I still haven't managed to find a way to own people. It's short, I know. Get over it. xoxo

I jumped like a meter in the air. Jeff and the guy just laughed at me.

"Squirt, I'd like you to meet my brother, Matt. Matt this is Elsie." Jeff's brother, interesting.

"Hi"

"Hey Elsie"

"So, you're the wrestling brother right?" I asked, not knowing much about Jeff, but that a brother and him wrestle.

"Yea, you don't watch it?"

"Australian" I answered, said it all to me.

"You know they're bring it out there in like a month"

"Really?"

"Yea, on cable"

"Oh" I said disappointed. Now when I get home, I still can't watch it.

Matt's POV

When I rang Jeff last night he told me he'd met a chick, I thought he meant like another wrestler…or at least someone his age, this chick can't even be legal. But when they were on the couch together there was so much chemistry, I doubt the queen herself could deny it.

"So you're the new neighbour I hear."

"Umm sorta, my Aunt is, and I was kinda visiting" Great, just fucking great. Jeff meets a girl, and she's here on a fucking holiday. "But I was thinking of staying" She said, not actually looking at me, but Jeff.

"Yea, I think you'll like it here."

"How can you say? You've just met me"

"It's just a really nice place to be." New subject I think. "So Elsie, what are you into?"

"What'd you mean?"

"Like do you have a job or collage or anything?"

Elsie's POV

"Like do you have a job or collage or anything?" Fan-fucking-tastic.

"Oh right, well I'm a waitress, I finished high school like a month ago. It's not much, and I know it's not a career but it pays the bills" I answered, trying to sound mature, I don't really know why, it's not like Jeff and I are dating…Phew how good does that sound really.

"The bills? I thought you just finished high school?"

"Yea, I live on my own. My father, for lack of a better word, bailed on my mum when she was pregnant and mum died seven almost eight years ago."

"I'm sorry"

"Why? Did you cut the breaks of her car?" More fucking sympathy.

"No, who would possibly be inhumane enough to do that?" If only you knew Matt.

"Then you have nothing to be sorry for." I said simply enough.

Jeff's POV

"Then you have nothing to be sorry for." Elsie simply said. Matt and I exchanged glances. Man Elsie's self esteem is shot. Life and death isn't that simple, and she's brushing off things left and right. I know that having been through what she has would take its toll, but this is nuts. She seems like a shell, like everything she does is an act. Clearly she trusts me enough to let me in on her biggest secret, maybe in time she will trust me enough to see the real her.

"Anyway bro, I see you're busy, so I'll talk to you later." Matt said excusing himself.

"Yea, ok"

"It was a pleasure to meet you Elsie"

"Pleasure's all mine" Elsie said, being polite. Matt and I left the room; I have a feeling he wants to talk to me about Elsie.

"Bro that chick's majorly spaced out. That aint normal in there. In a word, she's a freak. You don't need someone like her around you." He had pushed the boundary. I like Elsie, a lot, and even if I didn't, she's a human bein.

"Fuck you Matt" I said with a raised voice. "You don't know the first fucking thing about her, or what her life has been like. So fuck you. I do believe you were leaving," I yelled opening the door, showing him he wasn't welcome anymore.

Elsie's POV

As Matt and Jeff left, I turned my attention back to the movie, not two minutes had passed when Jeff started yelling, I walked over to eth doorframe of the room, listening to what upset Jeff.

"You don't know the first fucking thing about her, or what her life has been like. So fuck you. I do believe you were leaving." Jeff yelled at his brother. Fuck this was all over fucking me. Just fucking perfect, Jeff and his only brother are fighting, over me, why didn't I just stay in Australia, then none of this would have happened. Jeff having been staring at the door turned around and saw me standing there, my eyes brimming with tears. "How much did you hear?" Jeff asked.

"I came in on you don't know her" I answered truthfully. "Jeff, why did you say that? I don't matter." I said looking down.

"Of course you matter" Great here comes the insincere spiel about how important life id. "You matter more than you will ever know, there isn't enough skittles in the world to make up how beautiful and special you are." Jeff said, and as I looked into his eyes, I saw honesty, concern, and something I couldn't put my finger on. But just knowing someone, anyone thought well anything about me, and noticed me. That was new, a new feeling I hadn't experienced before. Well I mean mum and Aunty K and the boys they notice me, I'm family, but I mean I have never been anything to anyone before. "Andy you have a nice ass" Jeff added. I laughed at his direct statement, but there were tears in my eyes from what he had said before. "Please don't cry squirt" Jeff said as he wiped the tears from under my eyes with the pad of his thumb.

As he had done earlier that day, Jeff opened his arms offering me a hug, I graciously accepted. But when I hugged him back, he picked me up, and brought me into the lounge again, where the movie was still playing. He lay on the couch, and with the way he carried me I was on top of him so he rolled over, so that he was lying behind me and I was facing his chest. I rolled over and that's how we lay until we both drifted into a peaceful sleep. We stayed there till morning, with me having a fantastic dream about Jeff, instead of my usual ones about being raped or mum's funeral.