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Ch.4 Apathetic Trust Fund Boy
(JAKE)
"Let's go back to my house," Katie says to me as we leave the restaurant where I took her to dinner. It's Friday night and most everyone went to a party at Drew's house but we weren't invited, not that I would attend a party that Clare and Owen were at.
"Why?"
"The little brats are gone and the oaf and princess are at a party, if all goes according to plan they'll come home arguing. I love it when they're fighting and they're perfect little happy Brady Bunch relationship cracks. Take me home Jakey, we can do nasty things in my bed since we'll have the house all to ourselves," Katie entices.
"Fine but you know how I detest your family," I give in as we get in my car.
"Babe you know I absolutely loathe my family, I'd move in with you if my parents would let me," she says with a slightly pouting tone because her parents suck.
Her house is dark when we get there, she unlocks the door and we go in, up to her room and she pushes me on her bed. Much as I have an aversion to her family, and am disgusted being in this lower class house, she does seem to get hot when we're here all alone. After fucking each other hard and fast we lie in her bed and hear the front door open.
"It's just my parents," Katie says straddling me again. She rubs me to get me hard and I can't believe she's ready to go again already. When she has me hard I take her by the hips and penetrate her, she moans and we start fucking.
"GROSS WE CAN HEAR YOU!" Katie's bitchy blonde brat sister yells through the door while banging on it.
"SHUT UP…mmm…MAYA...nnngngnn…OR I'LL RIP OUT ALL THAT DIRTY BLONDE HAIR OF YOURS…ahhhmmm," Katie yells at her sister between moans as we fuck.
I hear a door slam and know the brats went into one of their rooms. I fuck Katie hard and fast again, she moans loud, especially loud just to piss off her younger siblings. When she's done she crashes on me, panting hard against my chest. We lay there breathing fast for several minutes and I'm about to tell her that we should go to my house when I hear the front door again. I can hear Owen and Clare arguing from here, it's rather amusing. I never liked Owen and I liked him even less when I started dating Katie.
"Owen you're overreacting," Clare hisses with a slightly annoyed voice.
"I am not overreacting, any guy that will just make out with you in the middle of a party has no tact and you deserve better," Owen responds.
"Guess one of the guys pulled it off, I wonder who gets the payout, assuming he's even alive still," Katie muses.
"Drew and I didn't make out it was just a kiss and having you yell at him in front of an entire party is embarrassing! I'm not a little kid anymore and you don't need to do a background check on every guy that's interested in me," Clare exclaims in an exasperated tone as they come up the stairs.
"What's going on?" Tristan asks coming out of the room with Maya.
"It is fun to hear them argue," I smile and Katie grins against my chest.
"Drew gave me a little kiss at the party and Owen disrupted the whole party to yell at him from across the room to stop kissing me," Clare explains and the fact that she's so aggravated makes us both happy.
"Ah the poor little princess is upset," Katie mocks and I smile a little bigger. "Her nightmares started already, we need to find some way of adding that into the mix and torture her as much as possible. I don't want her to get any sleep for the next two months," Katie tells me as we continue to hear the siblings argue about the kiss.
"Fine by me," I shrug, "torturing her is amusing."
"I still would have been mad if it was just a kiss but when I saw you two you were making out in the middle of the party!" Owen growls.
"So you would have preferred that he took me up to his room?" Clare baits him.
"No I would have killed him, I almost killed him tonight, Drew should not be randomly kissing you," Owen argues.
"It wasn't exactly a random kiss and it's not like he forced me I wanted to kiss him," Clare says.
"She is sixteen you can't keep her from kissing boys," Tristan comments.
"Yes I can and if you two even think about kissing a boy I better meet them and check them out first," Owen asserts.
"Owen we get that you want to protect us but you can't keep us from experiencing life," Clare argues.
Their fighting continues into Clare's room, we can still hear them but don't catch every word they say. Katie wants to have sex again just listening to their fighting. They're still going when we finish and when Katie's caught her breath again she calls Drew. While she does that I text Eli to meet us at school tomorrow, the siblings stop fighting or at least they're quiet enough that we don't hear them anymore.
