A/N: Okay, well, guess who's got a case of the writer's block?! MOI!!
I'm like stuck on both stories at this moment in time. So I apologize for
this mediocre chapter. Oh! I saw one of the indy wrestlers up here workin
in Hot Topic. Ah, the best place to find hotties! WOO!! lol Didn't buy
anything this time around. Not that there wasn't stuff I wanted, it's just
that I'm tryin to conserve money. Especially if I do get accepted to UofL.
Oh my God. I have this sudden fixation about getting my tongue pierced.
I haven't a clue where it came from, but I seriously want it done. And I
saw the best tongue ring ever! The balls had blue flames on them!! How
sweet is that?! I so totally have to get it! lol If there was ever a
reason for me to get it done, that would be the reason. lol Well,
anyways, here's the next chapter! I'm gonna try and get more chapters
out.................................................but with this damn
stupid writer's block disease that I have, it probably won't happen!
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"Well look who finally came home," Lizzie grinned as Cinder tiredly made her way into the house.
"Lizzie, as much as I'd love to chat with you, I can't. I'm in desperate need of sleep," she replied trudging up the stairs passed her cousin.
"Oh, I get it. How was it?!" Lizzie asked jumping in front of Cinder.
"Listen, I got to sleep maybe 6 hours. I need a good 8 to function," Cinder said testily.
"Oh my God!"
Cinder sighed knowing she wasn't getting by her cousin without sharing the events of the nite with her. "No, Lizzie that didn't happen."
"Are you serious?!" Lizzie exclaimed in shock. "Why not?! It was the perfect time!"
"No Lizzie. It just wasn't happening. Now can I go to bed?!"
"No, I wanna know what went wrong!" Lizzie dragged Cinder back down the stairs and pushed her on the couch."
"We were close. SO close. But something just wasn't right. So I stopped it," Cinder sighed. "But he did say he loved me."
"And you still didn't fuck him?!"
"Oh beautiful Lizzie!" Cinder said standing. "Looks like you're back to speaking English again instead of gibberish! And how'd my mom react, huh?! Grounded for life?!"
"Actually she just keeps muttering 'she's not my daughter. She's not my daughter' over and over again whens he sees me," Lizzie smiled turning her head around to look at Cinder as she ascended the stairs.
"You suck!" Cinder yelled down to her.
"Yep, and Shannon loves it," Lizzie smiled to herself, flicker her tongue out and running the barbell across her teeth.
"She doesn't get in trouble cause she's a guest, but ME, I'll get chewed out for a belly button ring!" Cinder spoke to herself quietly ignoring the fact that Adam was standing in his doorway with his arms crossed. He cleared his throat and she jumped at the sound, figuring she was alone. She turned and looked at him, giving him a grunt of aggravation. "Adam, don't start with me. I'm much too tired to deal with your shit right now."
"I just wanna know if you got anything pierced. That's it," he smiled.
"Yes, I did. And no, I'm not gonna tell you where or show you. Goodnite Adam," she smiled sweetly at him after kissing his cheek. Flipping her hair she walked into her room and slammed the door shut. She jumped on her bed face first and fell asleep in her clothes.
"Cinder? Cinderella," Adam whispered opening the door half way. He smiled and walked over to her bed. He gently pulled the covers down underneath her and pulled them over her. He kissed her forehead and brushed her hair out of her face. "Dad sent us a letter yesterday. I haven't told Mom. But he um, he put money in it. Money for you to buy a new board. But I guess I'll talk to you about it later. Love you C."
"Adam, next time I'm asleep, don't talk to me," Cinder muttered her eyes still shut. "But now since you've woken me up, talk." Adam laughed and sat next to her on the bed.
"Like I said, Dad sent a letter and it had money it for you to buy a new board. Apparently he felt sorry for what happened. He also said that he would send us money whenever we needed it. All we had to do was ask. It's your money, so you can do whatever you want with it," Adam said.
