lost love - elizabeth fritz (classic books for 7th graders .TXT) 📗

I think it was nice of Luke to write that. Brave actually.” I smiled as we took our seats and the conversation went on about it.

Did I mention that my brother Paul is coming so soon? Its almost Friday. I can't wait!

Later on Michael came by.
“Hey…” he smiled at me.
I smiled up at him, “Yes?”
Emily smirked, watching us. She knew that I didn’t really like him. She was upset of course because of Dan being his best friend and double dating and all. But anyway.

“I thought you were joining me today for lunch” he said.
Luckily I had a good excuse this time. “Nah, I didn’t want Emily to sit alone, since you know, Dan is sick today and couldn’t make it here…”

“Oh…” he frowned, “Oh well.”

I smiled widely, “Sorry Mike. I guess I’ll see you later.” I said waiting for him to go.
“Alright…” he sighed and kissed me, but I pulled away fast.

“I’m sorry but my lips feel really chapped. They hurt a lot…” I said putting a hand over my mouth.
He frowned, “Okay whatever. Feel better.” He kissed my cheek then left.
“Why don’t you just break up with him?” Emily asked, but I could see a small smile playing at her lips.

I shrugged though, “Im not really sure. I guess I don’t have the guts. I mean, its so harsh, you know? To be thrown away.” I sighed helplessly.

Emily nodded slowly, “I guess..?” she said, making it sound like a question.
Emily never gets dumped. She’s the one who ends up saying goodbye.

I shook my head and gave her a small laugh. And before you know it, Luke was heading for our table, with a wide toothy smile on him. And a pouting Kelly behind him.

“Hey!” Luke exclaimed, plumping down on a seat beside us, “Mind if I— or we—join you?” he asked.

Emily shrugged, picking at her carrots.
“Um sure. Why not?” I smiled at him then Kelly.

Luke sat down then in front of us and Kelly sighed, “Why won’t you sit at my table?” she asked.

“well because your table is boring Kells.” He said.

Kelly pouted, “Fine.” She said walking away.

I smiled just a teensy bit, “Luke, shouldn’t you go after her?” I said when he didn’t.

“Nope,” he said. “She’ll be okay.” He said and then turned back to us. “So what’s going on really?”

Emily shrugged, “Nothing, we were just going through Shannon’s cast, you know, seeing what people wrote.” She winked at him.

I looked down immediately at my drink and Luke actually turned kinda red. Kinda.
I looked around the room when that awkward silence started and found Kelly sitting on Michael’s table with other people. I rolled my eyes and turned back again.

“Well this is interesting.” Luke said. “Its nice to sit at a table where people are actually calm, you know?” he said looking around the cafeteria. He was right, everyone is so hyper in this school.

I smiled at him, “Yeah I know right?” I never noticed that me and Emily were too quiet. I guess we were.

So we sat there the rest of the lunch, just being quiet, and talking to each other with body language, and it might sound lame but it was actually quite… relaxing.

((Okay so I'm starting to write again, but it won't be as good I guess! Gotta be patient!))

bigg bubba meets luke (:P)

 My biggie brother is here!

Paul arrived safely on Friday, and we all (Mommy, Daddy, and Justin) went to the airport to pick him up.

“Where is he? Everyone from the flight is out but him!” My mom said eagerly.

I was the first to find him. “Paaaaaaaaaaaaul!” I ummm exclaimed running up to him and gave him the biggest huggie ever.

“Why hello, there, younger one. How do you do this fine morning?” Paul said in a British accent.

I stared at him in disbelief and he laughed, “I’m just kidding with you Shan! How are you baby sister!” he said in his normal voice.

My mom rushed over and hugged him tightly. “Oh Paulie my baby. How was your flight? Are you okay? Was everything okay in Europe? Are you tired? Are you hungry? You wanna grab some lunch? You want –“

“Mom, mom!” Paul laughed rolling his eyes, “I’m fine.”

Dad welcomed Paul home and so did Justin.

“Hey there little wimp.” He winked slapping the back of his head.

Justin laughed, “Its good to see you here too.” He said, and that was all.

Soon we arrived back home safely, having a nice chat on the way home to the airport, nothing personal though. Mostly Mom and Paul were speaking. Dad chipped in a bunch of times, and so did I but of course Justin was quiet the whole way, secretly texting with his phone.

We got home finally and Paul was tired but he didn’t wanna go to sleep. We had some Chinese food (Yummy) and then everyone was back on track and I went to help him unpack his bags.

“So what did you get me?” I asked.

Paul snorted, “My love.” He said.

I laughed and hit him with a pillow, “No seriously, you didn’t get me anything from England?” I faked a pout.

“Awwwww,” he said poking me playfully. “Of course I did.” He said going through his bags and pulled out a t-shirt that said I heart London.

I took it from him, “Thaaaanks.” I said. “I already have three of these now.”

