Hey! New chapter, yay! First off I want to say I hope you all had an amazing christmas, no matter how you celebrate it! I wasn't planning on updating today because my family have been over most of the day, but they left earlier than expected so I decided I have time to do a new chapter before my other relatives come over. I hope you like this chapter and thank you so much for all of your continued support, it means a lot! :D
Chapter Four - The Ride
"This is a fucking joke!" Reece exploded angrily.
"Hey," Nellie said as she rushed over to her brother. "It's okay. We could still make it to the Championships."
Reece angrily rolled his eyes as his glare fixed on the McKinley football team as they ignored the boo's that were coming from one side of the stands and celebrated with their school.
"They don't deserve this win," He growled and stood up, marching into the locker rooms angrily.
Nellie stared after her brother worriedly for a few seconds, knowing he was going to do something stupid and debated going after him, but she saw Damian and Cameron follow him so she decided against it, knowing they were the only other two people that could calm him down.
"You gonna ride back with us Nell?" Lindsay asked, breaking Nellie from her thoughts.
"Uh- No, I'll get a ride with Reece." Nellie replied, shaking her head.
"Alright." Marissa nodded in understanding. "You going to the party at Emily's?"
Nellie scrunched her nose up slightly before she nodded her head knowing that Reece would want to go, "Yeah, I'll be there."
"OK, see you in a bit." Marissa said and the two girls hugged Nellie quickly before they left.
Blake was in the middle of the crowd when he spotted her. He still hadn't remembered her name, and watching as she scrunched up her nose as she spoke to her friends made his determination to remember it heighten.
"Dude, let's go so we can get to Aylin's before all the good beer is gone," Michael's voice interrupted Blake's thoughts and he pulled his eyes away from the brunette, following Michael into the locker rooms.
The team was still cheering and on a high as they changed and showered from the game. This win against Carmel had given them the edge they needed to get to the final championship and winning against them also pissed the Knights off, so that was always an added bonus.
"You ready?" Michael asked twenty minutes later. Most of the team had already left to head to the party.
"Yeah," Blake nodded and stood from the bench, following Michael out of the locker rooms.
They walked to their cars in silence, saying a quick goodbye as Michael got into his car that was parked closer than Blake's was.
The parking lot had cleared out quickly and only a few cars were left. As he reached his car he opened his truck and put his sports bag in, only then noticing the girl stood against a wall opposite, looking pissed off.
It was her. Veitenheimer's sister.
Without thinking about it, he started making his way over to her. She hadn't noticed him as she spoke into her phone.
"No, come back you Asshole! I don't have a ride home!" She yelled into her phone and Blake couldn't help but smirk.
"Need a ride?" He asked when he reached her.
Her head snapped up quickly and her eyes doubled in size, "No thank you." She murmured, taking the phone away from her ear for a few seconds.
"You sure?" He asked, hoping she'd say yes. Blake knew it would piss her brother off if he found out, but he wasn't thinking about that right now, he wasn't really sure what he was thinking actually.
"Yes." She responded quickly, putting her phone back to her ear as she turned around slightly. "Reece, come on! Do you really expect me to walk in the dark?... What do you mean you don't care!? You lost a football game, it's not the end of the fucking world!"
Blake smirked as he listened to her shout down her phone, obviously thinking that he had left. After a few minutes she snapped her phone down and let out an angry groan.
"My offer's still open for the ride." Blake said, causing her to jump and turn to look at him.
"Jesus Christ," She whispered, putting a hand to her heart in shock. "What are you still doing here?"
Blake smirked slightly, "I'm still here because no matter who you are or who you're related too... you shouldn't be walking home in the dark."
Nellie sighed, contemplating in her head the offer that her brother's worst enemy was offering her. "It's fine. I'll just call my friend." She replied, though she knew Lindsay would already have been drinking.
"Seriously," Blake let out a chuckle that shocked Nellie slightly, it sounded so carefree, something she didn't think he was. She had always heard the bad points about the boy from her brother and his friends, she'd never spent any time with him, she didn't know what he was really like. "Your friends are probably already at the Knights after party right? I'll give you a ride there, it's on my way."
