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I felt him come up behind me shouting, “What the hell does –“

He never got to finish because the front door suddenly opened. We both spun around to see Amy walk in; she was watching us with amusement. “Arguing again are we?”

I rolled my eyes; I wasn’t in the mood for her either. Without saying anything I walked back to the bedroom and stripped down to my bra and underwear before crawling into bed.

I hated my life. It was nothing but a crazy mess. Everything that was happening was my own doing and so was everything I was feeling. But the people in my life weren’t helping matters any. What I needed right now was Seth. He would make everything clear my mind. I hadn’t talked to him since he left so made a mental note to call him first thing in the morning.

Morning came quick. I woke up to muffled snoring and looked over to see Amy in the bed. Realizing I was still in my bra and underwear I got up and put on a pair of sweatpants and a sweatshirt. When I was done I snatched up my cell phone and went into the bathroom to call Seth.

“
Hello?” He answered a little groggily like I woke him up or something.

“
Hey”

“
What are you doin?”

I sat down against the door and folded my legs. “Just sitting here, you didn’t answer when I called yesterday.”

He let out a yawn, “Sorry, I’ve been busy. Is everything okay?”

“
Well, where to start. Amy hooked up with my brother, Eric left me alone to go argue with some demon, and Graham showed up at the music festival we went to and was getting awfully close to Lance. But other than that things are just peachy on my end.”

“
Well if it makes you feel any better things are going just as shitty where I’m at. I’ll be home soon, trust me.”

My stomach tightened up and I started to panic. “What do you mean things are going bad? And where are you at exactly?”

“
Atlanta. Don’t worry about anything just yet. Hopefully I’ll be back tomorrow night.”

His words did nothing to ease my panic. I didn’t say anything so he kept talking, “Maybe you all should stay in tonight.”

I tried to keep my voice even, “Alright.”

“
I miss you.”

My stomach lightened up a little and I smiled. “I miss you too.”

I hung up and pulled myself off the floor. After brushing my teeth I walked out to the kitchen where Eric was sitting on the counter eating a banana. He watched me as I went over next to him and poured a cup of coffee.

“
Not cooking this morning?” I asked.

“
Don’t feel like it. What do you want to do today?”

I leaned back against the counter holding my warm coffee cup close to my face. “Seth thinks we should stay in. He said things weren’t going good.”

“
Did he say why?”

“
Nope.” I blew on my coffee before taking a sip as Eric chunked the banana peel in the trash can.

“
Well that sucks, now we have to sit in here all day. We’ll kill each other within the hour.” He said jokingly.

I started laughing and cut my eyes over at him. Just then I noticed Amy walk in and brought my attention to her. She gave me a weak smile and plopped down at the table grabbing her head.

“
Not feeling too well?” I asked. I tried to get the image of her and my brother groping each other out of my head but it just kept popping in there.

“
Not too bad. It’s just a small headache.” She looked up at me and I could tell her mind was reeling.

I pushed the dreadful thoughts aside for a second, “Well I have bad news. Eric and I can’t do anything today but if you want you can take Eric’s car to go do something.”

Eric let out a fake cough beside me, “I believe the key word in that sentence was ‘Eric’s car’, not Cam’s car. You can’t just go loaning my car out like that, what if we need it.”

He did have a point. I looked back at Amy apologetically, “Sorry, I know you don’t want to stay cooped up in the house all day but we have too.”

A weird expression went across her face and she bit her lip nervously before looking down at her hands.

“
Well, actually, Lance asked if maybe I would want to hang out with him today.” She said in a small voice.

I felt my eyes bulge out of my head and the grip on my scolding hot coffee cup tightened. The thought went through my head to throw it at her. Eric must have noticed my grip because he reached forward and pried the cup out of my hands.

“
Remember what we talked about last night.” He muttered low so only I could hear.

I clenched my jaw and swallowed hard, “That’s nice.”

“
You, you don’t mind?” She stuttered nervously.

I smiled the fakest smile I had ever given in my life with my teeth tightly clenched together. “No. You all have fun.” I spoke almost mechanically.

Amy could probably tell how pissed I really was but if she was smart she would keep her mouth shut and take my acceptance.

She really was smart because she automatically changed the subject. “So why do you all have to stay in the house all day?”

I looked to Eric for an answer. He was a good liar so he could pull something out of his ass in no time.

“
Seth’s truck broke down and he’s stuck in Portland. We might have to go get him.”

Her eyes went back and forth between us, “Is that something you both have to do?”

Eric’s lie was surprisingly very horrible. I cut in and tried to smooth it over. “Well not really but they have this thing where I can’t be left alone. Last month my ex boyfriend attacked me and now they think that I can’t take care of myself. If one of them isn’t there the other one is.”

Her eyes got real wide, “What happened?”

