As The Sun Sets by Erinny Rose (novels for beginners .TXT) 📕

the house, dad had it designed to look like a wood cabin/ cottage on the inside so we have low beams and lovely red oak walls. The front door leads in to the family sitting room, then there are three doors around the room which are 2 guestrooms, a study and then an archway door leading into the kitchen, in the kitchen we have a brilliant fireplace splitting the kitchen and dining room in to two rooms. Off the kitchen is Dylan’s present bedroom and an en suite bathroom, all the bedrooms in our house are en suite.
Then settled down under my duvet with the others to watch the film after receiving a ‘shut the hell up’ look from Bree. I only remembered about half way through the second film that I was still holding my drink, “Do you want this?” I asked Gabriel holding up my drink
“No thanks” he whispered “want me to put it on the side?” he asked quietly
“Please” I said giving him a quick smile “thanks” I said as he took it from me and put it on my bedside table,
he rolled on to his side to face me then whispered “every one looks very busy”, I looked around at Kiah and Willow who were both snuggled up kissing quietly then I looked round at Bree who was entirely engrossed in the film and then at Demitri who was snoozing against her shoulder. “Do you want people to know?” asked Gabriel
“Know what?” I muttered in his ear
“That you love me”.
I shrugged then said “I’m tired” to avoid answering the question and rolled over to face the other way to hide my embarrassment.


