N/A I'm sooooooooooooooo sorry for the wait to those few of you who are reading please forgive me ! It was just that life and homework got to me! I hope you enjoy this new chapter and once again I am so! Sorry!

Crap

I ended up crying myself to sleep. In the morning I was woken up by Charlotte flicking my nose. Once she saw that I was awake she said in a german accent, "Lily Ivy McGivney, you will tell me what I want to know and you will tell me now!"

"What do you want Charlotte ? " I said in a groggy voice she only used her german accent when she was taking about something serious...I know ironic right!

"What happened at school yesterday that would make you cry like that? What happened? Did someone do something to you? Did you get hurt? Just tell me what happened and I swear I won't be this impatient ever again!"

Oh crap, that's right! I haven't told her anything about yesterday! After realizing how much worry I must have caused her, I decided to remedy the situation at once and said, "Well, it all started when Luke Cullen asked me out on a date-"

"What ? You were asked out! And by Luke Cullen! What did you say?"

" I told him no.."

"What! You said no to a guy like that? Why?"

"I thought that it was a little soon to start dating anyone, so I decided that it would be better if we started out being friends first instead of just jumping right into something completely."

"Wow... I wonder how he must have felt being refused like that."

I couldn't help but feel the twang of guilt that I had yesterday. Before the tears could start flowing again I quickly said, "Well, when I suggested that we should be friends first he didn't seem to mind... In fact he was so happy about it that he offered to help me unpack and sort out my things this weekend!"

Charlotte gave me a weird look and then asked, "Then why were you so upset?"

"Well, after I said no to Luke his sister Bella came to talk to me..."

"What did she say?" Charlotte asked with a hint of menace in her voice, which only happens when she gets really angry.

I looked down at the ground and said, "She asked me why I said "no" to her brother and as our conversation drew on she started accusing me of being cold hearted and of purposely wanting to hurt his feelings ...I know that it shouldn't have upset me that much, but she said it in a way that just insulted me so much, and to think of me doing such a horrible thing as to hurt a guy like Luke for no apparent reason. It just made me feel so awful, I couldn't contain myself...I'm sorry if I've upset you."

Looking up at her for the first time I saw how angry she was. Her face was bright red, her eyes were wide with fury; she was so angry that she even started to shake. After a long pause, Charlotte finally spoke." How dare she do something so out of line! How dare she even think those things about you ! That little Bitch! How dare she even think badly of you! That little Slut! Ugh I just want to claw her eyes out ! I want to kick her Ass for saying that to you!" And then the wrath of Charlotte was unleashed. She went on like this for another 15 minutes. She would have gone on longer were it not for the fact that we had to get ready for school. She appeared to be back to normal by the time we got to school, but I could tell that the fury in her eyes hadn't left, so trying not to provoke her, I left to go straight to my history class. I really didn't want to talk about yesterday, so I didn't say anything to Elizabeth the whole class period, but I could tell that she was anxious to hear about what I said and if Luke and I were dating now. So right after the bell rang for us to leave Elizabeth wouldn't allow me to be silent for much longer. As we were collecting our books she just blurted out, "Are you and Luke dating or what!"

"No, we're not dating, he asked me out but I wanted to be friends first and to see how it goes from there," I said calmly.

She understood and said no more on the subject. We parted at the door and soon I was walking alone to English class. I was thankful for the time I had alone to think of a way to avoid Luke. I really didn't want to face him after what happened yesterday, but all I could think of was uninviting him to help me unpack this weekend. That might offend him, which is the exact opposite of what I wanted.. ugh why does this have to be so hard! Now I'm really kicking myself about saying no to him. Why, oh, why do I have principles?

As I entered my English room I saw Luke looking at me from his desk with a smile that made me weak in the knees. Oh, why did he have to smile at me like that? It just made me feel worse about saying no to him yesterday. I must be insane to think that this whole friendship thing will work. When I got to my desk next to Luke, he smiled at me and said," Good morning Lily! hows your day going?"

"Good I guess it's a little early to tell."

Luke smiled and said,"I'm really looking forward to this weekend! Is there any specific time you want me to be there?"

"No, not really, you could come whenever you want to come... if you want to come at all."

He looked at me with a gaze of confusion and said, "Of course I want to come. Why wouldn't I?"

"Well, I got the impression from your sister that you wouldn't be interested into doing something so boring as to unpack things with me."

"Which one of my sisters told you that?" He asked harshly

"Bella," I replied

"And what did she tell you exactly?"

