Chapter 2
Finally the bell rang and school was over. Summer is almost here and I could really feel it with the hot Texas rays beaming down on me, refreshing from the cold air conditioned school. I took in a deep breath of moist summer air as I strode towards my near by house. Digging in the pocket of my shorts for my keys. My parents were never home, which I love. I can sing and dance like an idiot in my house with out them ever knowing. I can also some times sneak Eric in. Not always because my parents hired my older sister Kaycee to keep him out and me in after school, but some times she had SAT prep courses, being a senior in high school.
I got up to the door and opened the lock, just like every other day. All the lights in the house were off which made me check the calender "Its not an SAT day..." I mumbled to myself ans traild off. I dropped my bag on the couch and grabbed the home phone, quickly dialing my sisters number that i've known by heart since I was eight years old. "Yellow! You got Kaycee" I heard her enthusiastic voice on the other side of the phone "Kaycee where are you?" I said confused "Don't worry, just out with a few friends, I'll be back around 7:00, and I'll pick up dinner on the way home, got to go Mia! Call you when im on my way back!" She said and hastily hung up. It was 2:30...my parents wont be home till 8:00 pm. I got my cell phone out of my pocket and sent Eric a quick text.
"Where are you?"
"On my way home silly! xP"
"Yeah well Kaycee isn't gonna be home till 7:00, movie, my place, twenty minutes?"
"Sounds like a plan! See you then!"
I threw my phone on the couch along with my back pack and put the pop corn on the stove. Then went over to the cabinet where we kept sleep over junk food and poured sour patch kids and skittles into a bowl. I went upstairs and quickly changed out of my shorts and into some bright pink pajama pants. I began to sing whilst standing in front of the mirror. Without having to think I was already singing "Sunday bloody Sunday" by U2, paramores cover.
"We eat and drink while tomorrow they die! Yeahh-"
"I wipe your tears from your eyes, I wipe your tears away"
Eric interrupted with his melodic voice, and I heard a jingle as he put his car keys down on the counter. He always lets himself in like this, mostly out of habit and the fact that he's practically my brother. I glanced at the clock "Eric you butt you're six minutes early!" I shouted down "Oh im ever SO sorry Mia!" He said sarcastically. "Hey you could have caught me naked!" He has once before, snuck into my room ten minutes early, well lets just say when I screamed my parents ran upstairs and Eric hid under my bed for a good hour while my parents were trying to calm me the fuck down. "Oh yeah, that was a bad night..." He said, his voice trailing off knowing he didn't have to go into it any further. " Do you want that to happen AGAIN?" I said half laughing, making my way down stairs. Then he slides towards me to the point that his chest is touching my shoulder "Well maybe that's been my plan all along" he says in a deeper voice then usual, adding a playful wink to the mixture. "Oh please Eric, if you really wanted to see me naked all you would have to do is ask!" I said in the most serious voice I could pull off, he stared into space and his face flushed of color for a few short moments "I WAS KIDDING YOU PERV!" I yelled while hitting him on the shoulder, snapping him out of his sick imagination. "Oh, little Eric got excited for a moment" he complained while making a pouting face, we looked at each other and laughed. There's always been an easiness between me and Eric. Im just another friend, not some girl he has to pretend around. He's just another friend. Not some guy I have to pretend around. " So what we watching Miss Mia?" He said while skipping towards the kitchen. "Uhm, hadn't thought about it honestly, I WOULD have it all set up but SOMEONE was six minutes early!" I said, suppressing my laughter. "Oh well cant we just watch Harry Potter? Pleeeaaaaasssssseeeee" He said, pouting. Even knowing that love Harry Potter, he still begged. Of course I said yes. "YES!" He said triumphantly, popping a skittle into his mouth as I popped the disk into the player.
We were about half way through the movie when "We are breathing, while your sleeping, go. And leave us alone..." It was Eric's phone going off. I paused the movie and let him answer it. "Yeah Mom, im at Mias house. No, I will be home tonight. Mom, please don't yell over the phone..." It always bothered me that Eric's mom was abusive. Sometimes she could be really nice, but that's when she's sober. I guess I cant complain too much though, she likes me and whenever she's shit faced Eric has me come over and she usually doesn't hit him. I zoned out into a flash back when Eric's mom first started using cocaine.
We were just starting to know each other. It was a few days before his thirteenth birthday...She walked in to me and Eric sitting on the couch next to each other. Walked right up to Eric, and that was the first time she hit him. Just came up and slapped him across the face. His lip started bleeding immediately and his face got puffy and red. Tears flood from his eyes. I stood there shocked, and petrified. She toppled onto the floor, passed out. That night I was holding onto Eric, while he cried. That was the first time I slept over at his house. My parents thought nothing of it. I slept in Eric's bed that night. And we woke up in each others arms. That's what triggered our best friendship.
I snapped out of the flash back to Eric's voice. "Okay mom, I love you." It always astonishes me when he can still tell her that he loves her. Even I hate her! "She's out of her mind right now" he said after hanging up. "I don't want you to go over there tonight!" I hate the thought of Eric being there alone "I'll be fine, but I got to go" he said getting up, I stood up and hugged him. "Ill text you later, Kay?" " I know" I said in reply, smiling. "Bye!" He shouted over his shoulder while walking out of the door. I heard his car start up, and he was gone.