Hey! So, this chapter is kind of a mess, but I really wanted to update and this is what I came up with. I now have most of the plot figured out in my head, it's just now I have to put it onto paper and that is the hardest part about writing. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter and thank you so much for the reviews on the last chapter! I love knowing what you think about the chapters! :)
Chapter 6 - Weakness
The whole field seemed to stop in their tracks as Nellie's voice filled through their ears. It was a strange sight, Nellie was hardly 5'5 but she was glaring at her brother and it almost looked like he was going to back down, the fear in his eyes was obvious. Reece would usually just ignore Nellie when he was in this sort of rage – but when she was looking at him the way she was at that moment, he couldn't help but cower back slightly.
That was the one weakness that Reece had – His twin sister.
Reece was an ass to everyone apart from his sister, his brothers, his father and his two best friends. It was how he had always been and it would never change. Nellie however, was the complete opposite – she was a sweetheart to everyone around her. People had always commented on how strange it was that they came from the same womb when they are complete opposites.
But Nellie had one thing over Reece – She looked just like their mother.
When he got angry, there was no getting through to him, but when he was face-to-face with his sister, he could never say no to her. She was the one person that he loved the most in the world, but hated at the same time.
"This is supposed to be a game!" She yelled, her anger directed at her brother, though she wished she could yell at both of the teams. She knew better than that though, it would just make the fight worse. "A stupid game. But a game! Why are you fighting!?"
Reece's glare intensified slightly as Nellie yelled at him. "How about you ask lover boy." Reece snarled, his lip twitching in anger.
Nellie frowned and stepped back slightly in confusion. "What?"
"I didn't mean too-" Nellie snapped her head toward Blake as she heard his voice. He was stood up again, his full height making Reece look a lot shorter.
Nellie's eyes widened as she glanced between her brother and Blake. "You're joking." She said, her voice showing no emotion whatsoever. "You're joking!" She exclaimed slightly louder, the anger soon became evident in her voice as she took quick steps toward her brother, pushing him back with as much strength as she could muster.
Nellie took no notice of all of the other teenagers around them as she pushed and hit at Reece. She, like Reece, had a temper and usually, she could keep it under control, but in this instant she had let it overcome her.
"You're fighting because I got a ride from him!?" She yelled as she hit at his chest. "You're so fucking stupid!" She yelled out as she landed another punch on him.
Reece snapped his head toward Nellie, finally choosing to try and stop her fists flying at his already bruised body. "I'm stupid!?" He exclaimed at her when he managed to grab hold of her arms, holding her in place. "You got a ride from the enemy!"
Nellie glared at him as she pulled her hands from his grip, stepping back from him. "He's your enemy Reece. Not mine." She hissed lowly.
Reece's eyes widened as the words left Nellie's mouth and without another word, he pushed past her and through the crowds, ignoring the yells from his friends.
Nellie stood in shock as she stared after her brother. The field slowly started to clear once the teenagers realised the fight was over and Nellie was stood with only a few groups from both schools around the field.
"Nells-" Nellie snapped her head up as she heard Marissa's voice. "What the hell happened!?" Marissa exclaimed as she rushed toward her with Lindsay hot on her heels.
"Damian just called me saying you and Reece got in a fight!" Lindsay said as they reached Nellie. Her blue eyes were wide with worry.
Nellie was about to respond, but a tap on her shoulder interrupted her.
"Blake that's not a good idea!" A voice called from behind before Nellie could turn around.
Nellie frowned as she watched her best friends eyes widened as they stared at the person stood behind their friend. "What?" She asked in confusion and turned to see Blake stood behind her.
He was covered in mud and Nellie could clearly see the bruises forming on his face. "I'm sorry I told your brother." He spoke quietly, ignoring the various whispers that were coming from the few teenagers that were still there.
Nellie frowned. She wanted to tell him how angry she was at him, because she kind of was, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. He looked so sad as he stared down at her. "It's fine. It's nothing I can't handle." She responded with a shake of her head. It was true – she could handle her brother. He'd get over it eventually.
