† Chapter 2 †
I walked up the stairs to my new room. The hallway was confusing as ever but I found my room. I opened the door and couldn't believe my eyes.
In just one night, Craig and Tyler had changed a twelve year old room to a beautiful adult bedroom. It was a whitish color with the white fuzzy carpet. There was a giant window on one side of the room and the bed was huge. The headboard had a mirror on it too. I starred in awe at the size of it, yet I was a little upset that they had gone overboard. I heard someone walk in and I turned around. Tyler stood there with a smile on his face. I turned back around to stare at my new and improve room. Tyler finally spoke up after a while.
"Well, do you like it or what?" He asked sounding agitated that I didn't respond right away. I starred at it a little more before turning to Tyler. I smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, it's beautiful. But you didn't have to go so far." I said walking over to the bed. I sat down on it and took in the room in a new angle. I noticed a few pictures on the wall and one caught my attention the most. I got up and walked over to it.
It was next to the mirror and it was a fair size. It was a picture of me and my mother. Happy as ever; it was taken only a week before she got in the accident. I starred at it for a long moment before a felt something pound on my head. I looked over and saw Tyler starring at the picture also.
"Come on. Let's go downstairs and watch T.V. There's nothing too important to do up here yet." He said walking to the door. Craig appeared at laughed.
"There's always that room of yours you can clean." He said with a basket of laundry in his hand. Tyler made a 'pff' sound before walking around him and heading downstairs. Before I followed him, I walked up to Craig.
"Since the last time I was here...he still hasn't cleaned his room?" I asked. Craig laughed again and I watched him carefully to see if he was joking. He wasn't. I laughed along with him for a moment before I went downstairs.
Tyler and I were in the living room watching T.V when Craig came in with his jacket on.
"I'm heading off to work now. I'll see you guys around nine." He said digging through his pockets. I suspected he was looking for his car keys. Tyler did not look away from the T.V when he responded to his father.
"Yeah, see you later." He said, changing the channel to an action movie of some sort. Craig sighed and looked over at me.
"Make sure his brain doesn't rot when I'm gone." He said smiling. I laughed.
"I'll try. It's probably already rotted to death." I said smirking over at Tyler. He didn't seem to hear me at all. I sighed and shook my head. I looked back over at Craig at he was staring disapprovingly at Tyler. He finally turned around and left. I heard the door close behind him and then I smacked Tyler upside the head.
He yelped. "Ow! What the hell was that for?!" He asked angrily. I glared at him. "Your father was talking to you doosh!"
He starred at me for a moment then looked around. He turned back to me and shrugged.
"He's not here anymore." He said turning his attention back to the T.V.
I smacked him on the head again. This time he turned his head and glared at me. "I'm trying to watch TV here." He said, his tone was like stone. It made me flinch a little. I glared back at him. "I'm bored! There's nothing on TV! Let's go do something!" I said sitting up.
Tyler looked at me for a moment then turned back to the TV.
"You go. I want to stay here." He said. I gave him a look.
"There's no one here I know yet! You have to come!" I said. He didn't seem to be moving from his spot even after I gave him a good explanation. With a sigh, I sat back down. To annoy him; I placed my feet on his lap. He looked down at them then looked over toward me. I just glared at him. He turned back to my feet. He picked up my left foot and starred at it. I gave him a quizzical look. Soon, he began to smirk and then he tickled it.
I began to laugh in agony. I squirmed around but that didn't stop him.
"Tyler! Please - stop!" I cried but that only seemed to make him laugh more. The door bell rang and he finally stopped. I took a deep breath and then turned toward Tyler. He was smiling the entire time when he stood up and went to the door.
While he was talking to who ever it was I sat on the couch thinking of what I could do. I finally came up with something and jumped off the couch. I ran around the couch and headed up the stairs. I could feel eyes on me when I ran up and almost slipped. I ran through my room and searched my bag. I found a black bikini top with a skull on it but, I couldn't find the bottoms for them. Then I heard Tyler call from downstairs.
"Irina, What are you doing?!" He yelled. I ran out of my room and headed up another set of stairs that led up to Tyler's room. When I got up the stairs I looked around.
For some reason, Tyler wanted his room up in the attic. Craig said it was okay of course but I guessed it was because it was bigger then the other rooms. I ran to his dresser and searched it. I felt weird going through someone's clothes, but it wasn't like I was searching for under wear. Which I certainly wasn't.
When I finally found what I was looking for I smiled. I was looking for a pair of Tyler's swim trucks and found a black pair. Before he could come up to look for me, I quickly changed and ran back to the stairs with my clothes in my hand.
I laid my clothes on my bed and ran into the bathroom that was attached to it. I pulled out a white towel and headed back down stairs.
I ran down the stairs as fast as I could and almost tripped. When I made it to the bottom I made a quick turn for the back door. I ran on the spot for a moment then I heard Tyler call out to me.
"What are you doing with my shorts?! Get back here!" He yelled.
