Hulk Girl

Chapter Eleven

Life suddenly seemed so...sad.

It was almost the end of summer break, and fall was close by. At the end of the week, the twins would be off to college in California. Even Charles would be back to his college, too. Through the past months he had saved up enough money, and I was proud at him for that. As for Walter, during the middle of summer break, he had came from work. And he wasn't alone.

See, I was truly right about my instincts.

The girl's name was Georgia and I truly wondered for a whole week how my eldest brother got to have such a beautiful catch, not to mention she was also extremely kind and gentle. She was an angel from heaven and exactly who my brother needs.

But he only stays for a few days in the house every week and most nights he's spending it in Georgie's apartment, a lot closer in their workplace that was a two-hour drive from here. One time I even saw him stuffing his suitcase in the trunk of his car, full of his clothes.

I tried not to think that in a few days, the house would be empty of daily noises. No monster snores coming from the end of the hall in the second floor, no fights about who's the pretty one in the kitchen, no sound of runmaging through the refrigerator, no complaining about how he still looks eighteen, and no bickerings about who will have the last piece of bacon every morning.

These sentimental thoughts brought tears brimming at the corner of my eyes, and I wiped them immediately.

Sometimes it sucks to be the youngest. You watch as how all these older people move on and start another chapter in life, and you're left alone with nothing but promises of being back at Christmas breaks and Thanksgiving. It was just so sad to see people who have been in your life for almost the entire time just leave.

I'm being melodramatic and I knew it very well, but I loved my siblings to death and even though they annoy me most of the times, I don't want them away. So I'm a clingy little sister, I don't care. These four people stood as my parents along with Nana.

But heck, I still can't deny that there's a relieved part of me that Frankie's crazy obsession for me will be gone along with her. Maybe by the time she's away, I can dye it a different color and cut it up to my shoulders?

My door burst open and in walked my sister. Think of the devil and she appears. When her eyes landed on me sitting in front of my desktop, an anime episode going on in the monitor, I swallowed. Her eyes were shining with that crazy glint.

In a few steps, she held my shoulders in a death grip. "I'll be gone in two days, Cece. Are you going to be okay in school? At your work? I won't be there anymore to watch over you."

If I'm correct, I would even say that along with the craziness in her eyes, they were also looking a little glossy and it made my heart melt. Frankie...she's like a mother lioness.

Walter had told me one time that when they heard the news of our parents death, Frankie, at the age of five, had came to my room that night and started to sleep with me. She became so protective over me that my brothers even thought that she was thinking that I was her own child. That was the time when her obsession with The Little Mermaid also surfaced to the top. She probably thought she was King Triton in a female version of herself.

So despite her steel grip on me, I smiled at her, "I'll be fine, Frankie."

"But what about that traitor ex-bestfriend of yours, that bitch Rika?" She snarled, and I can't blame her for her harshness.

"Like I said, I'll be fine. I have Carter with me and he fights like a true Queen Bee, remember?"

At the mention of my friend, her shoulders visibly relaxed, and a hint of a smile came on her beautiful face. "Alright, but promise me this, okay? If she even touches you, even a single piece of your hair, I will come home without any second thoughts and I'll kill her with my bare hands, okay?"