𝙼𝙾𝙾𝙽 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚄𝙲𝙺 (𝙳𝙿𝚂 - 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚘𝚗)

𝚃𝚆𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚈

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It had been twenty minutes when the first knock came to my door.

"Ignore it" I said as Charlie began to move from under me. My head was on his chest and was rising and falling with his breaths

"We cant ignore it Sophie, what if its your brother" he said rubbing my back

"Even more reason to ignore it"

"Soph, cmon" I rolled my eyes as I pushed up off his chest and made my way to the door.

Pulling it open I was faced with the main man himself. "We need to talk"

I smiled shaking my head "no we don't" I tried to close the door as his hand slammed against it pushing it open again

"Yes. We. Do"

"Does no one around here, hear me when I say no?" I asked looking at Neil. The fact that no one seemed to care what I wanted getting under my nerves

"We do, but your usually being you reasonable" he shrugged

"Amen to that"

"You shut up" I said turning back to Charlie who was sitting on my bed. Noting the annoyed expression Charlie let out a small chuckle and when he saw I wasn't letting up he made a sorry face

"I love you"

"Charlie's in there?" Neil asked not wanting to look into the room

"Yea" he made a face "is that a problem?" He cleared his throat and shook his head.

"Look Phi, can we please talk?" He craned his neck to look in around Charlie "alone"

Charlie stood from the bed wiping his hands on his trousers before making his way to us

"Hear him out" he said putting a hand on the small of my back. "Im sorry" he said to Neil, who barely looked at him, and made his way out of the room and into Knox's

Neil looked back at me expectantly and I stepped to the side letting him into my room. Once he was in I shut the door and he took his spot over by the window. He stayed quiet for a while.

"Do you remember when we were 10 and we went to the lake house for summer?"

"Neil I dont think now's the time to reminisce" I said looking at him as he turned to look at me over his shoulder

"Do you remember?" He asked again as I pulled my eyebrows together.

"Neil that was 7 years ago and we go to the lake house every summer. How am I supposed to remember?" He turned and leaned against the window with his hands in his pocket

"It was the year that we found that hidden trail down to the tire swing" all of a sudden a lightbulb went off in my head and the memory came back

"The one you wouldn't let me swing on or go down to for a week after we found it even thought you snuck out to go to it each night?" I asked raising my eyebrows

"Is that how you remember it?"

"That's pretty much how it was. When we found it, you swung on it but wouldn't let me. That night, and every night for a week, you snuck out to it and no matter how much I begged you never let me go with you" I said. Neil looked over his shoulder out the window "how do you remember it?"

"I remember you and me finding a tire attached to an old, worn piece of blue rope. I remember swinging on it and the amazement in your eyes. I remember hearing a small snap, but you were too excited to hear it so instead of letting you swing on it we went back to the house" my eyebrows pulled together listening to the story