Now if I am to survive
The infection must die
Murder the beast that's been eating me alive
The infection must die
Chrissy's POV:
Ryder and I were in his room just playing Halo 5 when we were hungry so we came downstairs where Lennox and Zander were sitting at the table.
"Hey Ryder, love your short story man" Zander said.
"Wait is this the one you wrote for my dad?" I asked and Ryder nodded
"You guys setting me up?" Ryder asked and Zander got out of his chair and walked towards Ryder and I while I grabbed an apple and walked towards Lennox.
"No. I think it would make a killer graphic novel" Zander said and Ryder opened the fridge and took out a bottle of water
"Maybe I can do some sketches if that's what you're in to?" Zander offered Ryder and that's when Lennox and I made our way over to our boyfriends.
"Wait, what? You wanna team up with my creepy little brother? Have you been huffing your markers?" Lennox asked Zander
"You really wanna work with me?" Ryder asked.
"Yeah sure" Zander said
"Awesome, alright just let me clear my calendar" Ryder said looked at his phone than said
"Done" and put his phone back in his pocket
"We can start right now. So uh so how do you see this guy?" Zander asked Ryder as they both walked over to the chairs leaving Lennox and I just looking at them
"Uh he's about my height, my build, brown hair" Ryder said.
"That's you Ry" I said
"So just like you but girls go out with him?" Zander said
"Actually one girl" Ryder said
"Is that Christina?" Zander asked. I raised an eyebrow and Lennox looked at me than back at her boyfriend and my boyfriend
"Man you totally get him" Ryder said.
"Wow. The Origin Story of the Justice League of nerds" Lennox said before taking my hand well, my wrist as we walked into the living room where sat her Aunt Mel.
"Oh my god, boys get excited about the most stupid and useless things" Lennox said as we walked over to Mel who was sitting on the couch with both feet up and looking at her iPad screen.
"Ooh, jacket with lots of zippers" Lennox said excitedly
"Yeah boys get excited about stupid and useless things" I said with a smirk as I looked at my Instagram feed to see a replica of the philosophers stone from Harry Potter
"The stone" I gasped happily.
"Yeah and boys gets excited about stupid and useless things" Lennox repeated to me.
"Did you see those buckles?" Mel asked
"Those buckles are hot" Lennox said
"I wanna have babies with those buckles" Mel said and I looked at them weirdly
"Are you gonna buy it?" I asked
"Of course I'm going to buy it. I have a responsibility to my constituents; to look amazing" Mel said gesturing to herself before singing "Add to cart".
And then dad walked in "Hello ladies" dad said happily.
"Hello" I said
"Hey" Lennox said as dad practically skipped past me and kissed my head
"My beautiful daughter" dad said
"Your 'look at me' walk is back" I said noticing his hop in his step.
"I guess you're feeling better?" Mel asked getting off the couch and leaving her iPad on the couch
"Yeah I saw this chiropractor; Chelsea and I cannot tell you how amazing she is" dad said.
"Knowing you, you can and you will father dear" I said
"Oh. Joe met a cute girl. We know how this one goes" Lennox said as we both got up from our places and walked next to our family member; me with dad and Lennox with Mel.
"It'll be over soon" Lennox said taking a stand next to her aunt
"The relationship not the story in case you were mistaken. Dad could write a book from the story. Maybe even a whole series like Harry Potter" I said then me and Lennox bolted up the stairs to Skype Becky.
I was reading A Dance with Dragons in my room while listening to The Ramones in my headphones on when Ryder burst through the door
"Honey can I ask you a question?" Ryder said walking in and closing the door
"You just did, but sure baby" I said pulling my headphones off so they hung around my neck and patted the bed next to me and he sat down.
"Can you please help with my comic? Zander has brought Lennox into this and if he gets his writer of a girlfriend than I want my more creative girlfriend" Ryder said.
"How am I creative?" I asked with a raised eyebrow
"Honey you held a create festival last year, you got an A on all creative writing stories in school, you can draw and very good at singing" Ryder said grabbing my hand, taking it in his and kissed my hand.
"Ok fine" I said
"Yes! Also you and Lennox are the same age so it might be better for you to work with her" Ryder said. Lennox and I are indeed the same age, both turning 18 soon.
Ryder and I walked downstairs, I still had my headphones around my neck and my finger in between my book to hold my place.
"Well if your girlfriend gets to look at our story than mine and more creative gets to as well" Ryder said and I sat next to Ryder. Ryder gave me a spare piece of paper and put it in my book then grabbed my phone from my pocket to turn down my music which was loud enough that Lennox could hear it.
I picked up many sketches and parts of the story
"Nex may I see that?" I asked
"Of course" she said handing it to me than standing behind Zander putting hands on his shoulders.
"Ry baby do you have the original? To compare" I said and Ryder grabbed the original from the floor.
I read through both while Zander, Lennox and Ryder looked at me in quiet until I crumpled Lennox's idea.
"That wasn't mine, wasn't it?" Lennox asked
"Yeah it was. Ryder's was more interesting and engaged me to read more unlike your little essay" I said and Lennox looked at me like I offended her.
"What do you know about stories?" Lennox asked
"Seriously? You've known me for a while now and what creative things have I done compared to you?" I asked.
"If you need help; it's a create festival which showed her work too, she has many stories in her room, her own photography on the wall, a good singing voice, designs everywhere, acing all classes including art, music, computing while you run a blog to express your issues" Ryder said standing behind me with arms wrapped around my waist with his head on my shoulder and giving me a quick kiss on my cheek.
"You should be lucky we're like sisters" Lennox said before kissing Zanders head and leaving but coming back again to ask Zander:
"Your sketch of HomeBoy, can you make it less 80s cliché?" before leaving again.
