Serendipity

4. You're undead to me

"Jeremy." I stood in the doorway of his bedroom taking in his and Vicky's clothes flung all around it. He was shamelessly shirtless with his duvet covering his lower body, eyes glued to his phone. "Would you like to tell me what Matt's sister is doing half naked in the bathroom?" I had texted a similar thing to Matt!

"What do you think?" he replied without even looking or caring that I was there.

"I think that since Jenna has gone out for the night, I'm in charge." I folded my arms with as much authority as I could muster. "So, if you can kindly get rid of her."

Jeremy sat up and scoffed under his breath. "Like you didn't do the same with Tyler?"

"Nope."

"That's bullshit." He stalked over to the door, only to loom over me. I had to tilt my chin right up. Since when did he get so tall? "You've been back for five minutes; you can't tell me what to do." Apparently, his growth spurt came with an attitude!

"You weren't this much of a brat when I left, what's gotten into you?" I asked him, shaking my head. "I'm not being unreasonable here-" Unlike Logan Fell when he swore at me! "You're fifteen!"

"Is everything ok?" I turned to see Vicky behind me, still in only Jeremy's t-shirt. I did not want to see my brother's lady friend wandering around the house naked. He was too young in the first place! I didn't know who this guy was, but it was not my sweet Taylor Swift loving little brother. I needed to snap him out of this rut he was in. I wish Elena had told me how bad he had gotten.

"Nothing, come in here." Jeremy reached out and pulled her into the room, not caring that I was almost knocked over in the process.

"Jeremy, I said-" The door was slammed in my face.

"What's going on?" Elena came out of her room.

I placed a hand on my hip and gestured towards the door. "He has a woman in there!"

"Vicky?" Elena checked her watch. "What is she still doing here?"

"He's taking advantage of the fact Jenna's out. We need to take swift action," I told her, smacking the back of my hand into my palm. His bad behaviour ends now, we couldn't let him keep going down this track. "There's two of us and one of him."

"So, what's your plan?" she asked me.

"I have multiple ideas," I replied. "Hear me out. We could A) Call Jenna, B) Call Matt, C) Call Tyler or D) Embarrass Jeremy to the point where he'll be asking Vicky to leave himself. I'm leaning towards D, what do you think?"

"What's going on?" Jenna appeared from the stairs, stumbling slightly. "Whoops!" She tripped on the last step, grabbing onto Elena's shoulder for support. "Ugh, I'm so dizzy; I'm seeing two of you."

I leant towards Jenna; my brows furrowed. "Are you...? Are you drunk?"

"No, Elena number two, no, how dare you, I'm a responsible guardian." She pushed off Elena and tried leaning on the banister for support, only she slid off that too. "What are we doing outside the emo kid's bedroom?"

"He has a lady friend in there," I told her, jerking my thumb behind me.

"Oh, that's gross!" Jenna's face scrunched up. "Are they doing it?"

I looked at Elena, "Well, I can see she is not going to be of any help."

"Maybe I should call Stefan," Elena suggested, biting her lip.

"Stefan?" I repeated with a scoff.

"Steeefannn," Jenna scoffed also, parroting me. "Stefan. Pfft." Elena winced and wiped the spit away that came with that one.