"We should cause strife and discord in your family more often, it makes you so hot you turn into a little nympho," I grin as Katie starts to fall asleep on my chest.
"Yeah I love upsetting them and causing a rift in their otherwise perfect sibling relationship, I mean it is all a bit incestuous don't you think? The way Owen is so incredibly protective of the princess and the brats, even if he has his so called reasons," Katie yawns.
I just smile and we fall asleep in her bed, only to be rudely awoken some hours later by blood curdling screams!
"What the fuck!" I bark angrily that something disturbed me from sleep.
"The princess had a nightmare," Katie says getting up and putting a robe on. I put on some boxers and follow her out of her room, the oaf and the brats are in the princess' room huddled around her on her bed as she snivels. "You know we could just commit her this time every year, let her be so drugged out she doesn't know what's going on, at least the rest of us could get some sleep," Katie comments.
"The only one that should be committed Katie is you!" Tristan snaps at her.
"Hey watch what you say to my girlfriend you homo-brat!" I bark at him. Owen gets up, storms over and shoves me against the wall!
"You ever fucking talk to one of them like that again and I will rip your tongue out! What the fuck are you even doing in my house and why aren't you wearing any clothes? No one else wants to see you two with hardly anything on! Stay the fuck out of my sister's room and away from my siblings, go be gross together in Katie's room!" Owen roars at me and shoves me out of the room then grabs Katie by the arm shoving her out too and slamming the door on us.
"I hate your family! Stupid brain dead jock bruised my back," I complain to my girlfriend.
"I hate them too, why do you think I'm trying to destroy them all," she says kissing my back lightly.
"You know you're hot when you're evil," I comment.
"Come on they'll go out for pancakes again and I want to fuck you again," she grins.
I smile and pick her up we go back to her room fucking each other to exhaustion again. We wake up a little after eleven the next morning, get dressed and stop for breakfast at The Dot before we go to meet Drew and Eli.
"Last night was the most fun we've had in a long time, keep it up," Katie tells them as I pay Drew his $80. "New game, take her on a night date but you have to pick her up from the house. And you have to get her to make out with you of which we'll need proof of some kind. What do you say Jakey, is a hundred dollars fair for that?"
"A hundred sounds good and a bonus game if one of you can get her to agree to a date on Halloween I'll pay you a thousand," I tell them and Katie starts jumping up and down giggling with excitement.
"Doesn't it bother you that your girlfriend is toying with her own family?" Eli questions.
"Not in the least and it doesn't seem to be bothering you to take money for playing with Clare's heart," I point out.
"Hey we're getting paid to take out a hot girl," Eli replies.
"Then we're all getting something out of this," I reply putting my arm around Katie and we walk out to my car.
"The Halloween date was genius, Clare will never agree to it but it will drive her crazy and Owen will get so pissed off," Katie laughs as we start driving to my house.
"Yeah and for a thousand bucks they'll just keep trying. If I knew it was going to be this fun to torture your family we would have started years ago."
(CLARE)
"Two nights in a row are you sure you don't want me to set up an appointment with Dr. Gray?" Mom asks when we get home from our pancake breakfast.
"I'm sure, I don't like talking about it with Dr. Gray and I still get the nightmares. I am tired though I think I'll get some more sleep," I yawn.
"Yeah me too," Owen says while Tris and Maya are practically asleep on each other anyway. We head upstairs, Tris and Maya go into their rooms and Owen opens the door to his before looking back at me.
"Wake me up if you need to talk," he says and I smile at him.
I go into my room falling onto my bed and falling asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. No nightmares this time and I sleep until my phone rings a little after noon. I yawn and grab it from nightstand, the caller ID says it's Drew.
"Hi Drew," I answer with sleepy voice.
"Sorry did I wake you up?" Drew apologizes.
"It's okay," I yawn.
"I thought we could go to a movie tonight," Drew says.
"Yeah sure," I reply waking up a little more.
"Great, I'll pick you up at six we'll get some dinner first," he tells me.
"Okay see you at six," I smile and hang up.
