Wondering Minds

Chapter 7

I once again wake up with darkness all around me. "I'm tired of having this dream," I said out loud to myself.

I looked around the darkness to see the same car appear to the right of me, but this time there was a lady behind the wheel sobbing. I run over there concerned, "Ma'am, what's going on?"

She continues to sob with her hands over her face. "Ma'am!" I knock hard on the window.

"I didn't mean to!" She yells startling me.

"What do you mean ma'am? I need you to step out of the car so I can help you." I said trying to open the door.

"I didn't mean to hit her with my car!" She screams from the top of her lungs.

"Hit who?" I look around to find nothing. The vision suddenly disappears as the darkness surrounds me. "Hello?" I said.

A pond with ducks and trees appears behind me. I walked over to the pond to get a closer look at the ducks. "I remember this pond... I would go here all the time with Emma."

"Hey."

I turned around to see Emma standing behind me. "Hi? What are you doing here, I thought you were mad at me?"

"What are you talking about? I was never mad at you." I leaned in closer to get a better look at Emma. "Woah, you must love checking me out," Emma says laughing.

"Something seems different about you..." Before I could touch her I heard a loud ringing noise startling me awake.

"What the-" I reached under my pillow to grab my ringing phone. "Hello?"

Braden speaks loudly, "Do you want to come over?"

"Aren't you supposed to be at school today?" I said in my morning voice.

"Yeah, but I skipped today. Are you coming over?"

"Sure, just give me some time and I'll be over there." I could sense the excitement when he disconnected the call.

I got up to get ready and then looked over at my calendar. "Two more weeks till my birthday."

I walked out of the house relieved that my Mom went to work, so I didn't have to make up a lie.

When I got there I knocked on his door loud enough for Braden to hear. I hear steps coming to the door and then the squeaking of the door opening.

I see his big smile and his arms opening to hug me. I hugged back feeling his warmth throughout my body.

After hugging he invites me inside. "I hope you don't mind my stepbrother joining us."

"I don't mind," I said, even though I do mind. We walked to the backyard where I saw a guy sitting in a lawn chair. As we walked closer he turned around to look at me with his green eyes. "Oh! Hi!" He says smiling.

I froze up not expecting to see my doctor here. "Hi..."

Braden looks at me and then at Nathan, "Do y'all know each other?" I look over at him to see what to say. He looked back and then looked over at Braden, "No, we don't know each other." He smirked at me as I sat down in the chair next to him.

"Luna this is Nathan and Nathan this is Luna." Braden pulls up a chair next to me as I try not to stare at Nathan. "So, you're the one Braden been talking about. Sounds like he really likes you." He says taking a sip of his water.

Braden does a nervous chuckle, "Don't listen to him he's drunk."

"I don't drink," Nathan says butting in.

Braden quickly changed the subject, "So, Nathan is a doctor at the local clinic and he's only twenty years old."

"Oh, really?" I said with a smile. "How is that possible? Did you drop out of high school?"

"My Dad is a doctor as well so when I was little he taught me everything he knew. I started skipping grades and by the time I was a senior I was fourteen but I did online school. When I turned eighteen I applied to be a doctor."

I stared into his eyes fascinated by his story. "That's very interesting, I guess you're very smart."

Nathan licks his bottom lip, "I guess I am." Braden loudly clears his throat, "Do you want to know how we're stepbrothers."

"Yes."

"Well, when I was seven my Mom met this guy when we were eating at McDonalds. Me and Nathan started playing together in the McDonald's playpen. Then when I got home I begged for a playdate with Nathan."

They both started giggling, "Best playdate of my life." Nathan says.

Braden's phone rings loudly, "Oh! I got to take this." He runs into the house leaving me and Nathan outside.

I sat back in the chair not looking at Nathan. "Do I make you nervous?" Nathan says in a deep voice.

"Yes, it's very weird to see your doctor outside of the hospital."

He smirks, "I understand that... So, you're not nervous when you're with Braden."