"Well she said... many unpleasant things that I'd rather not repeat in case I get upset again." Oops! did I really just say that? Oh crap, that's not good. Now he knows that I was upset about it-ugh, ugh,ugh,ugh! I tried to cover up my embarrassment with a smile but the damage was done.

Luke just looked at me with a softened stare and said, "She's the one who made you cry yesterday, isn't she!"

"You saw that?" I gasped with all the surprise showing on my face.

"Yeah, I did, while you were running to your car yesterday I couldn't help but notice the tears streaking down your face! I was going to ask what was wrong, you know, trying to be a good friend and all, but you looked so upset that I wouldn't know what to say even if I did try to talk to you."

I blushed a bright shade of red at the thought of Luke being worried about me. I just couldn't help it (come to think of it there are a lot of things I can't help lately). Luke saw my reaction and thought that I wasn't happy with him and said, "Oh I'm so sorry ! I should have comforted you! I should have said something! Oh, I'm so sorry for the way Bella acted! I'm going to have to talk to her about it. Are we Ok? Or do you not want to be even my friend anymore?"

"No! No don't talk to her, you talking to her might make her hate me even more! Oh, and of course we're Ok. The whole thing wasn't your fault!" I smiled and added, "After all, I was looking forward to your help this weekend. There's a lot of heavy lifting involved."

After I said this he smiled widely and said, "I can do heavy lifting!" as he was saying this he started flexing his biceps to show how strong he was. When he flexed them I had the sudden urge to touch them. They were so perfectly sculpted and extremely appealing. Now I really know that this whole friend thing won't last. He was just too gorgeous.

And with that last thought, class had started and my mind was preoccupied with Ms. G's discussion of how Elizabeth's affection had grown over time. I was listening so attentively that I almost didn't notice that Luke was looking at me with a little smirk on his face, as if he was planning something, but before I could explore my thoughts about what he could be planing my attention was sidetracked by the bell signaling that class was over. I was getting my books together when I felt a sharp poke on my right shoulder. It was Eric. He looked little disheveled and a bit angry.

"Hey Eric, what's up ? Is something wrong?" I asked.

"No, nothing's wrong. I just have to ask you something..."

"Well, ask it, then," I said with a big smile, but Eric didn't return it.

He just looked at me for a few seconds and then shouted, "Are you and Luke Cullen Dating!" I couldn't believe how he just screamed it at me...why would he be so angry?

"No, Luke and I aren't dating..." I replied. "We're just friends."

He looked a little relieved, but still suspicious, and asked, "But i heard from Lauren that he ask you out yesterday?"

Lauren? Does he mean Lauren Pike? She hates me! Ever since my family moved here she would always give me dirty looks...I had done absolutely nothing to her, and why would she care to tell Eric about Luke asking me out the whole thing seemed a little suspicious, so I answered Eric calmly, "Yeah, but I said no."

"Why?"

"I really don't think that's any of your business, Eric." When I was done speaking, I grabbed the rest of my things and got up to leave. Eric grabbed my arm to stop me. "Eric, stop, that hurts!" I begged, but his grip only got tighter on my arm.

"I'm not letting go until you answer the question! "

"Why do you need to know so badly? It's none of your business! Now let go of my arm! It really hurts!"

"Let her go!" I heard a voice say from behind me. The voice was angry and I could tell from the smoothness of it that it was Luke. I turned around and there he was, his eyes hard but still a honey gold. The present sneer on his face was menacing and beautiful at the same time. He was staring straight at Eric as he spoke for a second time, saying, "If you value your face, you'll let go of her right now!"

Eric, seeing that he wasn't joking, let go of me at once, throwing me to the ground and running out the door. I was on the ground for about a second before Luke was hovering over me protectively. He looked at me with his eyes, soft and warm, and asked, Are you all right?"

"Um, yeah, I'm just a little shaken up, that's all." I started to rub my arm, which was now beginning to bruise, and looked up at him. I smiled and said, "Thank you, Luke. I have feeling that if you hadn't intervened, my arm might have been ripped off."

He cringed and said, "I didn't know that he was gripping you that hard! Let me take a look." He took my arm gently and examined it with care. He then gave it back to me and said, "Your going to have some nasty bruises, I'm sorry I didn't come back sooner! Now I really wish that I had screwed up Newton's face!"

"No, don't say that. I don't know why he did it, but I'm sure that he didn't mean to hurt me."

"Are you kidding me? How could you say that? He just hurt you for no reason!"

"Maybe he couldn't help it. Maybe it was just an involuntary reaction." said with a shrug

Luke looked at me with his face full of Aw and asked, "Is it possible for you to even dislike anyone?"

