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Every Time I Close My Eyes - Chapter 3

Chapter 3



BJ just stood there and smiled at me. She had the goofiest expression on her face.

"What?!" I asked her curiously.

"You like him, don't you?" she asked, smiling even more. I blushed and tried to deny the fact.

"Like who?" I snapped back.

"Brian! You think he's adorable, don't you? Admit it!" she cooed at me. I turned a rosy shade of red.

"No way! Get real, BJ!" I yelled back.

"Ha, ha, ha! Yeah right, Corinne! I saw the way you looked at him! Come on, admit it! You have a crush on Brian! You can't deny it!" she said laughingly.

"Geeze BJ... get off my back! I don't have a crush on him!" I said, turning my back to her. "Plus... he's gotta be like, what? 30??" I asked. She laughed. "Ha! Yeah right!" she said. An inkling of hope burst through my eyes. "In his teens?" I asked. "Uh-uh.. No way!" BJ answered. The hope disappeared. I turned and faced her again, straight faced. "How old, then?" I asked, trying to sound uninterested.

"24 next month" BJ answered. "That's not too bad..." I thought inwardly. "Come on, Corinne! I know you like him... you know you like him... admit it!" she again yelled at me with a big cheesy grin spread across her face (it must run in the family).

I sighed, exasperated. "Fine! I love him.. I think he's cute, I think he's sexy... he's the bomb, he's the definition of adorable.. he's sweet, he's handsome, he's beautiful.... satisfied?" I asked irritated.

"Yes... quite!" BJ answered back with a content smile beaming on her face.

Geeze... if I knew that's all I had to do to get her off my back I would have done it a long time ago! "But what if I do, anyway? He's too old, and I betcha he's got a girlfriend!" I asked, praying for the answer to be no!

"Well, you're right, there. He does have a girl," BJ answered me. My heart sunk about three feet in my chest. I tried shrugging it off, "See... I knew it." I said, emotionless.

"Well, anyway... I'm done tormenting you," BJ said. "So, do you want to start on our plans to totally humiliate Nick?" she ask with a wicked grin.

"Man, BJ," I said. "With sisters like you, who need's me? I mean, enemies?" I asked, smiling.

"Then it's settled... we're going to have fun tonight, eh?" BJ asked. I didn't need to answer... she could tell I was in agreement by the grin on my face.

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Tonight at the dinner table, all hell broke lose! It was one prank, after another. BJ started off the night, by placing Aaron's pet snake on Nick's chair. Nick almost screamed the house down when he went to sit down!! Then, during the meal, Nick placed a fake spider in my half-eaten salad while I was talking to AJ. I saw him do it, though, and when he was distracted, I put the spider back on his own plate. He jumped a little when he saw it, but remembered it was his own prank! Then, AJ ever so eloquently slipped a few cubes of ice down my shirt. BJ got him back, though, by putting some cubes on his chair before he sat back down. It was a big mess!!

Then, after dinner, all the guys decided to discus their album a little more. They sat around the dining room table, and all the rest of us were banished to the other rooms. Little brats as me and BJ are, decided to put my Limp Bizkit CD into to stereo system. The reason for this? Simple... one of the larger speakers is right behind Nick in the dining room! So, we pumped the volume up as high as it would go, crossed our fingers, and hit play. All we could here was, "I DID IT ALL FOR THE _ _ _ _ _ _, (C'MON!) THE _ _ _ _ _ _ (C'MON!!)...." All of a sudden, we heard Nick screaming from the other room, "B.....J....!!!!!!! CORRRINNE!!!" while the rest of the guys laughed their heads off. We high-fived each other, hysterical. Then, all five guys appeared in the doorway.

"Uh-oh...!!" I said, as I turned the CD off. An amazing silence fell upon us.

"Um... hey big bro... was'sup??" BJ asked in a funny accent.

Nick looked quite irritated; but the others were trying to hold their laughter. Nick stuck his finger out at us, "... you're dead!!" he yelled. It didn't take me and BJ long. Before you could say, "help," we were out of there!

We ran into the backyard, followed by the guys. That was a big mistake!! Nick and AJ grabbed ahold of me, while Kevin and Brian took BJ, and the next thing we knew, SPLASH!! We were in the swimming pool!!

"ARGH!! NICK!! THAT WENT WAY *TOO* FAR!!" I yelled from the pool. Everyone was laughing... well, except for BJ and I.

"OK, ok... I'm sorry," Nick said. "Let's make a truce, ok? No more pranks tonight... agreed?" he asked. He walked to the edge of the pool and stuck his hand out for me to shake it.

I looked at the hand, then back at Nick. "Agreed," I said, shaking his hand. Then, before anything else happened, SPLASH!! I pulled Nick in the pool!

"AHHH!! CORINNE!!!" he yelled. BJ and I were too busy laughing. Howie about died from laughter, and Brian shouted out, "Yeah! Go Corinne, go Corinne!!" AJ and Howie wasted no time to start singing and dancing with Brian, "Go Corinne, (Whoo, whoo) Go Corinne, (whoo whoo!)!" It was the funniest thing you'd ever seen in your life!! Nick splashed me, and BJ and I splashed him back. That's what started the cold, splashing war...

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