MY OTHER HALF

ELLE’S POV*

I wake up in my bed just like every other day but today I felt extra happy because i had a birthday dinner to plan, tomorrow was my brother's best friend's Birthday and he also happens to be my best friend since we all grew up together.

I went downstairs after getting myself ready feeling all happy and excited, my family was all here. we were a very close family there was me the middle child then my older brother Luca, then i also had my younger Sister Sam.

There was so much love in our tiny family, we did almost everything together and we all loved going to church as christians because God was important in our lives.

I had so many things to do today, i Finished college a few months back and there are many things i am planning for my life, i am to join the Family business which my Dad and brother run.

My mom had other things she did for work and my sister Sam was only still in high school but as for me am so ready to start working so i can start having money that i worked for my self, Cheers to being independent girly’s in the world.

We live in a very small beautiful town outside of new York and i love it here my brother has his house next to my parents and he is very much single but he is also always busy with running the family business so its kind of understandable to me at the moment. For his next birthday i have to remember to buy him a dog because he has a big house and i feel bad because its always just him living in it if i don’t count the ex girlfriend that had lived with him for a while to our parents shock.

But this leaves me and Sam who are still living at home which will not be long for me since i plan on moving to my own apartment that i have found just around the corner, in about two days time i will be moving in, i feel like i am grown up now 23 years is old enough for big girl duties, living on my own is the next step to my independence and taking care of my self..

While we are eating together the door opens and my best friend Claire walks in looking as beautiful as ever she is so beautiful and she has her signature smile on as always but i notice her looking straight at my brother Luca today, did something happen? I think to myself and he also seems to be looking at her and only her.

i have always noticed how my best friend and brother look at each other and how they interact with each other and even though Claire has told me she does not like him i feel like there is some chemistry there but what do i know about chemistry anyway,

Even though my brother has always had girlfriends Claire has never had an official boyfriend which is the same for me, But It would not surprise me if they got together.

She walks over to the breakfast table and she greats everybody cheerfully except when she greats Luca she looks away shyly as usual then she sits and we all have breakfast together.

After our breakfast Claire and i go to the Mall she is helping me get the birthday presents and stuff needed for the big guy’s day.

My guy best-friend Jack, has been around my family for the whole of my life , he is also my brother's best-friend and he has always been around ever since we were kids, we never got along well when we were young but when we were growing older we had become inseparable from each other, he is Two years my senior and he has everything going well for him he has a company that he runs with his brother and they make big bucks, he owns a big beautiful home for himself, he has everything the way i see it and am proud of him.

He is with me when he has time away from work but he is out of town today which gives me enough time to get him stuff for his birthday tomorrow, i am so excited for him to add one more year i would do anything for him he is the best thing in my life, he is the closest thing i have had to being close to any guy in my life apart from my brothers he is everything to me.

I had a realisation when i had turned sixteen and he was 18 with all the teenage hormones and changes how he had always made me feel happy I was always looking forward to seeing him every single day, always wanting to be around him so i realised that i might like him, thats how the big crush on him started.

i would sometimes dream about him all of a sudden, how could i not when he was always around at our house with my brother as well as his whole family, his family and mine even went to the same church and country clubs.

His family was well known in our town because his Dad had been the mayor for almost fifteen years. So his family hosted a-lot of gatherings at their home which meant we were always around each other and so i did develop Feelings for him, he became my dream guy the fool.

Claire knows about my crush on him but i would never tell Jack how i feel, i am very much afraid of him rejecting me because obviously he does not feel that way about me am sure he looks at me as his friends little sister then his best friend, it would break my heart if after all this time he was no longer in my life because i complicated our relationship so i would rather not tell him so i can have him around and not disturb anything we have.i know my confession would end with my heart broken.

Me and claire arrive at the mall and we look around for some guy stuff to buy him and get gift wrappings, cards and a big cake and some decorations, to top it all off i would also have to cook him his favorite food for the birthday dinner.

we finish up and then i drop Claire at her house then i go back home to wrap everything in gift boxes.

I arrive home and am surprised to actually see Jack's car in my brother's driveway, i did not think he was going to be back in town so soon but am happy i get to see him so i take everything for his birthday out of the car very quickly and i hide them in my room then i run over to Luca's house and i open the door i know exactly which room they are in as i am about to knock on the door of where they are in i hear something thats interesting to my ears so i stop by the door and eavesdrop for a sec.

"I like her, She is a good person,and We have been talking for three months now", i hear Jack say to my Brother Luca.

"If you say so Man thats amazing ", Luca says back.

Who has Jack been talking to?, i question in my head.

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