My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter8

Alyssa's PoV:

I was trying to clean my room the most I could, leaving everything just perfect and organized, I didn't want that Chase saw the mess that this room can be.

I am usually organized, I like to have everything in control and clean but sometimes... I do procrastinate, I let things for the next day, " I will clean that later", " I will study that later" , " I will do that later" and then when I on the verge of that deadline I tend to have a lot of things to do, all at the same time... like now.

After taking a 360° look around my room, I decided it was just perfect. The desktop had anger chair for Chase, and the rest of the bedroom was perfectly tidy up.

As I smiled in victory I heard my mom calling me from downstairs. "Comiiing!" I exclaimed as I left the room and walked downstairs

"I think it's your visitor, honey" My mom said from the kitchen

"Thanks mom" I said looking into the door peephole, it was in fact Chase.

I opened the door meeting his huge smile and awkward waving.

"Hi"

"Hey, come in"

He looked around the house while nodding sort of looked like he was approving the house. Weird. His eyes stopped on the kitchen after seeing my mom.

"Oh right... that's my mom, mom this is Chase" my looked at us quickly and waved while trying to clean the flour of her hands

"Hello darling. I would greet you but you might get flour all over you"

"That's fine. Mrs.Anderson" Chase gave a apologetic smile

"I am preparing a pie, I will take it upstairs to you guys when it's done" mom said making me nod, Chase kept on smile as if he was enchanted by mom so I simply grabbed his wrists and guided him upstairs and through the halls I led him to my room.

"This is my room" I mentioned getting in, he looked a bit unsure, looking around before getting... what was he on? Did some interior designer possessed him?

"Wow looks awesome"

"Thanks..." I said furrowing my eyebrows while taking a chair from him to sit down "You can just sit here"

"Yeah thanks" he said hurriedly placing his bag on the chair. What is it with him?

"I actually never been to a girls room" he murmured making me nod silently...Is that why he is nervous? I snorted internally to myself...Please I don't know if that's weird or just cute

"Oh well, welcome to mine. Its usually not that tidy up" I mentioned closing the door so we could be more comfortable

"It looks cool! Thank god we planned tutoring in your house if you went to my room you would get suffocated by the surfboards and pictures of the sea"

"I bet it looks good" I mentioned

"Yeah if you don't mind surfboards all around you" he said smiling while taking the notebooks out of his bag

"I am cool with it" I shrugged my shoulders and I catches a glimpse of Chase's eyes examining me

"That's- that's great" he mumbled making me chuckle, was I that intimidating? Maybe I should relax him somehow, talk about something he would calm down

"By the way how do you surf on school times? I mean we are a bit far from the sea it takes around 7 hours to get there" I asked, he nodded and took the bag to the floor interested in my question. He looked at me serenely looking his eyes on mine to respond.

"I don't surf that much now, sometimes I go on small trips on the weekend but it's not that regular so I just try to enjoy the most out of the summer" he explained, making me nod

"That must be hard, being away from something you like so much" I realized

"Yeah, I try to occupy my mind with other things to not thinking about it"

"That's nice" I mentioned "what things ?" I said curious

"You know hum- things that I lately found out I am very interested in" he said as he gave a weird smirk while looking at my lips. Did he really wanted to kiss me... now... what about the kiss at the party did he forget that too? I woke up to reality and I realized he has his eyes closed and was leaning his body towards me while he had his lips stuck out. I started to feel his breath near my face meaning he was just getting closer, I really didn't know what to do, was I suppose to kiss him?

As he got inches away from my mouth the door of my room suddenly opens with no warning knock, just open wide, that scared the livving hell of Chase and I could only see his body get the farthest away from mine almost falling off his chair.

I presumed it was my brother, he was the only one who did that... although we had specific knocks between each other, he probably found out about Chase that's why he barged in.

I took a breath while watching the body leaning against the door frame and the only words that come out were "Pie?" and there I realized it wasn't my brother

I furrowed my eyebrows at the unusual situation and took a nice look at him now, and there he was holding a plate with the lemon merengue pie cut in slices and a sly smirk on his face.

"What are you doing here?"

"Your mom asked me to give you pie" he explained while that smirk never left his face and that really infuriated me

"Excuse me" I told Chase as I got up and walked to the door of my room, since I knew for some reason Mason was probably trying to piss me off and that he would clearly succeed with only that smirk, I decided to walk up o the hall and close the door of my bedroom behind me leaving Chase alone a now it was only me and Mason in the hallway.

