There are lots of ways you categorize people: age, politic, religion.

But when you get down to it there are really two basic types of people in the world: the non-worries and the worries.

Delaeney threw her backpack into the corner of the room and shuffled through all the papers on the kitchen table.

"I can't find it!" She muttered, pushing all the papers on to the floor, "Where's my homework? If I can't find it, I'm gonna fail all my classes and never get a job and die alone."

Axl rolled his eyes from his spot on the couch. God, she was being overdramatic.

~8~

The past few months had been a roller coaster of pain.

Axl's first love, Morgan, broke up with him leaving him heartbroken.

Just when he bounced back-

"Morgan and I are back together!"

"She broke up with me."

"She loves me."

"She loves me too much."

"She's willing to take me back if I change. I think I can."

"She doesn't like the person I've become, so I totally broke up with her. No matter what anyone tells you, it was me, my decision.

And to be honest, I think it was finally starting to get to Delaeney.

Delaeney rolled her eyes as Axl walked in smiling because Morgan took him back.

"Congratulations."

Delaeney rolled her eyes as Axl walked in crying because Morgan had dumped him.

"Come on, I'll make you some hot coco."

~8~

"Hey, Laynee, is this your lip gloss?" Frankie asked Laynee as she saw her walk into her room.

"No." Laynee stated, taking the lip gloss and reading the type, "I only use chap stick. I don't really like lip gloss all that much; it gets gross."

Frankie looked at the lip gloss suspiciously as Delaeney handed it back to her and left. First a calculus book and now lip gloss. Something was going and here and so far, she didn't like it.

The calculus book, the lip gloss.

It was all starting to add up to one thing.

Either Axl had turned into a gay math whiz or Morgan was back.

~8~

Delaeney sat at the table with a pout.

She didn't want Morgan to come over for dinner. In fact, she didn't want Morgan to come over at all because Morgan was going to make Axl think that she loves him and then she's going to break his heart all over again.

"Delaeney, can you help Sue with the cups." Frankie asked as she placed out some napkins.

"No," Delaeney pouted, looking at the table. Yes, she was aggravated and yes, she didn't want Morgan to come over but she wanted Axl to be happy.

"Look, I know that you and Morgan don't get along very well vut I could still use some help with getting this dinner ready." Frankie stated quietly, leaning in so that Axl didn't hear her. No, Axl did not know that Laynee didn't like Morgan. For all he knew, they were great friends and that made him really happy. His girlfriend and best friend were getting along.

"Your mom invited Morgan over so we can all get to know her. It's not a big deal. Just a really bad idea" Mike explained to Axl as he placed the dinner plates around the table.

"Mike, don't be ridiculous." Frankie scolded, "It's a great idea."

Delaeney crossed her arms as she heard the doorbell ring and sunk further into her seat, wishing that she could be upstairs reading in her room or that Axl was never dating Morgan.

And I really believed it was gonna be great.

If Axl loved her, I could love her.

Simple as that.

"Hi," Morgan greeted as Frankie opened the door.

Oh, this is going to be hard.

~8~

"I don't know what kind you like, so I got regular and extra crispy." Frankie said as she placed the boxes of take-out chicken on the table.

"Wow, it's hard to decide." Morgan said as she looked between the two boxes.

"Sure, it can be hard to make a choice and stick with it. I get that." Delaeney stifled a laugh as Mike quickly elbowed Frankie in the side and Axl shifted uncomfortably in his chair.

Roasted, Laynee mentally thought as she grabbed a piece of extra crispy chicken and as if Axl knew what she was thinking, shot her a dirty look. Delaeney gave him a shrug as she bit into her chicken leg.

"Woah, Brick," Laynee gasped as he placed a chick on the table, "Where did you find that? Can I get one?"

"Look he imprinted on me." Brick stated, ignoring Delaeney and placing the chick on the floor so it could follow him around.

"Can I get one? Please?" Delaeney asked, her eyes following Brick and the baby chicken around the kitchen.

Noticing the tension in the air, Delaeney got up.

"I'm gonna go watch Brick." She gave everyone a quick smile before grabbing her food and racing towards the stairs, "Come on, Brick. Let's see if we can teach him some tricks."

"Okay." Brick trotted up the stairs after her, chick in hand.

~8~

"Their relationship doesn't mean anything. He's going to date a million girls. Some of them you'll hate more than Morgan."

"Is that supposed to make me feel better. Gosh, I wish he just went out with Laynee. Their relationship would be perfect. Heck, it already is perfect."

~8~

Delaeney laid on the grass at the picnic. She really didn't want to go but Frankie had forced her and had given her the mission of 'watching over Axl and Morgan'. Delaeney didn't trust Morgan either. Earlier that evening she had overheard Morgan degrading Axl after he had gotten a C on his calculus test and, honestly, that wasn't cool with Delaeney. If Axl tried his best that's all that mattered in her opinion.

Watching as Axl tried to say something in Mandarin, Delaeney frowned as she heard Morgan get mad at him.

"That's not how you say 'I love you' in Mandarin." Morgan scolded and Laynee could see Axl visibly deflate, "I told you, you have to study. You know I'm doing that semester in Hong Kong. I told you, if you wanna go to Hong Kong with me, you're gonna have to practice."

"Hey," Delaeney called as she walked over to them, "He at least he tried."

"Look, this doesn't concern you." Morgan shot back as she glared at Delaeney and Delaeney raised her eyebrows in disbelief.

"Actually, this does concern me." Delaeney took a step towards Morgan so that she was standing slightly in front of Axl, "I don't appreciate you talking to my friend- my best friend- that way. So what if he messed up, so what if he needs to study, at least he tried and that's better than not trying at all."

"I told you that this doesn't concern you. This is between me and Axl."

"And I told you that this does concern me."

Yeah, this time it wasn't in my head.

Delaeney watched as a bean bag smacked Morgan in the head causing her to fall back. Crouching down beside her, Delaeney waved her hand over Morgan's face.

"You okay?" She asked as Axl helped Morgan sit up, ignoring Frankie's apologies.

"I'm okay." Morgan said and Delaeney watched as Axl tried to help her up before Sue pushed through and dragged Morgan to the shade.

Yep, it was petty and beneath me and it didn't change anything but hey, losing control over your kids is a tough thing to accept as Brick was about to find out.

~8~

I slept surprisingly well that night I think because nature made it that only one parent can worry at a time.

Nature's smart that way.

And the truth is, we didn't have to worry about Morgan for long.

Axl continued to date the love of his life for three more weeks until Delaeney decided that she wanted to try something new with her hair.

"Hey." Delaeney greeted as she walked inside with her new shoulder-length, curled hair.

Frankie gave a knowing smile as she watched Axl's jaw drop.

Don't you just love how Delaeney stood up for Axl.

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