My Best Friend's Brother

6: Clubbing

Karter

Why did Marie have to look so damn good right now? I can't keep my eyes off her. What is wrong with me?

Right now, Liam is going on about something, I'm not paying any attention whatsoever. I just keep on looking at Marie giggling with the girls. I'm happy she gets along with everyone and also that she and Grace are like long-lost best friends or something so that's nice. I really want to kill that Sam guy, when Grace asked Marie about him, I could see the hurt in her eyes when she spoke about him. He's an asshole.

"What do you think Kar?" Devin asks me.

"Yeah sure, absolutely" I answer not knowing what he is talking about.

"See lads I told you," Li says and they all start laughing. I raise an eyebrow.

"Mate, if you keep on staring at Marie like that and not pay attention to anything we say, she's going to notice and get creeped out," Alex says.

"I'm not staring at her" I defend myself.

"Whatever you say" Carl remarks.

"I have an idea; we're done with dinner. How about we all head to the club?" Devin suggests.

"Sounds like a plan," Alex says and we all nod in agreement.

We ask the girls and they seem fine with clubbing. So slowly we all walk out of the club, following after Dev, all the couples one by one. Marie and I are the last ones. I intertwine our fingers together and she doesn't seem to mind. I smile and lean down and whisper in her ear, "Having fun love?"

She nods and smiles at me, "Yup, your friends are so nice and it's nice that I found G after so long, I missed her and now I have a familiar face around"

"Yeah, that's nice. They all love you. I knew they would"

She smiles and we continue walking towards my car. We reach and I open the door for her.

The club was nearby so we reached in a few minutes. We all got out of the cars and headed towards the entrance. I once again laced my fingers with Marie and I could see Liam and Eleanor smirking at us. God Damn them. As we enter the club, once again the girls went on one side and the guys on another.

Whenever I come to the club, it's usually for a hookup but tonight I'm not interested. A few girls even offered to buy me drinks but I declined. As I was sipping my Vodka keeping an eye on the crowd looking for Marie and the girls, Devin speaks up, "Wow Kar, that's the second girl you turned down today. Got an eye out for a special one?"

I see the rest of the boys wiggling their eyebrows at me, I slightly smile, "I don't know. Maybe."

After sitting at the bar and talking for a while, Liam spots the girls and suggests we should join them on the dance floor, to which we all agree. As we reach the girls, I see a guy next to Marie I can't help but overhear what they're saying.

"You're really beautiful" He was grinning at her.

Marie looks down at her feet blushing, "Thank you"

"Would you like to dance?" Umm no she won't.

"I'd love-" I cut her off as I walk near them and wrap my arm around Marie's waist.

"Actually mate, she was going to dance with me, sorry" I say.

"Oh no worries, nice meeting you Marie" he says politely.

"You too, Jack" and with that he walks away.

Marie turns to look at me and gives me a strange look I just grab her hand and ask, "dance?" She agrees and I wrap both my arms around her waist as we slowly move to the rhythm.

"What was that?" She asks.

"What was what?" I play dumb.

"Stop, you know what. Driving that guy away. He was cute."

"He seemed like a weirdo. Did you get his number?"

"No, he did not, he was polite and nice. I would have until someone rudely interrupted us" she scoffs.

"Good. M I just did you a favor. Plus let's be real you and I both know that a girl as beautiful as you can do way better than a guy like him"

She blushes and looked down, “You think I'm beautiful?"

"Well yeah. Probably the most beautiful girl in this club right now. C'mon don't hide your face from me you must have known you're beautiful"

"Well, I've been told by my friends and family sometimes but...Sam, he never used that word for me. He used to call me pretty, hot, sexy but not beautiful" she once again looks down at her feet. I clench my teeth at the mention of her ex.

I put my hand on her chin and gently pull her face up to look at me, "Hey, that guy a d**k. He didn't realize how good he had it, and M, the more you talk about him not only are you hurting yourself but you're also tempting me to get a flight to America right now and beat his arse"

She laughs at my words," Thanks Karter"

The song changes to a slow one, my hands around her waist pull her closer to me so her head is now on my chest. I like this. What on earth is this girl doing to me? We move to the slow beat in comfortable silence.

Suddenly she speaks up,"You know Karter, I really wish you'd open up to a girl. I mean you've such a catch, besiDavid the fact that you're totally hot, you've got such a big heart" I smile at her and for moments we just stare deeply into each other's eyes. I can't help but stare at her pink lips. As soon as I'm about to lean in, I hear a voice behind me, "M!" It's Grace.

We pull away as Grace nears us, she gives Marie a raised eyebrow, "Okay so it's getting late and Alex and I both have work tomorrow, but you have my number, Kar knows where we live, so call me whenever. I'm free on the weekend so I'll pick you up from Kar’s and we'll hang, we have a lot of catching up to do" she says and hugs Marie. She then hugs me, "Bye Kar, Bye babe, love you both!" With a wave, she's out of our sight.

Marie

"Where are the others?" I ask Karter as soon as Grace leaves.

"I think they're at the bar, let’s go, shall we?" Karter asks and I nod my head. I grab onto his hand and intertwine our fingers together; I don't know if it's just me but as soon as I do that a smile starts to appear on Karter's lips.

We walk over to the club and I take a seat next to Sophia with Karter beside me. Liam was talking but I wasn't paying attention. Why did Karter tell Jack that he wanted to dance with me? Was he jealous? And then he called me beautiful and that I Daviderve someone better then Jack? If Grace wouldn't have interrupted would he have kissed me? Would Karter and I have kissed? What is going on. I was so lost in my thoughts I didn't hear Liam and Eleanor saying they were leaving. Until Eleanor and Liam came to me. Liam hugged me, "It was really nice meeting you Marie. I'd love to see you again." He says and I smile back.

"It's lovely meeting you M. We'll stay in touch. The four of us need to have a girl’s day because I really like you" Eleanor says and hugs me. As she hugs me, she whispers in my ear, “I saw you and Kar earlier. Gurl, I want details okay? I'll text you" I smile and speak

"It was really nice meeting both of you. Yes, Eleanor I will" I smile at them.

"Since I'm calling you M, call me El"

"Okay El" I say in a British accent.

Both El and Liam laugh, "Not bad, see you both later. Bye" Liam says and with that they leave.

Soon after Liam and El left Sophia and Carl decided to leave too.

"It was pleasure meeting you Marie" Carl say as he hugs me.

"Now you're in our gang M. We'll hang out more often M. I'll text you when and where. Oh, and call me Soph" she says and hugs me.

"Wow, Sophia doesn't let many people call her by her nickname. She gave Karter permission after like a few months, guess she really likes you!" Carl remarks. I just smile.

"You want to get going as well?" Karter whispers in my ear sending shivers down my spine.

"Sure." I answer. He then grabs my hand and we wave to Devin who is busy dancing with a girl who returns the wave with a smile and Karter and I exit the club hand in hand.

Do I have feelings for Karter Allan?