THE MANY IN BETWEEN

BRO'S

-Jason-

We all applied to KU last semester and we finally got in with a little persuasion. We sold the dean on how to have six football players with 4.0 GPA's would look good on the university. I did it more for my bro Charlie. His name is Charles, but the family calls him Charlie. He was trying to go to his dream school and get away from his crazy ex, Celine. I was going for the ride of my life. Meet new people, new girls, and no stutter.

That same day we all took a ride out to Lawrance, Kansas to look for the house we would call home for the next 3 years. After finding the house and signing the lease, we all started the ride back home to pack all our stuff. As we are packing, I ask Charlie "So are we taking all six cars I didn't see a lot of space to park. The max we can fit is three, maybe four, but that pushes it."

James, one of the other football players who is going, screams from across the hall "I'm definitely taking my Cadi." Charlie replies, "That's cool. I'm taking my truck and Danny can take his Escalade. We will have them picked up tomorrow so they get there before we do. On Saturday, we can stop by at the U-haul store to rent some trucks. We can leave on Sunday morning to get there on time on Monday morning to go straight to first class." Everyone agreed, stopped packing and we all headed to sleep. There's a game tomorrow that we have to attend, so we decided we would finish packing after the game.

Friday morning, we got up early since none of us had a class due to our transfer. We finished packing and put everything in the living room ready for Saturday. So we could rest after the game. They picked up the vehicles. I went downstairs to put my last box. I saw Celine begging Charlie to stay that she loved him, she was just kidding around, that she lied to him because she felt she was falling too quickly and wanted to protect herself.

Which I call BS because she was perfectly fine trying to flirt with the whole team. Including myself in front of Charlie. None of us would do Charlie like that. Some teammates have known him since freshmen year of high school, others from elementary school. I grew up with Charlie. Our dads have known each other since before we were born. The team is more like a brotherhood than a team. For her to think any of us would do our brother like that, she was missing a screw or just desperate.

I snapped out of my thoughts when Charlie said " What is wrong with you? I told you not to look for me , call me, or come to my house to tell me more lies. You showed me when you tried to get with Jason you were heartless. Only care about what makes you happy. I will never go back to you get out of my house." Celine replied with a huff, "Fine Charlie, when you start missing me I'm only a phone call away. I know you're just upset and pretty soon you will get over it. Forgive me for everything and go back to normal. I'll talk to you later, baby. When you are settled, call me."

She walked out the door with Charlie going behind her and slamming the door shut. I walked down the rest of the stairs. I shook my head to ask "What a shame if I were down here when she came I would have slammed the door in her face multiple times. Told her your not home or something. That chick is losing her mind. How is she gonna come in here to try to convince you to stay? Does she not remember she dumped you?" He rolls his eyes with a sigh and he says" I don't know, bro I'm tired of figuring her out. One minute she wants me. The next minute, she's done with me and I am not going to be playing these games. I'm just going to focus on my studies and football."

She did do him dirty. "I don't blame you, brother. She is a tripp. We are going to go to a new U, meet new people, and maybe new girls," I said as I wiggled my eyebrows and shook him on his shoulders. He started laughing as he headed to his truck. "Come on, we are going to be late for the game," Charlie said as he got in. He took that better then I expected. Knowing Charlie, he would just stay in his room getting over Celine. As long as I've known him, he takes months of getting over an ex before he even tries to get back out there. It wont be any different this time around.

The game went well. We beat the other team by over twenty points. They threw a goodbye surprise party at the end,but we left early. We got home and went straight to bed since we had to get up early to load everything.

I woke up early, made coffee to wait for everyone else to get up. When everyone was up, we decided that Charlie, James, Danny, and myself would all go get the trucks, since we decided four would be enough. We took an uber to the nearest store, got the trucks, loaded everything in, even our bedroom sets, couches, tables, you name it, we loaded. We all slept in the blow ups we got when we first moved in to this house. To get ready for tomorrow's drive. Long drive at that.

All of our alarms went off at five in the morning. I got dressed, went downstairs and packed all of our breakfast, lunch , and dinner so we could use up what we had left in the fridge. While everyone else packed four coolers with ice, drinks, and fruit. We decided we were gonna rotate drivers whenever someone got tired of driving, since it is six of us. So we wouldn't be tired in class on Monday morning.

We headed out. Stopping only for gas and bathroom brakes. Switching drivers every few hours. Charlie wanted to get there early enough to unpack everything and return the trucks to get our deposit back. We pulled up to the house around 5:30am. I noticed the cars had been parked in the driveway. We all unload our things.

When we got down to the last truck, I told the other guys to go drop off the trucks , stop to get groceries and toiletries. So we can just come home after class to make dinner and rest.

As I'm walking back toward the truck, I see two beautiful women looking confused at the truck sitting behind their car. I see the brunet walk out to Charlie . After, the blonde shoved her to go. She stands there for a while talking and staring at Charlie. He moves the truck while they get in their car and pulls out of the driveway. He moves it back to where he was parked before. I walked over because I saw him sitting there for a good five minutes.

I banged on the window and yelled "Are you going to move it or stay daydreaming?" He turned to look at me and threw me the middle figure as he reversed back into the spot. He gets down as I stare at him with a grin on my face. He says,"What?" I asked. "So I see you met our neighbors. They are pretty hot. Especially that blonde. Did you get their names? Phone numbers? What school do they go to?" I replied. He folded his arms in front of his chest, c****d his head to the side, and said "No I didn't, if you were so interested why didn't you go up to the blonde? You could have asked her all that yourself. Oh yeah, because you're a woosy." He chuckled in amusement. I stood there in shock that he would be making fun of me over my stutter.

I looked at him and shook my head. "Always making fun of me and my stutter. As soon as I no longer stutter, it's over. I'm going to have so many women. They're gonna be calling me slick tongue daddy!!" I exclaimed as I wiggled my eyebrows once again. "You mean s-ss-sslick m-mmouth da-da-daddy", Charlie responded with a grin as I walked toward the back of the truck. I whipped my head in his direction with a hurt look in my eyes. "OK, OK, that was the last one my bad. I promise," He said as I got near the truck opening. "Whatever man, you'll see how many mamitas I will have this year; new school, new me bro. I'm gonna start with the blond across the street." I said I climbed up on to the truck to move things toward him. All he did was roll his eyes at me.

What he doesn't know is, I have been going to speech therapy to work on my stutter. So tomorrow I will go speak to the pretty little blond across the street. The other guys dropped off the trucks, got the groceries and toiletries. We put everything up. Just in time to get to first class even though we had all emailed our professors about a possible tardy or no show. We all got our syllabus sent to us so we would be able to work on today's work. I rode with Charlie. We parked near the entrance of the office to get all of our paperwork so we could head to class.