti-social" he murmured.
Lily let out a small, mocking laugh; "well Eli, there is something called responsibility" Lily began, but as she busied herself around the kitchen- preparing the girls lunches, Eli zoned her out- deciding instead, to torture himself from the inside by quickly reliving the incident from yesterday.
A quick flash of Grace's white lace bra, curvy hips and horrified face came flooding into his head.
As did the image of her standing, hands on hips- and mumbling the word 'jerk', before storming off.
Just as he vividly remembered her glaring eyes- they walked in.
Eli almost choked on his soggy cereal, as she came up behind him- and he felt her icy cold shoulder as she ignored him, and headed straight for the fridge.
"Oh-Grace" Lily exclaimed, "your up late" she added, looking Grace up and down.
Grace turned to her mother, "Yeah, sorry" she explained, grabbing an apple from the bowl infront of Eli- he hunched his back over, feeling her deadly eyes on him.
"Are you taking us today?" Grace asked, turning back to face her mother.
"No- Eli is" Lily said, fussing over the lunches again.
This time, Eli heard Grace choke on the big chunk of apple she'd just bitten.
Grace turned to him as she heard him snort with a small laughter, "fine" Grace said coldly, eyes firmly fixed on Eli- who kept his head down.
And then she stormed out of the kitchen, "come on E" she said hoarsely over her shoulder.
Grace leaned forward, honking the horn twice.
"Sometime this century" she muttered as she sat back into the seat.
"We've been out here for 2 minutes!" Jessie said, turning to look at Grace in the back seat.
She ignored Jessie, and turned to look out the window, her lips pursed, forcing herself to remain in her seat and not honk the horn for a fourth time.
Finally Eli came out of the house, hurriedly putting his coat on, and scrounging around in the pockets of his baggy jeans for his keys.
Once he opened the door and got in the car, he received all the kindness he expected form Grace.
"Nice of you to join us" she muttered, her eyes still firmly fixed out the window.
Eli sighed, glancing in the rear view mirror quickly- he silenced himself from flinging an equally nasty comment back, once he saw the 'ready and determined to kill' face she had plastered on.
"O-K" He murmured, sticking the keys in the ignition.
GRACE could he atleast say………sorry!
ELI she is satin!
The car ride was silent- and not just the usual quiet, I mean, deafly silent. Cut the hostility with a knife silent.
Jessie reached for the radio, about to turn it on, but Grace quickly snapped.
"Don't turn it on" she hissed.
Jessie jumped back, unaware that someone was watching her.
Jessie turned around, glaring at Grace who continued to stare out the window.
"It's Eli's car, if he wants it on………." Jessie turned to her brother, looking for a go ahead.
Eli glanced in the rear view mirror again, and didn't want to push Grace off the edge.
"Leave it Jess," he murmured.
ELI if this is PMS……….god………I think men should just go underground when women have PMS……….it's the safest place to be!
GRACE I bet he thinks I have PMS……….that's a mans answer every time a woman is angry………oh no………it couldn't possibly be that I WALKED IN ON HER GETTING DRESSED, and then never APOLOGIZED………..it must be PMS!
ELI she couldn't possibly still be lingering on that 'incident'?
GRACE I bet that's what he is thinking……….geez………men!
Jessie huffed "fine, have it HER way" and sat back in the seat.
Not too soon, Eli pulled up to the curb outside the school- Jessie and Zoe hurriedly clambered out, and practically ran to the front door.
But Grace was more lethargic, slowly opening the door, stepping one foot out onto the pavement.
"Grace" Eli murmured, loud enough to stop Grace's movements.
She waited for him to go on- waited for him to say those words……….
"I'm sorry," he mumbled, looking down at his hands as they clasped the steering wheel.
Grace huffed, a tad offended by his carefree apology, and Eli gave a deep sigh.
"I'm sorry for……..err………not knocking" he said vaguely, as he ran his index finger over the steering wheel.
Grace huffed again, and slid back into her seat, slamming the door behind her.
"Because of you- Ayden left" Grace sniggered, crossing her arms, she stared coldly at the back of Eli's mattered bed hair.
This time, Eli huffed; about to explode by her claim, he turned around, and stared into Grace's glaring eyes.
"How do you figure that?" he asked, angrily.
Grace let out a mocking, bitter laugh- and leaned forward slightly, "because- after what you put me through I couldn't think straight……..Ayden got offended by my lack of interest……and he left!" Grace spat.
Eli gave a snorted laugh, "Oh please, you two weren't on a date or anything……..it was a study session for god sake!" Eli sniggered, and instantly regretted his words.
Grace had clearly hinted to him and Jessie yesterday that Ayden was coming over for a date- god knows why she would say such a thing……….but Eli guess that now she'd been caught out, she would be completely embarrassed.
"How do you know?" Grace asked, angrily, crossing her hands tighter across her chest.
Eli sighed, "Ayden told me- while we were talking………it's no big deal………but………" Eli tried to explain, to ease the embarrassment Grace would surely be feeling………but she didn't give him a chance.
She quickly opened the door, slammed it, and ran towards the school building- all in one swift motion.
"Good going" Eli breathed, as he started the engine again.
