Holding On

Chapter Five

Sam's POV
          I woke up early this morning because I wanted to do a prank on my little sister, Rose. Well, it was officially Charlie's idea. Charlie is my cousin. Charlie and I look a lot alike if you ask me, but he is shorter. He looks like my long lost twin. Every once in a while, we sleep over at each other's places. Last time we slept over at his, so now it is at my place. I think Charlie has feelings towards Rose, but he always denies it.

          Right now Charlie has gone to fill up a bucket with cold water. It's 6:30 a.m. And Rose wakes up at the last minute. So, Charlie and I are going to teach her a lesson. A sly smirk appears on my face. I snap out of my trance when Charlie calls out my name. I look around for him, I spotted him beside her bedroom door.

          What the fuck, this bitch. He ditched! What the hell he wasn't supposed to go there without me. I take large strides towards him. I creak Rose's bedroom door open. He slipped into her room without making a noise, and I do the same. I pull out my phone and start a video. Charlie starts walking to the side of her bed as I video tape the whole thing. He poured the freezing cold water over her small frame. Rose screamed on the top of her lungs as she sat up in less than a blink of an eye. Oh my god, her face was priceless. I heard heavy foot steps running to her room so I quickly stopped the video, and I slid my phone in my pocket just before they get into her room.

          Charlie was on the floor laughing his ass off, whereas I was snickering. Poor Rose, she was shivering on her bed. Mom and dad's eyes were wide. Then they started yelling, "what were you two imbeciles thinking?! Look at your sister!! You guys are going to clean her bed up, right now!!!" As soon as they say our punishment Charlie and I stop laughing.

          If Rose thinks that is it, she has a whole thing coming at her. My parents go to her side seeing if she is alright. When they adopted her, they stopped caring about me. It was always Rose this, and Rose that. She had all the attention, although she didn't want any of it.

          I saw my parents walk out of the room as Rose got out of her bed, and started walking to the washroom. I took long strides towards her, and turned her towards me. I wasn't being myself, I tried to stop my self, but it was already too late, my hands were gripped around her neck. I was choking her. She tried to pry my hands off, but it was no use, I was too strong. All of a sudden I felt arms wrap around me, and pull me away from Rose. She fell to the ground gasping for air. Oh no, what have I just done?!

          I quickly go to her side, and rub her back as I whisper into her ear, "I'm so sorry, you have every right not to forgive me. I just, I don't know what happened. I lost control of myself. I'm super duper sorry, Rose." She looked at me, her brown eyes full of fear. She quickly got up, and ran into the washroom. "Click," and she locked the door.

          When I looked up Charlie was glaring at me. He curled his right hand into a fist, and before I could understand what he was about to do, his fist came flying into my face –punching me very hard. I winced at the impact. Then got up and said, "thanks man, I deserved it." He just ignored me, and picked up Rose's wet sheets. Charlie went out of the room, probably to go dry them.

          I went in my room, and pulled out my phone. I launched the Facebook app, then clicked on add photo or video. I tap on the video I just took and write, "Another prank Charlie and I did." Then I shared it. I sniffed my shirt, that will have to do for now. I slipped on my shorts. There we go, I am officially ready for school.

          I go to check up on Rose, but when I come to go in I hear hushed voices. I heard Rose say, "but I don't understand." The other voice whispered, "I'll explain later, I'm scared he'll come to check up on you." I heard my sister's confused voice speak out again, "so what if he comes to check up on me? That ain't a bad thing, is it?"

          It was Charlie, he seemed frustrated, "oh my god, Rose. Of course it is bad. If he comes to check up on you, then he'll over hear us talking!" He whisper-yelled. I had enough of their conversation. I went downstairs to eat my breakfast. I grabbed three bowls: one for me, one for Rose, and one for Charlie.

          I poured in some cereal for me, then poured in the milk. I dug my spoon in it, and began to eat –making crushing sounds. Man, I love that sound. I finished up my cereal, Rose and Charlie were walking down the stairs together. I wonder what he told her. They sat in the stools across from me, and poured in the cereal and milk. They began to eat, I slipped out of my stool and placed the bowl into the sink.

          I picked up my bag, and yelled, "I'm waiting for you guys in the car, so hurry up!" With that said, I opened the door shutting it behind me. I unlock my car, and sit in it. I place the bag in the back. Then waited in my car, patiently. Let the day begin.