Alex

Vicky and I are obviously beyond point of no return for siblings, but today we acted like siblings, it was boiling hot so we sat on the couch or more like Vicky did, and then we channel surfed, but then Vicky being herself threw the remote, "It's so hot!"

I watched the remote fly through the air and then it landed ten feet to my right, "I'm not getting up to get that." I said to Vicky, lazily.

"Yes you are."

"Nope. I like where I am right now."

"Well me too, and your closer to the remote." Vicky said and sunk down more into the couch.

"Not this time Vic."

Vicky glared at me, I held her gaze, "That's not going to work!" I exclaimed, and we continued to stare each other down for five minutes.

I was laying down on the floor while Vicky laid on the couch on her belly, we continued this for another five minutes, not once did she blink, not ONCE, she's so frustrating sometimes. I'm still not getting up to get something she can easily get herself. "Stubborn little shit..." she muttered quietly and got up, "Yes!"

I cleared my throat, "I win?"

She walked over to me and she smiled, "Never."

She started to fall, are you kidding me? I was going to put my hands up to catch her, but then I would have been grabbing something soft, "Ugh! Vicky!" I yell as she landed on my stomach, "What?" She sounded relaxed so it was hard for me to just get mad, "What are you doing?" I asked calmly.

"Ah nothing, this feels better, and then she nuzzled my tummy and made me laugh, "Ha….Hahaha. Stop!"

She did as I asked but she just stayed there, "I feel cool." She sighed, "Hey."

"Yes?" I tried my best to sound normal, whatever that was. "I know I said I'd tone it down and not be so…Forward, but I can't do that." She told me, I rubbed the back of my neck, I was stuck between, happy and nervous. I put my hand on her back, "I never expected you too." And there's some truth to that. "So you can be however you want, and no matter what, it won't change my mind about how I feel about you."

We stayed like that for ten minutes, "Where do you get that kind of stuff from? You had no one to teach you about these kinds of things. Do you practice all this when I'm not around?" Vicky chuckled. I know she didn't mean to say no one, but she's right, "I don't know, I just let my heart do everything, so far everything's worked out." Except when I last spoke to Tootie I kind of ran away.

"Your heart knows what to do more than your head, you're strange, yet, I like that about you."

"You've mellowed out a lot, you know that, right?" I asked.

Vicky shrugged, "It's all because of you, and it will always only be because of you. Never forget that." And then point towards the remote, "Yeah, yeah." I said, and then she sat up while I retrieved what she threw, once I gave her the remote and sat back down, she put her head back on my lap, "Thanks." That's surprising, "For what? Getting something you could have gotten yourself?"

She slapped my thigh, "No, or yes, whatever. But it's mostly for everything."

I felt my cheeks heat up, "None of this would have happened if you didn't come to my house to babysit me…" I ran my fingers through her hair, "So I should be thanking you."

She grab my hand, "I guess it's to even out what happened to you…"

It took me a second to realize what she meant, "Oh…Heh, I haven't thought about that in a long time…" She turned her head and looked up at me, "Sorry, shouldn't have brought it up, since I was the one who said to forget them."

I shook my head, "Don't be, no matter what, I won't forget them, and for the time being, I won't forgive them."

"For the time being?"

"I don't want regrets growing up."

"That's…Really mature of you."

And then we watched awful shows and laughed together the whole day and then a few more days and I was in the car with Vicky, going back home for the week. We were in front of her old home, "Alright, well. I'll see you next week smartass, tell them I said hi."

I unbuckled my seat belt, "You don't want to say that to them yourself?" I asked.

She shook her head and wouldn't look at me, "Not yet, maybe next week…"

I didn't argue, I know she has a rocky relationship with them, "Okay, see ya." I got out and she drove away. I walked up the path to the front door, before I could turn the knob, Tootie opened the door and tackled me with a hug, but it felt like a kid jumping on me, since she is kind of small.

"Alex! Your back!" She said happily, "Yup. You make it sound like I went off to war or something." I laughed and walked into to find Jerry and Nicky smiling, "Welcome home Alex, did you have fun?" Nicky asked, I nodded, "She said hello."

They frowned, "She didn't want to see us?"

I shook my head, "Jerry left an impression on her last time, don't tell her I said that."

I feel more at ease now when I talk to them, even though I haven't spoken with them for a while. Jerry smiled, "Despite how's…Acted towards us, she's still our daughter, and hearing how your parents just walked out you made me think about our children, I don't want them to feel as if I walked out of them also, by that I mean ignoring them."

Everytime I think about how David and Helen left me alone, it becomes less painful to relive that. On my sixth birthday David was the first to leave, I woke up that morning and said happy birthday to myself and got out of bed, and then went to make myself some birthday breakfast, at the age of three I had to start learning how to cook for myself once and a while, because those two were ignoring me…But that day it seemed weird not to hear them quietly arguing about me, Helen was sleeping that morning, but no one else was in the bed with her, I went to the couch and looked out the window, David was putting stuff into the trunk of his car, the first thought that came to mind was, 'Dad…?'

I watched him drive away, my heart was breaking slowly but then I see someone who was supposed to love me regardless of how the child is acting, leave. I was brought back to reality as Jerry and Nicky smiling at me, I was eye level with them, and Tootie was just a little below their shoulders.

Thinking about those two is hard, but I can be better than them, these two can replace them, there's no doubt about that. "Hey…I've never went to school before." I said.

Jerry caught on right away, "There's Dimmsdale High, and I can in roll you next year. Now wouldn't be good, I mean there's less than two weeks left anyway." I smiled and nodded, "Alright."

This will be all today, kind of short, but it's all I could come up with, the next few chapter will be Timmy and Tootie, I'm going to try, but it might not be good.

Thanks for reading! I hope you all have an awesome day!

Rilurz~