I scrape my throat, "Well basically, when I was ready to do it I found out he was cheating on me." Eddie immediately stops playing with my charms after hearing that. He looks up, "Loren..I'm so sorry." "It's fine. It's not like you knew." "But still. I shouldn't have made you tell me." "Eddie..it's okay. Really." Truth is, it still hurts. I fake a smile at Eddie while I fight back the tears. He doesn't buy it and sounds concerned, "Hee, come here." And before I know it, he has his strong arms wrapped around me. I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him closer to me although I know that it's not okay. He's not my boyfriend. He's Emily's. He's not the one that should comfort me. But it's actually kind of amazing that he comforts me anyway. He's the most amazing guy I've ever met. I bite my lip to prevent the tears from coming out. I'm not gonna let him see me cry. I pull him even closer by tightening my grip on his neck. I can feel him squeeze my body a little tighter. It's comforting. I force myself to unwrap my arms from his neck and pull back. I chuckle because I feel so silly. I can feel that one tear managed to roll down my cheek. "I'm stupid.", I admit. Eddie immediately reacts, determined, "No, you're not." He brings his hand to my face and wipes away my tear, "He was a fool." I chuckle again, "You don't have to say that." He smiles at me, "I know."

I wake up and feel two strong arms around me. I look beside me and see Eddie laying there peacefully alseep. Oh my gosh. This is so not right. Emily would freak if she saw this or even knew this. Eddie's still sleeping. I should get the hell out of this bed. I grab Eddie's arm that's wrapped around me and slowly lift it while checking if Eddie doesn't wake up. When I manage to get out of his grip I softly lay his arm back down. But just as I'm about to hop out of bed I can hear Eddie chuckle behind me. I quickly turn around and see him smirking at me. "How long have you been awake?!", I scream out, shocked. He chuckles, "A little longer than you I guess. It was funny seeing you try to escape though." "Yeah? How funny do you think Emily will think it is?" "I can handle Emily. It's not like we did anything wrong." "No, you just slept in my bed.", I reply sarcastic. "Yes, because we fell asleep. Like I said, we didn't do anything wrong." "Just go please? Emily would kill me if she knew about this." He finally gets out of my bed, "I don't get why you care so much about what she thinks." I start softly pushing him out of my room. "Just go. Please." "Fine, I'll go.", Eddie replies and then leaves.

I change into a blue bandeau, a blue chiffon crop top, ripped denim shorts and blue strappy heels. I put on some make-up and when I walk into the kitchen, I see that Eddie's still here. "You're still here?" "Jup.", he says. "You look great.", he adds. "Thanks!", I say cheery. I decided that acting like tonight didn't happen is the best way to handle this. Besides, I would like to be friends with Eddie. That's when Emily walks in. "Hey babe, I didn't hear you wake up. I wasn't sure if you stayed the night." He smiles at her. "Well, I did." Emily kisses him and I look away. Eddie is this amazing boyfriend and I would lie if I said that it didn't make me jealous that he's with Emily. My mom walks into the kitchen and kisses my cheek. "Hey Lo." "Hey mom." Then she notices Eddie. "Who's this?" Eddie shakes Nora's hand to introduce myself. "I'm Eddie, Emily's boyfriend." "Poor guy.", my mom replies. Eddie looks confused. "Ehm, what do you mean?" "You know, Emily is kind of a bitch.", my mom says. Eddie looks shocked. "Why would you say that about your daughter?" I decide to jump in. I don't want Eddie to know what happened. "Mom, drop it." My mom looks at me, "No sweetie. You know how I feel about your sister ever since what happened back then." Eddie looks confused more than ever, "What are you two talking about?" I try to fight the memories that are coming back to me. "Not a word mom." Then I grab my bag and walk out of the house. When I'm in my car I let my tears flow. "Kevin, no!" I jump a little as I remember the pain. I slam my hands on the wheel, trying to stop myself from remembering. I look up and see Eddie looking at me from outside the house with concern written all over his face. I force a smile onto my face and hope he didn't see much of this. Then I drive away. On the way to school I wipe my tears away. When I've parked my car in the school parking lot, I fix my make-up.

