my chapter.
DISCLAIMER: we, unfortunatally, don't own BTR or anything like that. but, furtunatally, we own this story. or i do... cuz it's written in one of my notebooks.....
POV: Emma Miller
I'm not kidding. I want to kick Micah in the balls about a thousand times with metal cleats.
"What'd he do to you?" Jo asked. Her arms were still around me.
"He broke up with me."
"Well, there's Lee and Darren. What about them?"
"Darren has Martha, and Lee has someone else. He won't tell me who, though."
I saw my cousin tighten her jaw a bit, but she didn't say anything about it. "You'll be okay. I promise."
The next day during rehearsal, Micah didn't look at me at all. And Lee looked more depressed than he usually did.
As I placed my fingers to play the next C chord, Lee dropped his guitar and ran out of the recording room.
"What was that?!" Gustavo yelled as Lee passed him.
I ran out after him. Gustavo was still yelling behind me, but Lee was much more important.
"Emma, come on!" Lee called to me from across the street. "I wanna show you something!"
I remembered how his face looked when we were eight years old. It was rounder, and his eyes and smile were brighter then.
"I'm coming!" I yelled.
We raced to his backyard tree where his tree-house was set up.
Lee scrambled up the ladder and I followed, not wanting to be left behind.
The tree-house was large. It had a window and the door was in the floor in a corner. The seating was bean-bag chairs, and there was a bag hanging from the ceiling that was meant to store food. Shelves lined the walls, holding books, toys, and assorted leaves and bird feathers.
"Wow" was all I could say when I saw it for the first time.
"I found a new feather," he said as I plopped down in a chair. "It's really pretty."
I watched as his fingers ran across the shelves, searching for the right feather.
"Here it is." He handed it to me.
The feather was a tannish-white color with dark chocolate brown streaks on the edges.
"Yeah," I said. "It is really pretty."
"Just like you," I heard him whisper, but then louder he said, "You can keep it."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It matches your hair." Lee took the feather out of my hands and tucked it behind my ear. Then he leaned forward and kissed my cheek.
His face went real red right then, and he turned away so I wouldn't see.
"Lee!" I yelled.
He ran into his apartment and slammed the door. I chased after him, but he was already gone.
"Lee?" I called.
I went into his room and found him curled up in his bed.
"What do you want?" he moaned.
"What's wrong? Why did you ditch rehearsal?" I sat next to him and put my hand on his shoulder.
"It's… it's Jo."
"What about her?"
"She was cheating on me with Kendall."
"Get back here, little girl!" Lee yelled as he chased me around my backyard.
"Never!"
We had the freedom of thirteen-year-olds again. I wish we could have it back.
A few minutes later, he caught my waist and dragged me down to the ground.
"Let go!" I yelled, pushing his arms away unsuccessfully.
"Like you said, 'never!'" He crawled up next to me so that we were on the same level.
I stared into his grey eyes. He leaned my way for a moment and my heart started thumping with anticipation, but he was just propping himself up on his elbows.
"Look," he said, pointing up at the night sky. "That's Venus."
"How do you know?"
"Because I'm smart like that." He shifter his gaze back to me.
I felt his hand on my waist; he leaned forward, and kissed me.
It was our first kiss. But either way, it was amazing.
Lee rolled over so that I was laying on him. I locked my arms behind his neck and his arms wound around my waist.
I felt it get drastically colder, but nothing could ruin this kiss. Except when we rolled down the hill in my backyard and crashed into the fence.
Yeah – that hurt.
"Really?"
"Yeah. I was with her… and then Kendall came in…" He sat up and looked at his hands in his lap.
I put my arms around his shoulders and held him for a while.
Once he was calm again, he shrugged my arms off his shoulders. "This isn't right. We shouldn't be here."
"Micah broke-"
"What I mean is that we shouldn't be in LA. It's not right. People act to superficial."
"You and I don't," I pointed out.
"I know, but other people do. It gets on my nerves, and it's just not right for you." His fingers brushed my cheek.
God, it was like I was falling in love with him all over again.
Suddenly, he leaned back and lay down again. I fell next to him.
"Emma, what happened to us?" Lee asked, grabbing my hand.
"I don't know. We just…"
"Grew up?"
"Yeah."
He sighed. "I don't think we're too old to be with each other."
And for the first time in about two years, he leaned forward and kissed me.
POV: Kendall Knight
All it took for me to calm down was a hug from Destinee. I was still dying inside, though.
When she got back with James… god she was pissed.
"So, how'd it go?" I asked joyfully.
Destinee blew her red bangs out of her eyes and swore at me.
A smile was my first reaction, and I didn't bother to change it.
"What are you grinning at?" she snapped at me. "You're not the one who had to go out with him." She pointed at James.
I laughed at that. "Come on, Dest. I want to talk to you."
"I don't care."
I grabbed her around her back and under her knees, picking her up. She thrashed around for a few seconds, but stopped when she realized that I wasn't letting her down.
When I was in my room, I kicked the door shut behind me.
"What?" Destinee asked, surprisingly calmly.
I carefully sat on my bed to keep her on my lap. "Dest, I know you're not really my cousin, but I still love you."
Yeah – you heard me. She's my cousin's ex-husband's niece. So we're not technically related anymore, but we still have the same blood. Kinda. And we coincidentally have the same last name. Woo. Freaking. Hoo.
"Ken-"
"I care about you more than Katie."
"Now that's saying something." She smiled a bit, not noticing that our arms were still around each other.
"Why did you do it? She asked quietly. "You know that I like Carlos and hate James."
"He wouldn't break your heart. Probably."
"'Probably' doesn't give me much reassurance."
"You know what I mean."
"Yeah." She paused. "Would you break my heart, Kendall?"
I had to think for a moment.
Wait… why was I thinking? I already knew the answer.
"Would you?" she asked again.
"No."
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okay, two desicions: emmlee/lemma (lee and emma), and/or, dendall/kestinee (kendall and destinee). opinions?