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I finally get him to move, and we start walking with me pushing him backwards until we reach the front door, “You aren’t taking care of yourself, Rory. You need someone to watch out for you. Leaving yourself open for bad things to happen is incredibly stupid.”
“Then I guess I’m just stupid. Tell Jayden hi.” And I shut the door in his face as soon as he steps over the threshold. I watch to make sure he leaves and then slump against the nearest wall.
I can’t believe…maybe things aren’t the same as they always were. I don’t remember Bennet being such an asshole. He was always protective over me and Te but not anything like this. Is it because he doesn’t want me back? Maybe he thinks I should have stayed gone.
I reach for the phone and dial Te. I called her last night once I got home and told her about running into her brother. I also told her about him being there with Jayden. She told me not to worry about him.
“He’s just being a turd. Don’t pay any attention to him.”
She didn’t say I was wrong about him being with Jayden, so I figured it was pretty much true. They may not be married but they are together. God, I hate her. I try not to, I really do, but she was such a bitch to me all through high school. I could never really understand why she had anything to be bitchy about. She had the hottest boy in town. Why be a raging douche on top of it?
And clearly, Bennet saw me -and still sees me- as nothing more than a sister. Why be jealous if that was what it was all about? That’s like being jealous over Te. It doesn’t make any sense. But what do I know?
“Hey! What’s up my bitch…es? I guess that doesn't really work for us, does it?”
And just like that, I’m laughing.
“Guess who stopped by to wish me luck with the house?”
“Oh shit, okay. Don’t tell me. Was it Paul Anderson?”
“No.”
“Because he always had a crush on you.”
“It wasn’t Paul. It was your freaking ass of a brother.”
“What?”
“Yep, he came over to tell me how stupid I was for…well, pretty much everything.”
“Oh woah, that’s not cool. That’s not cool at all.”
“I think…he didn’t want me to come back, Te.”
“What?! That’s just stupid. Why would you even think that?”
“Oh, I don’t know. It could be the fact every time he sees me, he tells me how stupid I am and what a colossal mistake I have made moving here. Seems like he’s mad about something.”
Chapter Four
Bennet
“Why would you call our Rory stupid?”
“What?” Typically, I can guess what my sister is going on about but I must be slipping because today takes me by surprise.
“You heard me. Why are you giving Rory a hard time? She mentioned you stopping by her house by the way. Just wanted to tell you before you try to deny it.”
“I don’t like her being in that big house by herself.”
“Why?”
Sometimes, having a twin is the most frustrating, most painful thing that can happen to you. I love my sister, but she understands how to nail me down and make me tell her things even I haven’t figured out yet.
“I don’t know, okay. I don’t know why it eats at me the way it does. It just does.”
Of course, I worry about her safety, I worry about Te’s safety, and she still lives with our mom, but this is something different. Something more.
