Chapter 5

I had been drawing for quite a while, so when I finished, I wasn’t surprised when I looked at the time and it had showed that an hour had already gone by.

I looked down at my drawing that I had just completed and saw that I had drawn a girl and a guy on a mountain top looking down to the valley below. It showed the city below in a blur with the sunset in full clarity. It also showed only the girl and the boy cuddling on the mountain top in colour while everything else was done in black and white showing that love is the most important thing in the world. I had done a lot of romance drawings in the past but I think this one was one of my favourites.

I was admiring my drawing when a knock on my door shook me out of my trance and I quickly closed and hid my sketchbook in my desk drawer along with my drawing pencils.

“Come in!” I said while shutting my desk drawer and spinning my desk chair to face the door.

I was surprised to see Carson opening the door and silently asking me if it was alright if he came into my room, since he hardly ever comes up to my room to see me. I nodded and said “What do you want?”, my voice sounding sceptical.

“Well I needed to use the bathroom and I was heading back downstairs when I thought that I should pay my favourite girl a visit” Carson said with a slight smirk on his face.

“Thanks Carson, but I really don’t care if I see you or not. I get enough of your ugly face at school and every other second you are at our house – I think I am officially sick of seeing you” I replied with heavy sarcasm.

“Nobody could ever get tired of this” he stated while moving his hands around his face.

“Sorry, but I think I am” I replied shaking my head. “Is there something that you actually needed or do you just love annoying me?”

“Well, I was wondering what you were doing in here all alone? Why not come downstairs and join me and Jax in a heated game of Call of Duty?”

“You know I love to hang out you guys…….” I answered in a completely obvious sarcastic tone, “but, I have better things to do” I continued before turning my desk chair around in a full circle and waving my hand towards the door.

“Oh yeah?” he replied in a questioning tone. “What are you doing then that is so important?” he said raising one of his eyebrows. “Because, to me, it looks like you are a little lonely and bored all alone in this room”

“Um…. I….. you know, I was ….. um” I stuttered, trying to come up with something reasonable to answer his question with, but he cut in before I could actually think of something.

“Ha! See, you were just lazing around in your room. Come on, play Call of Duty with us and have a good time”

“You know that I rock at that game so why would you guys want to play against me? You’ll get your asses whipped by a girl. It might not be good for your man whore player image Car Car”

“Pssh.. yeah whatever. Come play with us before I force you to”

I jumped out of my seat immediately. “Okay, okay. I’m coming” I said walking out of my room, shaking my head with Carson following me down the stairs and into the living room.

I heard Jaxson’s voice before I even entered the room. “Hey Carson, what took you so long? I thought you were……” then he looked and saw that I was with Carson. “Hey little sis, what are you doing down here?”

“She’s here to challenge us to a game of Call of Duty. Hope you don’t mind” Carson replied before I could get a word in otherwise.

“No, I don’t mind but when did you see her on your trip to the bathroom. I am positive that her room is past the upstairs bathroom” Jaxson replied raising an eyebrow at Carson.

“I was going into her room to bug her. But when I got there she looked all lonely and bored spinning in her desk chair so I invited her to play, although, she thinks that she can beat us”

“Oh really” this time raising an eyebrow at me. “And how in the world to you think it is possible for you to beat both of us – the masters of videogames – at Call of Duty? I have never even seen you play this game before.”

“I’ve played it a couple of times at Zayn’s and I would say I am pretty good”

“Well okay. Carson and I versus you, grab a controller and I’ll set up the game” Jaxson said while getting off the couch and crouching in front of the X-box.

“I call the red one” Carson yelled and grabbed the red controller before anybody could steal it from him.

I shook my head and grabbed the white controller and sat down on the left side of the couch leaving space for the two idiots on the other side.

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I quickly realized that alone Carson and Jaxon were great at this game, but together – they sucked. They both tried to communicate while keeping their fighters wide open in game play for me to shoot them. They couldn’t agree on how to do anything as a team. So I snuck up behind their fights again and shot them both in the back of the leg.

“STOP DOING THAT” Jaxon cried at me for what seemed like the twentieth time since we had started playing.

“If you guys couldn’t handle playing against me, then why did you agree?” I said while I set up my man in the perfect spot to hit them again once they were distracted.

“You have never played this game at home before! How was I supposed to know you were this good?!” Jaxon cried again while trying to direct Carson where to go. “Carson, go that way…. no not that way… yes now follow me”

“Dude, I know what I’m doing. Stop trying to control me and focus on your player before you get us shot again”

“I am, and it’s not my fucking fault that we aren’t winning. I mean, I at least shot her down a couple times while you are just standing there running around like a chicken without a head”

“Oh yeah, so why have most of your shots missed and the one time that I told you what to do, you shot her down?”

