Spilled Coffee

The Overprotective Brother

Chapter One - The Overprotective Brother

One Week Later

"Thea Montgomery! Why did I just get a letter saying that you're banned from Target!" I heard my mom yell.

"It wasn't my fault!" I yelled back while running down the stairs to the living room. "I swear it wasn't my fault."

"Well, you better get to explaining or someone isn't going to Grant's party today." My mom scolded.

"Do you want the short version or the long version?" I asked.

"For goodness sakes, Thea you damn straight know I want the long version!" My mom scolded me once again.

"Well, Alyssa and I were messing around and then some guy bumped into her and dropped her drink. Alyssa and that guy got into a heated argument. His friend tried to stop the argument. Then the guy kinda pushed Alyssa and that's when I get involved. He said some things and I said some things which eventually lead to me pouring my drink on the guy and then we got kicked out of target." I quickly said. "Sooo.... basically that guy was the cause of me getting banned from target."

"Well I don't care who's fault it was. You're going back and buying that poor guy a new shirt because you purposely ruined the one he was wearing." My mom commanded.

"I didn't even know who he was and I never got his number." I complained.

"I don't care. Find him. Then buy him that new shirt." She scolded and walked into the kitchen.

I grabbed the nearest pillow and screamed into it which wasn't that loud considering I have a low voice.

"Screaming into a pillow won't do anything." My brother, Nathaniel chuckled.

"Shut up, Nate." I rolled my eyes.

"Oh guess what!" He asked.

"I don't care, Nate." I scoffed and continued my way up the stairs.

"Oh well, I was going to tell you that I'm going with you to Grant's party." He shrugged which made me stop in my tracks.

"What did you say?" I scowled.

"I'm going with you to Grant's party." He stated again.

"Uh... no you're not! You weren't invited." I scowled again.

"Actually I was." He smirked.

"By who." I snapped.

"Grant." He chuckled.

"I'll be right back." I stated.

I made my way outside and quickly ran to Grant's house. I literally sprinted there. When I got there, I started knocking rapidly on the front door.

Thankfully Grant opened the door.

"Thea, you're extremely early." He smiled.

"You invited MY brother to your birthday party." I slowly stated.

"Yeah. I figured we could make amends." He shrugged.

"Grant fricken Thompson, you're such an idiot!" I scoffed and lightly smacked him on the head.

"I just want your brother to like me" Grant said.

"Why? Why do you want him to like you?" I questioned. "You were completely fine with him hating you. Why the sudden change of mind?"

"Thea, you mean a lot to me and I don't want to have this long-going feud between your brother and I." Grant shrugged.

"If one thing goes wrong today because of him, kick him out. I don't care that he's my brother, just kick him out." I stated with a serious expression.