a bet worth waiting on 3

at that moment my phone decided to sound off.

i fished through my bag for my phone as it reached it second ring of the song, damn it where did i put it.

i grabbed at the side pockets and the music came louder and i reached in and pulled out the pink razor.

i was so flustered i didnt stop to look at the caller I.D.

"hello?"

"tay? where are you?" a loud voice boomed over the phone it made me wince.

"tom im rite around the corner give me a minute jezz" i said

"you know giana called and said you were walking home, what are you dumb or somthing?!"

"im not walking home you asshole chris picked me up whell be home in like 5 minutes!"

the phone clicked and the line when dead, he's such a jerk he may be my big brother but he doesnt have to

always know where i am or whom im with or when i will be home, god!

"who was that?" chris asked after i let out a loud sigh that seemed to fill the car.

"tom" it was pretty self explaintory his name.

"he just cares tay you shouldnt blame him for wanting to keep you safe"

"i know but -" i was searching for the right words so that i didnt have to explain that much in front of matt "its hard and it never will be the same"

" i know tay but you have to give him some credit here its hard raising a girl when she's only a year younger than yourself" he said squeezing my shoulder.

i realy didnt want to get into a discussion with him, as much as he said it was going to be okay or that things would change it never made me feel better i know i was never gunna be the same agian neither will anything in my life.i remained quite hoping he would just drop it, he did.

a couple minutes later we pulled up in front of our medium cape house 3 bedrooms and two baths and yada yada yada to me i hate this house it will never be home to me

i only moved about half a year ago to come and live with dad but really its not dads house more like toms. when our parents split when i was about ten, mom had custody of me and dad had custody of tom, brandon, and tyler but i often saw my brothers in school and for awhile afterwards i mean they were only a couple years older than me but when i reached high school i wouldnt be seeing them anymore. my mother died the summer before my freshman year in high school so i was stuck, i was alone, no home, no mother, just myself and my concinous. my dad fought for custody of me but mom had left some type of thing, i cant remeber what its called, that i was not to go to my father but that my custody would go to my grandmother, they battled it out wich ended rite before school started my grandmother had won saying my father was unfit to raise a young girl of my age and that it would be in my better interest if i was to come and live with her. her house was already full taking care of my three girl cousins who's parents were incarserated so it wasnt easy being in that house. i started my freshman year at my grandmothers but she lived in the next town over wich meant i had to change schools.it was the worst year of my life and the year my life went down the shit hole, funny how that was when i started dating alex.

the car came to a stop and i didnt waste anytime jumping out of the truck i said a quick thanks and headed for the door. i looked back to see if chris was following me but he was still in the passenger seat talking to matt. i reached out looking down at he door knob to open it but it quickly disapeared as the door swung open. tom.

he looked furious " i can't believe you would leave before asking me taylor but then even at that you didn't even call to tell me where you were then when i got a call from giana saying you walked home from her job wich is what 2 and half miles from here then she says 'okay tom calm down im getting off work now i'll drive up lakeland and find her and bring her home' so i wait for her call and when she does she cant find you! tay you cant be so irresponsible!" he said in a matter of seconds. okay i admit i should have told him were i was going but im sick of sitting through a half hour interagation about where when and why, im 17 years old i have to grow up sometime.

i didnt want a fight on my hands " i'm sorry" i murmered trying to move past him into the house.

he held me back with a hand on my shoulder " i thought chris picked you up?" he said in a confused/mad tone.

"he did" i knew to just keep to 2-3 word anwsers there cant be that much of an arguement from sentence fragments.

"then who's this?" he said waving his free hand towards the black truck.

"chris's friend matt"

he then took another look back out at the black truck with tinted windows as if he just realized somthing that he should have known "oh" he said letting go of my soulder and moving aside so i could get into the house.

"eyyy! mattt!" i heard him yell as he walked out the door leaving the stormer door shut but the inside one open.

i could see chris get out of the car and matt do the same and meet tom halfway up the lawn.

i didnt care to watch the usual high fives and animated hand gestures guys do when they first say hello so i procced down the hallway to the left of the front door that led to the garage but right before the garage were 1 one the 3 bedrooms. dad and tom already occupied the two upstairs so i got this one. it had its flaws but then it had it's perks one being i was tucked away into the more exclude part of the house and never really got bothered when i was here in my room. across the hall was the basement wich was chris's room wich was one of it's flaws chris always had people over constantly in and out of his room or to use the bathroom, the next room over from mine. i flopped down onto my bed i was so tired so i drifted off to sleep.

