Give Me Some Time

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We're standing so close to each other. My face was beet red and the eye bag was dark.

"Sara? Sara!" Mary came running from the inside and pushed Liam off. She hugged me so tightly.

"How can you do this to me? You've sworn to always take care of us and you won't let anyone hurt us!" Mary cried.

"Who hurt you? Is it him?" I pointed to Liam. He replied with "Hey!"

"You did! You promised at the funeral that we'd always be yours. But you left, I'm sorry that I said mean things to you." she buried her head in my chest.

"Hey, too close!" Liam tried to pull Mary away but I turned away.

"It's my fault, I lied to you, where's Noah?" I asked. Then noticed he was still inside the house, waiting at the door.

"Sara it's not your fault. Brother told me that you were leaving the past along with your name. I guess I overreacted and made you scared.. I'm sorry." she sniffed.

"It's true I lied everything about me. But I never want to keep it that way with my favourite family." I rubbed her hair.

"Then, we're even." she said. I nodded. We took our sweet time hugging in the driveway until I pushed her away and step back a few times to create a little space between us.

"Hello everyone, my name is Sara Walker, I'm a friend of Liam and I'll be staying here with you guys. Consider me your housemate." I bowed and they laughed. Liam walked closer behind and corrected me.

"Girlfriend."

"Shut up." Both me and Mary quieted Liam at the same time. We ended up laughing and walked to the door together.

"Am I not your boyfriend?" Liam pouted with his hand crossing his body.

"I don't know what a boyfriend supposed to mean, you gonna have to teach me." I winked at him. He punched the air and shouted "Yess!"

"I'm not gonna hug you, I'm sweaty from the training. It was harsh. I couldn't stay focused. Look at all this bruises. You owe me tea time, Sara." Noah said as soon as we reached the door and ran upstairs.

"High tea does sounds nice, it's a perfect weather for a little shade in the garden." Mary suggested. I nodded and entered the house, locking hand.

Later that evening, we had a nice high tea in the garden that Mary and Noah had put all of their hard work in.

"Wasn't today the most perfect weather of the past three years? There's no grey clouds, the sun wasn't blocked too much nor did it brighter too much." Noah sips his tea, his other hand holding cookies Mary and I baked.

"Yeah, almost as if we can run a mile without breaking a sweat under that kind of sun." I pointed to the sun.

"Like you could handle an hour being under it." Mary laughed. I pinched her elbow and she sticked out her tongue.

"Awe, you are a vampire." Liam teased.

"Shut up, I'm just way to used being an indoor person." I crossed my arm.

"What would happen if I dare you to sit directly without any roof or umbrella under the sun for an hour?" Liam asked, there's a questionable teasing in his eyes that I'm scared he's really gonna make me.

"That wouldn't happen. You know why? Because if you make me sit there, then I'll be laying on the bed for a whole day, ignoring all of you because I'm gonna be sick." I stared at him.

"That happened once, and once is enough." Noah spoke, his face looked terrifying like he just remembered a bad thing.

"Really? What happened?" Liam asked. He turned his whole seat to face Noah.