Stretching and yawning I get up and go into my washroom to shower. After dressing I go downstairs to get something to eat, Jake and Katie are gone thankfully and Mom and Dad are out. Maya and Tris are watching TV and Owen left a note that he's out with Fitz and Bianca, he didn't want to wake me but to call him if I need to. My phone rings when I'm eating and it's Eli this time, I also notice I missed a call from him while I was in the shower.
"Hey Eli," I answer.
"Hey you want to go out tonight?" He asks.
"I can't I already have a date with Drew but maybe tomorrow night?" I suggest.
"Uh sure, tomorrow night is good, I'll call you tomorrow," he says and hangs up. I think he hung up rather quickly but pass it off as him being upset that I have a date with Drew.
After falling asleep again at seven this morning I'm lethargic and I just veg all afternoon, eating and watching TV with Tris and Maya. When Mom and Dad get home I tell them about my date and at five I start getting ready for said date. I'm looking through my closet when my cell rings, it's Owen.
"We're headed to the movies want to come?" Owen offers.
"Sorry big bro I have a date," I reply and Owen growls. "I'm going to the movies with Drew and if you try to follow us I'll never talk to you again," I threaten but of course I don't mean it.
"I don't like him Clare," Owen says.
"That's not fair you don't even know him, and you can't automatically dislike him because he's interested in me," I retort.
"I don't trust him," Owen responds.
"Owen you don't trust any guy that likes me, you never have," I shoot back.
"Yeah and for good reason, is he picking you up?" Owen asks.
"Yes bu…"
"Fine we're on our way home," Owen tells me and hangs up.
I sigh but there's no use in arguing with him, after much looking through my closet I decide on a cerulean blue top and a black skirt with low black heels. After doing my hair and light makeup I go downstairs to find my whole family there, well besides Katie but I hardly consider her part of my family, along with Fitz and Bianca.
"You look…" Fitz starts and then looks over at Owen, "very pretty," he finishes but I think he was going to say something else.
"Thanks," I smile. "You're not going to stop me from going out with Drew," I tell Owen firmly.
"Wouldn't dream of it," he responds.
"And you're not going to follow us either," I state.
"Don't worry Clare we'll keep him from following you," Bianca assures me just as the doorbell rings.
Mom answers the door, greeting Drew and letting him in. Drew steps into the living room, looks at all the people here and gets a little nervous.
"Uh hey everyone," he says and I go over to him.
"Drew these are my parents Valerie and Spencer," I introduce them.
"Nice to meet you," Dad says shaking his hand but I guess he already did that with Mom at the door because she only smiles.
"You already know Owen, Fitz and Bianca and this is my younger sister Maya and my younger brother Tris," I introduce them.
"Hi," Maya and Tris smile and wave together.
"Whoa are they twins?" Drew questions.
"No they're just like that, okay so let's go," I reply taking Drew's hand.
"Have fun kids, home by curfew Clare," Dad says.
"Hold it!" Owen commands and we freeze.
"Keep your lips and hands to yourself," Owen tells him.
"Owen!" I reprimand.
"Don't sit in the back of the theatre and don't even think of taking her somewhere in your car to make out," Owen states with a very harsh and threatening tone.
"You see this is why I never have to threaten her dates, Owen does it for me," Dad remarks, Bianca laughs and I roll my eyes.
"Why don't you just have me put in a convent," I shoot back at Owen with a snarky tone as I pull Drew to the front door.
"Don't tempt me," he calls after us and even follows us to the front door, "I mean it Drew if you touch her you'll never touch anything again!"
"Don't pay attention he's just trying to scare you," I tell Drew while he opens the car door for me.
"It's working he's pretty scary, plus I heard it's not all threats," Drew comments after he gets in and starts driving.
"And I suppose you believe everything you hear?" I question.
"So you're saying all those rumors about him making a guy disappear for touching you isn't true?" Drew asks.
"No I'm saying don't believe everything you hear; besides if Owen knows he can scare you he'll keep doing it. That's how he keeps most guys from even asking me out all because they're afraid of him," I inform Drew.
