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Chapter twenty-two - Cleo
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Rise and shine sleepy head." I giggle, poking Luke in the shoulder. He'd insisted he wanted to come training with me before school, but I wasn't convinced he'd be as keen when I started nudging him at 5.30am and it looks like I was right. I lean down and kiss his cheek. "Ok, I'll see you at school."
"I really hate you, you know that right?" He grabs my wrist, holding me next to the bed as he rolls over, groaning and yawning.
"Luke, stay in bed you idiot, I wasn't seriously expecting you to come." I giggle again when he squints around the room, staring at the wardrobe for a few seconds before grunting with the effort of getting up.
"I said I'd come, so I'll come. There's something very wrong with someone who willingly gets up at this time every day." He tugs a t-shirt over his head, pulling on his jeans and
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I wake up with Luke wrapped around me, snoring against my back and the sun streaming in past the curtains. He doesn't look like he's going to wake up any time soon and he looks so peaceful I don't want to wake him, so I grab my phone and watch a film on Netflix while I wait for him to wake up on his own. He jolts and twitches every so often in his sleep, so I don't react at first when his hands start to move over my body, but when he starts to kiss my neck, I know he's awake. I lock my phone, slide it onto the table and turn towards him. "You should have woken me up." He says before kissing me, his hands making quick work of removing my pajamas. He sits back on his heels, smiling down at me, his fingers stroking patterns on my calves as he positions my legs either side of his beautiful muscular body. "So, what was it you said you wanted to do with me?"
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That waste of oxygen just keeps appearing where he's not wanted, although to be fair to him, I can't imagine there's anywhere he is wanted.When I pull up in Cleo's posh little car, his head snaps up and I know he's too sober to just crawl away."Look a' y'now, I be' y'think you're somethin' now, bu' y'not." He starts shouting before I've even stepped out of the car. "I know wha' y'are and that's nuffin'. Tha's all you'll ever be.""You're wrong." Cleo comes to stand beside me which is cute, even if it's the worst thing she could do."Just ignore him." I tell her, guiding her past him, just in time for him to take a swing at me."Who t'fuck d'you think y'are? I'nore me. I'll sho' you." He shouts as his fist connec
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Luke: Branston High Series Chapter thirty-four - Cleo
"Cleo honey, Aurora's here for you." My mum comes downstairs to the swimming pool with Aurora following closely behind her. "Sit down here, I'll get you some drinks and Cleo needs to get out of the pool anyway, she's done more than enough training."She directs the last comment in my direction, a lifted brow enough to let me know shes worried I'm overdoing it, but it's the only place I can seem to shut my mind off.Aurora watches me without saying a word while I climb out of the pool and wrap myself in a towel, perching on the chair opposite hers."Hi." I say, squeezing water from my hair to avoid her studious gaze."You going to explain what happened? Because we thought you were skiving and then it turns out you're just avoiding us and Luke's in an absolute state.
