“Alfie?” I asked, my eyebrows creasing in confusion. I hadn’t seen him in years, what was going on?
“The one and only!” He grinned, stepping into my dorm.
“What- how did you find me?”
“The internet, m’lady. You know, I don’t think this is a nice way to greet a brother.”
I hugged him, plastering a smile on my face. Oh, Alfie. We were the same age but I remembered how he used to use me as bait in order to get girls.
“Alfie, we haven’t spoken in like two years. Why did you…?”
“Well, I was talking to Louise about my life at the home and I came across a picture of you. I then remembered it was your birthday and I figured I’d track you down and spend the day with you. I figured since you were a loner and all, no one would’ve… Y’know.”
I coughed, stepping away from him. “My birthday was yesterday.”
“I know. I was busy, so I decided to come today.”
“Who’s Louise?” I asked, watching him as he checked himself out in the mirror.
“My girlfriend of six months. Are you proud of me?” He asked, tearing his bright blue eyes from the mirror.
I laughed. Alfie hadn’t been able to actually keep a girlfriend during the time we lived together. He was handsome and all, dark hair and bright eyes and extremely toned, but he wasn’t very considerate when it came to what he said. Hence him calling me a loner. He wasn’t actually my brother, he was just another guy who had been ditched by his parents. His dad wasn’t in the picture and his mum had been an alcoholic. He had arrived at the age of ten though, and had been at the home for three years before I’d shown up.
“You have Netflix?” He asked, looking at my laptop.
“So nosy,” I laughed. “Yes.”
“Can we watch Grease?” He asked, his eyes shining with hope. I decided that for old times’ sake, we may as well. Besides, it wasn’t like I had anything else to do.
~*~
We’d watched West Side Story, Grease and Hairspray. My butt was numb and it was already dark outside. Alfie’s stomach had started to rumble in the middle of Hairspray so I wasn’t surprised when, as soon as Hairspray finished, Alfie had turned to me and asked me where he could get food.
“There’s a cafeteria here,” I mumbled, stretching my legs. “We can go now if you’d like.”
“Yes please,” he gasped. “I’m so hungry it hurts.”
I rolled my eyes playfully and got up. “C’mon on then.”
I grabbed my keys and he fell into step besides me, throwing an arm around my shoulder. “So, tell me. What’d you do for your birthday?”
“Uh. Nothing really. I had a cake,” I admitted, as we started to walk to the cafeteria.
“Let me guess, jam cake?”
“It’s gotta be jam,” I grinned. “Tell me more about this Louise person.”
“Well, we met at a club-“
“Classy.”
“It’s not like that! She wasn’t drinking, and neither was I.”
I nodded, he had never been one for alcohol. When our care/foster home used to give out beer and stuff to the older kids, he had never been one to touch the alcohol. “Why were you there then?”
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Broken
Fanfiction"When something is broken, you can't fix it. But you can make it better. All it needs is love, care and attention." Broken. That's what Brenna was. With no family, and no money, it was a good thing she was smart. She had a scholarship for college a...