He didn't react that much to my action he simply turned himself alongside the curvature of the wall and accompanied my movements as I closed the door. Once it was done I took a deadly look at him. " What are you doing?"

"Giving pie. I thought I just told you that just now"

"Must you always be this annoying?"

"Must you always be this easily annoyed?"

"Huh" I groaned in frustration " Talking to you is useless"

"Oh please.... Just loose it up a little. I came here to deliver pie just like your mom asked" he mentioned, although his words may look inoffensive, the sly smirk on his face tells me otherwise. Mason was never like this to me, he was the quiet guy, never said a damn thing, but since that day or should I say night, since that secret, maybe even before it...he tends to talk to me way more, making me realize he is actually a human being and a very annoying one.

"Fine"

"So do you want pie?"

"Sure," I said shrugging my shoulders maybe Chase will want it to, it would be polite of me to give him so pie "I'll take two slices" I said ready to take the slices into a napkin that was next to the pie but by magic the whole pie slices flew from my front, by magic i mean by Mason's hands.... Why is that sound a bit weird?

Whatever...

"Are you serious? How old are you?" I commented his childish action

" Do you want a slice?" he asked again making me even more annoyed

"Yes I do want slice, two in fact... I just told you that!"

"Ok ok...fine... you want a slice.... Then say please" he commanded while looking at me mischievously

"Are you kidding me ?"

"It's not that hard,.. it's just please " he smirked knowing very well I was reaching my limits "you do need some manners... "

"Really?" I asked while he nodded " well put your manners in your ass alongside the freaking pie" I said ready to walk in the room

"So rude" he said putting his lips together in a straight line and nodding his head from left to right in a disapproving way of my behaviour

"Know that you are done pissing me off, leave my sight" I said his expression changed for a quick second but I couldn't interpret what it was then it went back to his smirk and while I got in my bedroom he went away with his pie.

I took a deep breath closing the door behind me and saw Chase worried face looking at me

"Everything's good?" Chase questioned

I gave a fake smile and answered "Yeah"

"He seems to be everywhere"

"Yeah, he is like that"

"He is everywhere you are at least" that made me think, actually Chase was right at least from his perspective lately everytime he seees me Mason is there.

The first time we talked he was there but far, probably the one and only time. The second time he was the one who stopped me from drinking that vodka of the beer pong that Mason was making me drink, then he got stoned or whatever that was and Mason was still there... if he remembers it, then when I asked him to tutor me, Mason was behind us by the tree and now even when Chase is at my place Mason is here and makes sure to be noticed.

"Yeah well not everywhere" I said

"Well I get it, it's probably your brother"

"What do you mean?" I asked curious

"Oh you know your brother probably told him to keep an eye on you " Chase supposed as if he was certain of what he was saying

"Why would he?" I asked dumbfounded

"You really don't know?" He asked and I nodded a no with my head "Well I'm pretty sure every boy in the school is afraid to talk to you... your brother as sort of put that down a law —"

"A law?" I asked really not getting what Chase was telling me

"Yeah well... your brother is pretty stiff when it comes to you and then after what happened last year with your boyfri—

"Ex-boyfriend"

"Right, sorry. After that your brother sort of threatened everyone one to not talk to you, that's why I wouldn't be admired if Mason was sort of protecting you by your brother's commands"

"Right... but not, Mason doesn't take orders and I never knew about this. What do you mean he threatened ?"

"After hitting on - your ex-boyfriend he made clear to every boy in school that if someone got closer to you we would end up just like him."

"He did not." I said angrily "I told him I could handle things myself why did he get in to my problems?" I said to myself angry at my brothers actions, I know for one side that he meant no harm but he was also depriving me from living my life, with love or no love, even with heart breaks it was my life to live.

"I think he is very protective of you, isn't that good?" Chase questioned

"It depends where you are looking" I responded "If he made that statement to everyone why did you get close to me?" I asked him wanting to know the truthful answer

"Oh me? Well I thought on giving it a go after all those years. I thought you were really pretty since your books fell down" he said making a flash of memories crossed my mind from the first time we met "plus I think you are worth the risk"

"I am?" I asked not being capable of containing my smile, gosh he was sweet or did he just know how to flirt I was really indecise between these two

"You are"he said confidently making my chest full and my cheeks warm "You are totally worth it" he said getting closer and carefully stroking my cheek.

The room seemed to get smaller and the air hotter, while the space between us was getting shorter with each second. I saw his eyes looking mesmerized by my lips as if he was enchanted by them while his mouth tended to open slightly ready to kiss me at any moment.