Her Muse

Chapter ten

    I heard a click and a voice that sounded suspiciously like mom say

"Now you don't see that everyday, it's a keeper." I heard her giggle before my eyes shot up. I saw my brother in an 'oh so loving' position with me and my face wrinkled. Ew. I carefully untangled myself from him making sure to not wake him up before I stood up to get to mom who was holding her Polaroid camera and grinning mischievously.

"Good morning mom." I mumbled

  "Morning curls." she said and snickered. "Mind telling me what went down last night?" she raised a brows suggestively.

I sighed and I saw her face fall slightly before she asked, "what's wrong?"

"Emily and Aiden kind of broke up." I said slowly. My mom loved Emily to bits. She always went on about how she was like the girly daughter she always wanted in her life, no offense to me though.

Mom's face turned to one that held sadness, confusion and a hint of anger.

"What happened?" she knew Aiden could have never broken up with her, he was into her too much for that.

"She um-she cheated, with Mason." I curled my fists and bowed my head. Mom knew everything that went on in our lives she's one of my best friends and so I tell her about everything and everyone.

"Tch. I should have seen that coming. That romance story has happened one too many times." She mumbled, annoyed.

"Hence the movies and ice-cream." I gestured to the empty tubs I flung to a corner of the room in a state of 'half asleep-ness'

"Dang you were saving that." She bit her lip. I nodded sadly.

"My poor baby." she looked to Aiden who was sprawled out on my bed like he wanted no space to be left open. If that was his motive, he succeeded.
Any other day I would have dragged his butt out of my bed and kicked it off to Asia but now, I could only look at him in pity.

"Hey mom, is it okay if we don't go to church today? I know you'd want us to but I don't think Aiden might be up for it." Don't get me wrong I love church but I wouldn't be able to stand Aiden looking like a zombie/heart broken teenager while we sing hymns and say Grace.

"Oh yeah, I wanted to wake you for that. I'm going though." Her eyes shifted back to me.
" Please help him get over it. He might not admit it but you're his best friend, and I know he's yours too." she smiled sadly at me.

"Ma'am yes Ma'am." I said in my best soldier voice. She chuckled.

  "Okay I'm off now." she turned to leave.

  "Kay. Bye mom, love you. Say hello to Pastor Jason for me." I said to her.

Safe to say I had a tiny crush on our Pastor. I can't help it if he's so young..... and so handsome........ and so- "I know you're already day dreaming about him. My motherly ears can testify to that because they are bleeding." she hollered back to me.

I let out a laugh. My mom knew me that's for sure. I sighed and looked back to Aiden. "First step in cheering someone up: breakfast in bed" I said to myself and I went downstairs to make pancakes. This is going to be easy.

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Whoever said making pancakes was easy should be sentenced to a lifetime of bad hair days. I burnt at least two pancakes, thank God I didn't burn down the kitchen.
One of those supposed pancakes is stuck on the wall-don't ask me how that happened- and I'm covered in flour, not my fault is so easy to play with it.
But on the bright side, I was able to make a dozen healthy looking ones. Yay victory. I splitted them into two and drizzled syrup all over mine and then put only a little for Aiden because he doesn't like too much syrup. I mean, barbarian much?

I took the plates and some orange juice upstairs. Time to wake him up.

"Hey A. I brought you breakfast." I opened the door and closed it with my foot. He yawned wildly and stretched. Guess I'm not the only one who yawns like that. Must be the genes then.

He rubbed his eyes and opened them.  "Roxy?" he called my name weirdly.

"Yeah?" I answered.

"Why?" he said slowly furrowing his brows.

  "W-well I-I just wanted to do a good deed because you know I'm a good person and I thought why not?" I rambled.

"Gee, I should get hungover and heartbroken more often." he smiled. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah right. This is a once in a lifetime thing I'm doing for you." I scoffed.

"And for that, I am eternally grateful." Aiden said and grabbed his food before wolfing it down. We ate in peace until we were done.

"Don't drink from the carton you animal." I screeched at him.

"Make me." He's smirked before chugging it and I gave out a cry of disbelief.

  "You are so lucky you are grieving right now." I snarled at him.
Oh. I shouldn't have reminded him of that. Aiden must have noticed my expression because his face relaxed and he said.

"It's fine Rox. I'll be okay. Look, I'm just going to say this once, but thank you. This really helps." he smiled at me.

  "Huh? I didn't hear that. Could you repeat it?" I put my hand to my ear and leaned closer to him.

"That's your loss then because I ain't saying it twice." he said smugly and began drinking out of the carton again. I quickly hatched a plan in my head and mischievously smirked before squeezing the carton and making him drink too much and he began spluttering.

"Muahahahaha!!" I gave my best evil laugh before running to a corner of my room to give my victory dance which may or may not have entailed twerking.

"Y-you you monster." he managed to blurt out before charging at me like a raging bull.

"Uh no thank you, no thank you sir!" I screeched and began running away from him. He managed to catch up with me and tackled me to the ground. We goofed around for a few minutes before laying on the floor panting like we ran a marathon. Well I don't know about him, but I was.

"Hey Roxy?" Aiden called out to me.

"Yeah?" I turned my head to face him.

"Do you think they will be together on Monday you know-like a couple?" he said in a small voice.

"Well, yeah I guess." No point sugar coating it.

"I don't think I can handle that." He muttered.

"Yes you can. Like Dad always said, you'll never know until you try." I gave him a small smile.

"I don't think dad ever said that." he chuckled and creased his brows.

  "Er, yeah he did. He said it to me that one time I tried to fit my fist into my mouth." I argued

"Nah, pretty sure he said Roxanne, just so you know, I'm disowning you if you don't do it." he countered. I smiled.

  "Yeah, that sounds more like dad." I paused "And about Emily, you just need to show you doing even better without her. You know, like a Montage but without the glow up." I joked and he chuckled.

  "Okay, okay I get it. Besides, you'll be there to help me." he winked at me.

"Yeah, by smacking your head so hard that you'd see stars if you show even one sign of weakness when you see her." I nodded, satisfied.

"Yep, I can always count on you for that." he said sarcastically and scoffed.

"What are siblings for?" I gave him the bright smile and he responded with a dirty look.

We spent the rest of the day lazing around and basically doing nothing. Yes, I am very much aware that my English homework is due tomorrow but guess what? I ain't going to do it cause I'm a badass and super cool..... okay maybe I should do it.
    

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I should probably do my homework too 🥱. See ya later peepsqueeks.