Sleeping With My Stepbrother novel Chapter 20

"Hey" Justin said in his groggy morning voice as he stirred up

"Morning" I said as I gave him a quick peck on the lips before getting up and putting on my clothes

"Oh. You're going home already?" He asked, half awake half sitting up

"Yeah. Mom texted me. Said it was important" I answered as I wiggled myself through my dress

"Oh okay. I'll just change" he began before he started to get up, but I stopped him midway.

"It's fine. I booked a cab. Just sleep, ok? I'll text you when I get home" I told him before giving him a quick kiss on the lips and headed out the door as fast as I could.

A couple of minutes later, I arrived at home, and it was awfully quiet. Mom and Dave's car were nowhere to be found. Luke's however, was parked on the driveway so I'm assuming he was asleep.

Scratch that. I was hoping he was asleep.

Because right now, the last person I wanted to see was him.

I slowly crept my way upstairs, quietly passing by his room, hoping that I wouldn't wake him up.

But of course, the universe was messing with me as of the moment. Because as soon as I was opening my door, he got out of his room shirtless

"Hey" he said after yawning, which froze me halfway from opening my room.

"Um, hey. Goodmorning" I said, giving him a quick glance before realizing that it was already 5pm, and fully opening my room to go inside.

Before I could close my door, however, he began barging in, and my heart was beating faster than ever. Shit.

"How was last night?" He asked as he leaned on my doorframe, and I kept myself busy by looking for house clothes, and just running around my room just so I could avoid looking at him

"It was good" I simply said "Mom and Dave out?"

"I think so" he answered before I entered my bathroom and changed my clothes, hoping that he was gone by then.

After changing, I slowly unlocked my door and slowly opened my door to see if he was still standing by my door frame.

Thinking that he was already out of my room, I sighed in relief and got out of my bathroom.

Turns out, the idiot was lying down my bed.

"Dude. Get out of my bed. I'm still a bit hungover and I need some sleep" I told him

"Then sleep. It's not like we haven't slept in the same bed before or anything" he answered before getting even more comfortable on my bed

"It's different now. Come on man" I said before grabbing a pillow and hitting him with it a couple of times. He then grabbed the pillow and pulled it, with me falling on my bed along with the pillow.

And in this position, it was as if I just fell on top of Luke.

There was at least 3 seconds of us staring at each other, before I cleared my throat and just laid beside him. Great, just great.

"Come on. I need to talk to you" he said as he laid on his side and faced me.

"This better be good because I have no good excuse if anyone ever sees me in bed with my stepbrother" I told him before he let out a small laugh, then another few seconds of dead silence.

"Are you happy with Justin?" He asked, making me turn to him so fast if you blinked you would've missed it.

"What are you talking about? Of course I am" I said, completely sure that what I just said wasn't true, but it rolled off my tongue naturally I couldn't stop it.

He then nodded then looked down, and we stayed silent for another couple of seconds.

"You remember the England thing?" He asked, which got my full attention.

"Yeah, why? What about it?" I asked as I scooted closer to him. Luke bit his lip, before looking at me.

"I'm leaving in a few weeks, Kyls" he said, and I was instantly lost for words.

"Wha— for real?" I finally said after a couple of seconds. Luke just looked at me before nodding. "You didn't bother negotioating with Dave?"

"Trust me, I did" he answered "The funny part about it was that I just got an acceptance letter from one of the colleges I applied to across the state when I was told that me moving to England was final" he added before letting out a sad laugh.

"Luke..." I began. He looked up at me again, before pulling me into a tight hug.

"God, I'm gonna miss you so much" he said before resting his face on the nook of my neck. "I know our relationship has been really weird from the beginning, but I'm really gonna miss you. The whole you"

I hugged him back, which made him hug me even tighter that I had to stop myself from completely tearing up.

As soon as he let go, he rested his forehead on mine. And my heart began beating faster than ever.

I wanted to pull him and just kiss him. Like how I wanted to do since I started catching feelings for him.

But instead, he kissed my forehead and lingered it before composing himself.

"Get some sleep" he finally said before getting out of my bed and leaving my room. And I just watched him. Instantly regretting that I said I was happy with Justin.

I laid dumbfounded on my bed for maybe a minute or so as I stared at the closed door, before my phone rang, snapping me out of my senses.

"Hello?" I answered breathless. All my energy has just been drained but I needed to make Justin think that I was fucking fine. What the hell is wrong with me???