Nellie let another sigh and looked up at him, "Okay." She said finally, rolling her lips together nervously.
Blake couldn't help the grin that appeared on his face as he heard her, "Great! My car's over here." He said and nodded toward the only car that was left in the lot.
Nellie nodded and followed him to his car, climbing into the passenger seat. Looking around, she realised how different he was from her brother. Reece's car was filled with old Take Out bags, cigarette butts, beer cans and dirty laundry. Blake's however, was surprisingly clean. He had a few college prospectus' on the floor, his football jacket on the back seat and a bunch of cds lining the dashboard. She wasn't sure what she should have expected, but this was definitely not it.
"You finished scoping my car out for drugs or something?" Blake joked as he noticed her glancing around his car.
Nellie blushed slightly and glanced down at her lap, "Sorry."
"Don't worry about it." He chuckled and turned his stereo on. "Hope you like Jason Mraz," He commented as music started to play on low.
"Sure," She responded quietly.
Blake nodded and started up the car, his mind eagerly trying to remember the girl's name. "The party is at that Chick Emily's right? Street's girl?" He asked as they turned out of the lot.
"Yeah," Nellie nodded and turned to him slightly. "How do you know Marcus and Emily?" As far as she knew, Marcus hated the Titans almost as much as her brother.
Blake shrugged, glancing at her quickly. "Me and the team sometimes crash the parties and they are almost always held at Emily's."
"Oh." Nellie said quickly, glancing out of the window.
Five minutes went by in an awkward silence as both of them tried to figure out what they could say to make conversation without bringing up their schools. "Why did you offer me a ride?" Nellie asked, breaking the silence.
Blake cracked a smile, glancing away from the road quickly, "You want the truth?" He asked, letting out a chuckle.
"Yeah. As long as it doesn't include kidnapping me and taking me as a hostage to bribe my brother into doing something stupid." She responded, a light giggle escaping her lips.
"Don't worry," Blake laughed along with her. "I- Uh, I wanted to know your name." He said once their laughs subsided.
"What?" Nellie silently laughed, looking at him confusedly.
"I offered you a ride because I wanted to know your name. My friend Shanna told me it the other day and I forgot, so I offered you a ride." He explained, a small blush making its way onto his face. He didn't know why he was so nervous right now.
Nellie stared at him for a few minutes with wide eyes before she let out a stream of laughs, "Seriously? I thought it was to piss my brother off or something!" She exclaimed through her giggles.
Blake glanced at her again, a smile forming on his own lips as he listened to her laugh. It was so different to every other girl, it was almost childlike and he found himself enjoying the sound. "So you gonna tell me your name?" He asked once she had calmed down.
She shrugged slightly, "Depends. You gonna tell me yours?" She smirked, though she already knew his name.
Blake froze for a few seconds before he turned to look at her, "My name is Blake." He responded, cracking her a charming smile that usually made all the girls melt.
"Hmm," Nellie nodded. If that smile had worked on her, she was sure as hell good at hiding it. "I already knew your name. I just wanted to see if you'd actually tell me."
"I knew you knew who I was!" He exclaimed, letting out a laugh.
"It's hard to not know your name when my brother doesn't stop talking about you all day!" She responded with a roll of her eyes.
"Wow." Blake chuckled, "I'll have to use that one when I next run into your brother. I didn't know he swung that way."
Nellie's eyes widened and she quickly turned to look at him, only to see the amusement in his eyes, "Don't do that!" She exclaimed, her mouth widening slightly. "My brother would have killed me!"
"And what a shame that would be." Blake said seriously as he slowly pulled the car to a stop outside the house that already had teenagers filling it.
Nellie rolled her eyes and looked out the car window, "Thanks for the ride." She said before she climbed out of the car.
"No problem." He nodded as she shut the door and stood by the window a few seconds longer than was necessary. "So, I never got your name..."
Nellie let out a light giggle that for the tenth time that night, made Blake's smile widen. "Nellie." She said softly, flashing him a smile before she turned and walked away.
