The Athlete & The Mathlete

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The bell rung and I pretty much ran to the locker room to change. I was the 2nd one to the football field. A couple minutes later the whole team was out there. "Alright ladies! So we're starting with warm ups. Get to it." We did the warm ups. Then we did practice and it was done about 2 and a half hours later. I was walking home that day and so I walked for about 30 minutes and finally reached home. "ANTHONY IM HOME!" I screamed when I walked through the front door and closed it. I had my backpack on my back and my duffle bag in my hand then I saw a guy. He was attractive and he gave me butterflies. "Hi." He smiled. "I'm Jason." He continued. "H-h-hi" I eventually got out. "I'm C-Carly." I stuttered. Then he walked away. "HOW WAS PRACTICE!?" I heard Anthony yell from the kitchen. I set my bags down and took off my shoes. I walked into the kitchen. "Oh it was like normal. Warm ups and then practice. It was exhausting but it was good. How was the mathgeeks meeting?" He looked at me with a confused look on his face. "MathLETES." He corrected me. "That's what I said genius. MathGEEKS." I said back to him. "Hahahahahaha I thought you were suppose to be smart. I thought only smart people got into that." I chuckled. "Say what you want Carls. You're just jealous because you're not smart like me." He pointed to himself. "Oh honey, I'm not jealous, but I bet you're jealous of me because I'm athletic unlike you." We started going on at who's better at what than the other while I was eating his sandwich til I found out the sandwich he made was for me. "Soooooo, who's your buddy?" I looked over at Jason. "Oh him? That's Jason, he's on the mathlete's team. He became friends and then I invited him over to hang out and do math." He explained. "Don't you guys have anything better else to do?" I mumbled under my breath. "What?" Anthony asked. "Oh nothing, I'm just surprised that you're not going to go check girls out and stuff that NORMAL guys do." I emphasized normal. The next day I ran into Carla and I brought her home. There was no practice that day so I went straight home. I heard the door open and close and heard 2 people talking. "HEY HOW WAS THE MATHGEEKS MEETING?!" I screamed from the kitchen. He walked in with Jason and turned towards me. "Mathlete's and it was good thank you for asking.","Oh guess what happened today." I didn't let him answer. "I made a new friend today." I smiled at the sound of those words coming from my mouth. "Oh my god I'm so proud of you Carls. You finally made a new friend." He hugged me and I hugged him back. He gave me a kiss on my head and squeezed me. I got tears in my eyes. "Carly please don't cry, I forgot I can't do that because it brings back memories. I'm sorry." A couple tears fell down my cheeks without me blinking and then I blinked and a couple more fell but I stopped when I heard Carla clear her throat. "Oh sorry, Anthony this is my new friend Carla. Carla this is my brother Anthony. And tha-" she interrupted me. "Jason what are doing here?" She asked irritatedly. "Hanging out with a friend what are you doing here?" He asked shocked. "Hanging out with a friend as well."," you guys know each other?" Me and Anthony asked simultaneously. "We're twins." They both said at the same time. Me and Anthony looked at each other. "Oh." We both said. We started laughing. "YOU GUYS LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE EX'S! HAHAHAHA" We said while laughing. They looked like they were going to murder us so we stopped laughing. "Well then, I'll just take Carla with me and excuse myself hahahaha." I chuckled. I grabbed Carla's wrist and dragged her outside with me. "Soooo he's your brother?" I asked her. She nodded her head. I was not expecting that. "So what about you and your brother?" He looked over at me. "Oh, he's older than me by like a year, my parents are almost never here because my mom is a business woman who travels a lot and my dad is in the army or navy or something like that. He's a medical care person for the injured soldiers, so he's almost never here. My mom sends us money to pay the bills when time comes and to keep food in the fridge. So our parents pretty much don't live with us." I explained. She looked kind if hurt but she wasn't. "Oh, my parents are always home for the most part when me and Jason are. My mom works at a salon and my dad is an elementary school teacher. So they pretty much are almost always home." She looked down. "Hey, what's wrong?" I put a hand on her shoulder. "I just...I'm sorry that your parents are almost never home." She looked at the ground. I pulled her to me and hugged her. "Don't be, its not your fault. Even when we were little we almost never saw my dad and my mom was always skyping so she could do her job as well as taking care of us. When Anthony started 6th grade she started to travel again. And when she did it brought me and Anthony together. It brought us closer. So don't be sorry Carla, there's nothing to be sorry about." She looked at me and smiled. Her phone vibrated. "I need to get home. I'll see you tomorrow, bye." She hugged me and left. Jason was still there so I guess it was just her. I grabbed my guitar and went outside. I started to play Love Story By Taylor Swift and sang while I was playing. While I was playing, I started to cry. I stopped playing and just started crying. I set my guitar down and put my head in my hands. "Oh my god Carly what happened?" Anthony asked and when he reached me he pulled me into a hug and just held me. "Anthony I just miss him so so much. I know what he did and I know that I'll never forgive him but I just miss him so much. All the good times, all the laughs, all the smiles, all the pictures and dates, all the memories. All the everythings, Anthony I just miss the good times. The good times we had, I miss them so much." I cried out loud. He listened, and just stood there holding me like I needed. I calmed down finally after like an hour of crying. We walked in and I went to the freezer and grabbed ice cream. I sat on the couch and just stared at the black screened TV. I just sat there, not saying a word. I sat there for hours. Just sitting.....nothing else...just sitting........