He sighed, “Well I don’t know what else to get you!” He admitted.

I smiled, “Its okay Paulie,” I said “it doesn’t matter.”

He grinned, “I know.”

“Yeah so whats going on in England? A lot of clubbing and partying I suppose?” I said.

He just grinned, “That’s right…”

I raised an eyebrow. “Okay…”

He nodded, “yep, and what’s with you? How’s Emily?” he asked.

“Good, she’s fine.” I said nodding and throwing his stuff into the hamper.

“And how’s your love life? Any boys yet?” He asked casually.

He looked at me when I didn’t answer. “well?”

“What?” I asked crossing my arms.

“Who’s the guy?” he grinned.

I sighed, “I’m dating this guy, Michael.”

He opened his mouth to speak.

“No, its nothing serious, and no to all the other questions you’re thinking of.” I said before he even asked.

He laughed, “you know me too well, sis.” He said. “Lets go for a walk.” He suggested.

“Sure, lets go.” I said slipping on my shoes that I took off.

Paul did the same and got up, heading out.

I followed him out and we got outside and walked, just talking about random things that we talk about. We updated each other on our lives and shared stupid secrets like we always did.

“I missed you.” I said for about the eighth time that day.

“I missed you tooooooooo.” He replied for the eighth time, and slung his arm over my shoulder.

I laughed and slipped my hands in my pocket as we walked. We soon stopped at a park and I saw a familiar figure… called Luke.

Luke was there! Him and his angelic face.

He was waving at me!

“Who’s that? Michael? Nice.” Paul grinned, nudging me.

“No.” I blushed a bit. “That’s Luke. Our new neighbour, and he’s my friend.” I said. “We’re Just friends.”

Luke walked over to us. “Hey Shannon.” He said then glanced over to my brother. “You must be Paul.” He said and flashed him a smile.

“Yeah, you must be Luke. Shannon has told me loads about you.” Paul grinned widely, his devilish smile.

I blushed more.

Luke chuckled, his eyes flickering to mine and back to his. “Has she now. Its nice to meet you.” He said holding out his hand.

Luke nodded, “Yeah, you too.” He said and shook his hand, “and welcome to this neighbourhood man.”

“Thanks.” He said letting go of his hand, still keeping eye contact. “So how’s England?”

I wondered how Luke knew this stuff.

“England is good.” Paul said. “its beautiful, and yeah.”

They went on talking for about another ten minutes, non stop. Seriously. They just kept going on an on, and laughing and blah blah blah! And it wouldn’t end. I just stood there, not sure of what to do, thinking of how awkward this was.


“Yeah.” I said randomly and they both looked at me as if I was insane. “What?” I asked pouting.

They blinked and went back to their conversation. I think they were talking about Pizza. Or the news. Something like that.

Finally they ran out of words and I was probably daydreaming because when I snapped out of it, Paul was gone. It was just me and Luke. Eep.

“Oh. Hey. Where’s Paul?” I asked.

He smiled at me. That smile. Ahh..
“He went to get a drink.” He said nodding over to where he was.

I nodded, “Oh cool. So what are you up to?” I asked.

“Nothing really. Getting some fresh air.” He said. “And getting some thoughts together.”

“What thoughts?” I asked curiously.

He just smiled and shook his head.

Right. Of course he wasn’t going to tell me. Who was I to know what he was thinking of? Just another girl yeah.

“Okay. So how’s Kelly?” I asked.

“She wont speak to me.” He sighed. “Why? How is Michael?” he asked.

I looked at him for a moment. “Umm I don’t know.” I said.

He raised his eyebrows, “He’s your boyfriend you know. You should be more committed into the relationship.”

I looked down, feeling guilty.

“Hey, look, I’m sorry. Michael is my friend…” he said

Wow. Why was he even speaking to me about this? What’s his problem?
I was getting furious. Why is Luke acting like this?

I looked up at him. “No, you’re right.”

He opened his mouth to speak, just when Paul came back. “Hey.”

“Thanks.” I said to Luke then looked at Paul. “Hey, lets go.”

He looked at me strangely. “O-kay.” He said, glancing at Luke, who’s expression I could not read. “Seeya later then.”

Luke nodded, “Okay, bye.” He said before walking away.

I took Pauls arm and literally dragged him away.

“Ow, hey hey. Whats the matter with you?” he asked.

“Nothing….” I groaned. “Lets just go home.”

He sighed and then we walked home, silently.

CHAPTER 17: NEW BEGINNING !!!!!!

 The next morning I woke up, to the sound of the little birds chirping, and then I suddenly starting remembering what happened the previous day with Luke. The whole scene played out in my head again, and I couldn’t help but think that Luke had a point. Michael,
After all, he was my boyfriend. Dont get me wrong. I was still kind of pissed at Luke.

So I took my cell phone and I wrote a short text to Michael, telling him that i was sorry for behaving the way i have the last few days and