Authors notes: I know, I'm early. But seeing how I am in the direct path of wonderful hurricane Frances, and it's scheduled to hit tomorrow; I figure I might as well update now incase we lose power. I know you won't be able to stand the wait if you had to skip a week :) So I'm going to post this early, and the next one might be late, depending on how things go here. I really like the way the next chapter is coming along though, so don't worry - I'll update as soon as I can. With all that said, Thanks again and again for all your wonderful Reviews and feedback. Hope you all equally enjoy Chapter Eleven:
It's settled
"I am so sorry." I said pulling Matt out. This was either really embarrassing or totally hilarious, I couldn't figure out which yet.
"I hit my head." Matt said with a pout. Definitely leaning towards hilarious.
"Aww. Poor baby." I brought his head down and kissed where there was now a small bump. "Better?" I asked, a smile creeping onto my face.
"I think I'll live. But just barely." He warned, holding out a few more moments before cracking a smile.
""Well, maybe I should stay home tonight then. I don't know if I want to get on the back of a cycle with someone who's just barley living." I teased..
"You know, its funny. I'm suddenly feeling a whole lot better." He tried to assure me.
"Really? How many fingers." I asked holding three up.
"Six." He said squinting.
"Good enough." I shrugged, pulling him down to resume what we started before my mom interrupted.
"Wow. No blood splatter. She must have gotten him out of here in time." I heard a voice say from down the hall.
"Annoying little pest." Matt threw my words back at me with a smile when we broke apart.
"Your telling me?" I asked following him out into the living room where Alex and Jeff were lounging.
"Ha! They live! It's a miracle." Alex announced as soon as he saw us. "How'd you do it?" he wanted to know. I came up behind the chair where Alex was sitting and leaned against it with a sigh while Matt took a seat next to Jeff on the couch.
"I convinced her that only she could see Matt. She'll be going away to rest for a while now, but I don't think it'll be a good idea to take you to visit; they'll probably want to lock you up right with her." I deadpanned, causing Matt and Jeff to crack up and Alex to roll his eyes at me.
"Haw, haw, haw." He said, but smiled. "Well, you know what that means." Alex said gravely.
"What?" I asked, going around Alex's seat to sit on the couch, next to Matt.
"We'll have to stay at dad's house and put up with his 'I told you so's" Alex said and I laughed. "Amy, if there's one thing I'm going to accomplish in life, its going to be making sure you don't become as crazy as your mother." Alex recited, mocking my father.
"Your dad says that to you?" Jeff asked, smiling.
"Every chance he gets." I rolled my eyes, still smiling
"Well, he hasn't done a very good job, has he?" Matt asked with a grin.
"Jerk." I playfully smacked his arm.
Just then the phone rang. Reaching over to the table next to the couch where the phone laid, I answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey Amy." My dad replied. Speak of the devil. I grabbed the pillow behind me and whacked Alex, who was in the middle of another impersonation of out father, with it.
"Hey dad. What's up?" I replied, making Alex swallow his outburst at my hitting him. He covered his mouth and flopped back onto the chair, stifling laughter.
"Just calling to see how you kids are doing. I missed you on Wednesday." He said. Now Alex was talking in a high pitched tone, trying to sound like mom.
"Yeah. Sorry about that." I said trying not to laugh. "I just totally forgot we rescheduled."
"It's okay sweetie, I know you're a teenager now and you probably don't want to be seen hanging out with your unhip old dad." He replied and I rolled my eyes, standing up from the couch and walking around the living room so I could block Alex from my view. Not when you say things like unhip.
"Give me a break, dad." I said instead with a sigh, but I knew he wasn't being serious.
"So, how are things going? Doing okay at the shop?" he asked as I threw another pillow at Alex.
"Yep, everything's great." I replied just as Alex, in retaliation, threw the pillow back at me, missed and almost hit the lamp that sat on a small table next to the couch.. I grabbed the pillow in time, steadying the lamp and shot Alex a look.
"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow at the usual time and place, then?" he asked.
"Sure. Sounds good." I replied.
"Okay. I probably should talk to the boy, is he there?" My dad always talked like this to us. If he had been talking to Alex, he would have said 'Is the girl there? I supposed I should say hi.' He was always joking around like that. You know, stupidly.
"Right here. See you tomorrow, dad." I said and before he could reply, handed the phone over to Alex. While he talked in murmurs into the phone, I reclaimed my seat next to Matt who smiled down at me.
"So," he leaned in, talking in just above a whisper. I think I've said before that I would never pass up a kiss from Matt, but I sincerely hoped he wasn't about to try and make out with our little brothers in the room. I mean, come on, that was just too weird. "Do you want to go out with me?" he asked with a raised eyebrow. I couldn't help but smile at his loaded question.
"What do you think?" I asked in reply, tilting my head slightly.
"I don't want to think, I want to know." He answered softly.
"Well, in that case, yes Matt; I don't think I'd love anything more than to go out with you." I replied, my smile widening to match his.
"Amy and Matt, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-"Alex intoned, Jeff joining him.
"Oh grow up." I cut them off, rolling my eyes and pulling back from Matt.
"So, what's happening tonight?" Alex asked. "I mean, besides the obvious." He said, wagging his eyebrows at me.
"Well, we were going to let you little monsters order a pizza and have the house to yourselves, but now it looks like your in need of some babysitters." Matt replied with a sigh.
"Yeah, too bad. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to hang out here." I added, giving Matt a secret smile.
"No, no. We were just playing around." Alex argued.
"Yeah, we'll be fine by ourselves." Jeff agreed, nodding his head.
"I dunno. I mean, you'll have to handle mom when she calls." I told him, causing him to grunt at me.
"Come on, Amy. I can handle mom fine. Besides, you two want to do that alone boyfriend/girlfriend stuff, don't you?" he asked, trying to appease me. I looked at Matt to see his reaction to this to find him looking at me for the same reason. We smiled at each other at the same time and I shrugged.
"Well, I guess it could be okay. I mean, they are thirteen." I said to him.
"And it would be nice to have a night off, to do that alone boyfriend/girlfriend stuff." He grinned at me.
"It's settled then." I nodded.
Authors End Notes: And that concludes another riveting look into When Lightning Strikes. Okay, I won't give anything away, but for those of you wondering where Dean Melenko went off too- wait. Oh, and read the next chapter when I post it. :)