The 4

Troubled Brother

I tried calling Kian, he ignores it. He is probably always busy or he just doesn't want to talk to me. I walk to my brother's bedroom and he is packing his bags.

"Hey Tom what are you doing?" I say curiously.

"You don't need to know." Tom mumbles.

"But I need to know, Mom would kill me if she knew you were moving away or even going out dangerous streets."

"Well then just tell her you were watching me. But I'm a rebellious teen, that's what we do."

"Tom please don't leave me. I'll be bored without you. I don't want to be like Dom, just walked out on us."

"Well I don't care. I want to live on my own. You wish-" A packet comes out of his bag. Everything stops for a moment and I reach for it.

"What is this?" I examine the packet.

"Nothing just give it back!" He tries to reach for the packet but I hold it above my head. I run for the kitchen and I see mom in the corner of my eye.

"Hey what are you guys doing?"

"Nothing!"

"Tim Lucas Taylor and Tom Fred Taylor come back here right now!" We both run back to our mom.

"Give me what is inside your hand?" She pulls her hand out, I put the packet in her hand.

"Are you guys doing drugs?"

"No, I found it in Tom's back when it was packing it!" She looks at both of us and looks at Tom.

"Tom is this true?" He looking down at the floor.

"I guess..." He mumbles.

"Yes or no Tom. I need to know." She looks firmly at him.

"Yes mom." She sighs.

"Timmy can you go out of the house for a while?"

"Yeah, I'll bring you guys some ice cream back."

"Okay honey but be home by 6."

I get to the cool hot spot where cool kids get ice cream. I see Zoe and Nicole across the room and Nicole looks my way and I look away. In the corner of my eye, I see her coming up towards me.

"Hey Trashy Timmy were you just staring at us? Are you our stalker now?" Nicole says in a firm voice.

"Well I am just enjoying-"

"You know what you should enjoy,"

Nicole grabs a half eaten hot dog from the trash and shoves in my mouth. 

"A nice cold half eaten hot dog. That's part of your diet right? Just trash, Trashy Timmy." I just sat there in shock, I could see Zoe was in shock too. People take pictures of me. "Hey Zoe come on over here, I just gave our stalker what he deserves."Nicole took a photo and Zoe grabs her phone and deletes it."Hey that would be a great post on his Instagram, which all his theme is trash."

I spit the hot dog out of my mouth and spit it at her. I then walk away from her. 

"Haha that's all you got Trashy Timmy, I will make Tambra and all his football friends beat you up. You stand no chance against them." I went to the restroom and washed my mouth out, if only Kian was here. He would have stood up for me but I always say to myself. "You need to stand up for myself." But I always get stunned and can't make out the words. I only choke out a little cough and that's it. I was in the middle of my thoughts and I saw a figure in the corner of my eye, I expect it to Tambra but it is Mr.Kimberly.

"Hey Tim how is your summer so far?"

"Bad."

"Oh, why? Wanna talk over ice cream?" I nod and we walk out. "What ice cream you want?"

"Mint Chocolate Chip please." I say in a little voice. I always saw Mr.Kimberly as a father figure since my father was always going out. We get our ice cream and sit down.

"Well what is bad about your summer so far?" I try to fight back the tears.

"Umm well Nicole Myers acts like she owns me and put a half eaten hot dog from the trash." I can tell that he is worried.

"Well that's not very nice of her, do you want me to talk to her for you?" I stare at the floor and replay what she did to me again and again. 

"I think she would be even mad at me if she finds out I told a teacher about this. She acts like so innocent when she isn't."

"Well you need to fix this or it will get even worse." I realize that my mom told me to get home before 6:00 pm. "Mr.Kimberly we can fix this another day but I have to get home." My watch says that it is 5:56 pm so I run down the street. I see Zoe and Nicole ahead and I don't even stop because Nicole's insults shouldn't bother me. "Zoe look our stalker is running towards our house."

"Shut up Nicole Buck Teeth!" I continue to run, I feel a hand on my arm. I look over

and it was Tambra's. "

Hey Nicole look Trashy Timmy is trying to Sonic." They snicker but I run into my house. I catch my breathe and my watch says 6:01 pm. Well at least I am here, the door opens and I see my mom. I see my phone light up in my hand, It says "I'm sorry about how Nicole treated you today." it was sent by Zoe.