I was going to go give Emily a hug when Sam ran out the door. I ran after him, he was not leaving me again.

" Leah, go away, I need to be alone for a little while!" Sam yelled at me. He was not going to be left alone, not after I just got him back, and now that Emily was here. They were going to be great friends, she is going to be my maid of honor at my wedding!

" Hell no! Sam, what is going on? You scaring me!" He was scaring me, why is he acting so weird, does he not like Emily?

" I love her Leah, your cousin, I'm sorry, I can't see you anymore." Sam looked like he was in pain.

What was he saying? He didn't love me anymore, he didn't want to be with me anymore. Then I realized what he actually said.

"WHAT! You love Emily! After meeting her for 30 seconds you love her! What the hell Sam." I yelled at him, I don't get it.

"Please calm down Le. It's something I can't really explain, I'm not allowed to explain." He expected me to calm down. I wanted to scream!

" NO SAM I WILL NOT CALM DOWM. YOUR TELLING ME YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE, YOU LOVE MY COUSIN WHO YOU MEET FOR 30 SECONDS, AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHY. TELL ME WHY I SHOULD BE CALM!" I was no longer dying, I was all furious.

"Because I'm sorry." He finally looked up at me, he looked like a dying man. He was obviously in pain, but I really didn't care.

" No, You don't get to be sorry Sam. Go. To. Hell." Tears were streaming down my face. I ran inside and left Sam outside.

I turned to Emily. "Leave right now! Get out, and never come back!" I shrieked at her.

I ran as fast as I could up the stairs and into my bedroom. I barricaded the door with my dresses and turned on my T.V. full blast. A bang came from my open window. Emily was climbing through the window. Did she not get that I hate her so deeply?

"Get out!" I shrieked from behind all my tears.

"What happened? What did I do?" she sounded so innocent, It made me want to smack her even more.

"Sam left me, and it's your fault." I sat up to look at her. I had tears pouring down my face. " Happy now? Now get out before I start throwing things, and heavy thing will be sure to come first." I laid back down on my bed and turned away from her. She got the message and started to climb back out the window, but not before Sam started to climb in.

He noticed Emily, "Hi Emily." He said, Gag me with a spoon!

"Hi Sam!" Emily sounded like a stupid blonde schoolgirl. I warned her about the getting out didn't I?

"Oh God! Get the hell out both of you" I sat up again and faced them." I thought you loved me Sam! Not more than 5 minutes ago you told me that you loved me more than anything in the whole world, and you always would! You are suck a lying-" I was cut off again! Emily shifted trying to get out of the window. I turned my focus on her. "I thought you were my cousin. We're like sisters, well I guess I should say Were. That's really low. You must be a pretty bad person to do something like that to someone you loved, and loved you. Wow Emily, Way to go." I started to sarcastically clap my hand when Sam spoke up.

"Hey! This isn't her fault!"

" Sam to the rescue!" I turned on him and the tears started flowing as I realized he was sticking up for Emily not me, and that was how it always was going to be. "GET. OUT. NOW." I stood up and glared at both of them. Neither of them moved.

" I'm sorry" They said at the same time. I saw a smile hinting at the end of Sam's lips. The tears were coming down harder and harder. I threw whatever was closest at them and started shouting. They dodged whatever it was I threw at that them. I started to advance towards them and throwing more things.

Once they were both out of my room I slammed my window shut and fell to the floor. I was drowning in my tears. It felt like m heart was being pulled in different directions and being cut with sharp scissors. I curled up into a ball and let the darkness have me.

I spent the next couple of days in my room. I didn't eat, I didn't even sleep. The only time I moved from my dark corner. I hadn't stopped crying the whole time. Tears silently ran down my cheeks, and when I replayed the look Sam gave Emily when I insulted her. He had a look of pain, and protection. He was defending her, against me. Yet again, that was the way it always would be. My silent tears became loud sobs. I knew everyone was gone, it was Saturday. My dad would be fishing with Charlie Swan and Billy Black. My mom would be grocery shopping and hanging out by herself for the day and Seth would be over at Jacob's or over at the beach being a dork. I got up and strode downstairs. I opened the door of my room to find Seth sitting across the hall against the floor he had just gone to sleep( he hadn't started snoring yet) and his eyes were puffy. I was making him cry, I was putting my familythrough pain. The realization hit me. Well now I felt bad. I tried to tip toe down the hall but Seth woke up.

