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Thirteen Days

I woke up to an empty bed. As I make my way downstairs for breakfast I come to the realization that I was the last one up. Jon was sitting at the table sipping his coffee and reading the newspaper. Katelyn was rushing around trying to make breakfast before Nick came to pick her up and the lovely couple was cuddled on the sofa watching morning news.

“good morning.” I say, walking into the room.

Jon was the only one to reply and he just game a half-like nod. Wow, what a nice way to wake up in the morning.

Katelyn grabs the toast that pops up just as the doorbell rings. “bye!” she says, running out the door, “love you guys!” the door closes and I start to make my bowl of cereal.

I hear the sound of a newspaper being folded up and look up from scarfing down the delicious Honey Nut Cheerios to see Jon staring at me.

“so…Katelyn’s pretty cute.” He comments.

I just about choke on the food I had in my mouth. “and you’re twice her age.”

Jon ignores my comment. “and you know who else is cute? This little girl I know by the name of Katie. I mean, I’d say they’d be sisters, but Katie is much paler than Katelyn.”

I glare at him, tempted to flick some of my breakfast at him too. “obviously you have a point to make here.”

“just saying, it’s kind of interesting how the two look so similar…and the names are also very alike.”

“whoop-di-do you caught me. want a prize?” I say sarcastically.

“so Adam…?”

“yes. And he doesn’t know. And I would like to keep it that way until I figure things out.”

“but everyone else knows?”

“yes.”

Jon laughs and stands up, “you’re in some deep shit Juliana Richards.” Then, before I could say anything back, he leaves the room. I glare after him.

“well, someone doesn’t like my brother.” Dakota comments, looking over at me.

“like I ever really liked him.” I reply with sarcasm.

“remember that one time that you guys were-“

I plug my ears like a child, “la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la I can’t hear you! la-la-la-la-la-la!”

She shuts her mouth and so I stop my ‘la-la’s’. “what are you talking about?” Finn questions the two of us.

“when we were sixteen-“ Dakota starts.

“Dakota, I’m warning you.”

“and my brother was nineteen.”

“Dakota.”

“we went to this party. Well, I went, and I dragged this goody-good along with for once.”

“I swear to god I’m going to kill you for this.”

“everybody was making comments about her, wondering if she was pregnant or what she was doing there. Just a bunch of stuff, mean stuff. Julie wasn’t used to it since at school everyone was nice to her.”

“oh god.” I say, adding my comments here and there. This was such an embarrassing story.

“so, to prove to everyone she wasn’t a goody-good she grabbed a beer to drink. And well, my brother stopped her. And she fought back saying that she could do what she wanted. If I remember the story correctly she had something about it probably being her last party and she wanted to taste beer so he kissed her since he had had some beer and then she asked why he could have it and she couldn’t. I think Jon told her something about it being what he did and how it wasn’t who she was. Julie told him that he didn’t know who she was. And so he asked and I think she went on a long spiel on how people always expected her to do this and that… well, you know.”