The Night My Brother Had a Sleepover

The doorbell rang and I dragged myself off the couch to answer the door, the ice cream I’d been eating dropped on the floor and I cussed as the melted ice cream splattered over the floor. I bent down and picked the tub back up, saving the remaining ice cream and by the time I had done that my brother, Tom, had breezed down the stairs and opened the door.

“Hey Tom” a chorus of voice said from outside the door.

“Hey guys, sorry it took so long apparently Katie couldn’t be bothered getting the door for you, she’s been moping about for weeks since she broke up with Adam.” my brother replied, I loved him but sometimes he could be a real jackass.

“Fuck off Tom, I spilled this shit over the carpet”

“What you can’t even be bothered to get up to shit now?” he was showing off to his friends

“Fuck you!”

he realized he may have crossed a line “Sorry, errm Brandon will be here in bit can you send him up to my room?”

“Fine, now piss off” I muttered still pissed, he beat a hasty retreat upstairs with Will and Nick who had just arrived. I went and got some hot water and a cloth and started trying to get up the ice cream from the floor. The bell rung again and I went to let Brandon in “Tom and the others are upstairs.”

“Thanks, are you alright?” he asked concerned, it wasn’t until then that i noticed I’d been crying slightly and my face was blotchy “Fine, i have to go clean…” I trialed off gesturing at the mess on the floor

“Don’t be silly just sit down I’ll clean it” he offered steering me to the sofa, I sat down and he cleaned the floor, we chatted as he did so and i started to feel my mood turning, and I could feel myself smiling a bit he even made me laugh at one point. I had always liked Brandon he had always been nice to me, he had been Tom’s friend for years and so I knew him quite well. I even knew he had had a crush on me a few years ago, he had been young and didn’t know what to do. At one point he stole my underwear when I was in the shower, he furtively returned them a few minutes later, but he didn’t know I had seen him. At the time I had been a little creeped out by it but now i just found it flattering and amusing.

When he finished we stood up “Thank you, you’ve made me feel much better.” I smiled at him

“no problem” he shrugged

“You can go hang out with the guys now and stop hanging out with his blotchy faced mess of a sister.” I said

“You’re delightful company, and your face isn’t blotchy any longer.” He said smiling.

I smiled and stepped forward hugging him, he stood there for a second unsure of what to do before returning the hug I stepped back, “Thank you.”

He turned to leave,”Anytime Katie.”

I sat back down and picked up the tub of ice cream which had totally melted by this point and turned the TV back on and sat staring at the TV but not really watching it, as I was thinking about Brandon. It was odd I hadn’t thought about anyone except Adam for years, we had been dating for about two and half year and it wasn’t until last month that I found out he had been fucking around for over half the time we had been together. I should have seen it, I should never have dated “the Jock” type which Adam was, but he had been so smooth and when he had asked me out that I couldn’t help but say yes, not to mention he was gorgeous. That being said the sex had never been great, it was good, and he was very sexy but he had never been generous, he had never made it about me. I hadn’t seen it at the time but it had always been about him, the whole relationship had been about him and his image. Now that I was out from under his spell I realized that he wasn’t what I wanted in a relationship.