"LEAH! Oh my gosh Leah what happened. Dad wouldn't tell me anything and mom doesn't know either! Are you o.k.? I'm sorry I'm not trying to pry."

"It's fine. Me and Sam aren't dating anymore. Are mom and dad downstairs." I asked.

"No" He said with a weird one to his voice. I would have questioned him but I was starving, and too tired to care what he was hiding from me.

I walked downstairs and practically ran down the steps, I was starving! That is until I smelled something in the air.

It was eggs, bacon, pancakes and orange juice ( I make it all the time, I could smell it a mile away!) I turned to Seth.

" I thought you said mom and dad weren't home." I was getting angry.

" Thy aren't, I sware." I was about to go back upstairs when my stomach grumbled. What the hell, mom and dad couldn't be so bad. Little did I know.

I walked into the kitchen to find Emily cooking……….for Sam.

I immediately turned away and ran into Seth, I tried to get out of him without making a sound so Emily and Sam wouldn't realize I was there. They were staring at each other, Sickens me, this must be why I hadn't been hungry for the last couple of days.

Seth wouldn't let me go.

" I don't want them here anymore that you do but mom said if you came out of your room to not let you leave without eating and talking for a while. Plus dad said I would be in serious trouble if I was mean to either one of them." He whispered in my ear.

"Well I don't have to be nice." I stormed into the kitchen opened the refrigerator and grabbed out the milk and the firmest apple I could find. I went to the pantry and grabbed out the first cereal my hand touched. I put together the cereal and was walking out of the kitchen and into the living room when Sam grabbed my arm.

I turned around and threw my apple at him, I hit him right in the middle of his face and he took his hand off my arm to rub his nose. The whole reason I got that apple, I knew one of them would try to talk to me. I was kind of hoping it would be Emily though, right now I wanted to throw the burning pan at her, and the sizzling food in it.

"Your eggs are burning" I told her, I suddenly had a very good idea, she got up and turned around, I picked up the apple from the table as quick as I could and turned around. I walked slowly to the couch and sat down. I peeked over the back of the couch like 4 year old and waited for Emily to turn the pan so she could put eggs on a plate. Right then she tipped the pan over with one hand and held the plate in place with the other. I threw the apple and it hit the veins right below her hand. She dropped the pan and it hit Sam's hand, it burned him and then fell to the ground, Leaving a HUGE mess for her to clean up. I turned around and looked at Seth, we were both laughing hysterically, Seth's face was turning red while mine was turning purple. Our laughter cut off as my mom walked in and saw the huge mess, me and Seth were watching T.V. and eating bowls of…………………. Ewe, they were my Seth's captain crunch (he is such a 4 year old!) I pushed the bowls on the table with a disgusted look on my laughed and picked my bowl up after pigging out on his bowl. My mom came over with the weirdest expression on her face, kind of like she was trying extremely hard not to laugh. Oh yeah! I just made a huge mess for Emily to clean up. She pointed her finger at me but then slid her hand really low so they couldn't see for a high five. I laughed and gave her a quiet high five. I nodded my head for the charade and my mom bent in for a hug.

" I got the perfect ingredients to make Clearwater cookies, can't do them without you. And just you." She whispered in my ear. When I was 5 me and my mom were making chocolate chip cookies and we added a bunch of different ingredients with it and didn't follow the directions. The results were amazingly good cookies. We call them Clearwater cookies. My dad also makes pretty good fish-fry. I usually bring some over to the Blacks when he makes it, ad extra for Charlie.

" Fine, but just me, and can we get those two out of the house before I actually do something to physically harm another person." I whispered back. I turned to Seth after my mom walked away and we started to play Jin. We were laughing and having fun until Seth turned his head toward the kitchen, I followed his gaze and found Sam teaching Emily how to play Queen beats the king( It's a game me and him created at the beach. We got bored and hand an airplane carry-on bag. We had just gotten off the plane from spring break and weren't allowed back at the house because they were wrapping birthday presents. That did it. I stood up making the cards spread all over the living room and stormed off up-stairs and my mom motioned for Seth to follow. Instead of going back into the hollowness of my room I went into Seth's room. He followed in after me.

"What was that all about?" he was talking about the weird scene I made downstairs.

"Queen beats the King." That was all I needed to say for him to immediately get it.