pecially for me, grabbing two spoons from the dishwasher and handing me one. We both jumped up

most before he heads back to his mother. I don't really know him much, but he was a je

ck my brain for an image of Rhett stored somewhe

member him.

s come here in the summer since you were about seven and then you two hated each other. The last time h

Rhett wouldn't be back. It would have to be Rhett's fault tho

I'll have to mee

his eyes

xcited." he commen

wing that if Mom caught us we'd be in trouble for eating it straight from the tub. O

e done all that you could to make sure that he receives the best and he'll just h

orward to hear the rest of the conv

l this drama and I can never make it up to you." Bill replied befor

r speaking about some football something or another, while I proceeded

er head. "Your father and I are so b

eeks before she waltzed out of the room and back

ant to know." D

Some things are jus

kini, smiling at the photographs which decorated the stairwell. My mother seem

dure since as long as I could remember. I hate my room and its pale blue paint littered with white butterflies which were painted across the walls and on the ceiling. I hate the blue curtains which are parted so that sunlight can spill

be in and out of my hell-r

never I twirled, slipping it on me as I stood in front of the mirror. I marveled as the silky fabric glide

ge from my best friend – my only friend – as she welcomes me back into the "realm of the awake, alive, alert and enthusiastic". I qui

er you!" I heard a familiar voice ang

g on my mom's cat – Whiskers -as

wners stood in the entrance hall, revelling in the way that th

led out, launching my

two pairs of identical arms, squee

taunted, leaning against the

rcle and vigorously squeezed until he couldn't bre

ers, let go of your siblings before I bring

use an instant later they moved as one and were squeezing the living daylights out of our mother. Eventually, the

tised with a wave of her hand a

it worked, other times it failed miserably.

ad actually had to knock down the drywall between their room and the spare room and had put up a movable screen in its place just

two as he and I jumped up onto Mi

d trucks all the way from campus unt

case on his side of the room which was litter

o get another speeding ticket because of him. It's bad enough that he used my driver's licenc

e versa. I had to smile at how different the two were as I turned and spotted Matty's immaculate closet (the clothes are even colour coded!)

lopping onto the bed next to m

his side Sleeping

y "had come home alone and single. Then I discovered that Mom had replaced the lounge s

wins looked a

n't true!" Matty begge

s tr

moaned i

're coming for dinner."

retend we didn't make it home in time for dinner?" Mikey asked Mat

already saw us." Matty si

up with the prick... at lea

l that bad... could he? He could have grown up too. I mean, three

umped? I mean – I know he'd not as sexy as me but he still ha

hair. Another thing that seemed to run in the family was brains. Dan may be studying to be a lawyer but Mikey was studying en

inely sorrowful, but I knew that it was p

room window, hoping that it was Dad getting home from work. Instead, a taxi h