Craig was sitting in the kitchen with Katie. He was still visiting her. They were eating dinner together. The cat was eating in the kitchen as well out of a dish on the floor.
“I am surprised that you stayed for dinner. Is it alright? I don’t know if I am good at cooking…” Katie blushes.
“The food tastes good. I think you’re a good cook.” Craig smiles at her. She blushes more red.
“I…I…uh… thanks.” Katie felt nervous. Her heart was beating quite fast.
“You’re really cute when you blush like that.” Craig still had a smile upon his face. Katie felt like she was going to pass out from the embarrassment. She liked Craig giving her compliments.
“C-Craig…”
“Alright, I’ll stop.” Craig went back eating. Katie slowly started taking a few bites of her food.
“I wonder how long he’s going to stay here?” Katie thought to herself. After dinner, Craig was helping Katie clean the dishes.
“Your parents have been gone for a long time now. Where are they?” Craig asks her.
“I don’t know. They should be coming home.” Katie looked at the clock on the wall. It was getting to the time of them to come home.
“I think your parents work too much. I thought your mother was thinking about quitting her job?”
“I already told you why she didn’t.” Katie responds. They both finished cleaning the dishes and went into the living room together.
“Do you want to watch something until they come home?” Craig asked.
“I guess, but shouldn’t you be heading home?” Katie asks.
“It’s alright. I told my mom that I will be out for a while. She knows I will be coming home a little late.” Craig responds and sits on the sofa. Katie sat down by him and turned the TV on.
“I wonder why he’s staying here? Is he only staying here till my parents come home? Is he worried about me?” Katie wondered as she stared at the TV.
Robert was in his home. He was sitting in the kitchen drinking a soda. “Lacy looked cute today. Didn’t she?” He asked Ronnie who was in the kitchen with him nods.
“Yeah.”
“I hate that Steven bastard.” Robert mumbled.
“He’s in prison now.” Ronnie left the kitchen. Robert stared down.
“I wonder how long will we continue this? I know Lacy’s feelings. She feels like she is doing wrong for being with the both of us. I know it’s wrong too. I would like to be with Lacy and not have Ronnie with her too, but… I feel like I want her to be happy. And here I am thinking this now when I never used to believe in love. I used to believe that there was no such thing. Then… Then I…” Robert stood up. “Then I fell in love.” Robert thought to himself. He opened up the curtain to peak outside to the other house that was next door. It was the house that Lacy and her family moved in before with that Steven guy.
The house was just alone for the pass months. Steven no longer owned it and no one seemed to have taken it yet. The house was actually a beautiful house, but the events that occurred in the house is what ruined it. Maybe for some but not for others.
Lacy was sitting in her bedroom. She was sitting on her bed. She got up off the bed and went to look outside the window. It seem to be raining at the moment. “I feel so strange. The year had gone by so quickly. Well, it will be a year since I met those two in a month or two.” Lacy said as she stared at the sky. “I really like the both of them, but is it even possible to be in love with them both? My mother says no, but she told me she can’t tell me what to do with my feelings. My feelings are my own.” Lacy walks away from the window.
“Both of them… Are important to me. They just started to talk to me and didn’t treat me badly.” Lacy blushes a little and smiles. “I really like them both a lot. I tried to date Craig but I couldn’t stop thinking of those two. When I was dating just Ronnie I missed Robert and when I dated Robert, I missed Ronnie. I feel like I can’t separate from the both of them. I know I am doing wrong and feel like I need to choose one, but at the same time I feel like I want to be with them both. I am an idiot.”
When Katie’s parents had came home, Craig left. “I am glad that Katie seems to be doing alright.” Craig said as he was walking home. “Poor thing had to see that bastard. That bastard…” Craig made it home.
“You’re home kind of late.” Benita said as she saw Craig came into the home.
“I thought you I will be home kind of late.” Craig tells her.
“Do you want dinner?” Benita asks her son.
“I guess I can eat something.” Craig replied and went into the kitchen with her to eat.
It was night. The rain continued to pour down as it turned to midnight. Almost everyone was asleep. Robert wasn’t asleep. He was sitting on his bed. Looking straight out the window. The curtains were opened where he could see. Ronnie sat up and stared at him.
“Robert? Why aren’t you sleeping?” Ronnie asked and rubbed one of his eyes.
“I don’t feel like sleeping right now.” Robert responds.
“What do you feel like doing then?” Ronnie asks.
“I don’t know.” Robert got up off the bed and went to the door.
“Where are you going?” Robert didn’t even answer Ronnie and went out the door. “H-Hey! Wait for me!” Ronnie got up and followed his brother out of the bedroom. Everyone else was asleep in the house. The only two that seemed to be awake was Robert and Ronnie. Robert went into the kitchen and poured himself a glass of milk.
“I don’t know why you followed me.” Robert said and sat down at the table. Ronnie turned the lights on.
“I don’t understand how you can drink milk in the dark.” Ronnie got himself a glass of milk and also sits at the table.
“It’s late. Go to bed.” Robert tells Ronnie.
“You can’t tell me what to do!” Ronnie glares at him.
“Aren’t you going on a date with Lacy soon?” Robert asks. Ronnie blushes a little.
“I guess so. Are you jealous?”
“Why would I? I will be going on a date with her too another day.”
“I forgot.” Ronnie glares at Robert. “Why can’t Lacy just be with me?”
“Because she likes us both. Or she claims. I don’t think it could be true though.”
“Then why do you agree to date like this with her?” Ronnie asks confused about his older brother.
“Because, like you, I like her a lot too. I want to be with her too and not have you there, but Lacy doesn’t want things that way. Well, actually I think she does regret being with the both of us, but… I don’t think she wants to hurt either of us and continues to think she’s in love with us both.”
“Who do you think she likes the most then?” Ronnie asks.
“Well… If I had to say I would think…”
“What?” Ronnie wanted an answer out of Robert. But unfortunately, Robert wasn’t going to give him an answer. He finished his glass of milk and gets up to put the glass into the sink. “Hey are you even going to answer me?!” Ronnie stood up. Robert left the kitchen. Ronnie picked up his glass out milk and just dumped it into the sink and sat the glass in there. He then followed Robert when he turned the lights off in the kitchen.
Robert went outside to the front door and opened it. He noticed that the rain had stopped. He then sits outside when he shuts the front door. Ronnie came out of the house.
“I can easily lock you outside, you know that right?” Ronnie teased. Robert didn’t respond. “Do you even have a clue who actually Lacy likes the most?”
“Just go to sleep.” Robert answers. Ronnie was getting angry with Robert.
“NO! Answer me first!” Robert just pulls a cigarette out and lighter and lights the cigarette to smoke. “Why do you keep ignoring me?”
“Why don’t you go to sleep?”
“You really are annoying! You know that?!” Ronnie glares at his older brother.
“If I am so annoying, why don’t you go back inside the house and go to sleep?”
“Ugh! I can’t stand you!” Ronnie went back into the house.
“He’s an idiot.” Robert laughed a little. Ronnie was making his way back to his bedroom.
“I don’t even know why he’s outside. It was raining earlier. I bet his pants are wet now.” Ronnie thought and went back into the bedroom. He turned the light on after he shuts the bedroom door. “I wonder though… Could Lacy really like us both? I don’t even know why bother thinking about it if we’re both dating her now. I just hope she doesn’t decide to break it off to me and still date Robert.” Ronnie sits down on the bed. “That nightmare never stops, does it?” Ronnie looks down.
“The same dream I been having often. I hate it.” Ronnie thought to himself feeling upset.