Chapter 4

Oh, Brother

Carrie Baker stopped in front of her apartment door as she dug through her purse to find her keys. She had just returned from her date with Gabriel and she had to admit, she had a really good time. But now she had to do homework which made her wish that she left her keys at the pizza place so she could put off doing it. No such luck.

She grabbed her keys out of her purse and unlocked the door. She was surprised when a football came flying at her head but she quickly dropped her purse and keys and snatched the ball out of the air.

"Good to know that you haven't lost your touch." Carrie sighed when she saw who had been throwing the football. It was Carter, one of her older brothers. And her other brother, Tim, was there too sitting on her breakfast bar.

Tim and Carter were five years older than Carrie, which meant they were twenty six years old. They were also identical twins. They had light brown hair that was gelled, blue eyes, and huge muscles. That's what they get for playing football 24/7. But even though they were twins and were best friends they still had different personalities. Carter was the one always pulling pranks, with Tim's help, and was always the rougher of the two. He didn't really care what people thought of him, he just wanted to be a man and have a good time. Tim, on the other hand, was more shy and helpful. He was always the one that would cheer Carrie up if she was sad because he was the only one who knew how to. But she loved both of them equally, no matter how annoying that could get.

"I knew I would regret giving you keys to my apartment." Carrie said as she tossed the football back to Carter and picked up her purse and keys.

"Oh come on, you love us!" Tim said with a grin.

"Yeah, but get off my breakfast bar before I beat you with a broom." She said and Tim instantly hopped off the bar and went to sit next to Carter at the breakfast bar in a chair.

Carrie sighed and closed the door behind her and hung up her coat. She took off her hat and gloves and through them onto the breakfast bar. "So, what are you guys doing here?" she asked.

"We just wanted to come up and say hi to our baby sister." Carter said but Carrie knew that wasn't the reason.

"Really?" she said, giving them a questioning look.

The twins looked at each other before Tim said, "We…uh…need to borrow some money."

Carrie raised an eyebrow. "For what?"

"For…our fantasy football game." Carter said and Carrie glared at the two.

"What? No way, I'm not giving you money for your silly game. Why can't you use your own money?" she asked as she opened her fridge and grabbed a beer.

"Because we need to save our money so we can set up that football camp we were telling you about the other day on the phone!" Carter explained.

Carrie opened the top of the beer and took a swig. "Nope, no way." She said with a shake of her head. "You want anything to drink?" she asked, moving away from the topic of money and football.

"Do you still have that bottle of vodka from our birthday last month?" Tim asked.

Carrie nodded. "Yeah, but only one shot okay? I don't need you two dying because you were drunk driving."

The twins nodded simultaneously. Carrie quickly grabbed the bottle from on top of her fridge and two shot glasses from her cabinet. She quickly poured a little into each glass then slid them across the table to the twins. Carter and Tim each picked one up.

"Ready Tim?"

"Ready Carter."

They clanked there glasses together. "Bottoms up!" they said at the same time then glupped it down.

Carrie let out a small laugh as the twins made sour faces. "You two are such dorks."

"You're calling us dorks? Last time I checked we weren't the ones playing with chemistry sets." Carter said as he and Tim slid the glasses back over to her.

"Well, at least I'm doing something. All you guys ever do is talk about football and play football. It gets annoying you know?" Carrie said then took another swig of her beer.

"That's because football is the greatest sport ever." Tim said.

"Yeah? Well, maybe if you stopped talking about football so much then maybe you could get a girlfriend." Carrie said with a sly grin.

"Oh yeah? Well, I don't see you with a boyfriend." Carter said. Looks like that wasn't the best comeback considering where she just came from.

"I'll have you know that I just got back from a date." Carrie said and the twins stared at her.

"Really? Who's the guy?" Tim asked. Carrie rolled her eyes. Great, here comes the over protective brothers.

"His name is Gabriel. He's really nice and funny and cute." She said with a smile.

The twins raised an eyebrow. "And will we be meeting this Gabriel?" Carter asked with a mischievous look on his face.

"Whoa, slow down there. I've only been on one date with the guy. And remember what happened the last time I introduced you two to my boyfriend?" Carrie said, annoyed as the memory came back to her.

"Stink bomb in the pants!" Tim and Carter said and high-fived victoriously.

"I swear it's like I'm talking to children!" Carrie said and took a big sip of her beer.

"But seriously. Be careful with this guy, you don't know who he really could be. And if anything happens, call us. Okay?" Carter said and Carrie knew he was being serious about that.

"Yes, I promise. But I don't think this guy is a bad guy or anything. He seems completely normal." Carrie said.

"Okay, okay. Well, we better get going." Tim said.

"No, guys, stay for dinner." Carrie said. Even though they were a pain in the ass she loved it when they visited her. And she really wanted to spend a little more time with them. Hey, they were family!

Tim and Carter exchanged looks. "Hmmm, I don't know." Carter said.

"I'll get Chinese? My treat." Carrie said and knew that she just sealed the deal.

"Okay, give me two eggrolls and it's a deal." Tim said and the twins smiled.

Carrie let out a laugh. "You guys remind me so much of these two guys…" she said, half to herself with a smile.

Sorry for taking so long to update guys! I've been stuck forever trying to think of what to do for this chapter but I finally got it. Hopefully I'll be about to update this regularly now so you guys won't have to wait forever. Hope you guys liked it!