I turned and saw him chasing after me I spoke up in defence. "I'm only going swimming! Since you won't do anything with me, and I couldn't find my bottoms! So I just borrowed a pair of yours! No harm done!"
I heard him hiss. I tripped a little when I heard him do that. I had to re think and check if I wasn't just losing my mind. But he really did. My cousin hissed at me.
I swung the back door open and ran toward the pool. I could tell that Tyler was catching up to me. If I could just get to the pool, there would be no reason for him to chase after me.
I was about two feet away from the pool when I jumped. Water soon consumed me and I swam to the other end. When I came back up I saw Tyler glaring at me. I smiled back at him and stuck my tongue out childishly. I could see about three figures behind him and soon they appeared. There were three boys one with chestnut brown curly hair, another had dirty blonde curly hair and the last one and long straight brown hair. They were all staring at me as I swam around the pool.
"Well I don't think you'll want them back now that there no use to you." I said swimming to the other side of the pool.
I heard a couple splashes and I looked up. I saw the three boys had jumped in but I didn't see Tyler. I looked back over to them and saw them smiling at me.
"You're not the only one that's gonna have fun!" Said the blonde one. The other two laughed. I looked at them for another second before speaking up.
"Who are you?"
They sighed and shook their head. "We should've known that Tyler wasn't gonna say anything about us. My name's Cory Mackenzie. This is Ryan Millers – he pointed to the blonde curly hair boy – "and this is Max Duggeri – he pointed to the boy with straight brown hair.
They smiled and waved at me and I returned the gesture. I felt a tug on my leg but brushed it off like it was nothing. I felt another tug but this one was harder. So hard, that it pulled me under. Under water, I looked around to see who had done it but I could already guess who it was. Tyler was at the far end of the pool sticky his tongue at me. I couldn't see very well because of the water.
I resurfaced and took a gasp of air. I looked around for Tyler and saw him laughing and pointing his index finger at me.
I growled. "Tyler, what did you do that for?!"
He stopped laughing and swam over toward me. "It's obviouse isn't it? You took my swim shorts. My favorite ones at that."
I sighed. "I'll give themn back, don't worry. Until then...lets have some fun!" I shouted and splashed water in his face.
"Hey!"
We splashed water in eacho other's face and splaseh water at Cory, Ryan and Max. They seemed to have been enjoying themselves a lot. They even lifted me up and threw me across the pool! They were all pretty strong to do something like that.
After two hours of playing in the pool, Cory, Max, and Ryan were on the deck playing a game of cards while me and Tyler floated around the pool. We bopped heads once in a while but not hard enough for us to start a fight over it.
"Well now what? It's too early to go to bed." I said before bopping heads with Tyler again. He sighed and turned to float the other way.
"I don't know. Do what you want." He said.
I was quiet for a moment then an idea popped into my head. I swum to the edge of the pool and pulled myself out. I grabbed the towel that I had lied on one of the chairs and dried myself off.
"I'm gonna go ride my bike. Is that okay?" I asked as I pulled on a white haluter top. Tyler nodded. "Yea sure. He'll be back by nine remember." He said swimming up to the edge of the pool and folded his arms on it.
I nodded my head and walked over to the garage. I opened the door and walked over to my bike. I sat on it and sighed with happpiness. It had been a long time since i rode this thing and I was happy to ride it again.
It roared to life and soon a was speeding off. Not darring to look behind me.
Later That Day
I was riding on a dirt path when I heard my Cell phone ring. I slowed my bike down and reached into my pocket to get it. I flipped it open and answerd.
"Hello?" I said over the engine of the bike. "Where are you?! It's almost nine you idiot!" It was Tyler. He didn't sound very happy by the sound of it. I looked at the clock on my bike. It said 8:46. I cursed.
"Sorry Tyler! I didn't know! I totally forgot about the time! I was having so much! Sorry!" I said turning the bike around. I heard Tyler sigh.
"It's okay I guess..as long as you're coming home now I guess." I heard him say. I started to speed up on my bike when I noticed how far away from home I was.
"Where are you anyway?" Tyler asked. I thought for a moment, not really remembering where I was.
"The last sign I saw said Evergreen Road. Why do you ask?" I said looking aorund for the turn off I passed only a few minutes ago. Tyler's end of the phone was silent. I called out to him three times beofre he answered me.
"Get out of there now. Drive as fast as you can." He said. Tyler sounded like he was choking on his words It made me wonder why.
"What's so wrong about-"
I could not finish my sentence. I heard a screeching of tires and soon a flash of light was all I could see. When I crashed into what ever it was, pain was all I could feel. I could tell that I flew off my bike when I felt the cold concrete. I couldn't move my legs at all. The thought of them broken crossed my mind but when I tried again to move them it wasn't enough for me to stand up and walk away like it was nothing. The phone was still in my hand and I could hear Tyler screaming my name. My eyes were closed and my throat had something in it that stopped me from speaking to Tyler. Telling him that I was okay.
I obviously wasn't
