Brother

Chapter 7

Hey! Ack, sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I'LL NEVER BE AN AUTHOR. But anyways I hope you like this chapter? Ugh I'm horrible at intros too. -NG

"Sooooooo" Ethan says awkwardly spinning in place. 

I look at him, confused.

Kathryn face palms.

"What should we do for the next 3 hours?" Ethan continues.

All of a sudden, Tyler comes running into the room where we were all standing.

"GUYS, YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT JUS-" he shouts, stopping when he sees me. "Oh, hey...um....."

"Nora." I say. 

Geez. It's been less than 24 hours and he already forgot. Eh, I'm a boring person so I probably would too.

"Ah that's right. Nora." he says smiling apologetically at me.

Ethan coughs unnaturally loudly to break the tension. Chica trots over to a carpet on the floor and plops down.

Me too Chica, me too.

-Fast forward 15 minutes-

It's been 15 minutes and we haven't left the apartment yet. Ethan, Kathryn, and Tyler are all sitting on a couch and I'm sitting on the floor in front of them with Chica, using the light from my phone as a make-shift laser toy for her. She seems entertained.

"I mean, we could take Chica to the dog park?" Tyler suggests.

Kathryn and Ethan both nod their heads in agreement and stand up. Tyler and I follow.

Ethan puts a harness on Chica and we all leave the apartment together. 

"It's not too far of a walk," Kathryn says to me. "we'll be there in like 10 minutes".

"Not if we...." Ethan says slowly. He stops walking for a second. I look at him, then at Kathryn, confused.

"Ethan please not toda-"  

"RACE!" Ethan shouts before Kathryn can finish, throwing Chica's leash at Tyler and taking off down the sidewalk.

"Goddammit." Tyler mutters under his breath, tossing the leash at me and running after Ethan.

I fumble with it for a sec before I realize Chica's not running off anywhere, just sniffing some grass next to the curb. I look over at Kathryn, she has her head in her hands.

"Ugh, sorry." she says to me, sounding frustrated.

I hear a faint shout from up ahead. We both look up. Tyler caught up to Ethan and grabbed the back of his shirt, jerking Ethan backwards and making him fall on some grass next to the sidewalk. They're both laughing, out of breath.

Kathryn and I look at each other for a moment and start snickering. 

"Are they really like this all the time?" I ask chuckling.

"Unfortunately." Kathryn replies smiling.

We start walking towards them, I'm holding Chica's leash as she sniffs the grass while walking, her tail hitting me in the leg ever so often.

Ow.....ow.........ow.......

We eventually catch up to the guys, both now lying down on the ground and pointing up at the clouds.

"And....and that one looks like a tractor..." Ethan says in his best 3-year-old impression.

"You know what else looks like a tractor son?" Tyler says in a southern accent.

Oh dear.

"YOUR MOM" He shouts and leaps up off the ground to hide behind Kathryn and I, giggling like a little kid.

"DAD?!" Ethan shouts, failing to contain his laughter.

"Oh my god." Kathryn and I say in unison.

-Fast forward to the dog park-

I let Chica off the leash in the park, but she seems too nervous to run around with the other dogs.

Ethan sighs. 

"C'mon Beeka, let's go!" he says starting to 'fake-run' into the dog park.

Chica trots after him, obviously not interested.

"So Nora," Kathryn says, snapping me out of watching Chica. "how's school going for you?"

"Wow, that was the most generic question I've ever heard." Tyler replies while looking at his phone.

Eh, that's kinda true.

"Like you could do better." Kathryn says.

"Try me." Tyler says, putting his phone in his pocket.

I brace myself to be interrogated with questions.

"So, Nora." Tyler starts.

Here we go.

"Yeah?" I reply.

"What kind of drugs have you done?" he asks.

Kathryn's eyes widen as she shoots a look of 'oh my god why did you just say that' at Tyler.

"Um....none." I say surprised.

"Hmmm.....interesting." Tyler says squinting his eyes at me. "You sure you've never tried anything before? Ya know like crack, cocaine, pot..."

"Ok that's enough from you." Kathryn says punching Tyler in the arm.

"Owwieeee." Tyler whines loudly, making the people around us stare. I nudge him and he immediately shuts up, realizing the attention he was getting.

Wow, I love getting stared at.

Chica runs up to me and I reach down to pet her. Ethan comes running soon after, panting and out of breath.

"What's.......*breath*.........up.......*breath*........fuckers....." he says in between breaths, loudly enough so that everyone around us was still staring.

Kathryn, Tyler, and I look at each other and silently agree that it was time to leave.