I walk up to my locker to switch my books since it's break. I've catched Eddie staring at me a few times today with concern. I just hope that he will drop it. On my way to my locker I see Eddie leaning against his locker. I walk quickly past him and to my locker and finally reach it. But just as I'm about to open it, Eddie appears next to me. "Hey Loren." I smile at him, "Hey Eddie." He leans against the locker next to me with one of his hands. Please don't bring it up, please don't bring it up. "What exactly happened this morning?" I decide to play dumb, "What do you mean?" "I'm talking about you all acting weird." "My mom was just making a big deal over nothing. She can be like that sometimes.", I lie. I glance at him and see that he doesn't believe me. Not even for a second. "Then why were you crying?" His voice is soft and I can hear the concern in it. "I wasn't crying.", I lie again. "I just remembered that I forgot to finish some paper and it really sucked." I give him another glance and see that he still doesn't believe me. If anything, he only believes me less. "Lo-", he starts. "Eddie, please just let it go. I'm fine okay?" I now finally look at him for longer than a second. "You sure?", he asks. I give him a smile, "I'm sure." "Okay then. You wanna do something tomorrow?" I raise my eyebrows, "You mean just the two of us?" He chuckles, "Yes Loren Tate, just the two of us." Eddie leans in a little closer while saying that and I notice that we're kinda close. My eyebrows are still raised, "Emily okay with that?" He gives me this really sexy smile and I feel like melting, "I don't really care." "Where will she be?" "She's going shopping.", he replies. "So, we're on for tomorrow?", he adds. I tease him a little bit, "Depends on what we're gonna do." He pretends to be offended, "So my company isn't enough for you huh?" "Nope.", I say, popping the 'p'. "Well, you pick." "I'm no good at choosing.", I say, pouting a little bit. He stares at me pouting and gets a smile on his face. I remove my pout and frown, "What?" His smiles gets wider, "You're cute when you're pouting." I bite my lip and look away. I can still feel his closeness though. "So what's it going to be Tate?" I look back again, my tendency to blush gone. Then I give him a serious expression, "How about being bold. Just watch a movie at home with popcorn." He mimicks my serious expression, "Loren Tate. That sounds like a great idea." Then he frowns like he's thinking. "There needs to be chocolate though." We're both still acting like we're serious, "I agree." His gaze is still fixed on me, "Loren Tate, what's your food addiction." I chuckle, breaking my seriousness, "My food addiction?" Eddie's still acting serious, "Yes. What kind of food absolutely has to be present tomorrow?" I now frown while thinking, "Well. Cholocate I guess. But my absolute food addiction is probably brownies." "Then brownies we shall have.", Eddie states making me chuckle. Then after a few seconds of silence and staring, he speaks up again, "Hey, I need to go to my locker. I'll see you later Loren Tate." He gives me a smile and then disappears.

The rest of the day I just kept looking forward to tomorrow. During one of my classes Eddie showed me a piece of paper with a broad smile on his face. On it were the words 'Popcorn, chocolate, brownies, Loren Tate.' I chuckled at the last one. He turned back around with a smirk. Now it's the next day and I'm on my way to school. I'm wearing a black bandeau, a white chiffon crop top, black tights and denim shorts over it. Then black strappy pumps and my hair and make-up as usual. I am a little bit late so when I walk to my locker I don't see Eddie or the rest of my friends anywhere. Then in first period I sit next to an empty seat because all my friends are already sitting next to someone else since I'm a bit late and every time we have this subject we get to choose new places all over again. Eddie was sitting next to Ian but a little after I sit down, he takes the empty seat next to me. He hands me the piece of paper from yesterday and then starts talking. "So I thought we could have pizza for dinner." I look down at the piece of paper and see that pizza is on it now. "Anything else you want?", Eddie asks. I look at him. "You want to make me fat, don't you?" He chuckles. "Donuts.", I then state and Eddie writes it down.

Eddie and I were somewhere in the middle of a comedy when his parents came home. We put the movie on pause for a few seconds. "Hi.", his moms says. I give her a smile, "Hey, I'm Loren." His parents look confused at this. "I'm Katy.", his mother then says. They still look confused. "I'm Max.", his dad then says. "But weren't you Emily?" Eddie and I both chuckle. "Loren is Emily's twin sister.", Eddie explains. Katy and Max immediately get an understanding look on their faces. Katy then chuckles, "I was thinking you completely changed your look or something." "For the better then.", she quickly adds thinking she insulted me. Then she frowns and looks at Eddie, "Oh. I don't mean that Emily doesn't look good. Just-". She cuts herself off. "Okay, I can't say anyting right so I'll just shut up." I chuckle, "So where's Emily?", Max asks. "She's shopping.", Eddie says. "So you and Loren are..-", Max starts expecting us to finish it. "Just friends.", I say quickly while smiling. Eddie chuckles, "Relax dad. I'm not hooking up with both of the twins." We all chuckle and then after a few more minutes, Katy and Max leave the room and we press play again. When the movie ends, we start talking and then at some point our faces are like really close. I have no idea how it got that way. Then we both lean in without even noticing it but then we both quickly pull our heads back at the same time. We weren't about to kiss, were we?

It's about ten o'clock when I walk back into our house. I jump a little by the sight of my mom sitting on the couch. I sit down next to her. "Hi mom." "Hey Lo, where have you been?" "At Eddie's.", I say. "Call next time.", she says. She's zapping on the TV, not really paying attention. Then at some point she turns off the TV. "You were at Eddie's?", she asks suprised. "Yeah." I respond. "How long do you think he will last?", she asks. "What?", I ask suprised. "With Emily.", she adds. "I hope longer than the other ones. He's a really nice guy." I don't look straight into my mom's face because I don't think I can keep a straight face while saying that. I mean, I think we almost kissed. We're just friends and we never would have kissed but we were close enough to try. My mom studies my face. Then she says, "Loren Tate. Do you like him?"