Falling Backwards, Sammantha Lewis [the reading list .TXT] 📗

"Hey girly, sorry but your going to have to wait to sleep." She said as she helped me off the bench. We walked over to her Chevy Celebrity.
"Wait your driving me? I'm pretty sure that's illegal."
"It is but this is an emergency." She quickly augured as she pushed me into the passengers seat. When we were both in the car, and were now driving down the rode, she turned to me and asked,
"Okay, so exactly what happened that made you cry?" I felt a lump in my stomach and looked over at her.
"He's changed. He's a total douche now."
"Man whore Douche, or stereotypical blonde football jock type of Douche?" She comically asked me. I laughed at her remark and said,
"A nasty combination of both."
"Oh wow..."
"Yeah"
"So what did he do?"
"Well, he said that the city is better then Ebanie, then when I said I liked him he kissed me, he then tried to have sex with me, He said that he would never even think of marrying me, and as if my heart wasn't broken enough not only did he say that he didn't like me but he said I wasn't worth it. So really the question is what didn't he do?" I whipped a stray tear and could feel the water works coming. Carmen looked over at me,
"Oh hell no! You are not going to to cry while I'm driving! I'm already breaking the law right now, I don't want another distraction." As soon as she said that I held my breath and tried to hold back the tears. We pulled up to a stop light and Carmen sighed,
"You have 30 seconds to cry yours eyes out." I did exactly as she said. I brought my hands to my face and bawled into them.
"Okay times up!" I then stopped crying and tried not to cry again. It continued like this for another seven blocks until we finally reached her house. We walked in and Carmen called to her mom telling her that she was back. We walked upstairs and into her room. I plopped down on the bed face down and groaned
"This fucking sucks!" I yelled into the pillows as I continued to cry my eyes out. Carmen laughed and sat down and pivoted in her neon green office chair.
"It's called heart break. It's a bitch isn't it?"
"Your damn right it is!" I yelled. I heard her laugh again.
"I know what would make you feel better." she said. I looked up at her and glared.
"What?"
"a hair cut." she stated.
"Hell no."
"My mom would be the one doing it. It will look cute! It will feel like a fresh start!" She argued. I rolled my eyes at her
"Fine." She squealed and dragged me down stairs. Honestly I wasn't worried, Carmen's mom was the own of one of the two hair salons in town. What I was worried about was loosing most of my hair. My hair went down my back and stopped at my hips. Well if it's Carmen's mom it will always look cute... I hope. Carmen grabbed her mom and then the three of us went into her mom's bathroom and I pushed down into a chair. About an hour later I was allowed to see my hair. I turned around and looked in the mirror. I now had layered breast length hair, with side bangs, and yellow highlights.
"Do you like it?" Miss. Palmer asked.
"yeah. It's really cute." stood there looking at my self and played with my hair. Carmen was right, it did make me feel better. Carmen grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the hallway,
"I'm tired lets go to bed." I ripped my hand away and headed for the guest bed room,
"Where are you going?" She asked me.
"To get my stuff." I practically lived at Carmen's so I had my own drawer of stuff in the guest bed room.
"Wait!" Before she could stop me I barged into the guest bed room to see a tall and well built guy in the middle of taking his shirt off. He had dark hair and blue eyes just like Carmen, as well as her pert nose that was lightly dusted with freckles.
"sorry I- I" I couldn't seem to gather my thoughts. He scoffed and said,
"It's alright." Just then Carmen caught up to me.
"Sorry about that Cole. By the way this is my friend Jolie. She's spending the night. Jolie this is my twin brother Cole."
"That actually explains why I found this in my top drawer." He said as he held up an object. When I realized it was one of my bra I could fell my face heat up.
"Thats mine!" I said as I snatched it from his hands. I turned around and my cheeks was now a florescent red. As I walked out the door I herd him speak,
"I guess these are yours two then." He said as he handed me a bag of folded clothes. Wow, he even had the decency to fold them.
"Um... thanks." Was all I said. I looked up to see him smiling down at me, and couldn't help but smile back at him. I turned around and walked over to Carmen. We walked down the hall and in to her room. Carmen busted out laughing.
"Oh, my God that was amazing!" I turned around and glared at her,
"That was not funny! I completely embarrassed my self!"
"Whatever you say. More importantly isn't he gorgeous?" She asked causally.
"he looks photo shopped." I told her.
"I Know right! It sucks he's my brother!"
"his eyes are amazing..." I sighed.
"he looks just like me." Carmen said sarcastically.
"Sorry but he's hotter." I told her. she rolled her eyes at me, and threw a pillow at my face.
"Whatever just go to bed." I laughed and got up and headed to the bathroom. I changed and brushed my teeth and then walked back to her room. Carmen was already asleep when I walked in I crawled under the sheets and fell asleep as well.
I woke up with a throbbing pain in my throat. I let out a dry cough and rested my hand on my throat. This was probably the worst soar throat I have ever had. I got out of bed and went down stairs. I walked into the kitchen and glanced at the clock. The neon green numbers read 2:46 am. I went into the pantry and pulled out a mug. I filled it up with ice water and stared sipping it. When the water went down my through I started coughing again. Suddenly I herd something move on the other side of the kitchen.
"Can't sleep?" I heard a deep voice say. I looked over to see Cole in the door way. I shook my head at him
"My through hurt." I said as I stared down at my water. I herd Cole exhale as he walked over to me.
"Here," He said as he took the mug from my hands. He dumped the water into the stainless steel eletrice kettle and turned the dial on. Then he placed the empty mug on the counter and took out honey and a tea bag. He placed the tea bag into the cup and squeezed honey into the cup. He then crossed his arms and leaned against the counter next to me.
"So what happened earlier? When I first met you your eyes were red, and Carmen was frantic and cussing before she left." He asked me.
"I just... needed a friend." I said with my eyes looking down at the tile. 

