My Step Brothers

Chapter 34. Time

They say time heals all. Maybe they are right. We head back to Brody's. I jump in the shower and get cleaned up. I get dressed in casual clothes. Jeans, a white tank top, black belt, and grab a hair tie to throw my hair in a messy bun.

I go downstairs and see Brody on the recliner. I guess everyone went home. I sit on the couch closest to him. He turns the television off and looks at me. I know he wants to talk.

"What did Alex want?" He asks.

"He wants to get back together." I tell him.

"And Chase?"

"No. Just Alex. I told him I would but he better be certain. I can't stay here forever. I have to go home and figure this out sooner or later."

"Don't you think it's too soon?"

"I do. I'm also scared that when he decides that he can't stand up to Chase or if losing Chase as a friend and brother might be more than he's willing to give up that I might become a bigger mess."

"So what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to give him time, but he only has so much time. Eventually I'm not going to feel the same way about him anymore. All I feel is broken when I think of them. I know eventually I will heal and I will not really think of them at all. He knows where to find me. So the ball is in his court."

"You can stay here as long as you like. It's usually just me here. Jase is out with his friends right now. If my friends don't come over or invite me over I sit here all by myself. It kinda sucks alot. So you should stay here so I'm not by myself."

"Okay Brody. I'm not going anywhere." I tell him.

"Good. So enough with this serious crap. What are we going to eat?"

"Umm... Did you want to order in, go out to eat, or I can cook?"

"You can cook?" Brody asks suddenly star struck..

"Yes I can cook. Let's see what's in your fridge." I tell him and walk over. I open the fridge and start looking thru and then the freezer.

"Umm Brody we have to go shopping soon for real food. All you have is frozen dinners, soda, beer, bottled water, and Gatorade." I tell him.

"Well let's go. Just gotta tell me where to go?"

"Yea okay. Let's go." I follow him out to the Hummer and get in. I soon give him directions to the grocery store. I start writing a list of all the food we should grab on my phone. We park and get out. I have him grab a cart to. We need alot of food. We start in the middle grabbing all the dry stuff. Seasonings, cereal, canned food, my favorite junk food, pastas, dessert mixes, granola bars, coffee, and taco mixes. Then we head to the freezer. Load up on ice cream, frozen veggies, and fruits. I love smoothies. We hit up the meat and really load up. Dairy area for milk, cheese, sour cream, butter, eggs,  and orange juice. Fresh fruit and veggies for salads. I grab a couple loaves of bread on our way to the register. The two carts were stuffed and I was kind of nervous to see the total. She read the total and I have to say that this was the most I have ever spent at a grocery store. I took my card out and swiped it. Since I don't know how long I'm staying at least this will contribute a little. But I'm sure I wiped out my savings. I'm going to have to get a part time job maybe.

"You didn't have to buy. I had my parents card."

"Nah it's the least I can do. You have been a really great friend to me. Let's get this stuff home so I can make us dinner."

"Did you want to do anything tonight?"

"Not really. Can we just stay home?" I ask.

"Yeah we can do that." He says as we load up all the food. We get home and get all the food put away. I then grab all the stuff to make calzones. I decide to make at least six. That way Jase can eat whenever he gets home. Once I get them made and put in the oven baking I throw a salad together. I put it on our plates and leave a bowl already put together in fridge for Jase.

I clean the kitchen up while waiting for the calzones to get done. When their finally done I pull them out and plate two of them and wrap up the the rest. I bring Brody his plate and sit next to him. We sit at the table eating and doing our homework. We're quiet but it's a comfortable silence.

"That was good.. you want to go to my  room and watch television. I'm kinda tired to be honest."

"Yeah we can do that." I grab our plates and put them in the dishwasher. He packed my book bag up, locked the house up, and he shut everything off. I follow him upstairs  and he shut the last light off as I turn on his bedroom light. I understand why he's lonely now. His phone hasn't gone off at all. It's Friday night. You think his friends would of invited him out or Jase would of had a party here. But it's been quiet.

I go get changed and climb in bed with him. He turns the television on as he climbs in wearing just pajama shorts. He turns on Shameless and we just relax together. We lay there laughing.

"Carl's my favorite." Brody say's between laughs.

"Really, I thought it would of been Fiona."

"Why?"

"All the guy's think she's hot."

"That's funny.. yours must be Lip."

"Nope.. I love Kevin. I think he's hysterical and he's always there for his friends. Illegally but always there."

"Huh... Go figure. I can't wait for season eight." Brody say's as he laughs at the old episodes.