My brother's best friend

Chapter Three

Later that night I hear my brother leave, probably to go hangout with his new girlfriend. He gets a new one once a month usually, this one's name is Katie. Mom had left for her book club and dad was in his office, like always. I heard Link's door close and I took this time of having the kitchen empty to go down and make myself a snack, its not all the time the kitchen is empty with the boys being around.
Leaving my room I rounded the corner and went down the stairs and made my way through the house, the summer wind blew a breeze in through the kitchen window, I just stood there a moment and took in the beautiful sun set. Deciding on what I wanted to eat I looked through the fridge pulling out the materials I needed to make a sandwich. Just as I turn around to sit at the island in the kitchen I come face to chest with Link.

"How'd you know I was coming down here to make some food Hailey?" Link says smirking down at me. I scowled at him and went to sit at the island.
"It's not for you, it's for me. You had so much food at dinner you can't possibly be hungry anymore." I say as I sit down and take a bite from my sandwich as Link looks around in the pantry for god knows what.
"Look, a man's gotta eat ok Hailey, and speaking of dinner. Who's this guy you're with?" He says sticking his head out of the pantry to look at me.
"None of your business"

"You're not even with a guy are you" he says leaning against the counter opening a bag of chips and looking at me with a raised eyebrow.

"For your information, yes I am with a guy. And no it's none of your business who I am with. Just as it is not my business who your flavor of the week is." I say as I put my dish in the sink and head to the living room to watch a movie. Silently hoping that he would take the hint and not follow me but of course he did.

"For your information, I don't have a different flavor each week. It's more like every two months. And that's only because I need a distraction" he says sitting beside me on the couch. I roll my eyes and turn on Netflix, starting up Dexter. They had just found the ice truck with the hand inside the block of ice before I was interrupted by Link again.

"I don't mean distraction the way you're taking it Hailey, I mean that I do have feelings for this one girl but she's too far away for me to be with her, and it would cause too many complications for both her and I. So I just stick to different girls so I don't get hurt" he said looking into my eyes. Part of me was curious as to who this girl was, but the other part didn't care at all. This was Link we were talking about.

We got about 15 minutes into the episode until Link got bored and took the remote from me and put on a new horror movie that was recently added to Netflix, he knew I hated horror movies so it was beyond me as to why he put it on. As I started to get up from the couch to retreat back to my room for some solitude Link puts his hand up to stop me.

"Where are you going? Don't you want to watch the movie with me?" he says sticking out his bottom lip and making his already big eyes even bigger.
"Link you know I don't like scary movies..." I said sighing while leaning against the door frame leading out of the living room.
"C'mon Hailey, it'll be fine. It's just a movie" He said standing up and pushing me back down onto the couch where I was sitting before.

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Half an hour into the movie I had the blanket I was using as a shield pulled up to cover my eyes and my knees brought to my face. To say I was scared was an understatement. I hated Link for making me watch this stupid movie. Every time that I would bring the blanket up higher he would just laugh at me making me blush behind the blanket. Deciding to suck it up and watch the rest of the movie I stretched my legs outward and sat cross legged on the couch beside Link. Just as my nerves were about to calm down I felt something crawling across my leg under the blanket and nearly jumped 10ft. Looking down to see Link's massive hand gently resting on my bare thigh made me nervous but took away from of the terrified thoughts from the movie. His thumb slowly caressed my thigh in circles. I had to admit, it felt kinda nice having him do that. Even if it was only to calm my nerves a little.