The thirty-fourth time I saw him we went to meet the people he loved most.

Allie's P.O.V.

"What the fuck," I hissed, twisting in my seat in whoever's car it was that Luke had borrowed. "We're having dinner with your family. And you told me this now?"

Luke glanced over at me and grinned. "I knew you wouldn't want to come if I asked, so I kidnapped you."

"You can trick me by offering to take me to the library!" I complained. "You just broke my trust!"

"I'll risk it," Luke said. "Besides, I am taking you to the library. I just didn't tell you the rest."

"Yeah, you 'conveniently forgot'" I said, making quotations with my fingers. "I'm not even dressed appropriately."

Luke paused to give me a once-over. "You look adorable, as usual."

"You're lucky that I didn't wear sweatpants," I grumbled.

Luke chuckled and dropped his hand from the steering wheel to my hand, intertwining our fingers. "And if you were, who cares? Its not a formal dinner."

"No, not at all," I said, making my voice annoyingly cheery then dropped it to hiss, "Just one where I'm meeting your parents and sister! What if they don't like me? What if they think I'm too rude and dirty-minded? What if they think I'm too old for you?"

Luke shrugged. "I've dated older."

I went to hit him but then he smiled at me with this grin he does, where his tongue presses against his teeth and his eyes glint with mischief and I just end up smiling at him stupidly.

"And," he continues, knowing that he just got out of being smacked, hard. "You just be your perfect self and they'll like you. God knows I do."

I kind of smiled stupidly at him for a while before cursing myself in my head. I had never lasted in the honeymoon stage for so long, and I often found myself staring him whenever we hung out, and texting him randomly at three in the morning or whenever college was killing me.

I was falling hard.

Goddammit.

"We're here!" Luke announced cheerfully. 

He parked the car and turned to me. "Ready to satisfy your deepest desire?" he asked.

"My deepest desire is to fuck Josh Hutcherson, so unless he's hiding behind the shelves, not really," I said dryly. "But, let's go."

Honestly, going to a library always got me excited because then I would find the familiar covers of books I've already read, and then find new ones to add to the growing pile of ones I read. I wandered into the Teen Fiction section and my eyes fell on Sarah Dessen. I loved her books, and I found the book This Lullaby, which I had only read once. I grabbed it and turned around trying to find Luke. I was surprised I found a book so fast. Usually, it takes me at least twenty minutes to find a book. 

I found Luke staring at a girl who looked kind of like him actually, with dark brown hair and dark eyes and a boy was hugging the girl. She looked pretty happy, with her eyes closed.

"Finley? What are you doing here?" Luke asked.

Oh, so that's his sister, I thought. She's pretty.

The boy immediately released Finley and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. He had dark hair and green eyes and a lip ring.

Finley opened her eyes and looked at her brother, slightly embarrassed. "What are you doing here, more likely," she said. "At least I actually study at libraries. Tutoring him," she sad, noticing Luke's glance at the boy.

"Pretty cozy study session," Luke remarked.

Shut up Luke, I thought. Let the girl hang out with the boy.

Finley cleared her throat. "So what are you doing here?"

"Oh," Luke said. "Allie made me come with her so she can get a book."

Finley smirked. "So you're here with Allie, eh? How is she? She made you come to a library, you must really like her!"

Luke shifted uncomfortably. "Yeah, well, I-" 

I decided to intervene and came up next to him, wrapping an arm around Luke's waist. "You ready to go, Luke?" I asked, peering up at him.

"Yeah, what'd you get, babe?" he asked, smiling down at me.

"Sarah Dessen," I answered, showing him the cover, which was a picture of earbuds. "This Lullaby."

"Didn't you read all of the Sarah Dessen books already?" he asked, taking the book from em to examine the cover.

"Well, yeah," I admitted, pushing my glasses up my nose. "But I love this one a lot and I only read it once!"

Luke chuckled, handing me my book and bending to press a kiss to my forehead. I closed my eyes as his lips came in contact with my skin.

"Awww," Finley cooed.

I looked at her in amusement. "Who is this?"

Luke hastened to make introductions. "Allie, this is my sister, Finley. Finley, this is my girlfriend, Allie."

"H-Hi," she smiled. "Nice t-to meet y-you."

I smiled back, knowing that she was probably stuttering due to her anxiety. "Nice to meet you too Finley."

I turned to see Luke watchimg me anxiously, probably trying to gauge my reaction. I smiled at him. The boy came up to rub Finley's back comforting.

"And who's this?" I asked, guessing that this was the boy Luke told me about; Finley apparently liked him.

"That's Eli, her boyfriend," Luke said casually and Finley didn't notice the look of momentary panic on Eli's face but I did, which led me to believe that they weren't dating, but Eli wanted too. "Now, we have to get going. Finley, you coming with us? You have to be home soon anyway."

"Y-Yeah," she answered. "Just l-let me g-get my s-stuff."

As I was walking to check out my book, I heard Eli say," You never corrected Luke when he said I was your boyfriend," and I laughed to myself.

Ah, young love.

The lady at the desk smiled at me as she handed me my book. 

"Thank you," I said cheerfully before going to meet Luke out by his car.

He grinned when I approached. "Got everything?"

"Yup," I answered. "Got your sister?"

"She's coming," Luke said.

"You know, Eli's not her boyfriend," I said, grinning. 

Luke waved an airy hand. "Whatever. She hangs out with him enough, and he likes her, clearly."

"That's true," I said and then Finley came out of the library.

"Took you long enough," Luke said when she got close enough.

I smacked him on the elbow. "Luke! Don't make fun of your sister!"

"Sorry," he mumbled, rubbing his elbow. "It's just, ya know, I want to get home so my parents can meet you? And I'm kinda really nervous about it, and-"

Aww. Well, that was adorable. I stood on my tiptoes to peck him on the cheek and he shut up, a blush on his face. Luke's hand came up to cover up the spot where I kissed him.

"Fin!" someone yelled, and I saw that it was Eli. "You forgot your pencil case," he explained, giving it to her.

"Thanks," she said shyly and Eli smiled, moving his hair out of his face.

I suddenly had one of the best ideas I've ever had.

"Eli, why don't you come with us?" I asked. "Luke's introducing me to his parents, Finley can too."

"That's a great idea babe!" Luke said, catching on quickly and smiling evilly.

The boy may be dumb, but thank the Lord he understood what was happening.

Finley shot Luke a look that was so dark it probably would have killed him if looks could kill.

"That's okay," Eli said timidly. "I mean, unless Finley wants me to come?"

We all looked at her, who looked like she was internally struggling. Finley sighed. "Yeah, Eli, come with us."

"Everybody get in! Luke exclaimed, throwing my door open for me. I climbed in.

"Mate, can I just drive to your house with Finley?" I asked. "I have my car."

"Sure, man,  just no funny business," Luke said, getting in the driver's seat. "See you in twenty minutes!"

As we pulled out of the parking lot, we exchanged matching evil grins.

This is going to be fun.

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