His grip was too tight for me to do anything besides being dragged away from the stairs over the hardwood floor. I tried to get him out of his grip by pushing at his chest and twisting but I just hurt myself more than anything. At the last resort, I pinched the skin on his upper arm. Cole barked out a yell and his grip loosened making my arm slide out of his hold. Running for the stairs again I saw dad lounging on the couch, controller in hand while scrolling through the different channels.
"Daaad!" I screamed jumping on the couch just as Cole was going to grab me again. Scrambling into a sitting position I grabbed hold of dad making him laugh and shake his head if to say "something going on again"
"What's up chipmunk," He asked and I positioned myself on the other side of dad, further away from Cole as he stared me down with a glare.
"He's trying to take me somewhere," I said and as Cole took a step forward I held my hand out to stop him "I'm by dad. He's safe space so you can't touch me"
Cole looked at me and then looked dad in the eyes as if they had a short conversation with their looks before he walked over with slow steps. Shrinking back into the couch, letting dads arm be the cover he stood in front of me and lifted me.
"Nooo dad tell him that he needs to stop"
"He needs to stop" Dad repeated my words and I gave him my deadliest glare as Cole carried me away making dad bust into laughter again.
"You three literally did every single thing I told you not to," Cole said through gritted teeth as he kept walking through the living room and over to the stairs leading to the basement. I smiled and tried to hold my laugh.
"You shouldn't have given the ideas to us then. You know that's practically suicide"
"Laugh all you want but don't think I'm letting you go that easy"
"Ohh, I'm trembling" I taunted and raised my hands up as good as I could in Coles hold.
We walked down the wooden stairs to the basement and down a corridor.
"You know, you two are really cute together"
"I know, you said it about ten times throughout the dinner" He grumbled.
"Yes but it-"
"Lara. Shut up" Cole grunted and continued down the corridor to the more abandon part of the house.
"umm. Where are we going?" I asked and looked up to Cole that was looking forward and refused to meet my stare.
Cole didn't answer my question and only kept walking further down the corridor. Now it came to the point where I started restaining. This did not look like it was going to end well for me.
Cole ended up dragging me to this little cleaning closet at the end of the hall. I don't even think I have been here before. Maybe sometime while playing hide and seek and you try to find the best place possible. I could hear talking from the inside, weirdly enough, but then I came closer I could hear Luke talking about something and a continually knocking on the wall.
He opened the door and quickly pushed me in and then closed it on me, letting complete darkness to take over. I put my hands out to try and find the light switch but soon realized there were none. Why don't we have a light in here?
Then as I searched the little space I felt something hard. My hands traveled up and I felt a face.
"Are you done touching me or what?" Noah's voice said and straddled me baking my hands fly back. Then my face scrunched up at the fought that I just touched up my brother's chest.
"Ew, it's you"
"Thanks," He said sarcastically and I knew he rolled his eyes even though I couldn't see shit at the moment.
"You're welcome," I said. "Wait. Why are you even in here?"
"What do you think"
"I'm here too," Luke's voice said and I slightly jumped, not expecting it but then realizes that it was he that talked before and that the beginning was probably Noah banging his head in the wall to try and keep him sane. "Welcome to the closet club"
"So while you keep talking I'm gonna go up. Have fun" Cole said. As soon as I realized what he was talking about my eyes went wide.
"What? Are you gonna leave us? Here? In the dark.." I asked, my voice becoming smaller and smaller.
"Someone's scared?" Cole taunted.
"No" I stubbornly said and crossed my arms even though he couldn't see me.
"Well, that's what happens if you decide to be asses and completely embarrass me. I gave all of you more than one clear warning as well so don't say I didn't warn you" Cole's voice faded away and I was left in this small room with Noah and Luke for god knows how long.
Great.
Just fucking great.
Plus, it's the weekend so really he doesn't have to come get us because technically we don't have school. I groaned out loud at the thought.
