Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 115

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As promised, it doesn’t take long for Alex to arrive and the pizza arrives soon afterwards. Actually,Megan went all out with ordering a variety of pizzas as well as drinks, garlic bread and even some kindof spicy chicken side that the pizza place was apparently offering as part of a deal. We lay out all thefood on the coffee table and sit around in the living room to eat. Hmmm, with the addition of Alex, thereare now twice as many guys here as there are girls. This seems kind of unbalanced.

“You know, this lunch is very guy–heavy. Why don’t we have more girls to invite?” I wonder aloud.Megan jumps into the conversation immediately.

“THANKYOU I’ve said it before. I’m always so outnumbered. I always thought it was because Belsdoesn’t love inviting over heaps of girls since that time one of them tried to sneak upstairs to look at hisroom.” I raise an eyebrow.

“Uh, WHAT?” I ask in horror. Megan shrugs.

“She wanted to move up the hierarchy a bit, she thought that if she got to know more about Bellamyshe could seduce him and yada yada. It was a wasted effort, she had no hope. But after that westopped having many female guests.” Megan explains.

“Well that’s crazy. Actually, I know the perfect solution. You guys need girlfriends so you can bring themalong. Then we don’t have to worry about them being weird AND we get company. It’s the perfectsolution. So, Darrien I already know you’re technically single, for now at least. But what about youguys?” I ask, Aaron is already shaking his head so I face Alex and Shaun, ignoring Megan’sembarrassed choking from beside me. Alex immediately shoves a slice of pizza into his mouth in anattempt to avoid answering. my arms and just wait. Eventually he chokes the food down and shakes hishead slow. 09:21

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“No, I don’t have a girlfriend.” he replies, his voice croaky from swallowing too fast. I turn on

Shaun next and he also shakes his head.

“Nope, no ladies on my dance card.” He answers, pauses then continues in a tone that is half joking,half completely serious.

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“You don’t happen to have any single friends you could bring round do you?” He asks. My immediatereaction is to shake my head no. But actually, now that I think about it… is Amber single? I did decidethat I wanted to get to know her a little better. Maybe when I get around

to having that dinner party with Maggie, Logan and everyone else I should include her too. I mean, Idon’t know her that well, but I think she and Shaun might get along. I tilt my head and shrug.

“Actually, maybe. I’ll think about it. I have one idea… maybe.” I conclude. Shaun immediately. throwshimself to the floor and begins genuflecting dramatically at my feet.

“Thankyou, THANKYOU. If you help me replace a girlfriend I’ll owe you for the rest of my life.” He rambleson, promising me ridiculous things like his life savings and his firstborn child. I roll my eyes and tell himto sit back down and eat already.

Once we’ve gorged ourselves of Maggie’s baking and the food is cleared up, Shaun and Alex head offto get some work done. Alex came during his lunch break and I already interrupted Shaun fromwhatever he had planned today with making him come and collect my stuff. Aaron and Darrien bothdecide to stay. Only one of them really NEEDS to be here, but Aaron would usually be with me at work

right now and Darrien isn’t going to leave while Megan is still here and hanging out willingly. Megan andI sit beside each other on the couch with her laptop and start working out what needs to be done tochange her classes to all be online. It mostly looks casy except for one class that seems to have aface–to–face component. After some research we replace that if we negotiate with the instructor they maybe willing to let her skip that and submit an additional 2500 word essay instead. The idea isn’tappealing, but it’s better than dropping out entirely. As Megan and I continue figuring things out,Darrien and Aaron sit on the floor across from each other one either side of the coffee table and playan incredibly high energy game of snap with a deck of playing cards that they found somewhere.

I say high energy, but ninety percent of that energy is coming from Darrien as he gives it his +1

Bor all but always seems to be the tiniest bit late. Aaron is quiet at usual, although a small smirk on hisface tells me he’s enjoying the win. I suspect the fact that Darrien can’t stop glancing 09: at Megan isdistracting him and giving Aaron that little bit of edge that’s allowing him to continue undefeated. Themore he loses, the more vocal Darrien gets and the more enthusiasm he puts towards the game,although somehow he seems to be getting

ig worse each round. I briefly make eye contact with Aaron who just shrugs. He might enjoy winning,but I

don’t think he actually much. Darrien probably only cares because

the game that

cares about

he’s lost so many times it’s actually embarrassing.

After a half hour of this I notice the red thread on my chest re–appear. Bellamy must be on

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his way back, or at very least he’s gotten closer. Sure enough a few minutes later he arrives home,calling out from the front door to announce his presence. He walks into the living room just in time tosee Aaron demolish Darrien in what has to be their hundredth round of the game by now. Darriencurses and pushes back from the table. Bellamy watches him with a bemused expression.

“Uh, you guys can head off now if you want. I won’t be going out again today. Thanks for staying.” Hesays, apparently having decided to ignore Darrien’s somewhat childish outburst. Darrien and Aaronhead for the door. Well, Aaron heads off with a wave over his shoulder at us. Darrien stops, smiles andmakes an awkward amount of eye contact with Megan, nudges me in the shoulder as he passes, givesBellamy a manly nod then chases after Aaron.

“I can’t believe I lost so badly. Next time we play rock–paper–scissors. Or… NO wait, next time we’rehaving a karaoke contest!”

Megan heads upstairs to call her university and HOPEFULLY figure out the classes. In the meantime.Bellamy helps me move my bags and pillows upstairs to his room. We work together to unpack thistime, although I’m fairly sure Bellamy moves and readjusts almost

every item I put away. I would complain but he seems to enjoy it and to be honest, he does a

better job than I was doing anyway. Once everything is away and my extra blankets and pillows areloaded onto the bed, making it seem significantly smaller than it was, we lay in the bed and watch amovie for a while. I’m tired from an emotional day and Bellamy seems

tired from his meeting too. We chat about it a bit and we discuss how worried I was about Maggie beingmad and how it was all for nothing. By the end of the movie, I’m all talked out and I’m starting to dozeoff. Bellamy moves from beside me and tells me to keep resting while he arranges dinner. I noddrowsily and let my eyes fall closed.