"was it a guy?" I heard him ask. I felt a lump in my thought and I though about him. a say the imiage I had created in my mind of what I thought our reunion would be like. Then I hought about the person that I saw tonight. 

"Yeah... yeah it was."

"judging by that pause I'd say it was pretty messy." Cole pushed him self off the counter and went to stand over the tea kettle and looked down at the thermomiter on the side of the apliance. 

"waters warm." he said as he picked it of the hop plate and poured some water into the mug. I watched as he dipped the tea bag several times before handing it to me. 

"there, that shouldn't be to hot."

"That was fast. that must have been a tea making record."

"no just the wonders of the new tech of the new year." He grinned. I gave him a soft smile and sipped my tea.

"So what happened?"

"mmm... I guess... well- a few years back I rejected him, and he was just returning the favor tonight." I told him.

"Okay, my turn. Where are you from?" I asked him.
"I've lived all over the country, but the last place I lived was San Diego. I was in a pretty bad situation back there. My foster family is a nice couple and have eight other foster kids, so I was kind of forgetten about. I guess I felt like I wasn't needed. I didn't have much supervision so I was kind of recless. My foster mother had had enough and was getting iritated with my behavior. So, when I mentioned my birth mom, she jumped at the oppertunity and helped me do some research and when I found out I had a twin and that my birth mother had kept her, I started doing some more research and I ended up here." He answered.
"So how long will you be staying with us?" he asked me.
"I don't know probably until I'm ready to tell my parents." I said as I stared down at the floor.
"Why can't you tell them?" He asked me.
"Oh I don't know... like I siad... I just needed my friend. plus if I go home now, my parents care to much about me that they probely won't stop asking questions." I said with a heavy tone. I then looked up at him , and waited for his reaction.
"Point taken." He said as he laughing under his breath.
"you to good for him." He told me. I smiled at him,
"that's what your obligated to say, but if I'm to good for him then why do I keep thinking about him?"

"You just need a destraction. You obviously haven't heard the term 'Rebound' have you?" He told he. I scoffed at him,
"I'm not going to ask a completely random guy out just for my own self esteem. It's not fair." I said to him.
"It would just be a date. I'll have Carmen help." He told me. I bit my lip.
"I don't know...." I said As I sipped my tea.
"I'll think about it padre." I said as I took another sip.
"Padre?" He scoffed at the name.
"Yup. Your from San Diego. Their baseball team is the Padres, so that makes you a padre." I explained to him. He laughed at me.
"What ever you say. Now drink your tea and of to bed Cindy loo." He said as he ruffled my hair. I scrunched up my nose and asked,
"Cindy loo?" Which earned me another scoff from him.
"Well you are short." He said as he walked away. I rolled my eyes and continued to drink my tea.