Innocence

It had already been a week. A week passed of living with October and Adeline. Every day, every hour of that day, every minute of that hour, and every second of those minutes we were fighting about something.

So far, it had been pretty interesting. I learned that October actually had friends. (Surprise, surprise.) And I got to see some of my friends. Although, the fun was short lived when they talked about how hot they thought October was. This bitch was going to take over my whole life. She was actually nice to my friends, I didn't expect it. She's been basically an asshole to all of us.

She thinks it's funny to torture me.. so I do it back. Like on Thursday she had put ice over my entire bed. I should have been expecting it since she bleached all my t-shirts on Wednesday. The pranks just got worse the rest of the week. Now, it was Monday and I was wondering what she was going to do to me.

But of course, me being the intelligent man I am, I thought ahead. The great shampoo bottle prank that has happened to me a few times. Plus, it's not so bad, so she wont like cry or anything.

I quietly opened the door to the bathroom that we shared and clutched the Walgreen's bag in my hand. I grabbed her shampoo bottle which was almost empty and poured the shampoo out into the sink. After minutes of trying, I finally got all the shampoo out and put the hair dye mixture into the bottle. The bottle of shampoo was black. October wouldn't be able to see that there was blue-black hair dye waiting for her.

After cleaning up my mess and putting everything back to normal, I carefully creaked open the door that led to her bedroom and poked my head out.

October was rolled onto her stomach with her head facing outward. Her hair was a mess and she had bags under her eyes. But somehow, she was still pretty. The blanket was intertwined between her legs and she was sleeping peacefully. I almost felt bad, but then I shook the thought away and remembered that she hated me. I hated her. I hated her because she was cocky. I hated her because of her rude attitude. I hated her for acting so tough. Mostly, I hated her because she had the one thing I didn't. Her mom.

My mom had left me and my dad over ten years ago. I could hardly remember times with her but yet I still missed her and it still hurt me that she left. I was her first born child. And when she left, she just left. No "I'll see you every other week.". There was not trying to see me. I envied October for having her blood mom around. Moms carry you for nine months and are more attached to their kids. I didn't know where October's dad was but at least her mom never left.

That had always made life hard on me. I haven't been able to be in any long term relationships. I always break up with a girl after a week or too. I started doing drugs at the age of 13 and when I was 15 my dad got tired of me and sent me to rehab. I stayed in there until my sixteenth birthday.

I was a screw up. And I felt like I always let my dad down. The one who was actually around and all I do is make mistake after mistake. All we did was fight. He hardly talks to me about anything seriously. I didn't even know about Adeline until the day last week when we came here.

I jumped out of my nostalgia when I heard October. I quickly sneaked out of her room and back into mine.

I threw myself onto my bed and sighed into my freshly washed sheets. Suddenly, my phone rings and I throw my hand around trying to get it off of my end table. When I touched it to push the answer button it stopped ringing. I grabbed it to see who had called.

My thumbs were on the bottom of the phone and when I tried to move them to push the menu button the didn't move. I tried pulling at them and shaking my phone but my fingers were stuck. It'd almost like they were glued.... That bitch.

Just then, October poked her head out the bathroom door on my side. Her cell phone was in her hand and she was tossing it around. "Always ten steps ahead, Knight."

She smiled and popped back into the bathroom. Sure, just wait till you get a head full of blue-black hair. We'll see who's ten steps ahead then.

After a few minutes I heard the shower going. I smirked pleasantly to myself and tried to get my cell phone off my thumbs.. or my thumbs off my cell phone.

"You mother fucker!" She yelled from the bathroom. I stood up in surprise and she was standing in the bathroom door way with her towel wrapped tightly around her naked body. Steam was coming out of that bathroom and her wet hair was dripping on my blue carpet.

I shrugged and grinned at her searching for a speck of dye in her hair. "Oh, you think I actually used it?"

I nodded. "Well, yeah. Didn't you?"

She pursed her lips and rolled her eyes. "Your pranks are so Juvenal! Of course I didn't use it. You think I wouldn't realize that it was hair dye when I put it into my hand and noticed it didn't have the constancy of my shampoo, nor was it even close to the right color."

I hit myself in the head mentally. How was she always having this advantage over me?! It made me want to hate her even more. She was waiting for me to say something. I looked at her and then couldn't help but look her up and down before answering. I couldn't help but be a guy! I mean, come on, any guy would have if a hot girl was standing basically in their room while in a towel and dripping wet.

"If you're done looking stupid and checking me out I need to finish my shower." She put her hands on her hips and then glared at me. "Oh, and wipe the drool off of your mouth." I instinctively tried to touch my mouth and hit myself in the chin with my phone. I felt like an idiot. "That sucks. I wonder what you are going to do if you have to pee?"

She laughed and disappeared into the bathroom.

Feeling stupid, I walked down the stairs and went to find Adeline. I had to get this phone off of my hands somehow. After October said what she said, my bladder felt painfully full.