The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window (15 page)

Kate grinned
at me
. “Hmm, well where’s the fun in
that?” she asked, winking at me and making me chuckle.

“
We’re going
bowling in an hour anyway; if you want to come it’s up to you.
Sarah and Sean are coming, and maybe Terri too.” I shrugged,
plopping on the floor by Liam’s feet
,
leaning against his legs. I could see Kate staring at me with
shocked, wide eyes, so I quickly moved away from him, blushing like
crazy.

“
I don’t mind
bowling. What do you think
, Jake, want to
whip the girl’s asses?” Liam asked, grinning.

Kate
nodded
quickly. “I’m definitely up for
some whipping,” she said enthusiastically. The boys both ignored
her.

“
Yeah OK. I
like bowling I guess. Hey, Liam, why don’t you ask your girlfriend
to come along too? Or are you afraid that she’ll take one look at
me and think she’s made a mistake and dump your ass for an
upgrade?” Jake joked.

“
My
girlfriend wouldn’t even look at you
,
Jake, so I don’t have anything to worry about,” Liam answered
confidently; I could hear the amusement in his voice. I just
blushed harder, trying to melt into the sofa and
disappear.

“
You have a
girlfriend, Liam?” Kate asked
, frowning.
She looked like she was trying to solve a complicated math problem,
her face all scrunched up in concentration.

“
Yep he does.
Some mystery girl who he’s crazy about, apparently,” Jake scoffed,
rolling his eyes.

Kate’s
eyes shot to me for some reason. She looked like
she was trying to bore a hole in my face. I gulped and looked away,
not really wanting to lie to my best friend. She gasped and looked
at me with wide eyes, then looked at Liam, then back to me,
silently asking if it was me. Holy crap, what is she a mind reader
or something? I nodded slowly, trying not to be obvious, making her
gasp again and giggle excitedly.

“
Let’s go
finish getting ready in your room,
Amber!” she cried, jumping up. She was so excited that she
actually clapped her hands like a child. I groaned internally, oh
great, here it comes, the million questions.

“
I’m already
ready.” I shook
my head at her
warningly.

“
I
need
your
help in the bedroom with something!” she hissed, looking like she
would murder me if I didn’t get up right now. I pushed myself up
and I heard Liam chuckle from the couch. I rolled my eyes at him;
he really had a big mouth at times! But it is a sweet
mouth.

I followed
Kate into my bedroom; s
he shut the door
and grabbed me. “I knew it! That boy has been eyeing you for
years!” she cried, jumping up and down. I laughed at her
excitement; she seemed almost as pleased about it as if it was her
going out with him.

“
He has not!”
I smiled
.

She dragged
me over to the
bed. “Oh be quiet! He
is
always
looking at you. He finds any excuse to touch you. He flirts
with you shamelessly, and is always telling you how hot you are.”
She sighed dreamily. “So, young lady, when were you planning on
telling me, your best friend?” she scolded, playfully.

“
Er well, we
were going to keep it secret for a couple of weeks. Jake’s really
not going to like it.” I cringed slightly at the thought of the
warning look I’d seen him giving Liam earlier when we were cleaning
after the party; he was really opposed to the idea of me dating
him.

“
Wow
, yeah, I didn’t think about
that. Jake’s going to be crazy mad!” she said with wide eyes. I
nodded, playing with my hands in my lap. “So, when did all this
happen? You were together at the party, right? He was staring at
you the whole night, and he beat the crap out of Jessica’s brother
for kissing you.”

I
gasped
, a little shocked. “He beat up
Jessica’s brother?” I asked. I remembered him pinning him against
the wall, but then I ran off to be sick.

“
Yeah. He was
shouting at him to keep his filthy hands off you, and that you
didn’t want him to kiss you. He’d seen you trying to push him away,
apparently. Liam hit him a couple of times before the team broke it
up. Then he just disappeared after that, Jake said he went home.”
She eyed me curiously. I knew my face was red, I was a terrible
liar. “He didn’t go home, did he?” She smirked at me
knowingly.

