Chapter 1

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I woke up to the sound of my alarm, I groaned at the miserable thought of school, thank god it was Friday. I turned off the piercing alarm and looked over at my still sleeping brother. Michael was one year older than me but he got held back in the first grade and ever since then he has been in the same grade as me and my twin sister Alex. I pushed on his shoulder and said get up shit head. He threw the oversize pillow at me that reeked of sweat and something else that I don't want to get into.

  I went to our closet and searched for my outfit. I ended up just settling for basketball shorts a red vans shirt and my basic black and white vans to go with my attire.   As I was putting on my clothes my brother whispers in my ear, "man bro who are you trying to impress" I quickly elbow him in his finely tuned stomach. "No one that concerns you" I say in a harsh tone "anything that involves you is a concern to me" he says with that stupid smile of his. I flip him off as I walk out of the room.

When I was 11, he was "supposed" to be "watching" me and my sister when I so stupidly fell down the stairs and hit my head very hard on the railing and the stone floor knocking me unconscious. After that he has been way to protective and never leaving me alone, he says he owes me but I just think he knows how much I hate it.

I walk down stairs and see Alex eating a bagel we say our good mornings while I go make my usual oatmeal. As I walked behind her I saw that she was texting the one and only Christian Crawford. I then immediately I fell a knot in my stomach, Oh Christian Crawford one of the hottest and sweetest 8th grader at Brookdale Middle school. The thought of him made my stomach flutter immensely with butterfly's. Christian was Michaels best friend and on a flirting streak with Alex. He came over to our house regularly since he lived two doors down. He never really payed any attention to me, mostly just a Hi and Bye. He usually slept on the floor or with my brother in our room which made me feel very uncomfortable.  Before I knew it I had the eyes of my brother and sister looking at me, I looked down at my bowl and see that I already finished my oatmeal, "you zoned out for like 5 minutes" Michael told me. "ohh my bad, I'm just really tired I haven't slept well lately" I say with a fake yawn,

"you know if your ever scared or can't sleep you can always join me in my bed, I can always fix that sleeping problem like I used to do when we were smaller"

"hahaha not a chance, you sleep like a wild animal"

"you weren't complaining two weeks ago when we had to share a bed when aunt Mertile was here"

"mostly because I drugged myself before I went to sleep" I say as I get up before he says another obnoxious comment. I look at the time and see I only have 10 minutes I quickly go and brush my teeth, put my shoes on and walk to the bus stop. I sit on the bench and pull out my phone and start checking social media.

"hey Noah"

I hear and look up to see the dazzling Christian Crawford, I practically puke all over the floor.

"umm h-hey Christian" I say as he sits right next to me.

"what you up to"

"oh im just checking the media"

"ohm cool, hey I want to ask you a very important question"

He tells me and excitement builds inside me.

"I just wanted to know if I could may-"

"hey Christian" my sister comes up and say.

I then pinch and groan to myself, thanks a lot Alex. They then start to talk for what seems like forever, then my brother comes down as the bus pulls up, well there goes my chance, lets add that to the book of unluckiness. I sit in the front of the bus and look at the window. I wander to myself of what was Christians question, I guess I'll never know.

We finally pull up the small middle school that only contains 80 eight graders. The 8th grade class is broken up into three different classes, the class that you have first period with is the class you have every class with. I was so lucky (not really) to have my sister brother and Christian in all my classes. I Walk off the bus and start to head for the school, as I get to the double doors I fell someone grab on my elbow and pull me back, I expect it to be Michael but  its Christian.

"hey sorry for back there at the stop"

"oh its fine what was it that you wanted to ask me" I say as a look down at his hand that is gripping my arm, he notices and let's go.

"umm I just wanted to tell you that my parents are going out of town for the weekend and I'm staying at your house"

"and"

"and I wanted to ask you if maybe I could sleep with you cause your brother is crazy, the flor is too hard, your mom doesn't let me sleep on the couch and your sisters room is out of the question."

It starts to feel like the whole world is spinning.

"umm sure why not, my bed is big enough."

"cool well I'm looking forward to it, see you in class."

"ohm sure."

He walks away and I felt like ima about to faint or throw up. I can't believe that for the whole weekend Christian is going to be sleeping next to me in my bed, What the hell am I going to do.

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