Chapter 15

"Hey Aims," Jeff called out as he saw her red hair flash by the
doorway. Amy stopped, dropped her bags and turned around. She looked
around the room to make sure that it was her house. Then walked back
to the living room where Jeff was lying comfortably on her red leather
sofa.

"Jeff, this is my house right?" Amy asked confusedly.

"Yep." He said, nodding his head up and down.

"Then what the heck are you doing here?"

"Well I'm supposed to be here vacuuming because you aren't supposed to
be back until 5:00. You ruined everything because it's only 3:00.
Matt's out buying dinner or roses or something....whoops ruined the
surprise."

"Let me get this straight. You're supposed to be vacuuming my house
while Matt is getting me roses and dinner? Where's Toby?"

"Matt took him to the vet to get his hair cut and get his nails
trimmed. Matt will bring him back tonight."

"Oh, poor baby. But...hey you little jackass! You're not vacuuming."

"Like I said you ruined everything by coming home too early. So guess
I don't have to do anything..." Jeff started.

"Actually Mr. Clean, you better get familiar with that vacuum, cause
I've got news that you're so gonna wanna hear."

"What about?" Jeff said, making himself even more comfortable on the
couch by laying down.

"Oh, a certain girl." Amy said, as she looked through the pile of
bills sitting on the coffee table.

"About Corinne?" Jeff was quiet for a minute. He pulled out his cell
phone to make sure that it was still on. He had called her repeatedly
in the few days but it seemed that she was never home and her phone
was never turned on. He knew the password to her voicemail on the cell
phone and had checked to see if she had listened to it only to find
that none of her messages had been heard. He looked up to see Amy
holding the plug of the vacuum smugly.

"Fine, give it to me." Amy laughed as Jeff grabbed the plug and began
to vacuum. Meanwhile Amy grabbed an apple and jumped back on her couch
taking a bite with vigor while Jeff shot daggers at her with his
piercing green eyes.

After about a half an hour, Jeff came back to the living room where
Amy was now reading a magazine and dropped the vacuum in front of her.

"Alright, spill," he said.

"Excuse me? I don't think the job is done until the tools are put away
too. It goes in the closet near the kitchen." Amy said, smiling at
this newfound power.

"Ugh!" Jeff yelled as he yanked the vacuum back. Meanwhile Amy heard
the front door open and heard Matt yelling, "JEFF!"

He entered the house, carrying two full paper bags in each arm, while
pulling a large green duffle bag with his feet. Amy stifled a giggle
as he dropped one of the brown bags and tripped on the duffle bag
ending up on the floor just as Jeff came to help him.

"Damn it! Oh good! Whew! It was the vegetable bag, I didn't break the
eggs." Matt said as Jeff helped him up. Jeff picked up the fallen
brown bag and looked over at the living room where Amy was trying to
hide on the couch lying as still as possible.

"So Matt," Jeff said nonchalantly while they walked to the kitchen.

"Yeah?" Matt said irritably as he pulled out a bouquet of yellow roses
from a bag and tried to arrange it on the purple vase he had found.

"Wouldn't it suck if Amy came home early and ruined the surprise?"

"What do you mean?" Matt said narrowing his eyes at Jeff suspiciously
while he took out celery and carrots and other vegetables out of the
bag and stuck them in the almost empty fridge, which he had cleaned
earlier that day.

"Oh well you know if she just popped...." Jeff continued.

"Shut up Jeff," Amy said running out of the living room and jumping on
a very surprised Matt.

"I can't believe you did all this! This is so sweet!" She said,
planting a kiss on his lips as Matt recovering from the shock that his
girlfriend was home caught himself and kissed her back.

"What are you doing home this early? I was supposed to have dinner set
up and have gotten rid of Jeff before you got here." Matt said as he
put her down on the floor and caught her face in his hands.

"I caught a ride with Shane and Shannon because Co...someone else
needed the car that I reserved for a later flight." Amy said, hoping
that Jeff had not caught her slip. She sighed as she noticed that he
hadn't even been listening to them and had instead been digging inside
the remaining brown bag.

"What the hell Matt, no junk food but freaking low-fat chips. What's
the deal?" He grumbled, then finding a bag of chocolate chips at the
bottom of the bag, opened them and popped a few in his mouth. Matt
leaned down to kiss Amy again, and then realizing what his brother was
eating, immediately grabbed it back from him.

"Those are for the cookies you idiot! Stop eating them!" While Jeff
and Matt fought over the bag of chocolate chips, Amy ran outside to
let Toby out of Matt's car and into the back yard. As she ran back she
almost tripped on the green duffle bag that was still sitting near the
front door. She leaned down and opened it.

"Awwww...Matt you did my laundry! That's so sweet." She cooed as she
walked back to him to give him a hug. She looked endearingly up into
his brown eyes and nodded her head towards the stairs. Matt raised an
eyebrow when she walked over to the stairs, tugging him by his hand.

"So guys, I was thinking..." Jeff said, then realized that he was the
only one downstairs. He heard the door shut close and knew that he
wouldn't see them for the rest of the day. He ran upstairs.

"Hey! Amy you never told me about Corinne!" he yelled banging on the
door. Just then he thought he heard the door open and close
downstairs. He shrugged it off and continued banging on the door.

"Come on! Before y'all get all hot and heavy, you have to tell me
what's up with Corinne..." He whined.

"What about Corinne?" Asked someone from downstairs. Jeff paused in
surprise and bounded down the stairs.

"Corinne?" He called out and there she was, standing by the front door
with a small smile on her face and an overnight bag slung over her
shoulder. He hugged her tight then just held her within arms length.

"Hey you," she said, leaning towards him and putting her head on his
shoulder.

"Hey me," he said. She smiled at the response and just let him hold
her.