Six Boys and One "Nerd"

Chapter 9 - Nerds and Weaknesses

My ears can't handle the sound of my annoying alarm hollering at me any longer so I sit up and begin to stretch out my tired joints instead. I rub my eyes with my fist and check my phone. I am very surprised to find that it's already nine o'clock in the morning when usually my alarm goes off at 6:30 AM.

I wonder how I managed to sleep through my alarm for that long until I hear something coming from right outside my door. The famous snicker of my jerk of a brother which proves that he was up to this idiot prank.

I jump out from under my warm comforter and sprint out of my room heading straight for Easton. I hear him squeal and bolt down the staircase searching for a place to hide. However, he has nowhere to run that I won't be able to find him. No one is allowed to mess with my phone without dying afterward. "Get back here Easton you're gonna pay for this!" I shout while running down the stairs after him. However, when I get to the bottom I suddenly want to run back up to my room and hide under my comforter.

     I stand in terror as I see my brother and all of his friends standing at the bottom with devilish grins on their faces. How could I forget that today is Saturday and on Saturdays Easton always has all of his close friends come over from school and hang out for ages. They sometimes even end up spending the night. I look like an idiot standing in front of them in very short shorts and an old Red Sox baseball t-shirt.

       Usually I just stay up in my room until they leave or go to Kassie's house because I don't particularly favor his groups of friends at all.

     I scan the crowd and see exactly whom I expected. Sebastian, Brantley, Aaron, Asher and then Miles off to the side in his wheelchair. "Hey stop checking us out and pay attention to our little game here!" Aaron shouts with a chuckle. I turn to Aaron and scoff. "Hah checking you guys out? Fuck no, I'm just deciding which one of you dies first." I must have had an evil glint in my eyes because Aaron shut up after that.

     "Too bad you won't be able to do that because I know your weakness," Easton says with the same evil glint in his eye that I had earlier. I instantly turn to look at him with wide eyes, "You wouldn't!" I shout. "Oh trust me, Ems, I so am."  He laughs and then makes a flaunt of himself by walking around to each of the guys and whispering my weakness into each of there ears ensuring that I'm looking every time he does it. Once Easton finishes he shouts, "Get her!" and they all bolt after me.

      I look at them like a deer in headlights and they just return the favor by smirking at me. Brantley grabs me by the waist and throws me over his shoulder before I even know how to react. He carries me up over to the couch like a prize and drops me onto it. Then they all gather around me and begin to tickle me. They tickle me until I literally can not feel my sides anymore from laughing so much and after finally screaming "stop" at least thirty times, they let go.

      I slowly sit up from my position and menacingly glared at each and every one of them. "Well see now I have a damn good reason to get each and every one of you back for this." Finally, it was my turn to smirk while they all stare at me with wide eyes. At least everyone except for Miles who is smirking at me. I narrow my eyes at him, "What are you looking at?" I ask. He raises his hands in defense and I nod in approval at his response. With that, I turn on my bare heel flip my knotted hair over my shoulder and march up the stairs. "Now I have to go get ready for a run and remember that my room is OFF LIMITS!" I scream and slam the door of my room shut.