The 1 Rule - haobin

spider on the ceiling

I drag my bag into the house, and put my shoes under a cupboard, and signal Matthew to do the same. We're practically study buddies, almost living at each other's houses when we have tests. He and I used to be especially close when we were teenagers, but we drifted slightly away after we started to get a larger friend group. Nevertheless, we're still pretty close, and that's enough for me.

"Your mom's not here?" Matthew asks, looking around for any signal of a woman with too much makeup, kind eyes, and loud voice approaching.

"Step-mother. And no, she's not." I say. Matthew nods, looking at me cautiously. He's the only one that knows what really happened with my family, since he and I were best friends exactly at the time the whole Situation happened.

I take a few snacks from the kitchen, and we walk upstairs, Matthew walking up ahead of me. He opens the door of my room, and suddenly stops. I frown, and lean on him to look at what is inside.

Jude? Since when did she even know where my room is? She's sitting on my bed, nearly laying down, and on her phone.

"What do you think you're doing?" I ask, my voice raised. She looks at me, a scowl shown on her face.

"There was a spider in my room. I thought that maybe you could kill it?" She says

"All for favours, huh? I thought that you didn't know that I exist" I say, before walking out of the room and stomping into Jude's room. 

Immediately, I spot a really, and when I mean really, I mean extremely, huge, hairy, and fat spider. I freeze at the sight, and stop myself from running out of the room. Instead, I calmly walk out of the room, making sure to close the door behind me, and walk back to my room.

"You kill it" I say, once entering.

"I have a phobia! Why can't you just do it for me?" She asks, making me try to quickly think of an answer.

"I'm not here to do your dirty work," I say, taking Jude and dragging her to the door "I'll ask you kindly, to leave. We need to study"

"You're such a liar. You both never study anyways."

"How do you know?"

"I can clearly hear you not studying from my room" she says, rolling her eyes. I look at Matthew, who is looking at his phone, probably not to disturb our argument.

"C'monnn" Jude nags, swinging my arm left and right.

"Jude, go annoy someone else. Just go to the living room and wait until your mom comes back" I say.

"No."

"No? Jude, don't be so bitchy and petty. Just go, neither of us want you here" I say.

"No. Kill the spider." I look at her cold hearted brown eyes. I feel my own narrow, as I grab her shoulder tightly. She flinches violently, a bit too violently for my liking.

"Jude. Go now. I'll actually fucking throw you out" I say, in a calmer way than of what I expected.

"Hanbin, I want my room back. I'm not going to the living room. There's no privacy there."

"Well, that's too bad. Deal with it brat" I say, pushing her out of my room and locking the door behind me. 

As I turn, I see Matthew frowning at me.

"Aren't you being too much? Why not just kill it?" He asks. Clearly, he doesn't know about my fear of spiders.

I quickly sit next to him, my eyes turning wide at the flashback of the spider.

"No, man, I don't think you understand. That spider is HUGE," I emphasise the 'huge' with a motion of my arms "it is hairy, like the ugly kind of hairy, and it was kind of-"