All Bets On (discontinued)

Nonono this is NOT happening

I unlock the door and open it. Standing there was that chase kid and his family. I look at everyone and I see a face but keep looking. Then I do a double take.

Standing

On

My

Doorstep

Was

Cameron

Dallas.

"Cameron? Cameron Dallas?"

"The one and only!" He says. Bridget pushes me out of the way to look and looks like she might die.

I move her out of the way and say, "sorry, um come on in, my moms putting the finishing touches on dinner, it should be about 5 minutes." They come in, take off their shoes and chase or whatever goes and finds my brother, Ethan[you now know his name! :)]

His parents walk to the kitchen to talk to my mom. Cameron just stands there. "So... Ella cabret (pronounced: ca bre... May be French I don't know... I made it up.) is my neighbor now...interesting."

"Since when were you moving? You never tweeted or vined or anything about it." "Because I am working on a YouTube video that explains it all. I'm gonna post it later tonight." I nod.

"DINNER!" I hear my mom shout.

We are all sitting at the table. My mom puts the food on and we all dig in. "Great food mom! The steaks cooked perfectly." I say. "This salad is amazing, did you put a new dressing on it?" Bridget says. "Thanks sweetie, and Bridget I did, I thought it would be something you would like, I got it off a vegetarian website a colleague showed me." "Well it's wonderful, just like always." "Thank you!"

"So Emily, where's your husband?" I go tense, Ethan and Bridget look at me. Ethan didn't know him very well, but I sure did. It was a hard subject for me. I quietly excuse myself and go to my room to calm down, I will not cry about this, I'm 18, I should be over this.

I take a deep breath then go back downstairs, I don't see my mom anywhere. I probably won't see her for the rest of the night, it's typical. "Um Ella, are you gonna answer my mom?" Chase asks me. I gulp.

"Um when I was 7, he left us, my brother was only 3 at the time. So he didn't really know him." I take a death breath, gulp, and continue, "he called me every day for about a month, then it slowly stopped happening until it stopped altogether. So now it's just me, Ethan, and my mom."

"I'm so sorry, I didn't know..." Mrs. Dallas says. "It's fine, it's not something I just go up to people and tell the story."

It's gets awkwardly quiet and I notice everyone is done with dinner, "would you like dessert? We have cupcakes!" Everyone says yes so I go and get them.

While we all eat our cupcakes, Bridget's mom calls her to come home. "Just give me the outfit back on Monday at school." I tell her as she leaves. "Will do. See ya then love ya!" She says then leaves.

I walk back into the kitchen and see my dog sniffing around the table. "Ethan! I told you not to let meatball out of the guest room!" "Huh?" He looks around the table and sees meatball. "Meatball! How'd you get out? Huh boy? Huh?" He coos. While he distracts him, I sneak up behind him, we got meatball a little over a week ago and he's still getting trained. I am close to grabbing him when he darts under the table.

Taking

The

Table

Cloth

With

Him.

"MEATBALL!!! NOOOO!" I scream as all the food goes flying.

On

Me.

Ethan, chase and Cameron cover their mouths, hiding their laughter. I have frosting in my hair. Meatball comes over and licks some off, I grab him and go put him back in the guest room. Making sure the doors closed all the way, I leave and go back to the kitchen.

"Do you need help cleaning up?" Mrs. Dallas asks. "No, it's fine, I can handle it, thank you though." I respond. "Ok well we better be going then, it was nice meeting you! See you soon!" "You too bye!" I say as they leave.

I close the door and sink to the ground. "That was a disaster." "Thank you captain obvious." I snap. "Clean up, I'm gonna get this food out of my hair." "Are you ok?" "No." He doesn't push it. He knows me well enough not to.

I take a shower, having to shampoo 4 times to make sure all the food was out of my hair. I go downstairs and help Ethan with the rest.

"Why are we such a dysfunctional family?" "Who knows Ethan. Who knows." I say wrapping an arm around his shoulder. "I bet mom won't come out all week." "Probably."

I get meatball and let him out back to go to the bathroom. I see Cameron on his back porch. He waves. I wave back. Meatball comes back and I go back inside.

"I'm going to my room, see you in the morning," I tell Ethan.

"I grab my laptop and go to Skype. Luke is on. He calls me the second I get on. "Hey! How'd tonight go?" "Disaster." "What happened?" I tell him and he tries to comfort me. "Thanks. But I think I'm just gonna sleep. Ill talk to you tomorrow." We say bye and I go to bed, exhausted.

I fall into a restless sleep.

*dream*

I'm walking downstairs. I can hear them fighting again. Millionth time this week. And it's only Tuesday. I heard a slap. I help my breath. I hear someone behind me. I turn around and find my 3 year old brother behind me. He looks scared. I take his hand and take him back to his room. He is literally a little monkey. I put the protector on his bed so he doesn't fall out back up and sneak back downstairs.

I can hear my mom crying. She never cries. I hear wheels of a suitcase on tile then I hear a door open. I stand up and sprint to the door, tears welling up in my eyes. "Daddy? Where are you going?" "Business trip. I'll call you everyday sweetie, I love you." And that's when he left. The last time I ever saw him, and my twin brother. My brother had snuck into the car and when my dad found out, it didn't bother him.

I would get calls I would get to talk to him and my brother. But at home, my mom put all the pictures of my dad, and twin brother away.

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I wake up. Covered in sweat and tears streaming down my face. Elliot had looked just like me. I quietly got up and took out the box from under my bed with all the pictures. It had one of me, Elliot and my dad all laughing on the beach in Santa Monica. That was the last family trip we took as a family.

I hear tires squeal outside and I run to my window. I see a body on the ground and a car that looked like it swerved.

I run downstairs and slam open the door. I don't care who I wake up.

I run out and I walk around the car. The body I saw made me scream and then faint.

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Next update will be after Wednesday, which is my last day for finals and I'm done by 10. So I'll try and write a chapter between eating all the food I can, watching netflix because I FINALLY GET IT BACK!!!! But then I also need to make me YouTube video because I finally can! So go subscribe to my YouTube channel!

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