I took
a deep breath and shook my head. She screamed,
literally screamed, and about two seconds later Jake and Liam came
bursting into my room.

“
WHAT? WHAT
IS IT?” Jake shouted, looking around like
there was a fire or something.

“
Er…. Er, it
was a…. er,” I stuttered, grasping wildly for something to
say.

“
Spider,
” Kate interjected
quickly, pointing in the direction of my bathroom.

Jake sighed
and walked in there, shaking his head disapprovingly.
“Seriously,
all that over a spider? I
thought you were being murdered in here!” he scolded.

Kate smirked
at me and Liam. He actually looked like he was having fun watching
me
squirm. He winked at me, which made
Kate laugh. I stuck my tongue out at him and he waggled his
eyebrows at me, she just laughed louder at the two of
us.

Jake walked
back out, frowning and shaking his head. “I couldn’t find anything
in there.”

“
Oh, maybe it
wasn’t a spider; it might have just been a bit of fluff or
something,” Kate suggested, wavi
ng her
hand for them to leave.

Jake rolled
his eyes
. “Jeez, Kate, you really are
weird,” he said, walking out and shutting the door behind
him.

She turned
back to me
, looking excited. “I can’t
believe you lost your virginity to Liam James! Was it good? I bet
he was good, right? He is so freaking hot! I’m so jealous!” she
cooed, going off into a world of her own.

“
I didn’t
have sex with him,
” I said
quickly.

She snapped
her eyes to mine
. “You didn’t? Well why
the heck not? If that was me I would have jumped his fine ass there
and then.”

I
giggled
and shrugged. “Yeah I know you
would, but that’s just not me.”

“
OK, I know.”
She sighed, looking a little defeated. Suddenly her face brightened
again. “So, what did you do then?”

“
We just made
out, Kate, that’s all,” I said honestly. We really hadn’t gone much
further than that, so it wasn’t really a lie.

“
You’re so
lucky
. You have the hottest guy in school
as your boyfriend and the second hottest is your brother. I mean,
that’s just greedy!” she scolded, waggling her finger at me in a
mock annoyed gesture. “So, he called you his girlfriend! Has he
asked you out? Like officially, you’re a couple? Exclusively?” she
asked, looking at me in awe.

I
nodded
, but grimaced at the same time.
“Yeah he has, and yeah we are. But to be honest, I don’t know how
it’s going to work out. I mean, he’s such a player I’m honestly a
little scared to let myself fall for him in case he cheats on me or
dumps me or something,” I admitted in a small voice, staring at the
floor as all of my worries flashed through my mind.

She grabbed
me into a hug
, which immediately made me
start to feel sick. My heart was pounding in my chest at her casual
touch. I knew she was only trying to comfort me, but I couldn’t
help my body’s reaction to touch. “I don’t think he will. I mean,
he’s never had a girlfriend before, he’s
never
been exclusive, so you
have nothing to base your theory on. Technically, he’s never
cheated on anyone before.” She gave me a half smile. I couldn’t
help but laugh at her attempt to make me feel better. I guess
that’s true, the fact that he’s willing to be exclusive is a sign
that he’s into it.

“
We’d better
go anyway; Sarah and Sean will be waiting there for us. Oh and
Kate, don’t say anything to anyone,
OK?
Not even Sarah. I just want to see how it goes for a couple of
weeks before Jake finds out,” I explained.

“
I
won’t
, I promise,” she vowed, crossing
her heart. “So, is he a good kisser?” she whispered, as we walked
down the hallway.

“
Unbelievable,” I replied
, as we
walked to the lounge.

“
Damn it!
Lucky cow!” she muttered quietly,
making
me chuckle.

Chapter 9

“So, are you guys coming or not?” I asked, because
they were still sitting on the couch.