"Don't call him Dad. He's not our Dad. He's just some man that we don't know who looks like our father. And who also lost me the competition," she growled.
"Sorry, but the point is, he sent you like 500 bucks for a board. What are you gonna do with it?"
"Send it back," she said lying back down, pulling the blankets over her head. Adam rolled his eyes and pulled them down. "What?!" she whined sitting up.
"Why would you send that amount of money back?! Do you know what you could do with it?!"
"Adam, if I keep it, we owe him."
"We owe him?! No, he owes us. He owes us 18 years of fatherhood. This is only making up for like a quarter of what he owes us."
"No, don't you see?! He gives me this 500 bucks and he'll expect something back. Whether it be a visit, a dinner, or pay back in money, he owns us."
"I still think you should keep it."
"Ya know, he shouldn't be sending me money for a stupid board. He should be sending you money for school. Adam, you're the one that's gonna go far."
"C, with my academic scholarship, my football scholarship, and any other scholarships, I won't need it. I'm guaranteed a pretty big scholarship because of being in the top 10 in my class, plus my 1340 on the SATs and then there's my football scholarship. I don't need that money. But you need that money. You need to work towards getting a sponsorship."
"I just don't want it. Just get rid of it and don't tell Mom," Cinder said softly. Adam took a deep breath and nodded.
"Fine. If that's what you want," he sighed.
"That's what I want.
"Well, I guess you can go back to sleep now," he said standing. She shook her head and chuckled.
"Dude, I'm up now, there's no sense in goin back to sleep." He smiled at her as she thought. "You busy today?"
"No, not until tonite when I have to work. Why?"
"Ya wanna go see a movie or something?" she asked softly.
"Don't ya wanna go hang out with Shane?"
"Nah, he'll be sleepin most of the day anyways. He's too lazy, plus he didn't get much sleep," she laughed.
"Well, alright. I think that would be a good idea. But before we do that, what did you two do?"
"Nothin."
"Nothin my ass. Now you've got this new belly button piercing and you were with him ALL nite. You must have wanted to try it out," he said crossing his arms.
"How'd you know?!" she exclaimed in shock. He smiled and pointed at her belly button. She looked down and realized she was wearing a cropped top. "Right, if only I was smart enough to wear a regular length shirt."
"It's cute C."
"Really?! You think so? You think Mom will be fine with it?"
"Oh hell no! She'll definitely kill ya for it!" he laughed as his sister flopped back down and cover her head with her pillow. "But um, what are you gonna do for a board?"
"I don't know, probably just use my old one, the spare," she answered starting to move around her room for clothes to wear.
"Um, you gave that board to Jeff," Adam replied.
"Well, can I use yours?"
"Cin, you know I would love to let you use mine, but the fins are still broken, there are millions of dents, and the nose is cracked a bit."
"Oh, well, then I won't be surfing anytime soon," she smiled through her sadness. Adam shook his head and wrapped her in his arms, knowing that she was more upset about the situation then she let on to be.
"We'll figure something out. I promise." He kissed the top of her head and left her to change.
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Cinder sat on her bed doing her horrendous geometry homework, wishing Matt wasn't out with Amy so he could run over and help her. It was an unusual nite for her, for the first time in a long time, she was completely alone. She had the house to herself. Lizzie and Shannon were out, her mom was with Gil, and Adam was working at the store. But instead of lounging around enjoying her freedom, she sat in the comforts of her room doing homework. She truly lived an exciting life. Although she knew this alone time wouldn't be much longer with Adam getting out of work in about 10 minutes. She had her radio blaring some Godsmack, knowing that she would be throttled by her Mom if it was ever up that high with her around. She heard a crash on the stairs and laughed.
"Hi Adam!" she called out over her music. He rolled his eyes at her as he stepped into her room. "What'd you knock over this time?" She laughed at his after work clumsiness. It was almost a ritual that when he got home from work he would run into something in the house.
