Chapter Two - Something Different
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"Hey Sweetie!" A high pitch voice sounded in her ear and Nellie turned to see her other best friend, Lindsay Pearce. They had been friends since they had started Carmel in freshman year and had bonded over their mutual dislike of the obsession their school had with their rival school, McKinley.
"Hey Linds," Nellie smiled softly.
"'Riss tells me it's true." Lindsay commented and Nellie couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"You told her?" Nellie turned to Marissa and raised her eyebrows at her in question.
Marissa shrugged, "She was going to find out one way or another."
Lindsay nodded in agreement and looped her arm through Nellie's, "So tell me, what mess did my idiot boyfriend get himself into?" She asked, a hint of anger in her voice.
"Your idiot boyfriend-" Nellie started with a giggle. "-Wasn't hardly as much of an idiot as my brother was."
"Really?" Lindsay asked in shock, Damian was usually the one who made an idiotic comment and got a punch first.
"Mhm," Nellie nodded as they reached Nellie and Marissa's lockers.
"What we saw of it, Damian was surprisingly well behaved." Marissa said and pulled open her locker, a piece of paper flying out.
"Good." Lindsay nodded her head in approval.
"What's that?" Nellie questioned in confusion as she watched Marissa pick up the note from the floor.
"Cameron," Marissa replied with a roll of her eyes. "He keeps sending me these stupid notes to try and get me to go on a date with him."
"He's still on that?" Nellie asked in disbelief. Cameron had been crushing on Marissa since their freshman year, and had made it painfully obvious, but Marissa had never shown any interest in him.
"Apparently," Marissa responded and pursed her lips slightly, shutting her locker as a group of football player's walked past.
"Looking good girls!" One of the players called, oblivious to the fact that Lindsay's boyfriend and Nellie's brother were walking behind him.
"How many times do I gotta tell you man!?" Reece exclaimed and smacked the back of the players head. "Those three are off limits!"
It had been made a rule when Reece had made it to the Varsity football team in his sophomore year, that his twin sister and her two best friends were off limits, Damian and Cameron had obviously been excluded from this rule because they were his best friends.
Most of the guys at school listened to what their captain had told them, but that didn't stop them from throwing cat-calls at them down the corridor because they were related or friends with the star of the football team.
"How can you blame him when your sister's so hot?" Nellie flinched slightly as she heard the familiar voice from behind her.
"Jake," Nellie turned and scolded her best guy friend as she visibly saw her brother's face harden at the comment he made. "I told you not to say stuff like that." She glared up at him.
"I know, but it's so fun!" Jake responded once Reece was far enough down the corridor.
"It won't be so fun when he murders you in the middle of the night will it?" Nellie responded sarcastically, a small smile on her face.
"Ah, spoil sport." Jake pouted and draped an arm around her shoulder. "Wanna have lunch with me today?" He asked nonchalantly and Nellie shared a look with Marissa.
"I can't," Nellie answered slowly, "I've gotta help 'Riss study for her Physics exam." She explained, giving Marissa a look that told her to go along with it.
It was painfully obvious that Jake had a thing for Nellie and he always had done, but Nellie had never felt much more for him than friendship. She had tried dating him in their sophomore year and they lasted a few months, but she couldn't keep it up when she could tell he liked her and she didn't feel the same way about him.
"Ah, that sucks." Jake frowned and Nellie silently thanked god when the bell sounded above them. "I'll see you later!" He called before he rushed off down the corridor.
"You're going to have to tell him eventually Nell," Marissa commented as she looped her arm through Nellie's and they walked down the corridor.
"I don't want to hurt his feelings though." Nellie responded with a frown.
Lindsay sighed and looped her arm through Marissa's, "But you can't keep pulling him along like this, he thinks he has a chance, and unless you tell him you're not interested he's never gonna give up."
"But I told him I wasn't interested in our sophomore year!" She whined, letting out a huff.
Marissa and Lindsay shared a look with each other, "That was two years ago." Marissa chortled.
Blake rushed down the stairs as he heard the honk of a car from outside, he was running late as usual. He grabbed his lunch from on the kitchen counter and gave his mom a quick kiss. Most mornings Michael would pick him up, along with Shanna. Occasionally he would drive himself to school when he wanted to get away from the two love birds that constantly flirted the whole drive, but driving with Michael worked out well when the Knights would show up outside of McKinley wanting a fight before school started.
"Remember you're grounded, so come home straight after school!" Julie yelled after her son.
"Got it!" Blake managed to call back before he rushed out of the front door. Slipping into the front seat, chucking his bag on the floor he greeted his friends. "Morning guys."
Michael pulled away from the Jenner's large house. "Dude, you get out of being grounded yet?"
Before Blake could answer the question, Shanna shoved the back of Michael's head. "You guys deserve to be grounded. One of these days you will get seriously injured in one of these stupid fights." Turning to Blake, she smiled. "Morning, Blake."