I waved it off. It wasn’t something I liked talking about. “Ask Lance he was there too.”

At the mention of Lance we all got quiet again. Eventually Amy went back to the bedroom to get dressed and I took her spot at the table. Today was going to be a boring day, boring with a capital B. I sat here for about twenty minutes wondering how my life got to be this way when I heard a knock at the door.

When I opened it Lance was standing there looking at me questionably. “Hey Cam.”

“
Hi Lance.” I said shortly.

“
How ya doin?”

“
Oh just great, my best friend is going out on a date with my brother and I have to sit in the house all day with the one person I can’t stand, life is awesome.”

“
Well isn’t someone having a shitty Valentine’s Day.” He retorted.

I had completely forgotten it was Valentine’s Day. I guess since I celebrated on Wednesday I thought everyone else did too. And what was even better, my brother and Amy were going out together on Valentine’s Day.

Someone came up behind me and figured it was Amy. When I looked at her she seemed a tad bit nervous like before. I wasn’t going to freak, I was going to let them go and do what they wanted without interfering.

“
I’m ready.” She said in a small voice.

They both threw a wave my way as I stood behind the glass door and watched them pull away. I felt Eric’s arm come around my shoulder as he stood next to me and watched the car go down the street.

“
They grow up so fast.” he said in a choked up voice.

I turned and punched him in the side before walking away.

“
Well we lasted about twenty seconds without any violence.” He said painfully.

Chapter 14

The rest of the day was dismal. I cleaned just about every square inch of the house except for Eric’s bedroom. He told me that he wasn’t going to cook me dinner since I refused clean his room. After I cleaned I tried to do some homework but couldn’t concentrate with Eric’s rock music blaring from the entertainment center. Eric annoyed me into playing cards with him and I won three out of five games of Go Fish, the only card game I knew how to play. Sitting there watching him play Go Fish was actually quite amusing. I didn’t want to think about what my brother and Amy were doing, it was too creepy. Eric took advantage of this and would randomly comment on what he thought they were doing which was definitely X rated. This led us to a mini argument that was more humorous than anything.

“
So tell me about you and Seth.” He said plopping down on the couch.

I had just walked in with a sandwich I had to make myself since no one would cook for me. “How about no. I’d rather talk about my brother and Amy.” I sat down on the other end of the couch and turned on the TV.

“
Oh come on. We live together, I’m his best friend. And it’s not like I don’t hear what goes on in that room.”

“
First of all, we don’t live together. I just stay here from time to time. Seth already asked me to move in and I said no.”

“
Why? Isn’t it like every girls dream to live with their boyfriend?”

“
Not mine. I like things the way they are, serious but not too serious.” I kept my focus on the TV as I flipped through the channels. If we kept up with this conversation it would lead somewhere I didn’t want to go.

“
You’re not one to tell your feelings are you?”

“
Nope” I took a bite of my sandwich and smiled quirkily.

The smiled faded from my face at his next question. “Do you ever think you’ll stop hating me?”

I looked down and then back to the TV. “Ask me some other time.”

Eric didn’t say anything and I didn’t look at him to see his reaction to what I said. If I did it might make things worse.

About an hour later I was nodding off to sleep. We had been watching some baseball movie that was just as boring as the whole day. I had a dream my brother and Amy told me they were getting married and I was going to be the maid of honor. As I was getting ready to walk down the aisle in my horrible baby shit green dress I was violently shaken awake. My eyes opened up and I saw a pair of wild green eyes staring at me.

“
What the –“

Eric’s hand went over my mouth and he held his finger against his lips to tell me to be quiet.

I was suddenly filled with fear. If Eric was acting this way then something had to be wrong. I sat up as his hand pulled away from my mouth and grabbed my arm leading me back to the bedroom.

“
What is going on?” I whispered harshly. We were in the dark and I could barely see him as he went to the window and looked out the blinds.

“
They’re here.”

“
Who’s here?”

“
Two men who work with Graham. One is out back and the other is right by the road.” He turned around and I think he was looking down at my sweatpants. “You need to change.”

I went and blindly grabbed a pair of jeans and some tennis shoes before starting to pull off my sweatpants.

“
Keep your back turned.” I whispered.

He laughed and turned his gaze back out the window. I left my sweatshirt on and when I was done getting dressed I went up beside him and looked to where he was looking but I didn’t see anything.

“
Where is he?”

“
Next to that tree.”

My eyes strained against the darkness but I still couldn’t see anything. “What do you have night vision or something?”

“
Yeah”

I looked back at him incredulously, I was actually kidding when I asked that. “You’re joking right?”

“
No, you never noticed our eyes are a little different.”

“
Well yeah I noticed but I never knew you could see in the dark.”

Why were we even having this conversation? There were two men outside who wanted to do us bodily harm and we were sitting here discussing his eyes.