My Best Friend's Brother (5 page)

Not to mention what they would do to date us.

Matt must of heard this because he laughed and said also in a whisper, "She has taste, how about me instead?" he asked smirking. I glared at him.

But she also said no which made me laugh.

"Not so funny now hey?!" I said before I looked back to her and whispered even more quietly this time so my brother wouldn't here, while purposely breathing into her neck "Don't worry honey, we don't give up." I said in a deep voice that made her shiver much to my delight.

She turned back to the others who were still arguing about something.

Mom was saying something about Dean eating all the cookies.

After a while like this Dean started to smile and said, "If you want to know what happened to the cookies mom why don't you ask them." He said pointing to the girl and Heather.

Mom looked at Heather too ask her but before she had a chance Heather almost shouted,

"What? I only ate one!" and then she looked at girl.

"You saw me earlier telling her to slow down." Heather said.

Mom laughed at this.

To be honest I wasn't really following it right now.

"And as soon as we turned our backs she ate a couple which Dean finished." Heather continued.

'Ok I think I follow now' I thought.

Mom said smiling "Oh, that's ok then" Making Dean choke and me and Matt to laugh.

Mom was always surprising me.

"Hey, that's no fair. How come I get shouted at but it's ok if she does it?" Dean pouts.

"Because you are big enough already. Plus Hope is a guest." mom smiled.

I heard mom call the girl 'Hope', but I thought I must have misheard, because this girl was nothing like the girl I remember.

"But she's here more than I am.” He finishes but mom isn't listening anymore.

Dean starts to walk out but before he can the girl and Heather hug him, which seems to cheer him up.

They break apart and Heather says. "Good now we are all friends again."

Dean goes to leave again and asks the girls if they wanna a game of C.O.D, but they say maybe later.

"He is definitely crushing on her." Matt says to me.

I nod "But he has no chance." I said.

He laughs "And you do?"

I raise my eyebrow "More than you." I say and he just laughs and says, "Sure man."

This was a pretty normal thing for us.

We would often have little games between us to see who can get a girl.

Not that it was hard, because most of the time the girls would want us both.

We had both slept with a few of the same girls but never at the same time.

We don't play that way, much to a lot of girls’ displeasure.

Well that is until they got with me.

Breaking me out of my thoughts, I heard Matt ask "Can we have a hug now too?" Heather stands up and hugs us both.

"Not that that wasn't nice, but I meant her." He said, pointing to her friend.

Heather slapped Matt's arm. "It's rude to point and also she has a name." she told him.

"He is sorry honey." I said giving her my best smile.

"So what's your name love?" Matt asked with the same smile.

Heather glared at her brothers "You two are stupid." The girl laughs at her.

"Why?" We both asked confused.

Heather pulled her up from her seat. "Lets go to my room."

They both started to walk out, but they stopped and turned to me and Matt, who were still looking at each other confused.

"Nice to see you again by the way." The girl said.

"Again?" I asked.

I could see Heather growing inpatient.

She walked closer to her friend and placed her hand on the back of her neck.

They looked at each other and gave each other a look and the girl nodded.

"Are you lesbians?" Matt asked smirking.

That's Matt. Ever the funny one.

Heather jumped and shouted, "No just look!"

We both stood up as Heather turned to the girl and moved the back of her hair to reveal all to familiar nasty looking scar in the edge of her hair line.

"Cray." I mumbled.

I remember exactly how that happened, but I never realized it was bad enough to scar.

We both gasped and Heather dropped her hair.

"See now stupid?" She asked,

I looked at Matt, who had the same look of regret as me.

A few years ago Hope had stopped coming around to the house.

When we asked Heather why she told us that Hope was afraid of us.

At first we both just laughed because we thought she was messing.

But then she told us about all the problems and scars that our pranks had caused and we were both shocked.

They had told us in the past about it.

We weren't totally dumb; we knew that sometimes we hurt her by accident when something would go wrong. But we just presumed it was minor because we were never told otherwise.

To be honest up until now we both thought that thought that they were exaggerating.

But still we really were sorry and told her to pass it on to Hope, so maybe she would come back.

She was a sweet child when she was younger. But would always react to our pranks that's why we always did it. Where as Heather just ignored us, so we didn't really bother her much.

It's not like we hated Hope or anything.

She was kinda like another sister and we would never on purpose do anything to hurt either of them.

At least we had a chance now to apologize.

She was standing with her back to us.

We both walked over to her and I placed a hand on her shoulder and turned her around.

She was looking down at the floor, so I placed a couple of my fingers under her chin and raised her face until she was looking at me and my twin.

I looked at her for a second, she was older, but now I'm really looking, I can see her.

I am so stupid.

"Hope?" I asked as I dropped my hand from her face.

I felt so guilty, she looked so sad. I looked to my brother to see the same sorrow and regret on their face that I felt.

She nodded and tears started to fill her eyes.

We both said, "We are really and truly sorry for all those things we did to you all those years." and then we pulled her into a group hug.

I felt my shirt getting wet and that's when I realized she was crying.

She stood frozen in our arms.

I really never realized we had such an affect on her, I felt so bad.

But I would make it up to her. Some way.

All Heather said was "About time." and mom who was listening agreed.

I pulled away a little and wiped her tears from her cheeks.

"We really are sorry Hope. We never meant to hurt you like that." I said and Matt nodded in agreement.

"I know it will take a lot but we will make it up to you." Matt said giving her a sad smile, I did the same.

She looked to us and gave us a small smile in return.

She was red faced from crying, but she still looked so beautiful.

She had changed so much from since the last time we saw her.

It would be nice to have our childhood friend back again.

But this time she would actually be our friend too.

CHAPTER FOUR

Confessions and Plans

Hope

To say I was taken back by their actions would be an understatement.

But that doesn't mean that I wasn't happy for it.

I am just not a hundred percent sure if it was for real or not.

Heather led me away upstairs too her bedroom.

"We will speak later." Heather called back to her brothers who had just been left standing in the kitchen doorway.

When we arrived in her room in through myself on the bed.

"Why didn't you tell me they would be here?" I asked her.

A minute passed and still no answer.

I sat up and looked at her "Well?"

She huffed and replied finally "Well I knew if I told you, you would never have come over. Plus in my defense they wasn't meant to be here until this evening."

She walked in front of me and kneeled down and put both hand on my lap.

"I'm very sorry honey poo bear." She said in a child like voice, while giving me her best puppy dog eyes.

I couldn't help but laugh at her.

She smiled up brightly. "I'll take that as a yes." She said, grinning.

I lied back on the bed and Heather moved to lay next to me.

I sighed starring at the ceiling.

"Why do you think they did it?" I ask the question that has been bugging me since we first left the kitchen.

I turned to Heather who had a guilty look on her face.

I rolled on my side and prop myself on my arm.

"What are you not telling me?" I said giving her an intense stare.

"Well....you know when you first started to avoid them?" I nodded,

"Well they asked me why and I told them..."

I gasp "Why.. why would you do that?" Feeling almost betrayed by her.

"They were worried about you.... they kept asking if you were ok.. if you were sick or something. I had to tell them." She said pleadingly.

I looked at her stunned,. "They were worried?" I asked with surprise in my voice.

Heather nods "They told me to get you to come back so they could apologize, but I didn't think it was a good idea. You were so depressed, I didn't want you breaking down again." She said trying to defend her actions.

I thought for a while. "I guess you were probably right." I sigh.

Heather expression changed back to one of happiness. "So you’re not mad?" I shake my head 'no'.

"Good." She almost shouted and hopped up onto her knees "Because I need your help."