Chapter 6 - That's what brothers are for

Nikolas's POV

My eyes traveled from the beer in my hand to Alex beside me. He took his last chug and placed the can aside, his eyes on the TV. He somehow decided to drop by unannounced as he always does and I've been contemplating on how to tell him what happened.

"Okay, what's up with you?" He asked with a loud sigh, his eyes drifting from the TV, all of his attention now on me.

I shrugged, "What?"

His eyebrows pulled closer, "You keep looking at me, and that kind of scares me, what do you want? Or what did you do?" He added, suspiciously, "You did something, didn't you?"

I sighed and leaned forward in my seat, my eyes anywhere but at him, and told him what's on my mind, "Lilly saw me," I mumbled.

When he didn't reply, my gaze drifted back to him. He stared at me confused, "Saw you? When?"

Okay, he doesn't look angry. That's a good start.

"I dropped by your place a couple of days ago, I wanted to talk to you about something, and then-" I sighed, rubbing a hand over my face, "She saw