"No, I've known him for about two years. Why have I never seen you over here before? And Braden never talked about you till now."

His eyes dart left and right like he's in deep thought, "It's a long story that shouldn't be told, but we're cool now."

Nathan gets up and then proceeds to take off his shirt. His abs glistened in the sun making them pop out more. I tried to look away but my eyes were glued.

"I'm sorry, I was so hot, I was about to pass out." He says while pouring his water bottle all over him. His muscles flexed as he wiped the water all over him and through his hair.

"Oh...My...God. This man is attractive." I thought to myself.

"Hey guys I'm back!" Braden says walking towards us. My eyes go to Braden breaking my trance.

"Woah...what's going on here." Braden takes a look at Nathan. "You're not on Baywatch, put your shirt back on, you're being disrespectful to Luna."

"Hell no, it's too hot out here."

"Okay then, let's wrestle to see who'll win. The loser will have to put their shirt back on." Braden slowly but sexually pulls his shirt off.

My face starts to fill with warmth. "Luna, do you want to be the referee?"

I nodded my head as they got ready to wrestle. "You're going down!" Braden yells confidently.

I start to count down, "3...2...1! Fight!"

Nathan immediately grabs Braden by the waistline picking him up and slamming him on the ground.

Braden faked and yelled in pain, "Ahhh!"

Nathan climbs on top of him but to my surprise Braden quickly wraps his legs around his neck, faking like he's choking him out.

Nathan struggles as he scoots towards the imaginary rope. He struggles but he touches the rope. "Braden! You got to let him go, he touched the rope." I said.

Braden pouts but lets him go. They both stood up huffing and puffing. Braden grabs a wooden chair and swings it like he hit Nathan in the head.

Nathan falls grunting in pain while Braden climbs up on the chair waiting for him to get up.

While Nathan slowly gets up Braden finds an opportunity to jump on his back bringing him back down.

Braden swiftly gets on top of him lifting his right leg. I jumped up yelling, "1! 2! 3! It's over, we have our champion! Braden Harris!"

I walked over to raise his right arm into the air, as Nathan lay in the grass acting like he was in pain.

Braden pretends to wipe fake blood off his bottom lip breathing heavily.

I handed him the imaginary microphone.

"I would not be defeated! I'm the new heavyweight champion!"

I start to giggle as he acts like he's in WWE. "My common enemy has been defeated and I win this beautiful girl."

He grabbed me by my waist to pull me closer to him. He leans in kissing me, his warm lips enlightening me.

He throws the imaginary microphone on the ground as Nathan gets up off the ground. "I guess I put my shirt back on since I lost."

Braden watches the sore loser put his shirt back on.

"I'm going to take a shower, y'all have fun," Nathan says walking towards the house. Braden looks towards me smiling, "Do you want to go inside?" Braden says.

"Sure." We walked inside and then sat on the couch. He turns the TV on searching through the channels, "Do you want to watch anything?"

"No, you can pick something."

He scrolls down the list stopping on a show, "What about this?"

I get excited when I see the show. "Oh my gosh! I love "ICarly" this show is so iconic." He smiles as he sits back on the couch.

In the corner of my eye see him staring at me. I turn my head to look him straight in the eyes.

He leans in close enough that I feel his breath on mine. "Did you like the kiss earlier?" Braden whispers.

I looked up into his eyes and then down to his lips, "I don't know... Maybe you should kiss me again."

Straight away he kisses me with pleasure. I kissed him back as my hands explored his chest.

I laid him down on the couch as I climbed on top of him, he laid his hands on my waist. I leaned over to kiss his neck and then started kissing him.

I heard a door opening and then footsteps, I quickly stopped what I was doing. "Do you hear that?"

He tries to listen for a second, "Uhhhh..."

The footsteps got closer and then stopped. We both froze hoping it was Nathan.

I heard a sudden gasp, "Oh my god... What have I walked into." A female voice says.

I raised slowly to see Braden's Mom in shock.