𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - Matt Sturniolo

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I slammed the door aggressively and ran stomping up the stairs. Chris and Nick were sitting in the living room, watching after me as I walked sourly to the fridge to get a drink of water.

I was so angry. She really said I left her hanging while she was the one who ruined everything? How could she lie like that?

"I guess it didn't go so well, huh?" Nick asks and I wish he'd shut up. "Obviously" I just said and hoped he wouldn't ask any more questions. Tomorrow I could tell him everything but right now I was still too angry.

Maybe I was also jealous of this Kevin. She can't be happy with him if she looks so broken.

And how could I even be jealous, I didn't even know her anymore. The chaise I knew wouldn't lie and she would never blame me if she was the one who left me hanging.

"Why are you chasing after her anyway?" Chris asked, looking so disinterested as he sat on his cell phone. I laughed because it was ridiculous that he asked that. He and Nick knew me best, so why didn't he understand?

"Because it's Chaise," I said and took a sip of water. "I don't understand how you can't be interested either. We were all friends with each other. How can you not care that we live in the same fucking town now and we have nothing to do with each other anymore?" I said angrily.

Nick and Chris both looked at me with raised eyebrows. Nick said dryly, "Because we're done with it. Yes, we were friends, but it was only one summer. It's different for you because you were in love with her and still haven't finished with it."

After that, I had nothing more to say and disappeared into my room.

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Simon had fallen asleep on my arm while I was cuddling with him on the couch. He was so incredibly sweet.

My brother came down the stairs, his hair all mussed up from sleeping. "Thanks for looking after him, I really needed this sleep, you can't get any rest with him." He said and I sighed.

He had no idea how tired I was every day when I got home and how much I wished he would go to work so I wouldn't have to work 3 jobs.

"No problem, Simon is a sweetheart." He nodded and came towards us and kissed his son on the forehead. "Where's Kevin, I thought he'd picked you up from work?" He asked.

"I wanted to be alone, that's why he left." I said and sighed. Josh looked at me questioningly and sympathetically. "What happened?" He asked and I bit my lip to stifle my tears.

I wanted to tell him how unhappy I was, how much I wished he would help me pay for the household, how much I wished our father was clean and how much the meeting with Matt was bothering me.

"Nothing, the work was just .... Hard." I said with a sigh, ignoring the fact that he didn't believe me.

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The DJ's music was blaring in my ears as I handed out drinks behind the bar. The club was booked for a private party and the whole club was full of Influnecers.