Blake sighed and looked down at his feet before he looked back toward her, his nervousness was obvious. "I just- I said it in the heat of the moment and I know it's going to cause problems for you. So I'm sorry."
Nellie couldn't help but smile at him. His nervousness made her stomach bubble slightly and she so badly wanted to hug him, like she would a friend, but she couldn't. They weren't supposed to talk, especially in public, but here they were – having a conversation in the middle of about twenty students from their schools.
Nellie opened her mouth to respond, but Lindsay cut her off before she could say anything. "Why don't you go back to your McKinley scum and leave her alone!? Don't you think you've done enough?"
Blake sighed and glanced at Nellie, their eyes locking for a few seconds too long before he turned and walked back to his friends.
"Come on Nells, let's go." Lindsay snapped and before Nellie knew it, Marissa and Lindsay were pulling her away from the field.
Nellie couldn't help but chance a look behind her at Blake before she got to her car. Blake was coincidently, looking at her too, but before she could do anything, one of his friends was pulling him in the opposite direction.
"That was so awesome dude!" Charlie yelled excitedly as the group of five walked into Blake's house. "He got so pissed at you!"
Blake shook his head and pulled his jersey over his head, revealing the already forming bruises that were littering his abdomen.
"Jeez Blake." Shanna winced slightly as she stepped toward her friend to examine the bruises. "You should go to a doctor."
"It'll be fine in a week." Blake mumbled in reply, hissing as he rolled his shoulders. He couldn't remember the last time he had been in a fight and he had come off this bad.
"I don't think going through all this just to piss off Veitenheimer was worth it." Aylin commented and walked into the kitchen, grabbing an ice pack from the freezer. "I mean, giving his sister a ride to piss him off is seriously funny, but you got pretty badly hurt Blake." She explained from the kitchen.
"Wait-" Shanna frowned as the group walked into the kitchen after Aylin. "You only drove his sister home to piss Reece off?" She asked, as a horrified expression appeared on her face.
"Uh-" Blake started and took the ice pack from Aylin. He hadn't told his friends about giving Nellie a ride home and he hadn't planned on doing so, but it had slipped out while he was arguing with Reece. He hadn't been looking forward to explaining to them why he had chosen to give Nellie a ride home, and now it looked like he wouldn't have too. "Was a good one right?" Blake finished and let out a nervous chuckle.
"Good?" Michael let out a loud laugh as he patted Blake on the back. "It was amazing! He totally just flipped! It was totally worth a few bruises!"
"Michael!" Shanna shrieked at her boyfriend, her eyes widening. "Blake is practically purple! It was stupid!" She exclaimed and threw her hands up in the air out of frustration. "Haven't we been through this before!?"
"Come on Shan," Aylin chuckled lightly and put a hand on Shanna's shoulder. "You gotta admit, it was a good joke to pull. He's going to be pissed for weeks."
Shanna frowned, choosing not to comment anymore.
"I'm gonna go shower. Might do these bruises some good." Blake said as he laid the ice pack on the counter and started making his way out of the kitchen.
"We're getting take out!" Charlie yelled after him. Blake simply rolled his eyes at his friends, they were like leeches. Once they got here, they never left.
Nellie had been sat at home for a good two hours before she heard the front door slam and she knew it was Reece coming home. She knew he would be pissed, but she didn't care. He had no reason to be, it was his fault really. If he hadn't of left her at the game then she wouldn't have needed Blake to give her a ride.
She had spent the entire time she sat at home being angry with him, and even two hours later, she was still just as pissed as she had been at the town field.
She heard Reece fumbling around in the hall for a good five minutes before she walked out there, wanting to have an argument with him, but in the pit of her stomach, she hoped he had calmed down.
"What are you doing?" Nellie asked in confusion as she watched him going through her bag that had been put by the door.
