A New Family

Lily's POV:

"Can I please, cash in the favor another time?" I pleaded with Jacob.

"Dude, you've got your own date, why don't you go dance with her." Growled Luke.

"Unfortunately, we all know that I prefer Lily. Besides, if she doesn't return the favor now, she never will, and I'll just make my demands higher." I gulped, knowing what he was referring to.

"Go away Jacob." Snarled Luke.

"I'll dance with you, but this means we're even, no more favors." I said slowly. Jacob smiled and held his hand out, I took it and Jacob put his hand on my back, leading me to the dance floor. I looked back at Luke, longingly. Jacob took my arms and set them on his shoulders, setting his on mine. I strained my neck up, Luke was only two inches taller than me, but Jacob was a good six. Then pulled it back down, remembering that I didn't like looking at him.

"Thought you hated me." I murmured, staring at his neck.

"I was mad, but for a good reason." Jacob forcefully pulled my chin up, so I could meet his eyes.

"I know, I'm sorry." I looked back down, but Jacob once again forcefully pulled my chin up.

"You want it to be even? You have to act like you're enjoying it." He snapped, angrily. I took a step back.

"I guess we won't be even because I'm never going to enjoy this."

"Why do you have to be so damn difficult?" Spit Jacob.

"Not used to girls falling for you? Well maybe it's different here in England, but in America, girls don't judge books by their cover!" I snapped and stormed away, fuming. I headed over to Luke and sat down.

"Are you sure that's true?" Asked Luke.

"Well, no, but once girls go to college, they mature and marry someone with a nice personality. Well... maybe."

Luke laughed and put his arm around me, like it was the most natural thing in the world. I placed my head on his shoulder, for once not thinking about what I was doing. Luckily, Luke did the honors for me and pulled me up, taking away his arm and walking me out of the gym.

"I might of made the stupidest mistake of my life." I said bitterly.

"What was the favor?" Luke asked.

"Jacob saved me total embarrassment and let me sit next to him on the bus."

"That's not a big enough favor to get a dance with you!" Exclaimed Luke.

"No, it was," I sighed, remembering that terrible moment. "Well I'm sorry that Jacob ruined everything tonight." I said, while Jacob opened the door to outside, we sat on a bench near the street.

"Story of my life," muttered Luke. I laughed, how coincidental!

"What?" Luke smiled.

"New One Direction song, just came out." I spluttered out, laughing.

"Oh yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that." Stupid! Stupid! I scolded myself.

"So, Louis Tomlinson, is you're dad and Eleanor Calder is you're mom?"

"As a math genius haven't you figured it out?" I sighed.

"Yeah, 21 minus 14 equals 6. There is no way that someone could have a baby at six years old. And you don't look anything like them, and you're from America. So you're.."

"I'm adopted." I stated bitterly.

"And what happened to you're other fam-"

"Please, let's not spoil this night even more" I begged.

"If you're ashamed or afraid, don't be, I got one hell of a brother." I laughed, and put my head on Luke's shoulder again, he immediately put his arm around me.

"You can tell me anything." Luke said softly. I smiled contently, nothing could ruin this moment.

"Hey, not to ruin a moment or anything, but Mom wants you home by 9:30 so get your lazy asses in here." I nearly jumped in freight, when I heard Kyle's voice. I could tell Luke was about to throw some nasty insults Kyle's way so I quickly said.

"Yeah, my mom wants me home by then too."

"Damn you Kyle." Muttered Luke, only loud enough for him and I to hear, I laughed.

We climbed into the truck and Kyle drove away from school. Luke grabbed my hand and I smiled sweetly, swearing similar to Luke's in my mind: "Damn you Jacob." The ride was shorter this time and I breathed in relief, seeing my house up ahead. Right before we were about to stop Luke jumped out of the truck.

"What the hell Luke! You could've gotten killed!" Yelled Kyle.

"Not that you'd care!" Shouted Luke as he made his way around the truck and opened my door.

"All that just to open my door?" I asked, he nodded and I laughed,

"What a gentleman." Luke closed the car door for me and held my hand on the pathway to the front door. I opened the door (for once) and pulled Luke inside. Sliding off the corsage, I held it out to Luke.

"You keep it, it'll probably die soon anyway." He said softly, pushing it back into my hand. I pulled it back around my wrist and leaned in, kissing his cheek softly.

"Didn't want Kyle to see that." I confessed, blushing. "But thank you, that was for everything." I reopened the door and Luke walked out, his face in awe, beet red. I watched him walk to the truck and as it pulled away. Running upstairs I jumped onto my bed, my face grinning. What a perfect night.

I took off the corsage and flicked my light on. I gasped, red hives wrapped around my wrist, exactly where my corsage was. I totally forgot about my allergies. I started to scratch while soaring down the stairs.

"Eleanor!" I called as I ran into her room. She swung open the door, all I did was point to my wrist and her face changed from overly excited to motherly concerned. I started to feel that awful feeling in stomach again and ran into her bathroom, to the toilet, throwing up all I had eaten that day.

"You forgot?" Eleanor asked miserably. I nodded before I vomited again. You might think why would I be throwing up when its a skin irritation? Well pollen is exceedingly small and it can clog up my pores and sink into my blood stream, causing to upset my stomach. Throwing up really doesn't help, my stomach is just confused because the pollen needs to get out of my body but it doesn't know how.

When I finished hurling Eleanor gave me some water and called the ambulance. (Again) Eleanor rubbed my shoulders as I cried into her arms, my perfect night ruined. Damn you allergies.

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