I Found Him On My Doorstep <3

I'm Done. Have a good life.

I turned to look at the unfamiliar female voice standing at Cody’s bedroom door. He jumped not expecting her to be here. Both of us just stayed silent and continued to stare at her. Who is this? She had long blonde hair, blue eyes and looked the double of Cody.

“Well?” she said starting to get annoyed. I didn’t know what to say but Cody finally got himself together.

“Alli, I’m getting some money.  What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at school?” he asked staring her down. So that was her name Alli, is she his sister? Well they look too much alike not to be siblings.

“I’m sick so mum let me take the day off” she said. Now when I get a proper look at her she looked sick. Her nose was red, her eyes were puffy, she looked like she needed sleep and had a blanket wrapped around her body. “I could ask you the same question?”

“I...” Cody didn’t know how to explain himself so I jumped in.

“He’s just helping me and my family.” I said quietly.

“And who are you?” she asked not giving me time to answer she looked back at Cody. “Why are you doing this here? Why are you skipping school again? Why are you bringing back random girls whose name you don’t even know just so you can fuck them? I thought you left all that behind Cody? Look at you. You’re a mess. I guess you were out last night again huh? Getting drunk? Going Whitey? Your eyes are all puffy and your face a mess so I’m guessing both. And now you’re stealing. I’m not doing this here Cody. I’m tired of being here to pick you up whenever you fall down, I just don’t have the strength anymore.”

She had tears streaked down her face by the time she had finished. Cody just stood there and took it, he didn’t snap back at his sister the way he did with his mum. He made sure he finished before he started.

“Alli, no I wasn’t out last night. This is Toni.” He said pointing to me. He looked squashed by her words. “Her family was the one that mum dumped me with. Melissa, Toni’s mum doesn’t have enough money to take care of her own as well as me so I’m going to help her out.”

They were both quiet for a minute.

“Why do I not believe that?” Asked Alli. “I don’t have any trust in you anymore Cody. For all I know everything you just said was a lie. Toni probably isn’t even her name, you’ve just made on up because you can’t remember. For all I know you could be taking this money to go out and spend it on getting drunk and high just like you did in America. For all I know you brought this skank back here to fuck so you can add her to your list. I’m done Cody. Have a nice life.”

She walked back to her room and slammed the door shut. I was still sitting on his bed with the guitar in my lap. I looked over to see him sitting on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands. I’ll deal with him later.

“You should go talk to her.” I said. “I’ll finish putting everything in here” I pointed to the guitar case.”

He got up and left his room in silence. I could here her in her room crying.

 It hasn’t registered in my mind yet, all of the things that Alli said are they true? Is Cody not a virgin? How many girls are on his list? What ‘Going Whitey’? He’s gotten high? I knew he skipped school because he told me but he didn’t say what he did when he wasn’t at school. Do I really believe all of this? He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to do all of that stuff. But why would his sister lie about it all.

I heard them softly talking in her room. I hope everything’s okay between them I don’t want to ruin a brother and sister relationship. I heard footstep walk on the carpet behind me. I looked around and saw Cody there his tears had re-stained his cheeks from the night before. I immediately gave him a hug, he held me as tightly as he could, almost like if he held me looser I’d run away.

“You okay?” I asked. I knew that he wasn’t but I didn’t know if he wanted to talk about it. I still had a lot of questions to ask him but didn’t want to force him to answer them.

He just nodded, grabbed the guitar case and walked out of his room waiting for me to follow. I guess that’s a no then. He was halfway down the stairs but I couldn’t leave without seeing if Alli was okay. I knocked on her door but she didn’t answer so I walked in. There she was lying on her bed, her cheeks still wet. I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and began to write:

Dear Alli,

I know that I’m probably the last person you want to hear from but I just wanted to say that I’m sorry for barging into your house. I didn’t know there was so much stuff between you and your brother. I just wanted to say that I’m not a ‘Skank’ that he brought home to ‘fuck’. He was telling the truth about the money and my mum not being able to afford to look after us all, but whether you believe this or not is a different story. He hasn’t had anything to drink since he’s been staying with me. He told me everything about America. I haven’t let him out of my sight since.

I’m here to keep him on the straight and narrow. You don’t have to do it anymore so don’t worry. My numbers at the bottom if you wanna ring me or anything.

Toni.

1-800-000-000

I folded it and set it on her bedside table and ran down the stairs where Cody was waiting at the front door.

“What were you doing?” he asked.

“I needed to use the toilet before we left.” I said trying to sound natural. He didn’t look as if he believed me but didn’t say anything about it. Just wait until I get my hands on you I thought, you’re not going to know what’s hit you.