"The plant at the bottom of the stairs," he sighed shaking his head while retreating to his room. She continued to laugh at him.
Not too long after she heard the front door slam shut and someone running up the stairs. She fully expected Jay or Lizzie to be the one running towards her room, but it wasn't. Amy ran into her room crying and looking as though she'd been crying for quite sometime. Cinder immediately threw her books off her bed and rushed to her friend's side. She hugged Amy tightly allowing her to sob on her shoulder. Cinder guided Amy to the bed and they sat down, parting at the same time.
Cinder reached up and moved a chunk of Amy's deep red hair out of her face. "What's the matter?"
"It's Matt," Amy cried as Cinder reached for the tissues that sat on her nite stand.
"What he do?!" Cinder exclaimed coming to certain conclusions in her head.
"Nothing really bad, just he upset me," Amy sighed wiping her eyes.
"What happened Ames?"
"Well, we were sitting in his room watching tv. I leaned over and kissed his cheek. Then I told him that I loved him." She burst out crying harder and Cinder rubbed her arm comfortingly.
"That's great Ames. But why are you crying?"
"Cause all he said was 'that's nice' and changed the channel."
"Oh man. I'm sorry. Maybe he just was caught off guard. I'm sure he loves you," Cinder said.
"Then why didn't he say it back?!"
"Cause he's a guy and guys are stupid," Cinder chuckled as she saw Adam walk by her room. "ADAM!"
"Yo!" Adam smiled peeking in her room. "Hey Amy. What's the matter?"
"Adam, what did you do when Alanah told you she loved you?" Cinder asked.
"I thanked God!" Adam laughed. "I was just happy that I hadn't sounded like a fool."
"Why?"
"Cause I said it to her first," Adam shook his head.
"SEE!" Amy cried storming over to Cinder's window.
"Why?" Adam asked staring at Amy.
"Cause she told Matt that she loved him and he didn't respond with the same thing," Cinder replied crossing her arms.
"What he say?"
"That's nice," Amy snapped.
"Oh man. Dumbass. Listen, Ames, he does love you. He's just afraid to tell you. But trust me when I say that he's in love with you," Adam smiled putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know why he would!" she cried.
"Any guy would be lucky to have you. You're a great girl. I should know! I mean gees, you only grew up here!" Adam laughed. "Listen kid, just give him time. Does he know how upset you are about this?"
"No, I came right over here," she answered.
"Just give him time, he'll realize what kind of ass he was and tell you," Adam kissed Amy's cheek and walked out of the room.
"I love your brother," she said. "Too bad mine aren't like that!"
Cinder laughed and nodded. "Yeah, I love him too. He's right ya know. Matt will tell you eventually, just give him time."
"I heard Shane told you last nite," she smiled.
"Yeah, he did."
"That's sweet C. You two are really cute together. I think he's good for you."
"Me too. He certainly keeps all the creeps off me."
"And the belly button ring is really cute."
"Thanks, I like it too," Cinder smiled. "So, ya alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I better get home. See ya tomorrow." Cinder gave Amy a hug and went back to her geometry once she left. After staring at her book for quite sometime she decided to pack it up and run to the Hardy's.
"Where ya goin this late at nite?" Adam asked looking at the clock in the kitchen.
"To see Matt."
"C, you're not gonna get in the middle of his and Amy's relationship are you?"
"Gees Adam, what kind of idiot do you take me for?!"
"I don't take you for any kind of idiot. I just know how protective you are of Amy."
"I'm goin over there to get some help with geometry."
"Well gees. I can help you, ya know."
"If you help me and teach me a different way than the right way, then Matt's gotta take all that extra time to re-teach me," Cinder pointed out as she pulled her book bag on her shoulder.
"Very true. Go ahead. I'll tell Mom," Adam smiled as Cinder ran out the door.
