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Ok so half you guys didn't get my joke. Neither did I but we straight now. Oh – my – god!! I had THE BEST ice cream from Ben and jerry's yesterday. (Well it probably won't be like yesterday yesterday because I take forever to update but you know what I mean.) Anyways, it was half baked and it was half brownie half cookie dough. I ate the whole thing. Oh to have a high metabolism. Ok now on with the chapter.
Annie rolled up her last shirt into her duffle bag. John knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
"John."
"Oh, well then go away." She opened the window to her room and made her way out. She contemplated on weather or not to jump or use the gutter.
"Come on Annie, can't we talk?" He leaned his arm on the door.
"No we already talked. It's obvious that you don't want me here." She said coming back in the window.
"That's not true and you know that." He started picking the lock to her door. He did it quietly so she wouldn't find out.
"Do I really? I mean, you told me I was a mistake. If you didn't want me here you should told me when I first came." She laid down on the bed, having half of her body dangle over the floor. John busted through the door, tripping.
"That's not what I meant." He said catching his breath. "What I mean was that Joey was the mistake. Your mother never deserved him." He came and sat next to her. "You never deserved him."
"Is that truly what you meant?"
"Annie of course. Why would I lie to you?"
"Pinky promise?" She stuck out her pinky, like the world was going to end if John didn't promise. He connected their fingers together.
"Pinky promise." He looked at her packed stuff. "We're you really going to leave me?" He asked pointing to her things.
"Man are you kidding me? This place is gig-normous!" John laughed, ruffling her hair.
"So who's the guy you're seeing? What's his name? What's he like?" He bombarded her with questions. She held a hand up to silence him.
"His name is Landon. And all you need to know about him is that he treats me like I should be treated." She sounded so sure in him. He didn't want her heart to be broken, like her mother's.
"He better treat you right or else he'll have my foot up his ass." He said bitterly.
"John you don't even know him. He's good to me." Annie tried to back up Landon.
"I know. He should be good to you. I'm just saying, one bad move, or smart remark; I'm going to kick his ass."
She laughed. "Same old Johnny." She coughed; her eyes watering and dreary.
"You ok?" John asked. She felt it coming. Landon's flu.
"Um….yeah. Spit went down the wrong pipe." She cleared her throat. John raised his brow.
"What?"
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Natalie flipped over as she heard her cell phone ring. "noooo." She said replying to the rings. After the 7th ring she grabbed her phone, eyes still shut and tried to figure out how to make it work.
"Hello?" She asked, snuggling under the sheets.
"Natalie its…hee-hee….mom." Her mom was laughing. She heard a male's voice in the back round.
"You know you could have just come down the hall if you needed me. You didn't have to call me." She said thinking that her mother was at home.
"Oh….well honey I'm not at home. I'm out to dinner with Clint." Natalie looked over at the time. 1:15 in the morning." "Well I called you to let you know, Clint and I are engaged!" She sat up straight.
"Really….oh my….Mom! I'm so happy for you!"
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"I'm fine, really. Don't you need your rest? You've worked all day." She pushed him out of her room.
"Why you pushing? Hiding something?" He gave a wicked smirk.
"No Johnny, I know better to hiding something in my room from you. I would have hid it somewhere else. " She grunted has she tried to get him out. He leaned harder, planting his feet in the carpet.
"So where'd you hide it?"
"Man knock your cop mode off. I'm not hiding anything!" She gave a final push that knocked him out. Quickly shutting the door.
John sighed and went to his and Natalie's room. To his surprise she was up talking on the phone.
"Ok mom…I love you too." She hung up and put the phone back on the charger.
"Isn't your mom in her room?" He asked taking off his shirt and pants and getting in bed with her.
"No, I thought that too. Clint purposed to her!"
"Wow. That's...great." He said shocked but with a hint of saddness in his voice.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Annie's growing up."
"Well what did you think she would do? Stay little forever?" She snuggled into his bare chest. John laughed.
"I wish."
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"I'd like to thank you for getting me sick." Annie whispered into the phone. She sat in bed talking to Landon in the phone in her room. She missed him. It hadn't even been a couple of hours and she missed him.
"Hey that's not my fault you're so tempting. I warned you that I was sick but no," his voice changed to sound like hers. "We can be sick to-gether!" He coughed.
"So, not my fault that you gave in," Her voice changed and went deep. "Why do you do this to me?" She wined like him. "Sound like a fuckin baby" she coughed back.
"My throat's itchy." She said trying to get find a cold spot in the bed. She was too lazy to pull the covers off. Finding no use in wiggling around, kicked them all off and sending them to the floor.
"Mine to, and I'm cold hot." He complained.
"Me too, I hate that." She went and retrieved her sheets. She decided to put them half on and half off. They were quiet for awhile, Annie started falling asleep.
"Are you wake still?" She heard him faintly say. He yawned.
"I don't know. I feel icky." She said like a child. "Are you a wake?"
"No." He yawned again; a cough came along with it.
"You should get some sleep. I'll call you in the morning." He said blowing his nose into the phone.
"You can't John will get pissed. I'll call you." She sneezed, her hair tossed in her face.
"I…you." Landon said almost at drooling point. She smiled.
"I love you to. Get some sleep." She hung up the phone, and turned the volume down on the TV.
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"Rise and shine princess!" John said loudly. He pulled the curtains back revealing the sunshine so it could sparkle through. Annie turned the other direction in the bed, pulling the covers up to her neck.
"Go away." She said coughing. John jumped on the bed.
"Come on. Were going to do something fun today."
"No…no fun. I don't want any." Annie shivered under the blankets. Noticing this, John put his hand on her forehead.
"Jesus Annie, you're burning up." He took his hand away from her head. "Let me get the ear thermometer. She sat up.
"You're not sticking that thing in my ear. You know I hate that." John pushed her back down with one hand.
"Fine then I'll get Mike over here." He pulled out his cell phone ready to make the call.
"No never mind I'd rather have that ear poker."
"Well will you pick one?" waving his phone in the air.
"Ear poker. Final answer." John sighed. 'Always taking the easy way out." He thought.
"Don't go to sleep. At least not till I get your temperature." John said as he started to walk out of the room.
"Alright." She yawned, he stopped at the door.
"Annie, don't go to sleep." He said warmly.
"I won't!" She tried to keep her self from screaming at him. But she was tired and hot and cold. She wanted her mom. To make her soup and make her feel better. She felt her eye lids get heavy. "I'm not going to fall asleep." She told herself. She felt herself falling down to the pillow. "I'll just shut my eyes for a second. I won't fall asleep." She kept reassureing herself.
"I couldn't find a thermometer, but I found some cough…" He looked up and sighed. He sat down next to her. Annie's eye's popped open.
"Did I fall asleep?" She asked, looking dazed and confused. John smiled at her innocence.
"Yeah, here drink this." He had the medicine ready for her.
"What is it?"
"Annie just drink it." Giving up easily she swallowed it, making a face.
"Ick! That's gross!" John looked at the bottle.
"No wonder…it's expired." He looked back at her. She was pale and looked withdrawn from the world.
"I'll go out and get some. Stay right here."
"Like I have a choice." She rolled back over in the bed and tried to catch up on a few winks.
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I know this is bad but I've been doing photography stuff like mad crazy with my camera. Takes hard work to develop them plus my dance teacher's a butt head. LOL review the bad chapter!