While Carson and Jaxon were fighting like a couple of six year olds, I took it as an advantage and snuck up behind them and shot them both three times; in the back of the head and once in each arm. “Pew. Pew.” I said as my guns went off each time.

“FUCK! Lex stop doing that!” Carson shouted at me while Jaxson just got up and shut off the game.

“You are playing unfair missy, and I am not playing with you guys anymore, besides I have a pile of history to do after dinner so I am going to see if supper is almost ready.” Jaxon said while walking out of the living room and towards the kitchen to where mom was preparing supper.

I put my controller down on the coffee table and got up to head upstairs and get washed up before dinner when Carson spoke up. “You’re actually really good. I can’t believe I got beat by a girl at Call of Duty but you deserve it, so congrats.”

“Thanks, and yeah a lot of the time when I’m over at Zayn’s, him and Zach are always playing and I just join in. It took me a while, but they showed me some different moves and strategies to play better and then I started getting a lot better. Hard work pays off” I answered before heading back upstairs to get cleaned up.

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Dinner was delicious as always; my mother is a really good cook and a couple of years ago she taught me. I am not as good as her but I at least can make simple dishes.

A while after dinner had finished, Carson finally left our house and went home to his own family. I swear, sometimes it’s like I have two older brothers and not just one.

I was lounging around in my room reading a book; Just Listen by Sarah Dessen, when my cell phone rang and Kylie’s name popped up on my screen. I answered it on the third ring. “Hey girl” she said as soon as I picked up

“Hey” I replied closing my book and sitting up against the wall. “So how was the double date?” I said in a teasing tone.

“You really need to stop with the whole Zayn and I thing. It’s getting a little annoying and he was checking out a bunch of other girls in the lobby anyways”

“Wait a second; are you actually interested in Zayn?” I said in a surprised tone.

“No, I mean, well, not really. I mean I guess a bit, but I know he doesn’t see me like that so it’s okay”

I was shocked to say the least. Kylie hasn’t been interested in anybody for over a year now. I was also happy for her because if somehow she and Zayn got together, they would be the perfect couple. “Okay, wow. When did this happen? You have never told me that you liked him before”

“Well, I guess when I went away to Europe for a month during the summer I just really started to miss his dorky comments, and his funny personality. I don’t know, I guess I realized I have liked him as more than a friend for a while and I just hadn’t realized it.”

“Wow. You seriously like Zayn” I stated in an awed tone of voice.

“Yeah, but anyways, back on topic. The movie was good” she said trying to get the topic of interest off of her love life.

“What movie did you guys go see?”

“Zach picked the movie. He wanted Alenna in his arms the entire time like always so he picked a horror film. I guess it was alright, there were just a lot of scary scenes that I just didn’t feel like watching”

If she wanted to take the topic off of her love life, she just said the completely wrong thing. “So let me get this straight, in the scary scenes, when Alenna was wrapped up in Zach’s arms and you didn’t want to watch what did you do?” I said in a teasing voice already knowing the answer.

“Umm... Zayn put this arm around me and let me curl up against him when I didn’t want to watch” she whispered into the phone in a timid tone.

“AWWW…..!” I gushed into the phone. “That’s so cute. See maybe he does have feelings for you. You never know.”

“No, he just always does that when either of us is scared. He probably thinks of me as only a friend” she said in what sounded like a defeated tone.

I felt bad for her because she thought that Zayn would never see her as more than a friend. “Maybe if you told him how you felt he would say something that you would want to hear”

I could imagine her shaking her head through the phone before answering “No. No way, I am not damaging my friendship with Zayn just because I like him now. If anything were to happen it would be him making the first move – which will never happen so it’s alright”

“Well, okay. If you’re sure”

“I am” she replied in what didn’t sound like a confident tone. I knew that she probably liked Zayn a lot more than she was letting on and that it killed her to be just friends with him. “Anyways, I have to go because I have some stupid history homework I have to do before school tomorrow”

“Oh, my brother’s in that class. He didn’t mention that”

“Yeah, we sit next to each other and gossip about you all class Lex” she said and I can imagine her rolling her eyes. “Yeah, he is in the class and the teacher is horrible”

“I know. Jaxon was complaining about him almost the whole ride home today. But I’ll let you go to do your homework. But Kyl’s, don’t give up on Zayn, maybe he actually does like you back”

“Yeah, yeah. I gotta go Lex, I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Love you”

“Love you too” I replied before ending the call and lying back down on my bed.

I couldn’t believe that I never noticed that Kylie liked Zayn. How could I not? I just need to somehow figure out a way to see if Zayn liked her back. Hopefully he did because then they would both be happy with somebody they trust and could count on. That just left me – never been kissed, romantically challenged Lexi.

I got changed into my pajamas and got into my bed wondering if I would ever find somebody that I would be with for the rest of my life.

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