I Found Myself Falling... Not For The Right Thing Either.

43: Partying

“Come on in!” I heard Liz’s voice call as I knocked on her door. Not waiting for furthermore instructions, I pushed the door open and proceeded into her house. “We’re upstairs!” She yelled down to me as she heard the front door close behind me. I smiled and kicked off my boots, hoisting my bag further up onto my shoulder and walking up the stairs to her room.

Jake was nice enough to drop me off tonight making me happy because that meant that we were kind of back to normal. I mean, we were talking again and since our argument/discussion the other day, we were back to treating one another like siblings rather than enemies and let me tell you this, I was really glad. It was weird not having my brother talk to me. I mean you have some of those families who don’t talk to one another at all. Everyone eats dinner in silence or eats in a different room and spends the rest of their day apart from one another even though they’re all in the same house.

My family is nothing like that. We talk about a lot of stuff. We’re very open with one another and to tell you the truth, I love it. Anyways, it was great having my twin back to normal. Don’t get me wrong, we didn’t talk about a lot of stuff, but it had only been a few days. As my dad had said, he needed time. The only bad thing about it was I hadn’t talked to Craig in a few days. Our conversation that one morning had been it for a bit. He hadn’t been in school for a few days and it kind of bothered me, but with everything going on I figured he was giving us all space as well.

I did miss seeing his face though.

Laughing and giggling brought me out of my thoughts as I reached Liz’s purple and blue room.

“What’s going on in here?” I asked out loud, pushing the door open a bit more. The girls giggled once again before looking over at me.

“Nothing, just talking.” Katie told me, smiling widely. I narrowed my eyes suspiciously, but as Liz spoke, but my suspicion disappeared, realizing that they were just indeed going back to being friends.

“She’s filling me in on some stuff like your hunk of a brother which we decided to talk about now before you came in and were disgusted.”

I cringed as she said the word ‘hunk’, referring to my brother.

“Please do not put hunk and Jake in the same sentence.” I told her as I walked forward and collapsed onto her bed.

“Sorry, it’s kind of hard not to do.” My two best friends giggled once again as I cringed at the statement Katie had made.

“So, if we can’t talk about your brother then let’s talk about something else, or someone else… someone like Craig.” Katie’s lips pulled back into a smile as her eyebrows waggled, making me blush beet red.

“I don’t know if we’re quite there yet.” I told her, nodding towards Liz.

She asked, “What,” as she leant back in her chair and examined her nails. “We’re so over. Go ahead and talk about the devil.” She muttered, admiring her hands.

“That’s not it.” I said, crossing my legs underneath me. Liz’s eyebrows furrowed as she looked away from her fingers and stared back at Katie and I in confusion.

“What do you mean that’s not it? I’m serious when I say I’m over him. It was just a fling-”

I cut her off, “no, again, that’s not what we mean.” I sighed, unable to say the words that I needed to. How was I supposed to tell her this? I mean yeah we were friends for years, but that rough patch she did some things with Craig that I really didn’t want to think about and for a while there she had me believing that she really liked him. How was I supposed to tell her that I was now dating the devil I had talked so lowly about for years!