Does It Ever Get Better? (On Hold. Again. I'm Sorry)

"It All Comes To The Light One Way Or Another." - Chapter 58

Evan's P.o.v.

Michael came back with Benny yesterday. Surprisingly, no one got in trouble for anything. Seth kept his promise in not telling Michael about my fight and I promised not to get them in trouble as well. My brothers and I cleaned up the house spotless after the party, but then I told them it was too clean. In which, they filled the sink a bit with cups and bowls and left crumbs in the living room. Of course, when he got home he complained, saying, "No one thought to clean up after eating?". I'm honestly surprised Michael didn't catch on. He's normally so good at that. A knock came to my door and I rolled my eyes. I really didn't want to be bothered right now. My brain is slipping from me. "Evan?" Michael called.

"Yeah?" I asked. "The doors open." I told him and continued to pluck away at the strings on my acoustic Ibanez guitar.

My door opened and soon revealed Michael standing there. "Hey, Kiddo." He walked in more and leaned on the door frame.

I placed my guitar down against my bed and turned so I was facing him, giving him all my attention. "What?" I asked in an almost defeated tone.

"Don't sound so happy." He chuckled forcefully as he pushed himself from the wall and walked to my bed. "What happened while I was gone?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

He sat down and turned his body to me a bit. "There is no way in hell no one is bleeding. There's no way none of you have any form of damage on you." He chuckled.

In our defense, we were all good to each other after the party for that long weekend. I never thought it would happen honestly. Perhaps it was because we kept to ourselves, or because we were busy with our significant others. I shrugged my shoulders and opened my mouth, "I don't know. I stayed away from everyone."

Michael's eyes narrowed ever so slightly before they went back to normal. "Baby, I know you are not lying to me right now."

I cringed a bit at the name. Normally, it was fine. Michael always gives me names like that, but for some reason it's bothering me now. Maybe I'm getting older and don't like the idea of pet names? I don't know. "I'm not." I told him.

He nodded his head slightly. "So, I talked to Kyle yesterday." Michael spoke, changing the subject.

"Oh, yeah?" I questioned. "How'd that go?"

"It was good. We talked about how school is rolling around again, so Lily will be heading back to Westwood." He told me, not once breaking eye contact. He was trying desperately to read my eyes for me to give him some information.

I'll be honest, the eye contact was killing me. Side note; I'm extremely jealous of all my brothers eyes. Their eyes are just so captivating and mine are just boring blue. Michael continued to pierce my soul with his stern look and I swear I saw a smirk start to form on his face for the fact he saw my eyes widen slightly when Lily's name was mentioned. "Good for her." I said coldly and rolled my eyes. I totally forgot about school. My brothers graduation is coming up soon. Devon and Jordan are finally graduating along with Seth who should be the only one graduating this year, but with my two other older brothers, they thought it would be fun to slack off and not keep up with the school work.

"Yeah. She's pretty bummed she won't get to stay around and hang with Kyle. In fact, the boys are gonna have to say bye to their lovers too." He added. "They are heading back too." I felt like that was a lie. I swore I heard him mentioning that Kyle and Mayrin bought a house here, but perhaps I heard wrong?