i woke up and rolled over to look at my clock blaring bright red number's reading 7:58. i had woken up to loud pounding wich as i came out of my state of sleep to reconize as music. of course tom and chris were having a party, dad was out on business for 2 weeks and tomorrow was the first day of school. i would be starting my junior year , tom and chris would be starting there senior year. half way through my sophmore year i droped out when i moved into dads, tom never liked the idea but when i first moved in dad was home alot and he accepted my descion so tom couldn't complain. now dad was gone most the time on business trips and over the summer tom forced me to take summer school so i can go back to school and start as a junior. i hated the idea but as always he got support from my grandmother and well she threated to take me back and there was no way in hell i was going back to all the girl fights over cloths makeup and who wouldnt get out of the bathroom.

i got up out of bed and went to open the door but it was locked, of course they would lock it to keep any unwanted drunk guys out of my room. i turnt the lock and opened the door to the heavy smell of ciggerrette smoke and beer. there were people milling around in the hallway talking to eachother red party cups in hand, i walked past them smiling as they said hi like hell if i knew who they were. as i came out of the envoloped hallway into the main part the music got louder and the crowd got thicker, it was expected and it didnt bother me much.i made my way through the crowd into the kitchen to get a drink but when i opened the fridge all that it contained was can's upon can's of beer. great what did they do with all the food and soda.i quickly closed to fridge and went to turn to look for tom but i was stoped by a guy barely inches from me, i immediatly smelt the alchohal on his breath and his eyes looked as though he took a couple hits from a joint or somthing.

"heyy pretty lady wanna find a room" he raised both eye brows moving his eyes in the direction of the staircase.

"i dont think my brother tom would like that to much do you?" i said sweetly

his eyes widened "so your tom's sister" he took a second to look me over "damn he never said how hott you were" his eyes lingered on my chest

i crossed my arms over my chest blocking his view " i really doubt my brother would tell anyone his little sister was hott- excuse me " i said walking past him and out into the foyer and down the hallway to my room. maybe chris had somthing to drink down in his mini fridge i thought as i got ready to open my door. i quickly turned around and opened his door walking slowly down the steps. i heard a few laughs so there had to be people down here.

as i came around the corner from the staircase about five people came into view but it was pretty hazyy so i couldnt see whom they were.

i could tell one of them was a girl though and the others were guys.

"who's that?" and that would be chris

"taylor"

"oh heyy tay, i though you went to bed" i could see him more clearer now as i approached he was to the left of all the people who were seated on the couch and he was in his recliner.

"yeah i was but the music woke me and i was thirsty"

"oh sorry about that, it's pretty crazy up there" he said smiling up at me

"yeah, i know i met some half stoned half drunk guy in the kitchen that wanted to take me upstairs"

"dont worry ill find this guy later and stomp his head-, we moved the food to the back freezer and the drinks down here if anyone got thirsty"

"oh yeah thats what i figured" i smiled and walked over to his mini fridge that was next to the recliner and got myself a can of coke, i opened it and turnt to leave.

"you can stay if you want" he said to my receeding back.

" no that's okay chris i want to get some rest before the most exciting day of my life tomorrow" i said sarcasticly

"tay it wont be that bad" he said in a surprised tone

"right" i said as i walked the rest of the way up the stairs and into my room.

i finished half of my coke before falling back to sleep.

********next morning*********

i woke up to someone tickiling my feet, i kicked at the person then slid my feet under my blankets.

"come on tay gram called me to get you up, im gunna late for work" that couldnt be

i was shocked awake, i shot up in bed and screamed " tyler!" i reached forward and hugged him.

tyler my second oldest brother two years older than tom, and a year younger than brandon. i rarely ever see tyler or brandon cause there either working or with there girlfriends.

he laughed hugging me back " now get up and get dressed for school or do i have to do that for you" he smiled

"how did you know i was going back to school?" i asked confused i havnt talked to him about it yet.

"like i said gram called me" of course count on gram to say somthing.

i smiled getting out of bed.

"heyy kid im sorry but i gotta get to work, but this weekend well deffiantly do somthing" he said leaning down and kissing me on the forhead.

"kay" i said even if he said next month we would do somthing i would be this happy tyler never broke promises he made to me.

