Ch. 57 The Disadvantages of a Brother

Johnny walks into my room

and finds me lying

down

side

up-

on the bed,

flipping through channels on TV.

He jumps onto the bed next to me,

making me yelp as the mattress bounces up and down.

"You left the party early."

"Yeah,"

I say. 

"Sorry."

"I got worried."

I groan.

He smiles.

"Will told me you got a ride

from someone else."

"Yeah,"

I say again.

"That Matt Norther guy.

You know him."

"The ice cream store boy?"

"That's him."

"Oh," Johnny says.

"I didn't know you two are friends."

I just shrug

because I know how Johnny gets

about all my guy friends

that aren't Will.

"He gives me free ice cream,"

I tell him.

"He

gives

you

FREE

ice cream?"

"All the time."

Johnny looks at me with his

suspicious, angry, frustrated, protective

I'm-your-older-brother look.

Then he grunts loudly

and cracks his knuckles

and flexes his arms.

"Well,"

he says, in his older brother voice,

"You tell this 

ice cream store boy

that if he even thinks about

getting in your pants,

I

WILL

kill him."

"You are so creepy,"

I tell him, smacking him with a pillow.

But I'm smiling,

and almost laughing

for the first time

in WEEKS.

Author's Note

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Graduation is coming up and I'm swamped. Thanks for reading though!
--theladygraceling

Reviews

[Fenix Flight]

Awww I love this!!!!!!!!! It reminds me of how I am with my younger sister. :-D