In reality, she had no intentions of asking Matt for help with her homework. She was definitely on her way over there in a fit of rage because her best friend had come to her hysterical over her dumbass boyfriend. Matt was about to get a piece of her mind. Cinder left her bag in the passenger seat as she stormed up to the front door. Jeff answered with a smile on his face.
"Hey, I bet you and Shane had a good time, huh?" he said wiggling his eyebrows. Cinder rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Listen, Jeff, I'm here to see that ass of a brother of yours. Is Matt home?" Cinder exclaimed.
"Yeah, in his room," Jeff replied slowly letting her into the house.
"Thanks," she growled as she ran up the stairs, taking two at a time. She stood in front of Matt's door as familiar sounds of Pearl Jam entered her ears. She knocked on it and he quickly answered it.
"Cinder, what are you doin here?" Matt asked as Cinder pushed passed him. "Sure, you can come in," his reply was sarcastic as she stood in front of him with her hands placed on her hips. "Is something wrong?"
"You are a jerk," she spoke roughly.
"Why? What'd I do now?!" he laughed.
"This is serious Matt. I got a visit from one very hysterical Amy Christine Dumas," Cinder said.
"Oh? What's the matter? Is she alright?"
"Well, shouldn't you know what's wrong? Since you're the reason for it!"
"ME?!" he exclaimed pointing at himself. "What the hell did I do?!"
"It's more like what you DIDN'T say!" Cinder yelled.
"What I didn't say?" he muttered to himself.
"Yeah, do you recall a certain red head telling you she loved you?"
"Oh, OH! Shit! She was upset about that?!" Matt exclaimed.
"Well DUH!" Cinder yelled.
"Oh my God. I didn't think she'd get that upset over me not saying it back," Matt said quietly shaking his head. "Cinder, you gotta know that I do love her. I do, I just, I have a problem telling her that."
"Why? What's the big deal? Shannon told Lizzie. Adam told Alanah. Shane told me! What's so different about you?!"
"I don't know! Amy's special. She's the first girl I've ever been this serious with. I just don't want things to move too fast I guess. But I do love her. With all my heart. I don't want to be with anyone else. You have to know that C," Matt said.
"Matt, don't tell me. Get on that phone and tell her that!" Cinder said.
"She was really hysterical?" Matt asked.
"Yeah she was. She was very upset Matt. You're the first person that I know of that she's confessed that to. And then to have you not say it back was a massive low blow to her," Cinder said walking out the door.
"Thanks C!" Matt called after her.
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"Well look who finally came home," Lizzie grinned as Cinder tiredly made her way into the house.
"Lizzie, as much as I'd love to chat with you, I can't. I'm in desperate need of sleep," she replied trudging up the stairs passed her cousin.
"Oh, I get it. How was it?!" Lizzie asked jumping in front of Cinder.
"Listen, I got to sleep maybe 6 hours. I need a good 8 to function," Cinder said testily.
"Oh my God!"
Cinder sighed knowing she wasn't getting by her cousin without sharing the events of the nite with her. "No, Lizzie that didn't happen."
"Are you serious?!" Lizzie exclaimed in shock. "Why not?! It was the perfect time!"
"No Lizzie. It just wasn't happening. Now can I go to bed?!"
"No, I wanna know what went wrong!" Lizzie dragged Cinder back down the stairs and pushed her on the couch."
"We were close. SO close. But something just wasn't right. So I stopped it," Cinder sighed. "But he did say he loved me."
"And you still didn't fuck him?!"
"Oh beautiful Lizzie!" Cinder said standing. "Looks like you're back to speaking English again instead of gibberish! And how'd my mom react, huh?! Grounded for life?!"
"Actually she just keeps muttering 'she's not my daughter. She's not my daughter' over and over again whens he sees me," Lizzie smiled turning her head around to look at Cinder as she ascended the stairs.
"You suck!" Cinder yelled down to her.
"Yep, and Shannon loves it," Lizzie smiled to herself, flicker her tongue out and running the barbell across her teeth.
