~ Story title: Once and Again.

~ Chapter title: Home alone.

~ Authors: Isabelle8888 and Jamiesangel2008.

~~~ One week later. ~~~

Jamie and Landon have been living together for a week and it's been nonstop fighting. Every chance they get, they pick on each other.

It's Friday morning, Bert had a lot of work to do at the church so he left before the sun came out. Cynthia left to work an hour later. Jamie and Landon are home alone.

Jamie woke up bye the sound of her alarm clock. She sat up and then walked to the bathroom, the door was locked. Jamie knew Landon was in the shower, she could feel the steam through the door. Jamie waited 15 minutes before she started to bang on the door.

" Cater, you have to share the bathroom, you're not the only person in this house!" Jamie yelled.

" I woke up first, so I get to use the bathroom first!" Landon yelled through the door.

" Hurry up!" Jamie yelled. " Four bedrooms and one bathroom, that's the dumbest thing I have ever scene" Jamie thought.

Jamie waited five more minutes before she decided to take matters in to her own hands.

" It's time I teach you a lesson." Jamie said quietly as she walked back to her room and got a plastic card to unlock the bathroom door.

Jamie tiptoed to the bathroom door and then unlocked it. Then she tiptoed into the bathroom and flushed the toilet, then she ran out of the bathroom and waited for the scream when Landon felt the ice cold water.

" 3..2..1.. now" Jamie said as she stood by the door.

" Oh, shit!" Landon yelled as he jumped out of the shower, he wrapped a towel around his waist and opened the door when he heard Jamie laughing.

" So I guess this is your entire fault." Landon said as he stood in front of Jamie.

" Maybe." Jamie said as she tried to stop laughing.

" You are going to pay for this." Landon said.

" I had to get you out of their one way or another." Jamie said with a devilish smile.

" I will get you back for this." Landon said as he walked to his room.

Jamie went to the bathroom and then changed into a pair of jeans and a blue t-shirt. Then Jamie went downstairs to eat breakfast, Landon was standing in front of the counter making a sandwich.

" What are you doing?" Jamie asked, but Landon is giving her the silent treatment. "So, I guess your mad at me, that's okay, be mad." Jamie said.

" Us living together, isn't going to work is it?" Landon asked as he looked Jamie in the eye.

At that moment When Landon looked Jamie in the eye, she realized that this was for real and they have to find away to live together.

" It will work, it's only for the summer. But you have to learn to take short showers because if you leave me with no hot water again, I will have to kick your ass." Jamie said.

" All right." Landon said as he began to eat his sandwich.

Him and Jamie sat that the counter and ate their food, they sat in silence. After they ate, they just sat around.

" I'm bored." Landon said.

" What do you want to do?" Jamie asked, feeling the same way.

" I could, think of a way to get you back for this morning." Landon stated.

" You can think of a way but it doesn't mean it will work. Do you want to play rummy? " Jamie asked. When her and Landon were younger they use to play all kinds of card games, when Jamie's mother use to baby sit Landon.

"Okay, if you feel like losing." Landon said with a smile.

" You sound so sure that you are going to win, it's been a long time since we've played. You don't know how good I am now, I will beat your ass in this game." Jamie said as she pulled out a deck of cards.

" Let's wait and see. Who's dealing?" Landon asked as he and Jamie went and sat at the kitchen table.

" I am." Jamie said as she began to shuffle the cards, then dealt eleven cards each to her and Landon.

Landon and Jamie began to play cards.

" So let's talk, what are you doing for your summer vacation?" Landon asked, he knew that if he talks to Jamie, she wouldn't play as good.

" I see what you're doing Carter." Jamie said as she looked at the cards in her hands.

" Why do you always call me Cater?" Landon asked, he hates when Jamie calls him that.

" I have my reasons." Jamie said, as she put down six cards equaling to 30 points.

"I guess you have gotten better." Landon said as he looked to see what he had to see if he can be Jamie's points.

" Oh and to answer your question, for the summer, I am going to be working at Joe's dinner, downtown." Jamie said as she waited for Landon to make his move.

" you're going to work? You here on vacation." Landon stated.

" I need the money, not all of us father rich fathers." Jamie said.

" It's not my fault my dad has money. You're all ways riding me about it." Landon said as he put down four cards equaling to 40 points.

" I don't want to play anymore." Jamie said as she threw her cards down.

" Why not? It's because you know I was going to beat you. You have all ways been a soar loser." Landon said as he put the cards back in the box.

" It's not because I thought you were going to win, you weren't. It's just every time we play a game and the other one loses, we all ways end up fighting. Aren't you tried of fighting with me?" Jamie asked.

" I guess your right. So what are we going to do now?" Landon asked.

" I have to go." Jamie said as she stood from her seat.

" Where are you going?" Landon asked, he wanted to know why all of a sudden Jamie had to leave.

" I'll be back later." Jamie said as she walked out the door, then drove off in her rental car.

Jamie drove to the lake about 20 minutes from her house.

~Playground school bell rings again.

Rain clouds come to play again.

Has no one told you she's not breathing?

Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk too

Hello.~

When Jamie was small, her mother use to take her to this lake to swim and have picnics. Jamie and her mom use to go to the lake every Saturday morning, that's when the sun was brighter the water seemed clearer and the grass greener. Those days Jamie felt so loved and special, she doesn't feel that anymore. Her world seems dark and cold.

~If I smile and don't believe.

Soon I know I'll wake from this dream.

Don't try and fix me I'm not broken.

Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide.

Don't cry.~

Jamie loves her father but the relationship she had with her mother, was the best thing in her life.

Every special moment Jamie has ever had with her mother, happened at that lake. When Jamie wants to feel close or talk to her mother, she goes to the lake.

Jamie likes to think of the lake as her special place, the place she can go when she feels like being alone.

No one knows about the lake, Jamie's mother came across it one day bye mistake, instead of telling anyone about it, she kept it hers and Jamie's little secret.

Jamie parked her car and went and sat on the grass.

" Mom, I miss you. Today I was playing rummy with Landon and it made me think of the day you taught us how to play for the first time. I freaked out because the thought of you in my mind and the pain of missing you was too much. It's so hard to live my life with out you. Mom, I need you." Jamie said as she looked up to the sky.

Jamie laid back on the grass and thought of what her life has become.

~ Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping.

Hello I'm still here.

All that's left of yesterday.~

Song//: Evanescence- Hello

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Thanks,

Isabelle8888 &

Jamiesangel2008