I thought about it for a moment and then said, "No, not really, I guess. I can get angry at a person and when I do it gets pretty bad, but it doesn't last for very long. I guess I'm just incapable of holding a grudge." Luke stared at me and smiled.

I looked at the clock and saw that we were going to be late for lunch. Luke saw what I was looking at and said, "Wow, during all this excitement I've lost track of the time. Would you mind If I escorted you to lunch?It would be my honor!" I blushed as he bowed and took my hand. I couldn't help but be charmed by his princeliness. It just made me like him even more than I already did.

By the time we entered the lunch room everyone was already seated and eating, so Luke led me straight to the lunch line and we both got pizza and water for lunch.

He then asked shyly, "Um... do you want to sit with me for lunch?"

"I'd love to!" Oops! That totally sounded too eager. Oh crap, now he's smiling at me. Oh gosh, why must he be so dang gorgeous? Anyway, back to reality, Luke led me to a table with only two chairs so that we would have some privacy. As we went to sit down, he pulled out my chair for me and then went to sit down across from me. He smiled and said, "I'm glad that you agreed to sit with me. I was worried that Bella might have given you the wrong opinion of me."

"Well, how could I say no? After all you did save me from getting my arm ripped off. I owe you big time."

He smiled my favorite, excited smile and said, "Really? Let's see what would be an appropriate..."

"Please keep it within reason!"

"Define reason..."

"Nothing that involves public humiliation or anything that would go against my principles as a women."

"What do you mean by principles as a women?"

"Well, it's better not to confuse you anymore than you already are. Maybe I should explain the principles of a women on a later day," I said with a taunting tone.

He caught on and with a wink said, "I'll hold you to that."

I giggled and said, jokingly, "I was afraid that you'd say that. Now I have to think up the principles of a woman!"

"You made it up?" Then he burst into a roar of laughter.

"Why are you laughing? What I said wasn't even funny."

He stifled a giggle long enough to say, "I actually thought you were serious!"

Then I burst out into laughter and we both started laughing together. It was wonderful, hearing his laugh. It was like hearing the sheer happiness and jolliness of it made me feel so happy. In the course of my whole life I have never heard such a pleasing sound. It was better than any instrument I have ever heard. We both looked at each other and smiled at how idiotic this conversation had turned. And then we started laughing again. Maybe we could be friends?

...

After lunch was over, Luke decided to walk me to Biology. I could see all of the curious eyes on us as we walked down the hall together. I kind of felt like a bug under a microscope, having my every move examined by someone else. It was a weird feeling, but I didn't mind. Talking to Luke was too much fun to even notice any of them. In fact, Luke decided to walk me to all of my classes. I suppose that he did it to keep Eric away, but I also like to think that he just wanted to talk to me. When Luke picked me up from my last class, he asked, "Ok, so tomorrow... Are you sure you don't want me at any specific time? "

"Nope, not really. You could come at anytime that you want."

He smiled his excited smile and said, "Ok, sounds good."

He then walked me to the parking lot, where I said, "Well, I'll see you tomorrow!"

I then turned to leave, but he grabbed my hand and said sarcastically, "Are you sure that you can navigate yourself around the parking lot without bumping into any arm snatchers?"

"I'm sure I can handle it... but if I get into any trouble, you'll be the first to know!" I answered with just as much sarcasm. We both smiled and then I left to go to my car. Charlotte was waiting for me, and with her usual interrogation. When she got all of her answers about how my day went and how my classes were, we started to drive out of the parking lot. But before we could get out, there was a traffic jam that caused us to be held up. It hadn't been more then two minutes before I heard a knock on my window. I rolled it down to see that it was Eric. His blonde hair was darkened from the rain and his eyes were a repentant green. He began by saying, "Oh, Lily I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to hurt you! I'm so sorry! Oh, look at your arm, it has bruises on it! Oh, please forgive me, I'm so sorry! "

His eyes looked so sorrowful I couldn't even try to act resentful. Once I saw how sad he was about it, I said, "Eric, I forgive you. It's all water under the bridge."

Then he smiled and said, "Oh, thank you so much, I'll find a way to make it up to you. I promise!" After he made that statement, traffic started moving again and Charlotte began to drive away. I was then bombarded with some more questions that seemed to have no end. When we finally got home, I was so tired with all that had happened today, so all I could do was run to my bedroom and fell asleep.

N/A I hope you all liked this chapter! Again sorry for the wait! Life and school are a little issue but I promise that the next won't take as long ! Please REVIEW! It's just a way for me to know that people are reading and that well they care :) Which is ALWAYS a good thing to know :)

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