Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

CC's Girl and Fights

It's been a couple days of hell with my older siblings meddling around with everything. I love them, well I love Ana and Robyn, George drives me up the wall. The only time I have time to think is while I'm a work.

Rikki is at work with me. I'm stocking shelves and he follows me around, with his hands around my waist. Like we're some kind of train. I like to stop suddenly because I'm an asshole, so he runs into my back nearly knocking me down.

That's about the time my dear sweet twin runs into the store, hopping behind the counter. I walk over and set my milk crate on the counter and look down at him. He's clearly hiding from someone. Did he hit on another girl with a jockstrap boyfriend? I thought I finished covering for his ass when he did that in high school. Rikki is still behind me but now closer and his arms have gotten tighter around my waste, his head on my shoulder.

"Whatcha doing, CC?" I wonder with a smile.

"Having tea with Babe Ruth, John Bonham, and the Queen, dumbass. What does it look like? I'm hiding." CC rolls his eyes.

"Okay, better question. Who are you hiding from?" I ask.

"Well remember how Ana said she was going to get me a girlfriend. Well she did, she found the single most insane, annoying broad that ever walked God's green earth." My twin explains. "Just cover for me."

"And what am I going to say if crazy walks in?" I wonder.

"Say I had do go have an emergency c-section or something." CC mutters and I roll my eyes.

"Whatever you say." I say as I walk away and start to stack more records.

I stack records with CC hiding and Rikki in toe for about twenty minutes before I realize when CC meant. A girl that even before talking reminded me of Patty Simcox from Grease. She wore a shapeless plaid dress and had Coke bottle glasses. Given she may have been really pretty underneath it all but damn. She walks directly up to me and smiles.

"Hi, I'm Jodie!" Her voice makes me want to jump off a building. So high pitched and girly. "I'm looking for CC. He said he was going to the bathroom about twenty minutes ago and never came back."

I try not to laugh and Rikki does the same by kissing my hair.

"I uh, I think he said something about having an emergency c-section." I'm able to spit out and she looks at me.

"Are you sure?" Jodie asks me and I have to bite my tongue so I don't laugh.

"Ah huh." I say and a shadow of a laugh slips out.

"You're lying to me." She tells me and burst out laughing. This is the dumbest conversation I've ever had.

"What was your first clue, sweetheart?" I laugh.

"CC your girlfriend's here." Rikk calls and I laugh harder.

"Who are you anyways?" Jodie asks me.

"His sister." I admit as CC comes out from behind the counter.

"I hate the both of you." He mutter as he walks past us, making us laugh harder.

After I get off work, Rikki and I head back to mine and CC's apartment. He sits on the couch with my head on his lap, I read while he flips through channels on the TV. Everyone once in a while, Rikki will randomly put his hand in front of my eyes and insists that he's helping.

One by one, my siblings walk in, all slamming the door, all mad at each other. This is going to be fun.

God help us.

Before I even know what's going on, CC and George are yelling at each other and Ana and I are trying to get them to stop.

"Music isn't a career, Bruce!" George snaps.

"Don't call me that!" CC yells back.

"Why, was your given name not good enough for you?" George's voice gets louder.

"You need to stop with this holier than you bullshit you carry around! You're not the only athlete and you're not the only one that's finished college!" CC yells. "Bianca has done both of those things."

"And she's working in a record store!" George yells.

I push my way in between my brothers.

"George, shut the fuck up, alright?" I tell him. "Yes your a doctor, congratulations. But if your head wasn't so far up mom and dad's ass maybe you'd be able to see that there more to life than outdoing your family!"

"Baby, stay out of this." George talks down to me and I shove him back.

"Don't talk to me like I'm some kind of kid." I snap. "I'm not a baby, I'm twenty three years old!"

"You're still a child." He tells me.

"What compared to your thirty one?" I snap.

"Bee, just back off. It's not your fight." CC tells me and I shake my head.

"As for CC, in the years he's been out here he's been doing something that you're too much of an asshole to ever fathom doing." I say.

"And what's that? Getting drunk and disgracing our family name?" George snaps.

"No he's been making a name for himself. People know who he is, they have a record coming out in the summer. And what are you? You're just that doctor from Brooklyn. Dad's name has no pull here." I snap.

This next part I'm not exactly sure what happened.

George shoved me back into a wall really hard. I have a dazed memory of sliding down the wall and watch CC and Rikki nearly kill him. I remember hearing an echo of Robyn calling for me. That's all I remember.

I open my eyes again to see Rikki, Ana, CC, and Robyn looking down at me.

"There she is." Rikki says as I sit up.

"How you feel?" Ana wonders.

"Fine but what happened?" I wonder, CC and Rikki kind of laugh.

"Well George knocked you out and Rikki and Uncle CC went to town on him." Robyn laughs.

That's when I notice Rikki's bloody lip and CC's bruised jaw. I run my thumb along Rikki's lip and touch CC's jaw, worried about them.

"Baby, you should see the other guy." Rikki smiles at me, reassuring me. "I don't remember it like that."

"Me either." CC smiles.

"I remember asking him nicely not to touch my girl." Rikki laughs.

"And I remember asking him politely to leave my apartment before I cut something off and glued it some where else." CC laughs.

"Are you two okay?" I wonder and they laugh.

"You worry too much." They say in unison.

I worry because I love them. I don't want to lose them.