Last week was as hectic as I had predicted, so I'm sorry for not posting the rest of the chapter on Friday or Saturday like I'd said! As an apology, I'm going to post two chapters, but the second is pretty short ;) Anyways, hope you like!
Chase
"If you ever try to tell Bree or the rest of your family about me, I will make sure each and every one of you suffers the consequences. One by one, you'll all. Go. Down."
Chase's eyes grow wide, and he tries to get up, but he can't move.
Marcus smirks. "I'll personally make sure of it…"
Chase's heart beats so loud as he struggles to stand up and fight. The pounding of his heart has reached his ears. He can barely hear his own words of panic. "What about Bree? If you hurt her—!"
"I would never hurt Bree!" Marcus quickly defends. Chase stops struggling at the sound of his words. To his surprise, they are sincere. Chase didn't like that one bit. "But your family, on the other hand, are a different story. Especially you and Leo." Marcus suddenly leans in, voice lowering. "If I ever find out that you go anywhere near Bree, your loved ones get it. Got it?"
"My loved ones are Bree's loved ones. You hurt them, you hurt Bree as well," Chase says, struggling against the force that holds him down once again. Marcus looks guilty for a moment, but only for a moment.
"I know you have feelings for Bree, Chase, no matter how hard you try and hide it. Any idiot could see that. Just stay out of my way…" Marcus stands up, and suddenly the force holding Chase down relaxes. But he stays down, watching Marcus speed out of the school after giving Chase one last bitter stare.
For the rest of the day, Chase, for the first time, didn't say a word, to Bree or to anyone. But that's only because he was planning his words carefully. He needed to find a way to talk to Bree, alone, because tonight, Chase was going to find a way to tell Bree everything.
Though, Chase never got his chance, because Bree spent all her time after dinner in the kitchen, talking to Tasha about her date that Friday night with Marcus. Tasha, to Chase's disappointment, was thrilled. She even offered to help Bree curl her hair and pick out a 'cute' outfit to help impress. Chase couldn't help but groan and roll his eyes skyward as he used his bionic hearing to listen to the girls from Leo's bedroom, upstairs.
"You know, Chase. There's a reason why they say 'Curiosity killed the cat.'" Leo says as he looks up from his comic book. "And by the looks of it, the 'cat' is suffering tremendously."
"Leo, be serious, please!" Chase pleads as Leo sighs, tossing the comic book onto the bed. "Bree's preparing to go on a date with a psychopathic lover, and I need to warn her about his bionics but she's not giving me the chance."
This catches Leo's attention. "Chase, no! You can't tell her anything about his bionics, because not only will Marcus squash you like a bug, but he'll also burn me worse than forgotten bread in a toaster—!"
"Okay, okay, Leo!" Chase motions for him to calm down and quit his babbling from where he sits in a chair by the door. "I won't tell Bree about Marcus's bionics, but I still have to warn her about him, even if it means that Marcus will squash me like a bug." Chase takes a few moments to think things through, hand placed over his chin.
"Chase, not that I don't care about Bree, but why do you care so much if Marcus actually, maybe, likes Bree? I mean, at least that means she's made it into the safe zone, right?"
Chase stays quiet a minute too long. Leo's eyes widen in dawning realization. Chase suddenly wishes he could be anywhere else.
"Wait a minute… Do you—?"
"No! I don't know! Maybe!" Chase rushes to answer before Leo can even finish his question. Leo begins to grin. "Leo, no. Stop smiling, it's not funny."
"No it's not funny…But it sure is interesting," Leo says, still smiling. Chase sighs, getting up from the chair and plopping down at the edge of Leo's bed. Leo stays at his desk with his neglected homework spread out in front of him, upper body twisted so he c could see Chase. "So what took you so long?"
"What?" Chase asks, obviously confused.
"To realize that you actually have feelings for Bree. What took you so long?" Leo repeats, and Chase is caught off guard by Leo's words. What does Leo mean by that?
Leo sighs, knowing he has to explain the obvious to the smartest man in existence. "Look, Chase. I'm not an idiot, I can tell you've always liked Bree, and that you didn't want to face it. Even Adam noticed, of all people."
Chase is speechless. What is he supposed to say to that?
He starts to really think about it, then, and realizes he may really have feelings for Bree, strong feelings.
Chase is in love with the one girl he can never be with, and that's why he chose not to acknowledge it. Unless Chase and Bree move to a different country and change their names, they can't be together, because everyone where they live think they're related when in fact they're not. The only reason why they're recognized as brother and sister is because Mr. Davenport realized that if they could pull off being one big happy family, there wouldn't be any suspicions as to them being bionic, or human lab rats.
"Bree can't go on that date with Marcus, Leo. If she does…"
"Then go warn her about him being a psychopath or something!" Leo says, shooing Chase out of the room. "Just whatever you do, don't tell Bree about his bionics." Chase listens for a moment and realizes he doesn't hear Bree or Tasha's voices anymore, which is a good sign. He then opens Leo's door, and bolts. Hearing Leo yell one last thing, "I'm rooting for you!" Chase rolls his eyes as he goes down the stairs in search for Bree.
He finally finds her in the lab where she sits reading a girly magazine. "Hey, Bree!" Chase exclaims, nearly out of breath. "I need to talk to you about something."
"Okay, sure," she sets her magazine down and turns her attention to Chase who now has no idea what to say. During all that time he spent running around the house trying to find her, he didn't even bother to work out what he was going to say to her. Good going, Chase.
"Um…I…um" Chase mumbles, and Bree furrows her eyebrows, perplexed. She then decides to start the conversation.
"Um, okay… Well, I don't know if you've already heard this, but Marcus asked me out on a date!" Bree nearly squeals, and Chase's anxiousness fades instantly. The mere mention of Marcus's name brings on enough hate for him to say the words he's wanted to voice.
"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about, Bree. You can't go on a date with Marcus," Chase then realizes his wrong choice of wording.
Bree's face falls, excitement disappearing. "I can't go on a date with Marcus? Since when do you tell me who I should and shouldn't date? Is this because he's you're friend?" Bree continues asking questions until Chase stops her.
"Bree, Marcus just isn't your type," again, Chase realizes his wrong choice of wording.
"Then what is my type, Chase?" Bree crosses her arms with a frown. Chase is desperate now. Why can't he say this right?
"He's just not someone I think you should date, he doesn't have the best intentions—"
"Chase, is that what this is about? Look, I know how to take care of myself, thank you very much—" Chase's anger towards Marcus is growing stronger by the minute, and the fact that Bree isn't listening to what he has to say really isn't helping. He's starting to feel incredibly helpless, now.
"Bree, please. I'm begging you," Chase is realizing how unbelievably desperate he is not to lose Bree to Marcus, even more so now that he knows he's fallen for her, and has been falling for her for quite some time. He'll do anything for her to just listen to him. Please, Bree, just listen to him.
"Begging me for what, Chase? Why do you care so much about this?" Bree is grim-faced, and chuckles with uncertainty, obviously lost as to why he's acting this way.
Chase is finished trying to tell Bree with words. He leans in, and she drops her arms back down to her sides.
"Chase—?"
Before Bree can finish, Chase's lips crash onto hers, and that is when everything and anything Bree Davenport had ever believed changed.