"Well I'm not most guys," Drew grins and I grin biting my lip. We go to Queen St. and eat dinner at Terroni. "So you keep telling me Owen has his reasons for being so ridiculously protective but have yet to tell me why," Drew remarks as we walk from the restaurant to the theatre after dinner.
"Let's save something for our fifth date, maybe sixth," I reply.
"So you think we'll have more dates then?" Drew grins.
"I'd like to think so, I am having a good time," I smile back biting my lip.
"Me too," Drew says as we get in line at the movie theatre. Drew pays for our tickets and we go in, we're still full from dinner so we just go get seats. We sit in the back and Drew puts his arm around me, there's still twenty minutes before the movie so we're just watching the trivia and ads on the screen. "I think we're going to have a Halloween party you should come," Drew says.
"I can't," I shake my head and look down at my hands.
"Why because Owen won't let you? He can come too a…"
"No just drop it okay?!" I snap at him.
"Come on we'll have a scary movie marathon and…"
"Drew I'm not going to do anything with you for Halloween," I hiss at him sinking down in my chair.
"You don't have some weird phobia of Halloween do you?" He asks and I huff in annoyance getting up from my seat.
"Clare where are you going?" He inquires chasing after me.
"Home," I respond.
"Why?" Drew questions.
"Because I'm not having fun anymore and if you follow me I'll tell Owen you tried to feel me up," I threaten which makes Drew stop in his tracks.
Owen is at the movies with Fitz and Bianca, I could call Eli and take him up on his offer for a date tonight but now I don't much feel like going out. So I call Dad and ask him to pick me up at the theatre, I don't know if Drew went back in or slipped out the back or something but I don't see him come out while waiting for Dad.
"So did Drew do something I should tell Owen about?" Dad queries when I get in the car.
"No I think I just ate something that didn't agree with me at dinner, I feel kind of sick and didn't want to sit through a whole movie. I didn't want him to miss the movie since he paid for the tickets," I tell Dad. He doesn't exactly look like he believes me but he doesn't say anything. When we get home I go up to my room and lay on my bed but I'm not tired and before I can stop them the water works start so I turn and cry into my pillow.
(ADAM)
"I thought you were on a date with Clare?" I remark when my brother comes in a little after nine.
"I was it didn't go so well," he sighs sinking down on the sofa.
"Why what'd you do?" I inquire.
"I have no idea Adam honestly, she was having a good time, she even said that and then all of a sudden she just changed. I was talking to her about having a Halloween party and she got all mad and walked out saying she was going home. I tried to follow her and she threatened to sic Owen on me," Drew tells me.
"That's weird," I remark.
"Adam I honestly don't know what I did, I know I can be a jerk and sometimes say the wrong thing but all I did was ask her to come to a Halloween party and she freaked out," Drew says with confusion and an edge of worry in his voice.
"You know I hate getting involved in your relationships but Clare is my friend I can try to talk to her if you want," I offer albeit somewhat reluctantly.
"Thanks Adam, tell her I'm really sorry for whatever I did," Drew smiles with relief.
"Yeah yeah I'm taking the car and don't go anywhere until I'm back," I tell him. I run upstairs and get my shoes on, grab my wallet and keys then head to Clare's place. I ring the bell and a man answers I assume to be her father. "Hi is Clare home? I'm her friend Adam," I introduce myself.
"Oh of course she's talked about you, Drew's brother right?" He questions and I nod.
"She's in her room, it's the door at the end of the hall" he tells me opening the door so I can get in and pointing up the stairs.
I smile at him and walk up the stairs, there's only one door at the end of the hall and I knock on it softly when I get there. I can hear Clare crying in her room; Drew must have said or done something else to upset her so much. She calls come in so I open the door and she starts wiping away her tears and I see she's still dressed for her date.
"Adam what are you doing here?" Clare asks sitting up but doesn't look at me she looks at her hands.
"Drew's really sorry for whatever he said or did, he feels really bad for upsetting you," I tell her sitting on the edge of her bed while she sits up a little. "What did he say exactly? I know he can sometimes speak without thinking but he said you guys were just talking about Halloween," I venture when she doesn't say anything after a minute.
