CHAPTER FIVE

When I awoke, I felt soft sheets around me and looked to see I was in my room, on my bed. Standing, I carefully made my way over to the door, down to the kitchen, where I heard a chair screech and was attacked by my older brother. Go figure.

"Corey, what happened to being careful?" he demanded and I rolled my eyes.

"Yes, because I totally planned being drowned by those apes. Like always."

"I'm serious, Core," he stated sternly, "You were lucky Chris and his friends were there."

"Chris," I scoffed, "Yeah, lotta luck that did me, I still was thrown into water, passed out, and oh, lookie here, I have a fucking bruise. Oh but yeah, good thing Chris was there."

"Corey-."

"Just, shut up, alright, I know," I muttered, grabbing a glass and pouring some orange juice.

"You always do this Core, whenever someone comes after you first-."

"We are not getting into this again, Adam," I growled, glaring at him, "That was one time-."

"Now it's two."

"It was because I didn't want to hit the guy! It was a completely different situation."

"What about this time?"

"Two guys were holding me, I couldn't exactly break his face when I needed to move to get to it and had two anchors weighing me down, now could I? And unlike last time, I didn't get hurt," I reminded him and before he could say anything, "Fine, I didn't get too hurt."

"You were lucky Chris was there."

"Would you quit acting like he's some big hero, I helped him, he helped me."

"I don't understand you."

"You aren't supposed to," I muttered, flopping on the couch in the living room, "Now leave me alone."

"You aren't going anywhere today."

"I know."

"And I don't want you home alone-."

"Adam," I whined.

"-so I invited Chris over to watch over you," he finished as the doorbell rang.

"Adam!" I yelled, glaring at him.

"Be nice, he's a good kid. You're lucky you met him."

"Answer the door, asshole," I growled, turning on the television. He sighed before walking off and I heard him talking to whoever was at the door before it shut.

"Corey?"

"In here," I shouted in a bored tone.

"Hey," Chris smiled but I kept my eyes on the television, "I invited Gordie, Vern, and Teddy over. Your brother said it was okay." I still didn't look at him so he stood in front of the entertainment box. "Corey-."

"You are an asshole," I stated, sitting up, "Don't talk to me."

"Corey-," but my door slamming cut him off. This was going to be a long day.

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A/N: I felt kinda bad because chapter four was a little on the short side so i decided to post two chapters...so yeah. Chris was a slight asshole last chapter, Corey's being a bit of a bitch (but that's nothing unusual) lol we now know that Chris can actually fight, shocker there, huh? lol I hope you liked it :-) reviews are loovveee :-) wow it's late, me sleep now...

P.S. Smartass Joker, are these chapters okay or is Chris still too whimpy/pussy-ish?