"catcha later" he said leaving my room, i listened as he walked down the hallway and out the front door.

i walked over to my dresser grabed a pair of shorts, my cute new black babyphat shirt, and out to the bathroom i went.

i took a quick 10 minute shower washing my hair and all the neccasry parts. i didnt want to bother with blowdrying then straighting my hair so i rummaged through the drawer and found some gel to scrunch my hair. it took all of 20 minutes to get ready after that i hurried back into my room to turn off my alarm that was blastin music. threw on socks and my pink and black nike's then looked at myself in the mirror i couldnt think what was missing but then i remeber i hadnt put on eyeliner so i grabed some off my dresser and applied it quite thickly then agian i looked in the mirror to see what was missing i couldnt figure it out. thats when i remebered and placed a hand to my ears, my gold hoops, where were they! i couldnt remember where or when i had taken them off. wait i thought to myself i saw them in the bathroom next to the sink. sighing i opened my door and went to the bathroom and grabbed them quickly putting them on.

15 mintues later found me tom and chris in the car on our way to school. ugh school.

when we pulled up to the school tom and chris pretty much had to drag me out of the back seat.

"come on tay we have a frickin deal" tom said pushing me towards the entrance

"yeah we do but that doesnt mean i cant make it harder for you" i said in a sweet voice.

"if you dont start moving on your own either i will pick you up like a child and bring you on or both chris and i will take a foot and leg and drag you, wich is it gunna be"

i huffed knowing i would lose this battle and stomped towards the front entrance and threw the doors

" wanna know where your going?" tom asked me from behind

i glared at him waiting for him to show me

"the office over there with all the glass surrounding it, there expecting you" he said pointing to indeed an office that was made of glass from ceiling to wall, isnt that dangerous?

i stalked off in that dirrection with my pocketbook slung over my shoulder and a notebook in hand, i walked away so fast i barely caught his goobye.

when i entered the room the lady at the desked looked up at me beaming, what was she on acid?

"can i help you?" she asked in a low innocent voice

"yeah im taylor bristole"

"oh the new girl! just hold on a second while i buzz the principal he's actually in there talking to your guidance counselor" she hit her little phone buttons and picked up saying that i had arrived and two seconds later the door to the far right opened and a man motioned for me to follow him.

i walked into the office where a young woman was seated i guessed she was my counselor she patted the seat next to her so i sat down.

"miss bristole id like to welcome you blahblahblahblah............................................................" it went on for about 5 minutes where they explained everything then handed me a piece of paper with a schedule.

"i will be showing you to your first class" the couselor said brightly

we walked out of the office into the walls which were now empty. we walked down some corridors as she babled on about how im gunna love it here and i can ask her aything that i would fit rite in and how pretty i was. umm yeah okay lady!

we stoped in front of a classroom as she knocked on the door i looked down at the schedule i was handed, first period i had forensics wich was a senior class that sorta confused me. the teacher was a very young guy he looked no older than the students before him. he shut the door and came out into the hallway were the teacher explained i was new and all that junk. when we came back into the classroom no one was paying attention the kids that sat in the first 3 rows were quit and facing forward but in the back was a bunch of jock looking people grouped together laughing loudly.

"class" the teacher said loudly. everyone snapped to attention. i was quit embaressed so i keep my eyes on one of the lab tables in front of me instead of meeting anyones curious stares.

"class this is taylor she's new here and i want you guys to make her welcome" he said casting his gaze around the class room

"taylor why dont you tell us about yourself" the teacher looked at me smiling

"obviously my names taylor im from centereach and i moved here to live with my father" i said quickly

"thanks taylor, now you can sit" he paused a second scannin his seating chart "next ot eric, eric raise your hand"

i looked up to see a long arm lazily shoot up in the air i moved forward to the 4th seat back and sat down next to this guy named eric. after i sat down a hand shot out in front of me.i looked up at the guy eric holding out his hand.

"hi, its pronounced erik by the way"he said smiling, he was pretty damn hot i must say.

i took his hand shaking it "taylor bristole nice to meet you" his eyes seem darken a bit when i said my last name.

"bristole? tom's little sister?" he said cautiously

"if you hate him you might like me" i smiled

his eye's turned to an amused look as he laughed " yeah i think i like you already" he said turning and faceing forward.

a couple minutes passed and the teacher handed out those stupid class rules your parent has to sign then turning to the bored to rite down some to add when a note flew onto my desk.i didnt think it was for me until i looked at it and it had my name on it.

i did as it said, i was kind of shocked to see chris sitting in that spot he was leaning back in his chair like he was a god or somthing smiling at me.