The House Is Mine
1043 Words
The shower did me good in bringing me back to myself again.I made sure to take all of the city germs off my feet and I open the door to see Caroline still in my room. This time she is propped up eating fruits from a clear container and switching through the channels.
" Please tell me you do not have the same clothes you had on all day out in my bed especially sitting on that vegan place floor." I shoot her an annoyed look to which she shrugged.
" It's clean enough."
" I will throw you out." I tell her and she folds.
" C'mon I'm bored plus I'm waiting to talk about your psycho man and no you won't throw me out because you love me."says Caroline, who looks at me hopefully. I give a deep sigh and fold my arms. She always gets me with her baby face.
" Didn't you eat when I left the vegan place?" I queried her, looking at the container filled with fruit.
" How could I eat when you were being kidnapped? What kind of sister do you take me for? I'm offended" she gives me an exasperated side eye. Though I know it's also because the food was disgusting.
" You could have carried it with you." I tell her while adjusting my pillows.
"If you're hungry we could make something but it was the last thing on my mind then. I was in fight or flight mode. I didn't know you would care for their food so much."
" No thanks and you're a terrible liar you know. The vegan place was horrible but anyway I just want this exhausting day to end. I need some rest after the day I've had today.Maybe you can watch TV in your room."
She is oblivious to the irritated glare I am giving her and I plop down on the bed next to her.
" Why not just give him the house Hailey and find another home to use? Is this one that important? " she absentmindedly flips through the channels on the tv.
" Because I bought it first. It's mine and he threatened me. I don't deal with threats and he can go to hell before he thinks I'm selling it to him. "
Caroline sighs and rolls her eyes.
" You're gonna get killed over a house?"
" He should be groveling to get it back. I'm not selling it to him.You can't let people walk over you. Plus I don't even know if I want to use it for that yet. The place is really nice Car. I could see us living there instead of here. That's how good it is. It just has a nice homey feel to it and I'm not letting that brute take it away from me."
" Brute" she repeats and gives a little laugh. " You're not that old Hailey."
She pops a watermelon in her mouth and pauses as some television competition is in full swing.
"I'm just saying it would be less stress." she says clearly disappointed and continuing to scroll through the channels but not finding anything worth watching.
" If I start giving in to every man who puffs his chest then we'll be bankrupt. I'm not scared of him and he should be bending for me. Our name is high ranking and we are top tier. "
" Uh huh." she says dryly. "I just don't want us to get hurt by some psycho over some old house on the middle east side." she frowned. " And I know how you are. You are very pig headed. You are going to make sure you keep that house to prove a point."
" There is no point to prove and I am proving one it is that I'm superior."
Caroline let's out a big sigh and finally settles on a program, throating down the remote.
" I can't believe you're my sister sometimes Hailey. Maybe he has a valid reason for wanting the place. "
" Are you picking up for him?" I scrunch my nose up and she smiles.
" Maybe but can you blame me he's hot."
" He's okay."
" Okay?!" she says in indignation. Clearly offended.
" Yeah, he's okay." I say trying to hold a straight face.
" Okay is the politician's son you dated two years ago. This man is definitely nothing near okay and you know it. You're just trying to downplay him because you think everyone is beneath you. You need to get off your high horse. "
" I cannot help it that I'm high quality and therefore I only see high quality things." I respond, flying my damp hair.
" Like Gregory?" Caroline glares at me. She has never gotten over the fact that I dated Gregory even if it was for a month. Then I dumped him. Gregory just wasn't it. I don't know what I was thinking but I think we are all allowed one bad egg.
" Will you let Gregory go? It's bad enough I wasted a month on him. I don't want to waste my breath talking about him."
" Okay. I'm just saying he's nice looking. What's his name?"
" He said his name is Cain Mahin."
" If that's his real name."
She settles on a talk show where women are having transformations.
" He's lucky I didn't call the police. He had the nerve to think he could talk to me and put his filthy hands on me. "
" Mhm" responds Caroline and it's starting to annoy me. After what seems some thought she turns to me.
" I really do think we should take this serious and amp up security and be more careful Hailey. We don't know who he is and so far he seems very dangerous."
" Okay" I agree right away.
She fake gasps and I throw a pillow at her.
" You're agreeing with me?!"
" It's a sound decision and don't tell anyone else about this, especially Charles that I went into a car with him. He'll never let me hear the end of it."
"He means well." Caroline points out and I nod.
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