Chapter Two
I woke up to the familiar soft, fluffiness of Annata's down feather comforter. I peel my eyes open to the sunlight shining brightly through the balcony door, and the mirrored ceiling reflecting the sleek and elegant room. I stretch out and pull the covers off the bed to welcome the chilled winter air. My eyes rake the room taking in every element; her cherry hardwood floor always seemed to stand out to me, but considering the rest of her room was a milky white, of course her flooring would stand out. Her cherry wood bookcase stands tall and proud in one corner while her closet is in another. My eyes stop at her door noticing a shadow.
I sighed, getting up and stretching once again. My bare feet hit the frigid floor sending a chill through my body. I got on my tippy-toes and slowly crept over to the door, making sure not to make any noise. I put my hand on the door knob, and paused due to the arguing I heard, with my name tossed in every once in a while, but I shrugged it off. Then, as quickly as I could I yanked it open, yelling "Boo!" as loud as I could. I was satisfied when I earned a startled gasp from Jacob who was standing in front of the door facing away from me, and a shriek of terror from Anna who-I'm guessing- was standing in front of Jacob. A fit of laughter came from my mouth as they turned around with identical looks of anger, shock, and confusion combined in one on their faces.
"Aiko!" Jacob basically yelled at me, "We are trying to have an important conversation."
I sighed, "Fine. I guess I'll go then." I started to walk past them, but Jacob grabbed my arm pulling me to an abrupt stop.
"No! I-I-I need to talk to you," he paused to look pointedly at Anna, "a-alone."
"But Jacob you don't even know if it's true...I-It's just a feeling", Anna shouted at him.
His face became extremely red with anger as he began to talk, "Yes I know! But it's a feeling from my w-"He suddenly stopped, "We'll talk about this later Annata." I shuddered from the coldness in his voice. She sighed and nodded in agreement, walking towards her room.
I stared at him in complete shock and terror. "How could you be that way towards your SISTER!?"I went to punch him but he caught my hands before I could. "Let. Go. Of. Me." I spat at him. When he didn't I decided to do the next best thing, I sent my best foot forward right where the sun don't shine. He instantly dropped on the ground letting go of me in the process.
He groaned, "Do you even want kids?" I glared at him until I registered what he said. I gaped at him, my mouth hanging open. What the hell did that mean? I mean c'mon really, KIDS? I abruptly shut my mouth deciding to drop it.
I sighed, "S-So, w-what did you want to talk about?" I mentally slapped myself for stuttering.
A smirk crossed his face, "Getting a little nervous are we?" I went to answer, but he cut me off, shushing me. He took my hand and led me into Anna's room, gesturing for me to sit down, while he stood in front of me looking at me with his face full of emotions. "I wanted to talk about the kiss yesterday. Uhh, I don't want a relationship right now...not until I'm 21 which isn't that far away, but I d-don't want a relationship until then. I don't know what you thought of that kiss if you even did, but i-if I-I'm, uhh, hurting you or something saying this...I don't know what to say. You just have to try to understand, I don't want a relationship until my birthday. If you come over, like you normally do every year. I-I'll consider it."
I stood there letting his words sink into my brain. Suddenly I was furious, "Get out."
"No, talk to me, you can trust me, Aiko." The look in his eyes was sincere, but I was too angry to realize it.
Standing up, I yelled at him, pointing towards the door, "Get out! Now!" He obeyed my command, his head hanging low as he left. I walked over to the door locking it, and sank door to the floor, curling up into a ball and started crying. My mind went into overdrive as I was processing his words over and over and over again. He didn't want a relationship until he was 21...I sighed the tears still spilling out of my eyes, but it came out as more of a sob. I stood brushing pretend particles off my pants, and decided to take a long, hot shower to calm my body.
After the shower, I changed into some sweatpants and a sweatshirt, and headed downstairs to the living room. Upon seeing Jacob sitting on the couch, in his bare chested glory, I tried turning around and not making as much noise as I had coming down, but much to my dismay he noticed me. "Aiko, you can't just hide from me for the next 5 days. You basically live here; you're bound to run into me at some point. I don't care if you hate me, you can hate me all you want; I don't give a flying cow crap how you feel about me at this point!"
"Oh really because what you said earlier sure prove what you just said to be false!" I came back at him full of anger and hatred. "How could you do this to me!? How could you kiss me one day then the next day you say you don't want a relationship! Do you know how horrible that made me feel! I hope you trip and fall in a hole and ROT!" I screamed at him grabbing the closest thing to me and throwing it at him. The tears were stinging my eyes as I ran up the stairs to Anna's room, hoping and praying she would come home soon.
"Aiko? Babe? Wake up." I groaned, and rolled over opening my eyes to see Anna's face. "What happened with you and my brother? Do I need to talk to him? C'mon Babe tell me."
I sighed, and told her what has happened. When I was done she sighed, "This is typical of him. Do you know what you threw at him or where it hit him-if it did-?"
"Uhh, no. I was too upset to register what was going on. I just grabbed the nearest thing to me, and threw it towards him. I didn't really care what it was or where it was going" I paused. "It wasn't something important was it? Oh God, my luck it was. Why did I have to go and do that? What in the world is going on with me and him anyways? Nothing until now has ever happened between us, and now this ! Why! Why me!" I took a deep breath and went to continue, but Anna cut me off.
"Hey! Stop it!" She slapped me across the face. "It's not your fault. I know you and I know my brother. It's his fault. Now shut up and go back to sleep. It's four o'clock in the morning. Goodnight Babe. I love you." Sighing I re-positioned myself and closed my eyes falling into a deep sleep almost immediately.
Just four more days now.