"Why did we do this again?"
"Because it's not only fun but it gave us a chance at embarrassing our older sibling. It's kind of our job" Luke said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But you do realize that we're stuck here"
"Yeah" He paused "We're screwed"
"Or at least our Friday is" He continued.
"Not helping," I said.
"Guys I got an idea," Noah said.
"That's a first"
"Just listen" His voice sounded annoyed but he tried not to show it even though his facade fas falling fast. "How about we call Mason"
"So he can come and poke fun at us? Yeah, not happening"
"True. How about dad?"
"Like he's any better" I snorted thinking back to him. If dad came he would only laugh for a couple of seconds and probably say a stupid dad joke about how we got in there and then when we ask for help he would say that it's our problem.
"Then I guess we're stuck in here"
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I was resting on the floor, letting my head slightly fall to the side and then jerk back up. It had probably been an hour and I was becoming more and more tired. I don't know for how long we've been in this freaking closet but it was for more than an hour, that's for sure.
"Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming of the things that we could be"Luke started singing softly.
"But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars" Noah continued singing in a tired voice as well.
"I see this life, like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
And in my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye' shall find" I took over singing with closed eyes.
"Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told"Noah sang.
"I-I-I-I feel something so right
Doing the wrong thing
I-I-I-I feel something so wrong
Doing the right thing
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive
Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars" We sang together on the floor like a bunch of losers but stopped when a chuckle could be heard.
"Wow, you are pathetic" Cole's voice said and I felt kind of happy that he was here so he could let us out of this god damn room.
"Cole! Thank god! get me out of here!"
"Ah ah! Not so fast" Shit. "I want you all to say 'Cole is the best brother in the world and is so much cooler than me'"
"What are you? Five?" I asked and rolled my eyes.
"Just say it"
We went all quiet. So the option is to sit here for the rest of the night or bruise my pride. Now would be a great time for a third option.
I heard Noah sight in defeat "Cole is the best brother in the world and something. I can't remember-"
"and is so much cooler than me," Cole said.
He let out another sigh "And is so much cooler than me" He kind of mumbled out.
After he had done it Luke said it and then it was just me that was too stubborn to say it.
"Can you just say it!? My ass hurts" Noah whined and shuffled around on the floor.
"No. I don't want to"
"Just do it!"
"NO"
"Lara I swear to god. Say it now or I will make you regret it so bad because if you haven't noticed you can't go anywhere so just say it!" Noah snapped at me. Well dang.
With a few seconds of thinking, I let out a sigh in defeat "Cole is the best brother in the world and is so much cooler than me"
Ouch. I can just feel how that hit my pride right in the middle of the target.
That's when I heard Cole laugh. "You guys are the three most stupid people I know" He laughed.
"What are you talking about?" Noah asked, his voice filled with irritation. I could just imagine him clenching his fist right this moment, ready to get out of here.
"You three really didn't even try to open the door the entire time?"
what?
I don't think I heard that right or did he really just say that we could get out of here whenever we wanted and I just spent an hour sitting in this cramped, dark room on this hard ass floor while trying not to fall asleep or rip my brothers heads off.
"Are you serious?" Noah asked and stood up. He joked on the handle and to my surprise, it opened up as smooth as butter and light blinded me for almost half a minute.
Luke beside me started to hysterical laugh for some reason. He laughed so hard that he had to hold his stomach as he fell to the side to lay on the floor laughing.
"What so funny!?" I asked somewhat angry that he's laughing in an so not funny situation.
"The. The door. It. Was open!" He said in between laughs.
I decided that it was no hope arguing so I got up and while walking I bumped my shoulder into Cole's arm while he was laughing. I was meant to bump into his shoulder but I'm too short. That just made him laugh more and I started walking faster, up the stairs and into my room.
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Song: Counting stars - OneRepublic
Helloo! I hope you liked the chapter! I had fun writing this one
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