“
Yeah,
OK.
” Jake sighed. He obviously didn’t
want to come, maybe Liam was making him. He grabbed his keys and
headed for the door. “I’ll go get the car out of the garage. Meet
you out there.”

“
Oh
crap
, I forgot my purse,” Kate said,
skipping off back to my room.

Liam
immediately grabbed me and kissed me, pus
hing me against the wall gently. I wrapped my arms around
his neck, gripping my fingers in his hair. “Mmm, I’ve missed you,”
he murmured against my lips.

“
You did? I
had no idea. Could you make it a little more obvious?” I joked,
making him chuckle.

He kissed me
again, sucking on my bottom lip lightly, asking for entrance. I
eagerly opened my mouth for him; he slipped his tongue in,
exploring every part of my mouth
, making
my stomach get butterflies. Someone cleared their throat and we
jumped apart, thinking it was Jake. Thankfully it wasn’t though, it
was Kate.

She had the
biggest g
rin on her face that I had ever
seen. “You two look hot together,” she stated, smirking at
me.

Liam laughed
and threw his arm around my shoulder. “
Angel looks hot whoever she’s with.” He grinned and kissed
my cheek, softly.

“
Aww, that’s
so sweet!” Kate cooed, putting her hand over her
h
eart, looking at him
adoringly.

I rolled my
eyes. “Oh, come on! We’ll be late if we don’t go now.” I grabbed
her hand and pulled her out of the door. I turned back and threw my
keys to Liam, who locked the front door behind him. As he handed me
back my keys, his finger brushed mine on purpose, making me moan a
little in the back of my throat.

“
Hey
, Liam, you don’t mind riding
in the back with Amber, do you? I really want to sit up front,”
Kate called from the car, giving me a wink.

I saw Jake
shaking his head at Liam, obviously asking for help. Liam
smirked
in his direction. “No. That’s
fine if you want to ride up front.” He glanced at me from the
corner of his eye. I smiled at Kate subtly. I loved my best friend;
bless her, she was giving me time with him.

I climbed in
the back and Liam slid in next to me, pressing his knee against
mine.
I put my hands in my lap and
smiled. He reached out and took my hand, holding it tightly,
putting it on the seat in the middle of us and moved his leg so it
was shielded from view in case Jake turned around. There wasn’t
really much chance of that though, considering he was driving, but
I guess it’s better to be safe than sorry. Liam’s casual touch was
sending sparks of electricity shooting up my arm. I bit my lip and
looked out of the window, fighting the desire to grab him and kiss
him until I couldn’t breathe. After the longest, most excruciating
car journey ever, we arrived at the bowling alley. OK, that a
slight exaggeration, it only took ten minutes, but the whole time I
was fighting with myself to just jump on him and hold him
tightly.

There were
eight of us bowling; Me, Liam, Jake, Kate, Sarah, Sean, his
girlfriend Terri
, and she had brought her
brother, Mark, who was down from college. Liam seemed to have taken
an instant disliking to Mark for some reason. He was being polite
enough, but his smile didn’t quite reach his eyes. I was actually
having fun even though I was totally losing. I was terrible at
bowling and only really came to be with my friends. The highlight
of the whole experience was watching Liam bowl. When he bent to
throw his ball, I got a perfect view of his perfect behind, and I
could barely contain my enjoyment.

“
Not too good
at the whole bowling thing, huh?” Mark asked
, sitting down next to me, smiling.

I
laughed
. “Nope, I never did get the hang
of it,” I stated, shaking my head in mock horror.

“
I could
teach you if you want. It’s all about the positioning,” he purred,
suggestively.

I gulped
nervous
ly, but tried not to let it show.
“Positioning, really? That’s why I’ve been getting it wrong all
these years?” I smiled, a little uncomfortable, but to be honest I
liked flirting, as long as they didn’t get the wrong idea and start
trying to touch me.