Pain With No Reward

I wake up sometime around lunch, though I'm not completely sure, I just assume by how I'm feeling. Alina and I video chatted yesterday, though I definitely would've been much happier if she was actually right beside me. The entire call we mainly talked about anime, though there was a little section when we talked about Zack. She told me that she's expecting him to message her sometime soon and that she'll call me immediately once he does. She even said that she'll come running over so then we can mess with him together. Hell, if we're lucky, we may even be able to get Keita and Afia in on it. It can be a nice little game of ours.

The second I sit up I'm immediately hit with a typhoon of cravings. Fuck I really want some chocolate, gummy bears, ice cream, chips, and so much more. Too bad I'm stuck with fruit and veggies. Maybe I can go hangout with Alina at her place and raid her fridge a bit? No. My parents would be pissed if they found out.

"What's with that look on your face?" Keita asks, barging straight into my room. He tosses me a bottle of water, nearly whipping it towards my face. Luckily I jumped to the side before it happened.

"What the fuck?" I shout at him, grabbing the bottle and stopping myself just before I throw back at him. "I just woke up you asshole!"

"Can you two shut up?" Afia stomps over to my room, she looks like she's going to meet up with a few friends. Maybe I can get her to get me a chocolate bar or something.

"Fuck you!" Keita gives her the finger as he lunges at me. I punch and kick him but he still manages to hold me down.

Afia rolls her eyes and face palms, "It's way too early for this shit."

She doesn't even help me or tell Keita to get off of me! She literally just walks out and leaves me to fend for myself against my asshole of a brother. I can barely even breath with him putting all of his weight on top of me.

Before I feel like I'm about to faint, a glass of water gets poured on top of us and Keita jumps off of me. To my surprise, I see Afia looking unamused and holding the empty glass of water.

"Are you two fucking done yet?" She asks, ignoring Keita's glare.

My sheets are absolutely soaked. How am I supposed to sleep in these? I'm way too lazy to put them in the dryer and if I ask one of my parents to do it then all three of us will definitely get in trouble. Though, I never know exactly why I'm the one getting in trouble when I never do anything wrong.

"Fuck off," Keita yells at her, waving his hand in the air as if that will dismiss her like some servant. "Go hangout with your friends or something."

Afia goes silent, she looks a little confused even. "How long ago did you two wake up?"

"Less than like five minutes ago," I immediately answer, shooting Keita a look of anger.

"Like half an hour ago," Keita scratches his head.

Afia sighs and face palms once more, "Mom and dad left us some money."

If I had the ears of a dog, then they've definitely perked up just now. This is my chance to get some junk food!

"They'll be busy all day and they want us to go grocery shopping," She continues, though I think she already knows what I'm planning. "All of us." She then turns her attention completely to me. "Also, they said that you're not allowed to get any junk food, and if they even sense the presence of it then you will be punished."

I throw my hands up in the air, my mouth gapes wide open, "How the fuck is that supposed to work? What if I don't get anything and they just so happen to be in a bad mood then I get punished?"

"Sounds about right," Keita smirks.

"Shut up," I snap at him.

"Both of you shut up and put your shoes on," She snaps at both of us like a pissed off mother or a soon to be fired teacher.

"But-" I get cut off.

"No buts," She finishes then storms out of the room.

"Hehe butt," Keita giggles like a damn child.

I wack him over the head with the water bottle, "What are you? 5?"

"I'm as old as my body count," He smirks like he just gave me fourth degree burns with that roast. It's not even a roast, barely even a spark.

I raise an eyebrow at him, "When did you become unborn?"

He gasps and lunges at me once again. Luckily I predicted that and jumped away. I scream as he chases me out of my room and up the stairs where Afia has already opened the door. She knew this would happen, she knew and she didn't even bother to stop him.

"Afia you bitch!" I shout at her as I run through the snow in my bare feet, trying to escape Keita. Honestly, I'm amazed that he still hasn't caught me yet. Though I do know for a fact that once he does, I'm definitely dead. Fuck my feet are freezing.

Something seems off after a few seconds of me sprinting through the snow. I stop in my tracks and turn around, immediately feeling embarrassed and pissed off. Keita isn't chasing me. In fact, he and Afia are standing at the front door, recording and laughing at me. Keita is even wearing his coat and shoes now, so I guess that I must've been running for more than enough time to become the laughing stock of the school for a week.

"You tryna become Elsa or some shit?" Keita hollers, pointing his phone straight at me.

Other than my face burning, the rest of my body is absolutely freezing. I even feel like I'm starting to get a bit of a cold. If I get sick, then I'm definitely going to make Keita and Afia suffer for it.

After a few more seconds of me standing there, freezing my fucking balls off, I finally start walking back to the house. Though, Afia and Keita's laughing still hasn't died off. They pointed their cameras at me and hollered as I walked past them and went straight back to my room.

I leap onto my bed and groan at the feeling of it still being wet. I guess I could warm up on the couch while I wait for it to dry. All I know is that I'm definitely not going to the store with them. Unless they want a fight to break out in the middle of nowhere, I'm staying here. I don't even care what mom or dad has to say about it, I'm not going.

My shoes slam straight into my head as I stare at my ceiling, thinking about what to do. Afia speaks, "Come on, let's get going already."

"Fuck off," I grumble, knocking them off my bed.

"Oh quit your whining!" Keita walks in and grabs my leg. He starts to drag me off of my soaking wet bed, "What are you? 5?"

"I'm the same age as your body count, bitch," I snap at him and try to shake my leg loose from his grasp.

"Fuck you!" He yanks me off the bed, making my head slam straight into the floor. "Oh shit!"

I can hear both of them jump back from shock. At first it feels as though my head is wet, but that's most definitely just because of the water. The impact wasn't hard enough to make my skull crack or anything. Worse case scenario, I just get a really bad headache for the rest of the day or two. That added on with the cold that I'm probably going to get, I'll be unable to go outside for about 3 to 5 days.

"Knox are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Afia asks in full panic. She kneels by my side and tries to flip me over, squeaking as she continues to ask me questions.

I take her hand off of me, trying to keep my temper down, "I'm fine, just-" I hold back my tears. With everything that happened today, I'd rather not add crying on top of it. "Just go away, go to the store without me."

"But are you sure that you're okay?" She squawks as I lift myself back onto my bed. Keita looks terrified, like he thought that just for a moment that he might've killed me.

I give a weak and fake smile, "Yes, I'm fine." Nodding towards my door, I dismiss them, "Just go already."

"Alright then," Afia frowns and drags Keita, who's still petrified, out of my room. With the way she left, I know for a fact that she's definitely going to buy me something. It may have been painful, but candy here I come! Totally worth it.

They come back about two hours later. I'm just chilling on the couch when they come in through the door. Doing my best to hide my excitement for the candy, I walk over to them and begin unpacking everything. We do this in complete silence. Were they also silent the entire time that they were shopping? What's up with them?

We all finish unpacking and putting away everything, no sweets, no junk, just suffering and getting no reward out of it.

I shoot both of them a look, but neither of them look at me, they both just go downstairs and straight to their rooms. Seriously? What's up with them? What happened?