Chapter 34

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock and slowly got up to turn it off. I stretched after doing so and felt gross from sleeping in my clothes from yesterday.

Slowly but surely I got out bed and headed to my bathroom to take a shower.

When I got out I looked at my phone to check the time and saw that I had a text.

It was from Drew.

'Hey got my phone back. You coming to school?'

'Wouldn't miss it.' I sent before putting it down and getting ready for school.

I made sure to get all of my school projects together as I got ready to leave my room. Sure I was good I left and headed downstairs.

When I got there I saw Christopher and Jake sitting at the table and just walked pass them as I continued to get a glass of water.

"Morning," Christopher said.

"Good morning," I responded with clearly still tired.

"Did you sleep well?" Jake asked suddenly trying to make small talk.

"Yeah, just not enough."

"Couldn't help but think about me, huh? Ow!"

I turned around and saw Jake hold his arm where Christopher probably hit him after his cheesy comment.

I mailed to myself as I remembered they were brothers.

"Why are you guys up this early anyway?"

They both looked at me with no kind of off face. They looked at each other and Jake shrugged his shoulders.

"We're planning to go visit our parents grave soon. Just waiting to see if Alex wants to go with us."

His words hit me as he said them.

Right, they're dead. How could they talk about it so calmly?

"Oh. I'm sorry. I, uh, didn't think of that."

"It's fine. I mean, today is the day they died but we don't really hurt from it as much anymore. It's been a long time since they died."

Jake was silent through this but he kept a small smile on.

"May I ask how they died?"

Christopher checked the time by looking at the clock in the room.

"Maybe some other time. You should start heading to school."

I looked at the time myself and saw that I should be heading out.

"Oh. Right. Well, bye. See you whenever you get back then," I said as I grabbed my bag and headed for the door.

I walked out and started heading out.

Why did I ask that? That's just too personal! I don't deserve to know. I don't need to know. And yet he sounded perfectly fine to tell me.

But what about Jake? He was silent the whole time.

But more importantly why am I suddenly so interested in all of their lives? Did I honestly want to know them better? Why?

Questions swarmed around in my head giving me a headache. Luckily Drew came up and helped my thoughts calm down. Sadly only for a second. The moments from yesterday came flooding in and my headache came back.

Great.

"Morning. Are you all right?"

"Yes. Why do you ask?"

"Just checking to see if those guys did anything to you."

I sighed.

Is he going to be like this all the time now?

Could I keep up with the lies if he does?

"If they did anything I promised I'd tell you so don't worry about it."

"But you won't tell me things. Even when we were together you kept secrets from me."

I stayed silent not really wanting to confirm that in any way.

He sighed.

"As stubborn as always."

We walked the rest of the way to school in silence and I could tell there was more he wanted to say but kept silent about it anyway.

I really am sorry Drew.