"Looking for your phone." Reece mumbled his reply as he finally pulled her phone from her bag and dropped it to the floor.
"Why? Give it!" Nellie exclaimed as she reached for her phone. "Reece!" She yelled as he didn't hand it over. "What are you doing?"
"Deleting Jenner's number from your phone." Reece responded harshly as he flicked through her phone.
"I don't have his number asshole!" She yelled at him, reaching for her phone in another unsuccessful attempt.
"Why are you lying?" Reece asked angrily, finally looking at her. "I'm doing this for your own good! If the school find out that you're friends with him your life will be a living hell Nellie!"
"I'm not friends with him!" Nellie snapped in response, finally snatching her phone from his grip. "He gave me two rides! Two! I'll probably never speak to him again, so drop it already!" Reece didn't have time to respond because she had stormed up the stairs.
Blake supposed it was a good thing that he hadn't spent any more time with Nellie than around twenty minutes because if he had, he was sure he would have already fallen for her. She was already popping into his mind throughout the day, what would it be like if he actually got to know her? He didn't want to think about that, because it made him want to get to know her.
And he couldn't do that.
They were from rival schools. A rivalry that had been going on since before their parents went to the schools and somehow never ended.
It had been a week since the fight on the field and he hadn't seen her around town or heard anything about her. He had heard plenty about her brother, running his mouth about the fight, but nothing about Nellie. He never usually paid attention to the gossip around school about Carmel, but he remembered Shanna and Aylin talking about Nellie on a number of occasions over the past years, not always in a bad way, but just gossiping.
Like girls do.
Blake was now wishing that the rivalry didn't exist and he could just ask somebody if they had heard anything from her. His curiosity was getting the better of him and if he wasn't so stubborn, he would have admitted to himself that he had a small crush on the girl.
"-Right Blake?"
Blake snapped his head up in the direction of his best friend as he heard his name mentioned from across their lunch table. "Huh?" He shook his head to rid the thoughts of Nellie.
"Veitenheimer's sister is the only thing that has made him react that much." Michael explained, a smile appearing on his face.
"She was the only person on the field that managed to stop him fighting too." Charlie added in, his own smile growing. "She's his weakness."
Blake frowned as he tried to understand what his friends were leading up to with this. Now that Blake thought about it, Nellie was Reece's weakness. She stopped him fighting that night in the park two weeks ago and on Saturday at the park. The only time he had seen her not able to pull him away from a fight was at the game, but Reece didn't even glance at her then.
Maybe that was what it was – Reece couldn't deny Nellie when she looked at him.
"Yeah, so?" Blake questioned when Michael and Charlie didn't respond.
"Imagine how pissed it would get him if his sister was dating the McKinley Quarterback..." Charlie started, a smirk forming on his lips. "It'd go down in McKinley history."
Blake's eyes widened slightly as the words fell out of Charlie's mouth, "You're joking right?" Charlie and Michael shared a look that told Blake they definitely weren't joking. "I'm not doing that!" He exclaimed loudly, causing a few heads to turn toward their table.
Michael sighed and lowered his voice, "Why not? It's the prank of all pranks!"
"Because-" Blake started as he anxiously ran a hand through his hair.
"We got her number-" Charlie started as he pushed his phone across the table, his smirk widening as Blake looked at the phone. "-If you don't want the challenge, we'll just get Max to do it. Don't you want the credit for the best prank of our high school lives?"
Blake definitely didn't want the credit for this, but he also knew what Max was like and from what time he had spent with Nellie, she wouldn't be able to handle Max. It was a position he didn't want to be put in, but he had the chance to spend more time with her if he agreed to this. He wouldn't have to make up excuses to his friends why he was with her, he would get a free pass to get to know her.
"Fine." Blake sighed and grabbed Charlie's phone so he could put the number in his own phone. "I'll call her." He said before he walked out of the cafeteria. He ignored the sinking feeling in his stomach as he pressed the call button.
"Hello?"
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