Life of a Coach's Daughter

Chapter Eight

Emily's POV

"Where are you?" I run out of the doors and start to head for the car.

"Blaine's. We came here after the game last night. They woke me up this morning and gave me this. I came in there and called you." I can barley understand him. "I am in the bathroom."

"Flush whatever it is and go wait by the corner. I will be there in five minutes." I hang up when I turn on to the road. Driving as fast as I can I make it to where I can see Alex then I start to slow down.

"I'm sorry. I completely forgot until after you hung up." Alex spoke after we parked at the facility.

"It's fine. They know about my history. I just have to call it in and they will test me. I would rather save my little brother any day from drugs." I look at him finally, "You heard about what it did to me. I won't let it happen to you."

"I know that is why I am lucky to have you as a sister." We get out of my car and start to walk in. "I am going to tell Dad in his office now so you can call your boss." Alex stops me at the door.

"Nah, we do it together from now on got it." He shakes his head. Even though my brother is a senior in high school and four years younger than me, he is a foot taller than me. Alex has brown hair and blue eyes and plays every sport known to man.

"Let's get this over with so Dad can yell at me and I can get grounded." He looks down at me and smiles.

"It won't be that bad. I won't let him be that harsh. I know how hard that life is." Showing my card I get Alex a pass to come around with me.

Walking into the locker room, I'm by myself but after a couple of minutes Alex walks in and goes straight to sit in Dad's office. "Emily why did you run out?" Dad walks into the locker room. I grab his hand and pull him into his office. Closing the door I hear him say "Son, what are you doing here?"

"I had a problem and called Emily. We are telling you together." I sit next to him and cross my legs. "I was at Blaine's and they gave me drugs. I ran into the bathroom and called Emily and flushed them. So we are here."

"What the hell were you thinking?" He stands up and yells as loud as he can.

"I was thinking that I need to get the fuck out without having anything in my damn system. I realized after I fucking called Emily that I shouldn't of done that. But she has a support system. I don't, I just have her now that's it because all you care about is my sports." Alex stands right back up and fights with him. They are spitting images of each other when they are pissed.

"If that is how you feel then I am sorry. I don't just care about your sports, I have lately but I don't." He calms down.

"Yea well you are a coach you will never change as long as I have someone I will be good." Alex sits back down and clenches his fist. "Just give me my punishment so I can go home and do nothing."

"Your punishment..." for once my Dad has to think about grounding one of us.
"You have to go to the gala and sit through the whole thing. You can choose your date but you have to be by either Emily or I. No fun allowed. I know how much you didn't want to go."

"I hate these things!" Alex stands up and yells. "I would rather be grounded for life than going to that ."

"Too bad, should of thought of that before you took the drugs and almost cost your sister her job." They both look at me. "Why did you even go knowing that it could cost you?"

Grabbing Alex's hand, I try to pull him but he won't budge. "I did it because unlike you family comes first." I open the door and walk out. Slamming it shut I don't know what else to do. Everyone looks at me and all of the questions come out of their eyes. Pulling out my phone, I call my boss and explaining everything. He understood. He tells me to stay in the locker room and that I will have to take one test.

After hanging up, thats when I hear it, all of the yelling and screaming coming from the room behind me. Sliding down the wall, I feel as the door opens and my brother yells, "Fine, I'm moving out!"

"And where will you stay? You don't have enough money saved up to move out." Dad quickly says back.

I want so badly to say with me but I can't. It's not my house and I have no right to invite people to live there. When I feel arms come around me, I know what's about to happen. "Just say it."

"He can stay with us." I stand and walk towards Alex. He slowly shakes his head at me. Knowing what he means, I don't care,

"Right now he is making me choose and I choose you. I'll bring you home and you can live with us and I will give you your punishment, speaking that you are going to be living with us, we will do that."

"Fine go to the house and grab his stuff." My Dad turns to walk away but stops, "Thanks for standing up to me. I thought I would never have my two oldest kids standing up to me. I am proud." After he walks away.

"Jimmy, is it okay if I stay for a little while, at least until college?"

"Dude, it was only a matter of time before you were staying over. And if you don't feel comfrontable living there; with your sister and I, great. But you won't live by yourself as a seventeen year old high school student, that is something I will put my foot down." Jimmy looks down at him in the eye and doesn't back down.

"Do y'all always make decisions together?" Alex looks at both of us, "This is going to be like having two parents again." Alex smiles as he walks to me. "Kiss your lover-boy bye and bring me to get my stuff so I can move in."

Turning to Jimmy, I walk into his arms and put my head down. "Everything will be ok. He has us now and it will make him fell like he has two parents because nothing he does will get past us." Kissing my head I look up at him. "See yall at home."

Kissing his lips one last time I walk out to my car. "You didn't have to do this," We have been driving for ten minutes.

"Yes I did, you are my little brother. I am not going to have you live by yourself when you are only seventeen and in high school." I stop talking then remember one thing. "It wasn't my idea any way, It was Jimmy's."

"Let's just get my stuff." Alex and I pack his room. While doing so his phone rings and he answers it. "Yea we'll be home in about thirty minutes. I'll tell her. Tea. By the way, thanks, man." He hung up and looks at me. "Jimmy is firing up the grill and cooking. Let's wrap it up here, I have school tomorrow."