Blake let out a long sigh as he watched her enter the house. He didn't know what was wrong with him, never had he ever acted so goofy around a girl, thinking about what he had been saying to her he felt a blush on his face. He'd made a complete ass of himself and she was going to go and tell her friends and brother how big of an idiot he was.
He'd never be able to live this one down, he thought as he started his car up and drove down the street, still not being able to get the sound of her laugh out of his head.
Nellie sighed as she lent against the kitchen counter of Emily Vasquez' house. There were kids from her school everywhere and she was finding in incredibly hard to find any space in the usually large house. She had no idea where Lindsay and Marissa were, she had seen her brother a few times since she arrived and she really wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone else. She wished she hadn't even come tonight after spending the past two hours on her own.
"Hey," Nellie looked to her right and saw Jake stood next to her, two red cups in his hands. "I've been looking everywhere for you." He said and handed her one of the cups.
"Well, I've been here." Nellie shrugged and took a small sip of the drink, wincing as it burned her throat. "Jesus dude, how much Vodka is in this?"
Jake grinned and shrugged his shoulders, "I thought we all needed a pick me up after that loss. What better way than a strong drink?"
"I can think of a few." Nellie laughed and set the drink down on the counter.
"So-" Jake started and took a long sip of his own drink. "You wanna get out of here? You don't look like you're enjoying yourself."
"Nah." Nellie shrugged. "You go have fun. I'll wait for my brother, besides some girl over there has been checking you out since you came over here." She nodded over to a red head who was obviously eyeing Jake.
"You sure? It's no big-"
"Jake!" Nellie exclaimed, letting out a small laugh. "Go! I'll see you on Monday!"
"OK, OK!" Jake laughed, putting his hands up in defence as Nellie pushed him in the direction of the girl across the kitchen.
Nellie sighed as she watched Jake flirt with the red head. She should be feeling jealous at watching her ex boyfriend flirt with another girl, but like when they were a couple and he would talk to other girls, she felt nothing of the sort.
She pulled her gaze away from the boy and pushed herself off of the counter, making her way through the house in search of her brother. It was getting late, but the party was still as hectic as it had been when she first arrived and she knew Reece would still be hanging around somewhere.
"Damian!" She yelled across the room as she spotted the boy she had grown immensely close too since her brother introduced them in their freshman year.
"Nella Bella!" Damian exclaimed and a wide smile appeared on his face as he spotted her.
Nellie couldn't help but laugh as she immediately noted how drunk he was, "Have you seen my brother? Or Lindsay?"
"Uhm-" Damian frowned and his eyebrows almost met in the middle. "Reece left with Rebekah earlier and Lindsay left after we had an argument." He responded, suddenly sounding a lot more sober than he looked.
"Right." Nellie let out a breath. "Did Marissa go with Lindsay?" She asked, remembering that Lindsay had driven to the party with Marissa.
"Mhm," Damian nodded and suddenly went back to looking like he had five too many drinks and started dancing with a guy Nellie was pretty sure had came out as gay the previous year.
"O-kay then." Nellie mumbled to herself and started making her way out of the house. She knew walking home on her own at this time of night was probably not the smartest idea she had ever came up with, and she knew there would be kids from McKinley out all over town celebrating their win, but she didn't want to wait around to try and find a sober person that she could hitch a ride home with later.
So she pulled her cardigan tighter around her body and started the walk home, hoping the few cups of alcohol that she had drunk earlier in the night would keep her warm.
Ten minutes later and Nellie wished that she had of warn a warmer jacket because the cold October night air was starting to get to her and the small amount of alcohol that had been warming her body was wearing off now.
After a few more minutes of walking Nellie quickened up her pace as she heard a car slowing down behind her. She knew this hadn't been a good idea, what had she been thinking, she was smarter than this.
"Hey!" A voice called from behind her and she pretended she hadn't heard it, her pace quickening up again. "Nellie!" She frowned, the voice suddenly sounding almost familiar and she turned around quickly.
"Seriously?" She whispered to herself as she saw Blake Jenner sticking his head out of the driver's side window, grinning at her.
"Need a ride?" He asked simply and Nellie felt herself involuntarily smile.
"Sure." She sighed and walked toward his car, watching as he leaned over to the passenger seat and opened the car door for her.
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