Chapter Four

It was late Sunday evening and I was finally on my own, Bree had persuaded me and every one else to watch all twenty Disney films she had brought with her which took all of Saturday and most of Sunday morning. I do love having my friends over don’t get me wrong but all I wanted now was a chance to do stuff by myself, catch up on the house work and my book, I was reading a book called ‘Hang man’s Legacy’ which was about a man who had been accused of murdering six people and was hung for it, but survived because his friend who was a surgeon placed a tube down his throat so when the rope was meant to constrict his air way, it didn’t and basically its how he saved other innocent people from getting hung, it’s a good book. It was early evening by the time I had finished the cleaning and I was just about to start reading my book when I heard a knock at the door, I put my book down and wandered over to open it, not expecting any one I said “who is it?”
“It’s me” said a voice from the other side of the door
“Who is me?”
“Oh sorry, it’s Gabriel, can I come in now?”
I opened the door and said “Gabriel it’s eleven in the evening, I’m going to bed soon!”
“Sorry” he murmured “Time doesn’t really mean anything to me”
“What? Time means something to everyone” I said feeling a bit confused
“Oh, yeah”
“What do you want?” I asked him impatiently
“Well it’s just you seemed a bit quiet all weekend I just wondered if you are ok”
“Yes Gabriel, im fine!” in truth I was still smarting from his rejection on Friday
“Ok, if you’re sure”
“Yes, im sure” I muttered glaring at him as I started to close the door
“Wait a minute Lana, you’re not ok! What is the matter?” he sighed when I didn’t answer “Lana, I am your best friend if you can’t trust me then who can you trust?”
“I will worry about that later, now can you please go now?” I know I was being rude to him but I was too hurt to care.
“Fine” he said frowning “I’ll be here to pick you up in the morning” and then he turned around and walked away.
I sighed shakily as I felt the tears develop again in my eyes and quietly went up the stairs to bed.
At what seemed a minute later I was being shaken awake “What!” I mumbled
“Come on, your late!” said a voice just to the right of me
“Gabriel?”
“Come on!” he said shoving me
“Oh yeah, school” I muttered as I slowly got out of bed to go to the toilet, when I got back I found that Gabriel had laid out some clothes for me on my bed, taking a closer look I found that they were my new clothes
“You promised” he reminded me seeing my face
“I don’t care!” I grumbled “How did you get in?”
“You forgot to lock the door”
“And you think it’s ok to let yourself in to other people’s houses?”
“Come on, get dressed!” he said avoiding the question
“Go away then, so I can have some privacy” I waited until he was down stairs then shoved the clothes that he laid out for me into the corner of my room and put on the same clothes I wore on Friday.
“Come on Lana, were going to be late!” shouted Gabriel from downstairs “we have only fifteen minutes before class starts”
“Coming” I said moodily as I turned off my light and ran down the stairs “You are just like my dad” I said as I arrived at the bottom of the stairs face to face with Gabriel who was holding my lunch which was in a brown paper bag and my baby brother, I took the brown paper bag off him and looked in it to see what he had packed and found a five pound note at the bottom “what was the point in the bag?” I asked
“I found it and thought I could put your lunch in to it, but there wasn’t anything to put in to it so I gave you money instead”
“Why do you have my brother? He can’t come to school with us”
“The baby sitter isn’t here and we can’t leave him alone”
Feeling irritated that he was right because he was always right “You are just like my dad” I confirmed grumpily as I opened the door and then locked it as Gabriel followed behind me, “and you just reminded me that I need to go shopping” Luckily Linda arrived just as we headed out the door and took Dylan off Gabriel.
“See you later” she called to me, It was a good decision to give Linda her own house key.
The first half of the school day went quickly and I was amazed when Gabriel was leading me to the canteen, “today has just flown by” I stated to Gabriel as we walked towards our usual table with a tray of food. “Morning” I said sitting down. I had decided to just forget Friday and get on with the day, its not really worth sulking about really, just because he didn’t say I love you back to me doesn’t mean anything.
“More like afternoon” corrected Bree “did you enjoy the weekend? Because you had a face like a slapped arse all the time we were there”
“Oh, err I wasn’t feeling too good”
Gabriel looked at me as though he knew that was a total lie “You feeling ok now?” he asked looking concerned.
“Sure I’m ok” I said looking around the table “Where is Ruby?”
Everybody looked round towards the “Geek” table, well that’s what every one called them but I think they’re really nice; I looked round and saw Ruby sitting there with them with the usual grimace on her face. “She has found her true calling” Grinned Kiah
Willow and Demitri snorted with laughter, and unluckily for Gabriel, Willow had just taken a mouthful of milk and therefore showering Gabriel with it as it sprayed out of his nose. “Will!” moaned Gabriel standing up
“Sorry mate” said Willow who was still laughing, then laughed even harder when he realised everyone else was laughing as well. “Not my fault” he gasped “Kiah made me laugh!”
“It wasn’t that funny” moaned Gabriel “I’m going to stink of milk for the rest of the day now” he groaned
“Relax Gabriel” I said laughing as I grabbed a tissue to wipe the milk off his face. Then I looked at Willow “Urm Willow” I said trying not to laugh as I handed him a tissue too “you might want to wipe your nose”, then everybody turned to look at Willow again and the laughter started up again as they watched a bit of milk drip out through his nose and land on the table.
“I honestly don’t see why it’s so funny” grumbled Gabriel
“Sit down and stop whining” I said tugging at his sleeve and jumped as I felt my phone vibrate in my skirt pocket, I slid it out to read “New message from Bree” I looked up at Bree who mouthed “read it”, I opened the text and read “So was really wrong? I know you weren’t feeling ill” I rolled my eyes and text her back saying “I will explain it all later in maths” and pressed send then looked up at Bree and waited, after a few seconds she looked at me and nodded. Luckily every one else was involved in a deep conversation and didn’t notice mine and Bree’s silent conversation.
“Well” said Willow as the bell went “That went quick”
“Yeah but you guys still had time to eat my lunch” I said looking down at my tray which was empty and all I had eaten was two grapes.
“Sorry Lana” I was hungry admitted Demitri
“You’re always hungry, anyone would think your pregnant with the amount you eat” Kiah sighed as she stood up “come on you two” looking at me and Bree “We have maths now, see you lads later,”
“Meet us at my car” Gabriel shouted at us as we walked out. Bree waved to let him know that we heard him.
Bree pounced on me as soon as I had sat down “so what was wrong?” she demanded “and don’t lie, I can tell when your lying, your face goes bright red”
“Bree” I mumbled “it really doesn’t matter”
“What?” said Kiah “what doesn’t matter?”
“Nothing” I answered then in an attempt to change the subject I said “Bree, did you see Will and Kiah, they were snogging all the way through ‘The Lion King’!”
“Hey” said Kiah “you were meant to be asleep!”
“You and Will!” laughed Bree “you two would make a great couple!” then she glared at Kiah “why didn’t you tell me?”
“Didn’t seem important” shrugged Kiah
Then to my disappointment Bree turned back to me and said “Lana, come on I am a concerned friend trying to help”
I sighed knowing the only way out of this was the lesson coming to an end, but unluckily for me that was half an hour away “fine, okay” I sighed, “well I was showing him my new clothes, and then out of the blue he told me that he thought I was beautiful, me being me blushed and just said thanks”
“Lana! Gabriel, I take it you are talking about Gabriel right?”
“Yeah”
“Gabriel is to die for and you said thanks when he told you he thought you were pretty”
“Beautiful” I corrected
“Beautiful whatever, don’t tell me you messed it up for him” Bree groaned
“No Bree let me finish ok”
“Ok, go on then”
“Well then he went and sat on my bed and asked me what I wanted to do” then seeing their faces I added “in a non sexual way.”
“Wait a second, what time was this?” asked Kiah
“I think