It had been a week. Drake had come home, and had a long talk with Josh about what had happened to him. He told him the whole story, dream and everything.
"It was so real." he had said. "I could hold her. . . I felt her weight in my arms and everything. . .it was like Olivia had returned. It was beautiful."
"I don't think it was a dream, Drake. I think God did a miracle for you."
"You think?"
"Yea. I do."
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"Hey Josh!" Drake called. He had been in the kitchen getting a glass of lemonade when a moving van across the street had caught his eye.
"What?" Josh said upon entering.
"Look."
"Somebody's moving in."
Drake pointed at the car next to the moving van. A short red head was emerging. "Isn't that the creature?"
"The creature?" Confusion, then realization. Josh closed the curtains and laid down on the floor.
"What are you doing?" Drake asked his strange brother.
"Get down!" Josh hissed. He pulled the reluctant Drake down.
"Get up." Drake pulled his brother up.
"Mindy. She's back. She can't see me."
"Why not?"
"I don't know. . . It'd just be all weird and awkward. I don't want it to be like that with her."
"You think?" Megan said to announce her entry.
"Megan, get out!" Drake said rudely. "We're busy!"
"Busy doing what? Watching Josh's old girlfriend move in across the street, knowing it will probably mess things up between him and Andrea, knowing he'll probably lose them both and die alone? After all, Josh, don't you still have feelings for Mindy?" She took a pear from the fruit basket on the table.
"Go do something in your room, you little demon!" Josh muttered.
"Ah, so you know I'm right. My work here is done." She left.
"Don't listen to her, man. You know it's over between you and Mindy. Stick with Andrea." Drake said.
"What if it isn't?"
"Josh-"
"We said we'd take time off. We never said it was officially over."
"Josh-"
"Who knows Mindy better, you or me?"
"Who knows girls better, you or me?" Drake replied. "Listen, I think-"
"Don't think!" Josh said, exasperated. "Bad things happen when you think."
Drake crossed his arms. "Name once."
"Ok." Josh didn't even need to think. "You wrecked my relationship with Mindy almost three times. You told me to crawl out of a window in a tree house twenty feet above the ground. You lead me to believe Dad was having an affair. You ruined my perfect attendance record. You thought you could fix my lamp, but that only got me electrocuted and do I even need to mention the chemical bath??"
"I said name one, not all!!"
The door bell rang. Neither of them bothered to get it.
"That's nowhere near all!!" Josh insisted.
"Promise me, before you do anything, you'll think it through and choose Andrea." Drake said softly.
"Hey, just because you hate Mindy doesn't mean I do. I happen to like her very much."
"Josh-"
"Stop. You know how I feel - felt about Mindy. I might still like her. I don't know."
"Josh!!" Drake was almost shouting.
"What?"
"Turn around."
His heart stopped. Behind him stood Andrea and Gabby.
"When you figure it out, Josh, please call me, because I can't see you any longer until you do."
"Andrea. . ."
"Gabbs," Drake called. "Are we still on for tonight?"
"Yea. I'll call you." Gabby followed her sister.
Josh shot a murderous glance at his sister, who stood where the twins just had. "How could you?"
"What?" Innocence. "I only let them in. I didn't know it'd turn out this bad. I'm. . . I'm sorry, Josh."
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"So how's your brother?" Gabby asked Drake on their date.
"Well, his ex-girlfriend moved in across the street. . . and she was his first girlfriend. He had really liked her, I guess."
"Ooooh. Poor guy." Gabby said sympathetically.
"Yea." Drake gazed into her beautiful eyes, captivated. "Stupid Cupid."
"Not so stupid." She moved closer. "We're together."
"Yea." He grinned. "We should kiss. You know, to celebrate."
She grinned and let him kiss her.
