Chapter 4

"Relax its Eli. You thought you could shake me easily didn't you!" he was grabbing the middle of my stomach and somehow he swung me on top of his shoulder. I punched his back as hard as I could because I really didn't want to skip plus I didn't want to be a third wheel. Clare was actually behind Eli grabbing my fists and holding them down.

"Your in on it too Clare! Ahhhhh! Let me go!" I bet Eli was smiling his signature smirk and having a blast making me do something against my will! Ugh I hate my brother! Just kidding. Finally I just gave up. Two seconds later he let me down. We were in front of Clare's house.

"Hurry my mom won't be home for another two hours!"

"Clare you are so rebellious!" I joked.

"Learned from guess who." she gave googly eyes to Eli. Awwww gross. Yuck. I knew if I had said get a room that would officially make me the third wheel and I knew I was but I didn't want to make it official.

Hey, maybe I could use her washroom and escape through the window and I can just go home! Good plan!

I was the first to approach the front porch but Eli grabbed my hand in his. Clare was on his other hand thank gosh he grabbed her hand first or she would have gone crazy on me. He smirked when I squeezed his hand, but I squeezed to get his attention to tell him something but he wouldn't listen. Fortunately Clare didn't notice. We walked in all together and headed toward her living room. She had a beautiful home. Filled with earth toned colors and filled with family pictures. I wanted to cry because I noticed that with all the drawings and pictures of a family it only reminded me of... a movie. Not my home or grammas. Nothing.

I have decided to tell Eli about my mother and his father, and soon. I decided to stay at Clare's. It was actually really fun and I didn't feel like a third wheel. Her mom came home around 5 and I decided to leave around six. It was pouring rain out and Morty was in a Degrassi parking lot so Clare's mom gave Eli and I a ride to his hearse and he drove me home. I invited him inside to meet my dad because they have never been formally introduced.

"Bob! You home! I brought a friend over I wanted you to meet him!"

Bob came downstairs in a robe. Thanks.

"Eli this is Bob, Bob this is Eli."

"Nice to meet you Eli...?"

"Eli Goldsworthy...is it ok if I call you Bob or do you prefer Mr. Morty?"

"Whatever you want to call me I'm cool with. Cause I'm a cool dad." said by my corny step-father.

"Haha yeah. Umm is it ok if Cait and I hang out in the living room?" Eli asked politely.

"Sure wherever you want, but may I speak to my daughter for a few moments?"

"Sure. Cait I'll be in the living room."

Eli disappeared to the other side of the house. I turned to Bob and said,

"Bob, dad, he is my fathers son...which means he is my brother! I found him I did! When should I tell him though?"

"Now." he pushed me to the living room and went to his office on the third floor.

Eli had his eye glued to one picture of me when I was younger. I wondered why so I asked him.

He didn't answer, instead he grabbed my face. He felt my lips with his thumbs and examined them carefully. Then he continued to my cheeks. Oh shizz what did he notice. I gave him a really weird look and he stopped. He turned his back to me and slapped his hand to his forehead. I grabbed the picture he was looking at and stared at it myself and noticed something too.

"Oh shizz."