"Morning, Shan. How you doing?" Shanna had become like a sister to Blake since they had known each other since junior high and she was one of the few people who he could actually talk to about anything. There weren't many girls he could do that with as most were too obsessed with the fact he was Blake Jenner and not actually a real person.
Shanna smiled. "I'm good. Annoyed you guys nearly got into another fight but I'm good now. Just promise me you'll at least try and stay out of their way next time because I don't want you guys to get hurt and then wreck your chances of playing and beating them."
"We'll stay out of their way as long as they stay out of ours." Michael answered.
Blake nodded in agreement with Michael and carried on defending their actions. "Shan, if they start something then we're going to finish it because if we don't, you don't understand what it'll be like to let them even think they have won."
Shanna rolled her eyes knowing that nothing she said would be good enough to get them to stop.
When they arrived at school Blake was instantly hit by a crowd of people wanting to know what had happened Friday night. This always happened when news spread of a McKinley versus Carmel fight but to be honest, Blake was getting sick of this. He was sure they'd all got the full story by now because it never took long for news to spread as well as the full details. Did people really need to ask him what happened again?
Michael led Shanna ahead, knowing how much she hated crowds as Blake ignored people, just giving them a slight nod here and there before reaching his locker where Charlie and Aylin were stood with Shanna and Michael. The five of them were close friends and the three boys would do anything to protect the girls. It was like an unspoken pact they had.
"Hey, Aylin." Blake greeted the Turkish girl as he hugged her.
She smiled as she pulled back. "Hey, Blake. How are you?"
"Bored out of my head at home." He muttered, opening his locker.
"It's your own fault." Shanna replied in a sing-song voice.
"I know. You keep telling me." Blake replied in the same voice. He took a few books out of his backpack and then threw his bag to the back of his locker.
Charlie chuckled. "Has your mom let up at all?"
Blake laughed sarcastically as he shut his locker. "My mom. No way. It's like you've never met her."
Michael rolled his eyes. "Dude, this is Charlie we're talking about."
"Hey!" Charlie exclaimed, hitting Michael over the head.
Aylin giggled. "So, when are you officially ungrounded?"
Blake shrugged. "Well, I'm grounded for two weeks, so whenever that is. The only time I'm allowed out of the house is school and to take Max on a walk. And that can only last fifteen minutes."
Shanna rolled her eyes. "In my opinion-"
"I don't want your opinion." Blake interrupted.
"Well, tough. I'm giving it." Shanna proclaimed. "In my opinion, I think college will do you some good."
"Why?" Michael asked from beside his girlfriend.
Shanna rolled her eyes. "You all need to get over this whole rivalry thing. All it's doing is causing trouble. What's Reece's sister called?"
Blake, Michael and Charlie all looked away in embarrassment. "Eliza, maybe?" Michael mumbled.
His girlfriend rolled her eyes. "You slag her off all the time and you don't even know her name. She's called Nellie."
"How do you know?" Blake exclaimed.
Shanna sighed. "She's the captain of Carmel's dance team. Exactly like I'm the captain of McKinley's dance team. I've seen her at competitions."
Charlie frowned. "So, she's like a Knight version of you?"
"I guess…" Shanna said unsurely.
Thankfully, the bell rang and Blake rolled his eyes. "Well, let's get to homeroom before we have detention. My mom will flip two shits if I get in any kind of trouble after Friday night."
Nellie walked into her house that evening after school. She had stayed after school for dance practice and it was now 5:30 so her father should be home by now seeing as her other siblings were coming in from out of town. as she shut the door quietly she immediately heard footsteps rushing to the door and she was greeted by her four year old niece hugging her legs.
"Hi Cutie," Nellie laughed at the little girl and ruffled her hair as she put her jacket on the coat stand. "Where's your Mommy and Daddy?" She cooed, looking up to check for her elder brother and his wife.
"There she is!" Claire, her brother's wife came into view and Nellie smiled widely at her, immediately wrapping her in a hug. "How've you been Nell?" She asked as they pulled away.
"I've been good. School's going good." Nellie nodded, smiling at her sister in law who she had always thought of as a real sister. Nellie had always been surrounded by three older brothers and her father. It was only when Jason, the eldest of the four siblings brought home Claire five years ago that she had another female in the family.
"Good." Claire nodded happily. "You looking at colleges yet?" She asked as she scooped the little girl up in her arms.
"Uh, sort of." Nellie responded and rolled her lips together. She had told Claire at the beginning of the year that she didn't want to go to Ohio State with Reece and where her other two brother's had attended. She wanted to go to Columbia in New York to study dance. Claire was the only person inside the family that knew about her wanting to go to a different college than her family and she planned on keeping it that way until she was accepted.
"Heard anything back from Columbia yet?" She asked quietly and the two girls walked into the living room where Nellie could already hear her brothers and father talking about the latest football game on T.V.
"Not yet." Nellie shook her head and the two were unable to continue their conversation because her brother's had spotted her and she was being crushed by the both of them. "I missed you guys too!" She laughed at them.
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