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Chapter One: That Relationship

Lil laid in her bed tears running down her face and her phone up to her ear. She was dating Sean Butler, and he wasn't the nicest boyfriend. He didn't physically hurt her, but emotionally. He would verbally abuse her. She didn't know what she did to him to set him off sometimes, but she figured whatever it was she deserved it.

"Sean please stop yelling" she begged him.

Their latest fight was caused by Lil going out with Phil and hanging out with her friends, Tommy and Chuckie included. Sean would have preferred her to stay at home and spend time with him, but she wanted to spend time with her brother instead. Sean was always getting jealous of Phil and it confused Lil as to why.

"You were with guys, Lillian! You know how I feel about you hanging out with guys!"

Another thing Lil didn't understand is why he was so mad about her hanging out with guys. She would understand if it had been an ex, but she didn't date Tommy or Chuckie. She sighed and wiped away the tears "Their my friends, Sean. What don't you understand about that?"

"I don't think you're the one understanding, Lil. I don't want you hanging out with them."

Lil sat up, momentarily forgetting that she was on the phone with him "You can't control my life, Sean. I understand where you're coming from, but there's no way I can stop hanging out with them. I've known them my whole life. Since I was in diapers! You can't make me choose between you and them, that's not right."

"Then understand this, Lil. We're over."

Lil was staring at her wall with her hand over her mouth trying to cover the sound of her sobs. All this over her hanging out with some guys? "I have to go" she managed to choke the words out.

Sean sighed "No, don't go."

"I have to. I have to finish my homework." she was lying to him. All she wanted to do now was lay in her bed and sleep. She wanted to forget about what just happened.

"No, I'm sorry... I don't want to break up."

Lil smiled "Really?"

"Yes. Will you please be my girlfriend again?"

Lil took a deep breath before saying anything "Of course"

Phil walked into Lil's room later that night and saw her sitting at her computer. He had heard her crying earlier and he knew the cause was Sean. Ever since he moved away he had been treating Lil like she was dirt. Phil hated seeing his sister so hurt, but there was really nothing he could do about it. "You okay?"

Lil turned to him and gave him a smile "Yeah, I'm fine now. Sean was just being... Well, Sean."

"What did he do now?"

Phil and Lil had never grown apart. She told him everything. There wasn't anything Phil didn't know about her. He even knew every problem Sean and Lil were having. "He didn't like me hanging out with Tommy and Chuckie, I told him I wasn't going to stop hanging out with them, and he got mad, broke up with me and asked me back out. We're fine now."

Phil thought it over, he knew his sister deserved better but he also knew she wasn't going to listen to him "Sean's an idiot, Lil."

She laughed and looked back at her computer "I know. But things are fine now, I promise."

Phil gave her a smile before walking out of her room and made his way back over to his. Lil stood up from her computer and started pacing around her room. Right now, Sean was out with his friends. Usually Lil didn't care but something inside her was telling her to worry. He hasn't tried talking to her since he went left, and it was really starting to freak her out. She laid in her bed hoping that sleep would help her calm down.

She woke up in the morning and checked her phone to have missed calls, voice mails and texts all from Sean. She read through the text and realized that every single one of them were a drunk text from him. One of them said something about being with a girl named Lexi, and Lil almost instantly felt jealous.

She called Sean back, not even listening to the voice mails. When Sean didn't answer Lil started to freak out. She got out of bed and walked over to Phil's room. She slowly opened his door and walked over to his bed, shaking his shoulder to wake him up. He groaned and looked over at Lil "What do you want?"

"I think Sean's cheating on me"

Phil sat up and pulled Lil onto his bed. He would usually be mad at her for waking him up, but he could tell how upset and scared she was. "What makes you think he's cheating?"

"He's with some girl named Lexi and he's drunk and I have all these text and voice mails. I called him back but he didn't answer" Lil was about to start crying, and Phil was quick to calm her down.

"He could be asleep, Lillian. And you know for a fact, that if he is cheating, I will go and hunt him down. And this Lexi girl, her name screams slut. Sean was never one to go for a slut."

Lil laughed and shrugged "I guess. But it still freaks me out."

Phil nodded in understanding. Sean had cheated on her before and she forgave him. That's why this freaked her out so bad. Phil knew she was trying to be the best girlfriend she could be, but Sean didn't seem to appreciate that; and it showed with the way he treated her.

"Can I go back to sleep?" he asked with pleading eyes.

Lil nodded and got off his bed heading towards his door. She loved that she could talk tot Phil and he'd always have something to say. She knew how Phil really felt about Sean and she loved that he never tried to get her to leave him. She felt lucky to have such a close relationship with him. She said goodnight and closed his door making her way back into her room.

She looked at the time and felt silly for overreacting about Sean not answering. It was three in the morning, most people were asleep by now. Lil got back into her bed and tried falling back asleep but she had too many bad thoughts running through her head. She decided to just stay awake and lay in bed. If she was lucky, sleep would come back.