"I don't celebrate Halloween," she replies.
"Are you like one of those religions that doesn't acknowledge holidays?" I inquire.
"No we're not religious," she shakes her head and sighs biting her trembling lip and looking at her hands. "Last time I celebrated Halloween I was five, mom had made a princess dress, I know super cliché but I was five. It was beautiful," she tells me closing her eyes with a sad reminiscent smile as she remembers the dress. "Gold and deep red, with silver lace on parts of the skirt, even had one of those high stiff collars in the back and I got shiny gold shoes to wear with it and this little plastic tiara that I thought was so pretty. Darcy was eight; she went as a cheerleader and thought she was so cool. Mom and Dad took us trick-or-treating in Forest Hill and then we were going to a Halloween party at the house of one of Dad and Curtis, that's Owen and Tristan's dad, mine too after he adopted me. I remember getting what seemed like a hundred pounds of candy and then we went to the party. All the adults were dressed up too; Mom and Dad went as Frankenstein's monster and his bride. Owen was Batman and kept following Darcy around all night. Tris was a bumble bee, their parents were the devil and a flapper," Clare tells me.
She gets up and walks to her desk opening a drawer and pulling out an old picture. It's her family, her original by blood family and Owen's family all dressed up for Halloween just as she described.
"You look really happy, it's a really pretty princess dress," I comment and Clare puts the picture face down on her nightstand.
"I don't really remember the rest of the party, after I ate a lot of candy and ran around for a while I fell asleep in a bedroom. I woke up when Dad carried me out to the car to drive home," she says and takes a deep shaky breath. "The next clear memory I have is waking up in the hospital five days later with Owen asleep on the bed with me, he refused to leave my side so the hospital just let him stay," she says and it takes me a second but I suddenly realize why Halloween upsets her so much.
"You lost your entire family on Halloween," I state and Clare nods with tears in her eyes, she brings her knees up and puts her head down on her arms. I put my arm around her in a light hug.
"The last thing we ever did together was Halloween, it's the last clear memory I have of all of us together. I have really vague memories of the accident but…" her sentence trails off as she starts to cry again. "The Halloween after the accident I had already been adopted by the Milligans and we went camping over Halloween, pretty much pretending it just wasn't Halloween. It became a tradition, one that was kept up even after we became the Matlin-Milligan family. When Owen turned sixteen the parents stopped coming with us, the whole family including Katie went the first year after Mom married Spencer, but Katie spent the entire time taunting me. It was the one and only time that Owen hit a girl because he punched Katie for being such a bitch. He didn't even really get in trouble but Katie was never allowed back on one of our trips."
"I can understand why you avoid Halloween and why you got so upset when Drew brought up Halloween but he didn't know," I point out.
"I know but I asked him to drop it and he wouldn't," she responds. "Every year, usually starting around mid to late September I get nightmares about the car crash, they're always the same it's like I'm trying to remember. But this year the nightmares have started already and when Drew kept talking about it I kept thinking about the nightmare and got upset. Just tell him it's fine and I know he didn't mean to," she says.
"Okay I'll tell him and make sure he doesn't bring up Halloween again," I tell her.
"Thanks Adam and tell him I'm sorry for running out," she says.
"Yeah I will, are you going to be okay? I mean you were crying when I came in," I comment.
"Yeah I'll be okay, I'll see you Monday," she responds.
I smile at her and get off her bed looking back at her one last time before I leave her room. I wave to her dad and her family as I leave her house, get back in the car and drive home.
"She was upset but it wasn't entirely your fault, she doesn't like Halloween and doesn't celebrate it because her family died on Halloween. She said she was sorry for running out," I inform my brother.
"Her family died on Halloween? No wonder she didn't want to talk about it and no wonder the…" Drew stops talking and looks at me, "never mind."
I narrow my eyes at him but don't press, Drew looks thoughtful and I wonder if he's thinking of an apology or something else.
Update next Saturday starting with Owen finding out that Drew upset Clare, also with Clare and Eli's date, a winner of the current bet and Monday at school with a new bet.