Emotionally Unsteady Love {Andy Leo}

Tree Picking

Tree Picking

Last night I spent at least two hours fighting. My mom was going to be home a few hours later than usual and my brother was going to see his girlfriend in San Antonio. That means we were stuck with the evil boyfriend. What does my mom even see in him? Sure he's good looking for his age but let's be real, he was a real bitch. I watched after Macy and Michael as much as I could when he didn't have me working around the house.

||flashback||

I walked into the kitchen to see Macy standing on her stool by the sink as she washed the dishes.

"Hey, where's Michael?" I whispered to her.

She turned to look at the bathroom down the hall. I kisses her head before I began to tiptoe down the hall. As I made my way closer to the bathroom I could hear Daniel playing some ridiculous came on the x-box.

"Hey, uhm, Adriana, get me a beer will ya?!" He yelled his tone dull.

"It's Alexandria."

"Whatever."

I rolled my eyes as I peeped into the bathroom seeing Michael cleaning the floor of the bathroom. I frowned to myself seeing him wipe the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand.

"I'm sorry little guy. I'll be back to help in a minute."

He gave me a reassuring nod with plead and exhaustion peering from his eyes. I opened the fridge door looking for the last beer can.

"Hurry up with that beer!"

"Calm your fucking tits." I muttered under my breath as I closed to door holding the beer can in my left hand. Walking out of the kitchen I hear a dish shatter.

Fuck.

I quickly run to hand Daniel his beer hoping he didn't hear the shatter. Once he grabbed his beer, his unoccupied hand grabbed a hold of my arm. I gulped roughly as I turned to face his direction.

"What did you break?" His tone was unsteady and difficult to read.

Shit.

"Uh, I...I uhm I was-"

My head turned to its left feeling the back of his hand come in contact with my cheek. I didn't dare to turn to face him.

"I asked for beer, not for you to play with the damn dishes!"

I bit on the inside of my lower lip to keep the tears the prickled at my eyes to stop.

||end of flashback||

"Wake up! Wake up! WAKE UP!" I heard my younger sister squeal as she jumped on my bed. She's been trying to awake me from my slumber since 7:30. I was surprised that Daniel hadn't barged in to wake me up himself. Then again he seemed to be this polite gentlemen whenever my mom was around. He didn't care much of Brandon only because he was an adult so he still yelled at us, just never hit us.

"I'm up. I'm up." I sighed as I slowly opened my eyes to see the figure of my seven year old sister, Macy.

"Why are you trying to wake me up at 8:30 in the morning on a Saturday? It's still vacation."

Vacation of hell if you ask me, my subconscious added.

"We are going to get a tree! Come on!" She smiled widely as she shook my arm. I flinched lightly to the pain from the bruise on my arm that she was putting pressure on.

Ouch.

I smiled through it just so she would stop.

"Okay okay. Give me a few minutes. I'll be right down deal?"