"She doesn't get in trouble cause she's a guest, but ME, I'll get chewed out for a belly button ring!" Cinder spoke to herself quietly ignoring the fact that Adam was standing in his doorway with his arms crossed. He cleared his throat and she jumped at the sound, figuring she was alone. She turned and looked at him, giving him a grunt of aggravation. "Adam, don't start with me. I'm much too tired to deal with your shit right now."
"I just wanna know if you got anything pierced. That's it," he smiled.
"Yes, I did. And no, I'm not gonna tell you where or show you. Goodnite Adam," she smiled sweetly at him after kissing his cheek. Flipping her hair she walked into her room and slammed the door shut. She jumped on her bed face first and fell asleep in her clothes.
"Cinder? Cinderella," Adam whispered opening the door half way. He smiled and walked over to her bed. He gently pulled the covers down underneath her and pulled them over her. He kissed her forehead and brushed her hair out of her face. "Dad sent us a letter yesterday. I haven't told Mom. But he um, he put money in it. Money for you to buy a new board. But I guess I'll talk to you about it later. Love you C."
"Adam, next time I'm asleep, don't talk to me," Cinder muttered her eyes still shut. "But now since you've woken me up, talk." Adam laughed and sat next to her on the bed.
"Like I said, Dad sent a letter and it had money it for you to buy a new board. Apparently he felt sorry for what happened. He also said that he would send us money whenever we needed it. All we had to do was ask. It's your money, so you can do whatever you want with it," Adam said.
"Don't call him Dad. He's not our Dad. He's just some man that we don't know who looks like our father. And who also lost me the competition," she growled.
"Sorry, but the point is, he sent you like 500 bucks for a board. What are you gonna do with it?"
"Send it back," she said lying back down, pulling the blankets over her head. Adam rolled his eyes and pulled them down. "What?!" she whined sitting up.
"Why would you send that amount of money back?! Do you know what you could do with it?!"
"Adam, if I keep it, we owe him."
"We owe him?! No, he owes us. He owes us 18 years of fatherhood. This is only making up for like a quarter of what he owes us."
"No, don't you see?! He gives me this 500 bucks and he'll expect something back. Whether it be a visit, a dinner, or pay back in money, he owns us."
"I still think you should keep it."
"Ya know, he shouldn't be sending me money for a stupid board. He should be sending you money for school. Adam, you're the one that's gonna go far."
"C, with my academic scholarship, my football scholarship, and any other scholarships, I won't need it. I'm guaranteed a pretty big scholarship because of being in the top 10 in my class, plus my 1340 on the SATs and then there's my football scholarship. I don't need that money. But you need that money. You need to work towards getting a sponsorship."
"I just don't want it. Just get rid of it and don't tell Mom," Cinder said softly. Adam took a deep breath and nodded.
"Fine. If that's what you want," he sighed.
"That's what I want.
"Well, I guess you can go back to sleep now," he said standing. She shook her head and chuckled.
"Dude, I'm up now, there's no sense in goin back to sleep." He smiled at her as she thought. "You busy today?"
"No, not until tonite when I have to work. Why?"
"Ya wanna go see a movie or something?" she asked softly.
"Don't ya wanna go hang out with Shane?"
"Nah, he'll be sleepin most of the day anyways. He's too lazy, plus he didn't get much sleep," she laughed.
"Well, alright. I think that would be a good idea. But before we do that, what did you two do?"
"Nothin."
"Nothin my ass. Now you've got this new belly button piercing and you were with him ALL nite. You must have wanted to try it out," he said crossing his arms.
"How'd you know?!" she exclaimed in shock. He smiled and pointed at her belly button. She looked down and realized she was wearing a cropped top. "Right, if only I was smart enough to wear a regular length shirt."
"It's cute C."
"Really?! You think so? You think Mom will be fine with it?"
