The unexpected

Chapter 18

Authors note
Specially for Dee and Kat
-Shereen :)

After about 20 minutes of charging my phone I switched it on. I could not wait any longer. Is it me or do phones take their time to switch on when you really want to use them?

After an argony of waiting my mobile finally finished loading. 107 missed calls. 118 new messages. 46 voice mails. This kind of thing only happens when your phone was off line and when you dont have it with you.

I was scrolling down my messages when a familiar name popped on the screen. Nate. It really looked tempting. He knew I didn't have my phone so why did he send me messages? From him I had 18 messages. I shrugged and scrolled down to see if there was any good looking message telling me I won a million. Obviously that didn't happen. Before I reached the bottom of the list, my thumb developed a brain of its own and scrolled back to Nate.

1. I hope you are not avoiding me. He probably sent this before I told him my phone was taken.

2. I never found it hard to kiss a girl before but now... that's Nate for you. He loves it when people got curious. The ellipsis where there to mess with me of course. The other messages were him texting because he could. Nothing mind blowing. The last two though had some emotion in them.

17. you make me wanna change my ways. Nahh...you change my ways. I never had to wait for a girl before.

18. I want you so bad 'cause I know I can't have you. You're too good to be true. If only I could own you. But you do not drool over me like all these girls do... that kills me!

I debated on texting back to reply to his texts. Doing that would feed his ego. Knowing him he might not want to talk about it and call it 'Over due'.

I decided to call my girls instead. Let them know I got my mobile back.

"Couldn't you wait for us to see tomorrow that you got it back?" pretty sure you know who would say that right after I call to notify them I got my mobile back.

"I am just grateful 'Wes' is not with you or else we would not be talking to you now." Em said back at Ash. As much as I miss having our conference calls I cant say I adore having them take my happy moment to discuss their lives.

"Guys,I called remember?"

"Yeah right! To have us keep quiet on the other end of course." Ash commented. I could picture her rolling her eyes in the process.

"Ash!" Em warned before asking me: "So you have something you wanna tell us?" Not to say she is my favourite but I would rather introduce her to my people than Ash personality wise. Not that I have people or anything like that, but, argh. You get my point. Any way back to the matter at hand.

"I got my phone back." I told my friends jumping a bit on my bed.

"Awesome, I thought you were calling from a public phone when the ice cream truck's music played on my phone." sometimes I think instead of crying when Ash was born she gave them a sarcastic speech like:

"let me guess, you expect me to cry."

"You just told me you have that ring tone for me and I was not done. Michael is back." I know they love him for some reason. After that Ash became human again saying how Wes was a school thing and my brother and her went wayy back. Conversation went on as we laughed.

Once I was done on the phone I stood up to go back downstairs. To my surprise my brother was standing right there. Let me fill you in. While I was on the phone I stood up and went by the window. Went to the bathroom and watched myself on the mirror in the process. Yeah, that's a phone for you.

"You don't knock anymore?" I asked him. Not that it mattered but such things you have to ask.

"Not if the room has Teddy written all over it."

I was about to comment when he continued.

"I should have invited them too." he said distantly thinking. "What's that suppose to mean?" I wondered out loud. Plus he did say we have guests tonight but I didn't pay attention to that. I had to choose between my phone and guests. Priority was phone by then.

"I invited people to celebrate my coming back but I forgot the girls." If he forgot the girls does this mean..."I guess Nate,dad and I will not feel overruled for once. It'll be even." He said casually.

My stomach did a back flip to the sound of that. I didn't wait for him to go further. All I did was walk past him and run downstairs to my Daisy.

"Daisy!"

"Daisy!"

I called rushing down the stairs. Knowing her I went to the kitchen and found her there. Mouth full of frozen yoghurt. "Is that..."

"Frozen yoghurt. Yes." with her mouth full it sounded like brozen yort. She swallowed and continued. "Sorry couldn't help it. Its pineapple." Like that's suppose to make it right.

"did you know about dinner and guests?" Daisy nodded, mouth full again. I walked over to her and snatched the container off of her hands. I want her to talk.

"Hey!" She exclaimed. I gave her the tell-me-or-you-wont-get-it-back look.

"Okay. Okay. I got filled in when you were at school is that a crime?"

"Let me guess, trouble in paradise?" paradise? Daisy eyes widened in realisation after my brothers guess-question.

"Si. Taytay why didn't you say?" Daisy asked in pity using her Spanish again.

"Spanish?"

"What paradise?"

Michael and I asked at the same time. "You and Nate teddy, are you fine?" wait. Since when are we paradise? Remember how my family is waiting for us to come in the house hand in hand screaming our undying love for each other? They never gave up. Though I might have.

Daisy took my silent moment to explain to our bro why she started learning Spanish. They argued for a while then looked at me again.

Dad came in with Linda before I could say anything. Linda dropped her back pack and ran to her big bro. "Lady of the house. I missed you!" my brother said twirling with Linda in his arms. Lady of the house because she is closer to my dad more than my mom is.

"I heard that." mom commented closing the door behind her. Why is everyone back this early though? Dad greeted everyone but when he came to me it felt awkward but I remember how I decided to not be affected by it. Who am I kidding? It got to me but I just faked being okay with it.

"Anyone going to fill me in? No one is ever this early from work."

"All we know is we have guests tonight and we should impress them. His words not mine." Mom said pointing at my brother. Obviously Nate was not the it guest.

"Girls, shopping. The boys are cooking today." mom ordered. Something is going on here. The guys in this house cook when the occasion is as big as Christmas or moms birthday. Today is nothing special though.

We made our way outside to Daisy's car because mom didn't want to drive. Right before we left the drive way Nate appeared. I took my phone and started talking to fake Ash.

Daisy saw that and looked at me and mouthed paradise before hugging him and telling him we'll see him later. Mom asked him what they should bring him. He said what only he would say.

"Bring me my girlfriend back alive. Else I wont have anyone to marry. " they all laughed about it before we left. If he wants to marry me so bad why doesn't he act like it?

But I realise I miss him