A Cattermole (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alfiecat) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} wished, |
But then he realized she just meant in general, or maybe she meant just this week, or just with Audrey, and he took a shuddery, obvious sort of breath and then relaxed. "Oh. Oh, yeah, I guess I have... you heard about Audrey, right? How we're dating?" Which even sounded weird to say!
Ellie certainly wasn't expecting the reaction that she got from Alfie. It seemed like he was sort of freaking out about such an innocent question. She reviewed how she'd said it and tried to think about why it would cause such worry, but she really couldn't think of anything. She wanted to question him further on it, but then he'd dropped a relative bomb shell on her.
Her eyes widened and she tilted her head, eyeing her twin. "No. What? Since when? I'm seriously that out of the loop that I didn't know that my own brother, my own twin, is dating someone? Oh my goodness!" She practically squealed those three words out as she turned in her seat, pulling one leg up under her to fully face Alfie. She had to hear all about this. And then she had to go interrogate Audrey.
"Spill, Alfie. I want the whole story."
The problem was, giving her the whole story was the reason he'd been terrified, and the uncomfortable way he frowned now wasn't just a teenage boy who didn't want to talk about snogging with his sister - it was decidedly more uncomfortble than that.
"Not long, really..." He said, trying to divert her. "A week, I guess. We just... decided it would be easier than. You know. Dating other people. I had that horrible date with Bagnold last month to Hogsmeade and it just..." He shrugged. "It's easier with Audrey." He sidestepped telling her about Julien for now. He'd wait to see how she reacted to this news, first. But it was also obvious, at least to anyone who could read him like his twin could, that there was something more he wasn't saying.