Ryder sat down and pulled me close to him so now I was leaning on him as he stayed seated.
"OK. She's gotta go" Zander said to Lennox
"Finally" Ryder said throwing his arms up in the air and I kissed his head.
"You had good ideas Chrissy" Zander said.
"Aww thanks" I said then I kissed Ryder's lips very softly before grabbing my book and turning around to start heading towards the kitchen to get food to then head back to my room when Ryder grabbed my hand
"Stay?" he asked
"Fine" I said jokingly before sitting on his lap and helping them with their story/ comic thing.
I was in my room when I thought I heard the doorbell so I ran downstairs
"I came by to meet the other women in Joe's life" the lady said
"Mel who's there?" I said but got halfway down the stairs and the lady looked at me
"This is Chelsea, the vir-very good chiropractor" Mel said holding a plate of food
"Oh hi" I said reaching the bottom of the stairs.
"So you're Chrissy? Joe's lovely Chrissy?" Chelsea asked me
"Yeah that's me. Has dad said that?" I asked
"Yeah he said that he has a lovely daughter and he's proud of you for what you do" Chelsea said
"Oh really?" I said. Dad doesn't really say that until the 3 or 4th time he sees them or they meet me.
"So you're the other woman in Joe's life?" Chelsea asked Mel who closed the door
"I'm not the other woman, I've never done anything with Joe" Mel said walking over to me and Chelsea and took a spot next to me while still holding the food.
"Neither have I" Chelsea said with open arms and a smile.
"It's ok if I laugh to right?" Mel asked chuckling before going serious.
"Of course" Chelsea said. I just stood there with a raised eyebrow as I looked at this scene in front of me.
"Cause I know you're a, you know" Mel said. I don't know; is she a mermaid? Vampire? Shapeshifter? Yellow eyed demon?
"You can say it: vir-gin. It's not a bad word" Chelsea said. Oooh now I get it, that's why dad's been jogging a lot more lately and just being plain crazy.
"Well it was in my high school" Mel mumbled as she walked over to an armchair and I offered Chelsea to take a seat.
"So I'm gonna go do some more homework but let me know if I need to start making mother day cards for her" I whispered to Mel before she sat down and she chuckled
"Alright" Mel said.
"See you later Chelsea" I said looking back at Chelsea seated on the couch as I waved and she waved back
"See you soon Chrissy" Chelsea said waving.
Later that day like maybe a couple of hours after she showed up at Mel's, dad dragged me with him and Chelsea to the milkshake place. Dad collected the milkshakes while I did some more English homework questions.
"Chrissy honey, please as much as I love the fact you're doing homework and getting good grades but come on, your with your dad and company" dad said so I closed my book, put my questions in the binder and then closed my binder and put both my binder and pen in my bag.
"Sorry dad" I said
"It's alright. Here's your milkshake" dad said handing me mine and Chelsea spoke up
"Oh my god, this is so embarrassing" Chelsea said.
I was already drinking my milkshake "What?" dad asked
"My friend Tawney just posted this video of me at aerobics. I totally forgot my sports bra" Chelsea said looking at her phone as she chuckled. Dad's face on the other hand looked serious.
"You what?" dad asked
"I'm bouncing all over the place" Chelsea said showing dad the video and I looked up from my drink and saw the video.
"Yeah you are. Ok let's just put this phone away, Chelsea" dad said taking her phone, locking it and placing it on the table next to me and him.
"Look I gotta- gotta tell you something ok? And this is never really easy to say to someone" dad said.
"Do you smell smoke?" Chelsea asked stopping dad and got up. I looked up and saw smoke coming out of a building.
"That stores on fire" I asked
"Call 911" dad said to Chelsea
"Chris, stay here" dad said and I got up and stood next to Chelsea as she dialed 911 and dad got a fire extinguisher
"Joe" Chelsea said in disbelief.
"No, no, no I'mma handle this. You stay here with my daughter where there's no sex. Danger? What did I say? Sex? I meant danger" dad said before running to stop the fire as the alarm blared.
The next day Ryder and Zander were at the table again doing the graphic novel while I sat at the kitchen bench with a coffee and my pen, binder/book and laptop open. Seriously it looked as if it were a Tumblr aesthetic or something.
Well Lennox walked past and gave me a hug and then proceeded to go over to our boyfriends. I; on the other hand, stayed where I was watching the scene go down.
"Ready to go over the new ending?" Lennox asked as she stopped next to Zander while I sipped my coffee. Boy I'm turning into a Gilmore girl it's ridiculous.
Zander and Ryder looked at each other and nodded before speaking to Lennox. Zander got up next to his girlfriend
"Lennox. It's been really great working with you on this project but there's something I gotta tell you and it's not easy for me to say" Zander said
"What?" Lennox asked
"Ryder wants you out. I tried to talk him and said we need you" Zander said as he started babbling.
Lennox looked at her brother.
"Is this true?" She asked him
"Yeah, uh that's all me. Zander begged me to keep you on but I told him either we kick you off or dismiss the whole thing" Ryder said
"Oh whatever. I didn't want to be part of this stupid comic anyway. Thanks for sticking up for me babe" Lennox said gathering her laptop and leaned into Zander.
Zander kissed her forehead
"Yeah" Zander said
"And you; I know where you sleep" Lennox said to Ryder who doesn't seemed bothered by the threat but he was more confused if anything else.
"Coffee?" I asked Lennox as she pulled up a chair next to me
"Of course. Thanks Chris" Lennox said sitting down and opening her laptop and I got off my chair and started making her a coffee and re filling mine.
Hope you enjoy the very late chapter :)
'People are particularly stupid today, i can't talk to any more of them' Michel (Gilmore Girls)
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