Chapter Eighteen

And I love the way you hurt me

It's irresistible

"You know, you have a cellphone for a reason." Oliver grumbled on the other end, obviously irritated with the fact that I hadn't picked up my phone for the past few hours. I chuckled at how silly he was being, biting my bottom lip as I looked into the living room. Brenna and Ray were both in there along with majority of my siblings. Jemma had gone to a friends house though, so she was really the only one missing.

"I'm sorry... B and Ray decided that tonight was going to be a movie night. I just barely got my phone away from Brenna... You know how she is with me texting you while we're hanging out."

"She's just jealous that she doesn't have a super hot boyfriend to text."

"A little full of ourselves tonight, are we not?" I arched my eyebrows even though I knew he couldn't see me.

"I was talking about you."

"No you weren't but good save there sweetheart." Oliver makes a little snort and I could just picture the face he was pulling right now. Olly didn't like pet names, found them weird... He only liked to call me babe or baby... Or he'd actually use my name.

"How long until they leave?" Oliver asked after a minute.

"I would say an hour or two... Don't really know. They might sleep over, just depends on what they feel like doing." I shrug, glancing into the living room again to see Ray rolling his eyes as Brenna tries to place her head on his shoulder.

"Just Brenna right?"

"It would more than likely be both her and Ray..."

"Isn't Rayden a little too old for sleep overs?"

"He's actually younger than I am by like two weeks Oliver..." I rolled my eyes, knowing that Oliver was just being a little shit. He didn't like Rayden and it didn't matter what I said... He would probably never like Ray.

As to why he hated him... I couldn't tell you.

Mainly due to the fact he never told me.

"Well I vote you kick them both out and Skype me... I'm super bored and miss your smiling face."

"I can't just kick my friends out of my house. I haven't really hung out with them for a while..."

"But... Skype." Oliver whines, making me laugh a little. Even though Oliver was a little shit sometimes, he was adorable.

"They'll leave in an hour... Will you be able to wait that long?" Oliver let's out a sigh and I imagined he was probably shaking his head.

"Yeah. You have one hour or you won't get to talk to me for like a week."

"Is that a threat?"

"It's a promise."

"Alright... I'll see you in an hour... I love you."

"I love you too." And then he hangs up. I walk back into the living room before sitting down next to Jonah.

"Why'd you leave?" Jonah asked, placing his head on my shoulder.

"Oliver was calling." I replied, smiling softly as I laid my head on top of Jonah's.

"I like Oliver... He's a nice kid."

"Well I'm glad you like him... He's gonna be around for a while." Jonah smiles before closing his eyes.

"What did rock star want?" Rayden asked, moving away from Brenna as she pouted. Ray ignores her pout and instead focused on me.

"He just wanted to see how I was doing... Nothing major." I said, rolling my eyes as Rayden sits next to me on the floor with Jonah.

"Interesting."

"I guess...?" I looked at Ray with a confused expression. He was being weird... I didn't like it.

"C'mon Ray... It's probably time we head home." Brenna says after a minute of awkward silence. Ray sighs before standing up off the floor, stretching his arms over his head as he nods.

"Alright. See you at school on Monday Alex." And with that they left. I sighed as soon as the front door shut behind them before carefully standing up. All my siblings were fast asleep on either the couch or the floor, and sadly it was my task to get them all up to their beds before our parents got home. I woke up Aiden and Jaiden first, both of them grumbling about how much they hated me before walking up the stairs.

Audrey was a little harder.

"A, you gotta wake up."

"Go away Dad."

"A."

"No.." She whined, trying to push me away as I shook her shoulder.

"I can't carry you upstairs Audrey..."

"Why? You're getting too old Dad." Audrey whispers, not even bothering to open her eyes.

"I'm not Dad." I sighed.

"Oh."

"Please just get up. I already have to carry Jonah." I said, really not wanting to deal with Audrey right now.

"You're annoying."

"I know. Now get up." Audrey let out a loud huff before doing as I said, walking slowly to the stairs. It wasn't until I bent down to help Jonah up that Jemma got home. She walked in with a scarf around her neck which made me arch my eyebrows.

She didn't leave with one.

"What's with the scarf?" I asked her, making her jump a little as she looked at me with wide eyes.

"It's December... I got cold." She said quickly.

"I don't believe you."

"Sounds like a personal problem to me. Are you done interrogating me Dad?" It was her turn to arch her eyebrows, almost as if she was daring me to say anything else. She walked away after that, going up to her bedroom.

"I'm not Dad." I said to myself, shaking my head as I helped Jonah up.

"You don't think I'm like Dad, do you Jo?" I asked him.

"Shut up Dad, I'm trying to sleep."

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whoop. I updated.

so I finally got a new laptop and I'm so happy cause my last one had a virus and shit so I couldn't write on it...

I also couldn't get on the internet.... but now that I have one, I'm thinking of finally doing the twitcam I said I would do all the way back in December lol

would anyone watch it if I did?

yay or nay?

anyways, the guy who plays Oliver is the one in the multimedia. I've been listening to his acoustic covers all day... He's bae. (His name is Rod Pires for all of you who are going to ask.)

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