The Outside

Chapter 19

I wake up to a thunderstorm and the wind howling. I can still  feel Soda laying next to me so I try to be still so I don't wake him up. Lightning flashes through the window and I wait for the thunder. It seems the longer it takes the louder it is. The thunder finally crashes and wakes Soda. "You been up long?" he asks.

"Nah. The storm woke me up, sounds like it just started." Soda nods his head sleepily. "You wanna talk about what was bothering ya earlier?" I sigh and nod my head. "I saw my brother and he said he was sorry and that he changed. He told me he wanted me to come back but we all know he hasn't changed."

"Oh, I'm sorry. If you want I can beat him up. You really shouldn't call him your brother anyways. He's an asshole for what he did to you." I laugh and Soda gives me a look. "I don't need you to beat people up for me. If I want him to get beat up, I'd do it myself. Besides, you don't need to get involved in all my issues and I have a lot of those."

"I guess you kinda do. I think you yourself are trouble." I laugh at Soda again. "I'm not trouble unless I wanna be. These things just happened on their own. I can be trouble if you want me to be." He rolls his eyes at me and laughs. "Oh whatever. You're crazy anyways." I punch his arm and he acts like it's the worse punch he's ever taken.

"Alright, get outta here so I can sleep or I'll be trouble all day tomorrow." Everyone knows I get mean when I don't get enough of sleep. "You just can't handle all this trouble." Soda says pointing at himself. I throw a pillow at him and he finally leaves. I close my eyes and listen to the thunderstorm.

I eventually fall asleep and wake in the morning to hear Mickey Mouse playing in the living room. I dress in a pair of jean shorts and a cut off tank top and walk out of my room. "Well this is a first, you woke up before Soda." Pony says. "Dare ya to go dump cold water on 'em." I say.

Pony laughs and goes to grab a glass of water. I decide to do the same and soon we're both tiptoeing through the house like ninjas. We walk into his room and we both try not to laugh. I go on his right side and Pony goes to his left to get his face. We count to three and splash him. "Gah! Pony what are ya doin!" Pony and I crack up. "You mean water you doing?" I joke. 

Soda starts to get up so Pony and I decide it'd be a good idea to exit the area before he gets one of us. He tries to grab me but I pull away and keep running through the house. Then I hear Pony yell and I look back. "Save yourself! It's too late for me! Go, go, go!" he yells mimicking a movie he'd seen earlier in the week.

I continue to run when someone grabs me from behind. I try to elbow the person but they dodge it. "What ya running from now?" Dally asks with a smirk on his face. "No time for me to explain. I gotta go before he gets me back, he already got Pony."

"Who's he? Don't tell me you and Pony played a prank on Soda again. You gotta learn to leave him alone." I roll my eyes and squirm away from Dally. He grabs me and yells for Soda. "Dally no! I thought we were friends." I say fake crying. Soda comes around the corner with Pony right behind him.

Pony is soaked and I'd rather not share the same fate as him. I try to squirm free but Soda grabs me before I can get away and carries me out back to the hose. "Soda no! Can't we work it out ol' pal?" "Nope!" He says popping the p.

He turns the hose on and squirts me. I'm laughing too hard to run away so I just  stand there. When he finally stops I run at him and bear hug him. He tries to push me away but he fails. "Payback sucks!" I tell him. "I just got you back and then you got me back from that so does that mean I have to get you back again?"

"Nope! That's not how it works." He just rolls his eyes at me and laughs. "Well I guess you really are trouble. I'm gonna have to ask you to leave now." I act like what he said hurt me and start to walk away. He grabs my arm and tries to apologize. "Soda I was joking relax." I laugh at him as he calms down. "You're a brat." "And you're a jerk." We laugh at each other and walk back in with the day only starting.