My Best Friend Brother

Episode 20

Adam’s POV……
After my confrontation with my friends, Nick and I stayed on the field to practice while Bryce and Josh went home.

I’m sitting taking a sip of water and wondering where Ariel and Libby were since school finished 30 minutes ago.

As I close my bottle to begin my search for them since I have 2 more minutes of break left, I feel a presence next to me.

The strong smell of that familiar perfume hits my nose and I ease away a little since it was a little too strong.

However, it is no use since Elle scoots even closer to me.

“What do you want Elle?” I ask with annoyance clear in my voice.
“I miss you, baby…” She whines while trailing her manicured nails up my muscled bicep.
I quickly jump away and look around to make sure Ariel or Libby are nowhere in sight. The things Libby would do to me if she saw us, I thought.

“Don’t touch me,” I say and begin walking away but she runs after me in her 4-inch heels.
“Have you lost my number because I can give it back to you…” She begins rummaging through her Prada purse. “…That should be the only reason why you haven’t called me right?” She raises a questioning eyebrow at me as both of us stop underneath the stands.

I turn to face her, “Look, Elle. I never liked you. Never have, never will and I’m sorry if I gave you the wrong impression but I thought I explained that to you.” I say slowly at first to ensure that it gets through the tonne of makeup that seems to have covered her brain.

Her face is angry at first but then she suddenly smiles sickeningly sweetly which churns something in my stomach.

“Is there someone else? Because I don’t really like competition.” She wickedly smiles as she gets closer and rests her hand on my chest.
“Jeez woman, are you sick?” I say grabbing her hand. I should’ve really watched who I f—-d with.

I refrained from telling her about Ariel and I together since she seemed to not have adjusted to it yet.

She ignored my last comment and begins talking about the things she could make me feel if I came home with her after practice.

My attention span, however, didn’t last long when I saw an angry Libby making her way over here and Ariel trying to hold her back.

I shove Elle out of the way quickly not meaning to make her nearly fall. I just hope Ariel doesn’t get the wrong impression about this. I mean, she trusts me, right?

Libby starts scolding me but I partially ignore her as I study Ariel’s expression to see if I find any evidence of emotion on her face.

Then Elle chooses to make a stupid remark which results in Libby trying to attack her. I angrily send her away and I turn my attention back to Ariel.
After some convincing on Ariel’s side, she finally gets Libby to leave hesitantly.

Ariel turns back her attention to me, “So…” she laughs awkwardly.

“You know I don’t have feelings for Elle, right?” Is the first question I ask her just to make sure that there isn’t any second guessing. “Or anyone other than you for that matter.” I say quickly after.

“I know…” She trails off uncertainly without making eye contact.

I slowly move towards her, cupping her face in my hands, “You don’t sound too sure.” I look intently into her eyes…… She places both of her small hands on mine, which are connected to her face. “I know.” She says more strongly now.
I pull her into a hug, wrapping my arms around her small body and resting my chin on her head, inhaling her sweet vanilla scent.

“I don’t believe you.” I whisper.

I feel her hands tense around me along with her body at this. “But it’s okay. I’ll make sure I show you just how much you mean to me.” I continue telling her as I gently sway us.
I gently pull away from her after a while since my break was over a while ago and I know better than to piss off coach. I hold her shoulders and look intently into her eyes. “We’ll talk about this later, okay?” I assure her.

She gives me a small smile as I rest my hand gently on her cheek with her moving into my touch.

I quickly peck her lips and run off in the direction of the field.

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“So they’re coming home tomorrow?” I frown.

As much as I’m happy that Ariel’s grandmother is fine, I can’t help but feel sad that she’ll be leaving tomorrow although I know she’ll come over as she always does.
“Yeah…” She says as she brutally dusts any thing that she can find.

When we arrived back to my place after football practice, I’d tried to talk to Ariel about the whole Elle situation but she just ignored the topic or kept switching it. That’s how we got to talking about her grandmother.
“That- That’s good.” I say while I sit on my bed. “We still need to talk, Ariel.”
“I’m hungry. Are you hungry?” She quickly says as she sweeps the room swiftly.
“Ariel.” I warn as I’m now walking towards her. “There’s no need to be nervous, I just want to give you an explanation.” I calmly say as I slowly take the broom from her hands.
“Nervous? Who said I was nervous?” She rushes out.

“You’re cleaning. You clean excessively when you’re nervous.” I say as I rest my hand on her cheek.

She sighs and avoids eye contact with me so I take this time to continue.

“She talked about us being together and about how she misses me…” I say as I play with her hair, making sure not to go in depth. “That’s all. Nothing happened.” I whispered. “I wouldn’t do that to you.” I finally conclude.
We look at each other in silence. Her breathing becomes a little heavier as I take all of my attention to her lips.

I lean down slowly, capturing her soft plump lips onto mine. My lips move slowly, passionately against hers as I don’t want to rush things.
I then bring my hand to the back of her head as the kiss intenses. I swipe my tongue over her bottom lip, asking for entrance in which she grants.

I plunge my tongue inside of her mouth, loving the taste of her.

I then rest my hands onto the curve of her waist, pulling her closer to me, liking the feeling of our close proximity.

She wraps her hand around my neck and tiptoes to have better access to my lips.

I absentmindedly lead us both to my bed, lying her down gently. I then start to feel the excitement down in my pants, poking through the fabric and begging to be freed from my briefs.

This is now enough to snap me back to reality and I quickly pull away from Ariel and jump off of her as if she’s fire which just burnt me.

She quickly sits up on her elbows and looks at me confusedly.

“We shouldn’t…” I say is I run a hand through my hair.

I don’t fail to see the flash of disappointment and sadness in her eyes but she agrees nonetheless, “Right, yeah.” She says as she smiles but I know it isn’t a genuine one.
“I should go.” She quickly says as she rushes out of the room while rubbing her forehead from embarrassment.

I slam my door shut from annoyance and sit on my bed, running my hand down my face in frustration. I just don’t want Ariel to think that I only got together with her for sex or some s–t.
I had to stop myself, knowing that I couldn’t if it got further.