"Oh hell no! She'll definitely kill ya for it!" he laughed as his sister flopped back down and cover her head with her pillow. "But um, what are you gonna do for a board?"
"I don't know, probably just use my old one, the spare," she answered starting to move around her room for clothes to wear.
"Um, you gave that board to Jeff," Adam replied.
"Well, can I use yours?"
"Cin, you know I would love to let you use mine, but the fins are still broken, there are millions of dents, and the nose is cracked a bit."
"Oh, well, then I won't be surfing anytime soon," she smiled through her sadness. Adam shook his head and wrapped her in his arms, knowing that she was more upset about the situation then she let on to be.
"We'll figure something out. I promise." He kissed the top of her head and left her to change.
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Cinder sat on her bed doing her horrendous geometry homework, wishing Matt wasn't out with Amy so he could run over and help her. It was an unusual nite for her, for the first time in a long time, she was completely alone. She had the house to herself. Lizzie and Shannon were out, her mom was with Gil, and Adam was working at the store. But instead of lounging around enjoying her freedom, she sat in the comforts of her room doing homework. She truly lived an exciting life. Although she knew this alone time wouldn't be much longer with Adam getting out of work in about 10 minutes. She had her radio blaring some Godsmack, knowing that she would be throttled by her Mom if it was ever up that high with her around. She heard a crash on the stairs and laughed.
"Hi Adam!" she called out over her music. He rolled his eyes at her as he stepped into her room. "What'd you knock over this time?" She laughed at his after work clumsiness. It was almost a ritual that when he got home from work he would run into something in the house.
"The plant at the bottom of the stairs," he sighed shaking his head while retreating to his room. She continued to laugh at him.
Not too long after she heard the front door slam shut and someone running up the stairs. She fully expected Jay or Lizzie to be the one running towards her room, but it wasn't. Amy ran into her room crying and looking as though she'd been crying for quite sometime. Cinder immediately threw her books off her bed and rushed to her friend's side. She hugged Amy tightly allowing her to sob on her shoulder. Cinder guided Amy to the bed and they sat down, parting at the same time.
Cinder reached up and moved a chunk of Amy's deep red hair out of her face. "What's the matter?"
"It's Matt," Amy cried as Cinder reached for the tissues that sat on her nite stand.
"What he do?!" Cinder exclaimed coming to certain conclusions in her head.
"Nothing really bad, just he upset me," Amy sighed wiping her eyes.
"What happened Ames?"
"Well, we were sitting in his room watching tv. I leaned over and kissed his cheek. Then I told him that I loved him." She burst out crying harder and Cinder rubbed her arm comfortingly.
"That's great Ames. But why are you crying?"
"Cause all he said was 'that's nice' and changed the channel."
"Oh man. I'm sorry. Maybe he just was caught off guard. I'm sure he loves you," Cinder said.
"Then why didn't he say it back?!"
"Cause he's a guy and guys are stupid," Cinder chuckled as she saw Adam walk by her room. "ADAM!"
"Yo!" Adam smiled peeking in her room. "Hey Amy. What's the matter?"
"Adam, what did you do when Alanah told you she loved you?" Cinder asked.
"I thanked God!" Adam laughed. "I was just happy that I hadn't sounded like a fool."
"Why?"
"Cause I said it to her first," Adam shook his head.
"SEE!" Amy cried storming over to Cinder's window.
"Why?" Adam asked staring at Amy.
"Cause she told Matt that she loved him and he didn't respond with the same thing," Cinder replied crossing her arms.
"What he say?"
"That's nice," Amy snapped.
"Oh man. Dumbass. Listen, Ames, he does love you. He's just afraid to tell you. But trust me when I say that he's in love with you," Adam smiled putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know why he would!" she cried.
"Any guy would be lucky to have you. You're a great girl. I should know! I mean gees, you only grew up here!" Adam laughed. "Listen kid, just give him time. Does he know how upset you are about this?"
"No, I came right over here," she answered.
