Theadore's Man.....My Dream Man

Following the scent of bacon, I made my way to the kitchen. Little did I know that Beverly and her parents were sitting at my kitchen table looking not so happy to be there. I stopped dead in my tracks, blocking the door way to the kitchen. Garen, my mom, Beverly, and her parents all stopped what they were doing. Beverly’s parents looked at me disgustedly and Beverly laughed. Even though I should have been the one laughing, because Bev looked like an alien with band-aid’s covering her entire face. Not only that, but around her neck she was wearing a wrap. You, know, like those things you wrap around your ankle when you sprain it or something, Well, she had one around her neck. I barely suppressed my laugh before Garen said a forced cheerful “Good Morning!” I was to busy trying not to laugh at Beverly to notice my mothers troubled expression.

“Honey, why didn’t you tell me you got into a little , er, disagreement with Beverly here.” She looked at me expectantly.

I slowly turned my line of vision from Bev’s poor job of trying to heal herself, and being a drama queen/ super bitch, to my mothers look of concern.

“Well, mother,” I started, putting my hand on my hips, “Maybe if Beverly here wasn’t such a skankish piece of trash, I wouldn’t have had to kick her sorry ass.”

This got me a lot of angry looks from her parents, a half amused half shocked stare from Garen, and a infuriated mother.

“Kennedy!! I did NOT raise you this way!! Do you want us to be sued for your stupidity and immatureness??!” Her face turned a bright red, and her cheeks puffed out like a blowfish. This just made me laugh more. I was turning into a rebel. Full-out rebel. This just go’s to show what love can do to you! “What has gotten into you lately Kennedy? I’m getting worried. You have been acting really different.” Her face softened as she stared my change in behavior. Well, this was my breaking point.

“I’m in love ok>??!!!! I’m totally in love and he doesn’t even love me back!” At this point I started crying. Not only did my mother look shocked, I could see a look of pity in her eyes. Looking over at Bev’s parents, I saw that they hadn’t changed there stone hard faces a bit, Garen leaned back on the kitchen counter with his eyebrows raised. And the most shocking reaction of all was Beverly’s. I expected her to make some sarcastic comment, and laugh in my face in retaliation, but no. Instead, she got up off of the wooden chair she was sitting on, walked slowly over to me, and then embraced me in a hug. I tensed, but soon eased up. Finally someone to comfort me. Even if it was Garen’s girlfriend. “I know what it’s like.” She whispered. “I know it hurts.”

“At least you have Brody.” I sobbed, barely audible.

“No, I don’t. He broke up with me after our fight. He said he couldn’t be with me anymore. “

I jerked out of her grasp, and looked at her in shock.

“Why??!”

“he didn’t tell me, he just said he couldn’t be with anyone right now, and especially if they caused trouble with his best friend.”

Whoa…I was NOT expecting that. Running my eyes around the kitchen I noticed everyone was silent, not wanting to interrupt mine and Bev’s conversation.

“I’m sorry” Beverly said, looking down. “I know I acted snobby, I just didn’t know you’d get so mad.”

“I have my reasons, and I’m sorry too. I was being way to sensitive.”

When she met my eyes, it’s like she read into my soul. Literally. I couldn’t look away from her eyes. I think she had me in a spell. Suddenly a flicker of knowing crossed in the depths of her blue eyed gaze.

Uh-oh…I thought. She knows it’s Brody.

Her eyes widened at the realization, getting bits of guilt, sorrow, and hope stirred around in them.

She turned around to her frozen in place, evil looking statue parents and asked to talk to them alone. They excused themselves which left me with Garen and My mother. I unsteadily made my way to a chair near the table. After I’d gotten seated I looked up at them. Running a hand through her shoulder length golden hair, she opened her mouth to say something, but I stopped her by putting a hand up. She sighed and glanced over to Garen, who was standing there looking all casual in his blue jeans and preppy blue polo. He looked back at her and then back to me. This time he took in a breath to talk, but once again I stopped him, shaking my head no.

After about 5 minutes of grueling silence between the three of us, Beverly and her parents entered the kitchen. Her parents looked a bit peeved.

“We’re not going to sue. Beverly here refuses to let us, sorry for a waste of your time.” Said The balding man, Bev’s father. And with that they left, but not before Beverly left her phone number with me and told me to call her.

“Talk about rude.” Garen said, staring after them as they left.

“Yea.” I mumbled and went up to my room before they could talk to me. The last thing I remember before falling into a deep sleep was hearing Theadore coming home and going to her room with none other than Bryce.