"Just give him time, he'll realize what kind of ass he was and tell you," Adam kissed Amy's cheek and walked out of the room.
"I love your brother," she said. "Too bad mine aren't like that!"
Cinder laughed and nodded. "Yeah, I love him too. He's right ya know. Matt will tell you eventually, just give him time."
"I heard Shane told you last nite," she smiled.
"Yeah, he did."
"That's sweet C. You two are really cute together. I think he's good for you."
"Me too. He certainly keeps all the creeps off me."
"And the belly button ring is really cute."
"Thanks, I like it too," Cinder smiled. "So, ya alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I better get home. See ya tomorrow." Cinder gave Amy a hug and went back to her geometry once she left. After staring at her book for quite sometime she decided to pack it up and run to the Hardy's.
"Where ya goin this late at nite?" Adam asked looking at the clock in the kitchen.
"To see Matt."
"C, you're not gonna get in the middle of his and Amy's relationship are you?"
"Gees Adam, what kind of idiot do you take me for?!"
"I don't take you for any kind of idiot. I just know how protective you are of Amy."
"I'm goin over there to get some help with geometry."
"Well gees. I can help you, ya know."
"If you help me and teach me a different way than the right way, then Matt's gotta take all that extra time to re-teach me," Cinder pointed out as she pulled her book bag on her shoulder.
"Very true. Go ahead. I'll tell Mom," Adam smiled as Cinder ran out the door.
In reality, she had no intentions of asking Matt for help with her homework. She was definitely on her way over there in a fit of rage because her best friend had come to her hysterical over her dumbass boyfriend. Matt was about to get a piece of her mind. Cinder left her bag in the passenger seat as she stormed up to the front door. Jeff answered with a smile on his face.
"Hey, I bet you and Shane had a good time, huh?" he said wiggling his eyebrows. Cinder rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Listen, Jeff, I'm here to see that ass of a brother of yours. Is Matt home?" Cinder exclaimed.
"Yeah, in his room," Jeff replied slowly letting her into the house.
"Thanks," she growled as she ran up the stairs, taking two at a time. She stood in front of Matt's door as familiar sounds of Pearl Jam entered her ears. She knocked on it and he quickly answered it.
"Cinder, what are you doin here?" Matt asked as Cinder pushed passed him. "Sure, you can come in," his reply was sarcastic as she stood in front of him with her hands placed on her hips. "Is something wrong?"
"You are a jerk," she spoke roughly.
"Why? What'd I do now?!" he laughed.
"This is serious Matt. I got a visit from one very hysterical Amy Christine Dumas," Cinder said.
"Oh? What's the matter? Is she alright?"
"Well, shouldn't you know what's wrong? Since you're the reason for it!"
"ME?!" he exclaimed pointing at himself. "What the hell did I do?!"
"It's more like what you DIDN'T say!" Cinder yelled.
"What I didn't say?" he muttered to himself.
"Yeah, do you recall a certain red head telling you she loved you?"
"Oh, OH! Shit! She was upset about that?!" Matt exclaimed.
"Well DUH!" Cinder yelled.
"Oh my God. I didn't think she'd get that upset over me not saying it back," Matt said quietly shaking his head. "Cinder, you gotta know that I do love her. I do, I just, I have a problem telling her that."
"Why? What's the big deal? Shannon told Lizzie. Adam told Alanah. Shane told me! What's so different about you?!"
"I don't know! Amy's special. She's the first girl I've ever been this serious with. I just don't want things to move too fast I guess. But I do love her. With all my heart. I don't want to be with anyone else. You have to know that C," Matt said.
"Matt, don't tell me. Get on that phone and tell her that!" Cinder said.
"She was really hysterical?" Matt asked.
"Yeah she was. She was very upset Matt. You're the first person that I know of that she's confessed that to. And then to have you not say it back was a massive low blow to her," Cinder said walking out the door.
"Thanks C!" Matt called after her.