#3

Last one wasn't so good, I know. But I didn't have anytime. I'll try again:

"Um, ow." I said as my brother sat on me. He didn't care, just as long as he had a place to sit. This was the problem with having brothers, they didn't care about your "bubble." And trust me, mine had popped mine so many times I wasn't able to count anymore. Skylar ignored me and continued to sit on me. It was starting to hurt. Sky was not the smallest guy in the world; he was older than me by 2 years, and weighed about twice my weight. So, as you can see, this was sort of painful.

"Sky, get off!" I pushed my brother off of me with all my strength. If he hadn't heard me, this would have been difficult. But instead, he scooted off my lap and into the seat beside me, eyes still glued tot he television. "Thanks." I mumbled.

"Whatever." he said. Don't get me wrong, Sky was a pretty cool brother. We were kind of close, but still he got on my nerves every now and then. I have two brothers. Skylar and Tyler. Tyler had gone to college last month, so that left me, Sky, Mom, and Dad in this happy home. Well, there was another person practically living in this place. Jack, Sky's best friend. Jack was Ty's friend, too. For a while at least. But since Ty's gone....that means Jack has to get another person to add to the Three Musketeers. Can you guess who that might be?

"Hey, Riley, pass the chips." Jack told me. I rolled my eyes and threw the bowl at him. Chips flew all over him. He knew I didn't like this. Just because I loved my brother, did not mean I had to like Jack. Sky and I had talked about it before. He said I could treat him however I wanted, just as long I didn't cause too much trouble. So I took every chance I could.

"Hey!" Jack stood up in front of me, blocking both mine and Sky's view. You can probably tell, Jack was not a little guy. He was bigger than Sky, buff and kind of chubby. He was major strong and could probably lift me only using one hand.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"You threw chips on me!" Obviously Jack's not the smartest guy in the world, either.

"So?" I asked.

He sat on me.

And leaned back.

It got really hard to breath, until Skylar saved me.

"Hey, man. Not cool, that's my sister you almost killed!" Sky's stronger than he looks, and it wasn't hard for him to haul Jack off me. "You okay, Riles?"

"I'm going to have bruises bigger than elephants!" I gasped. My brother laughed and helped me off the couch so I could make sure my legs still worked. "I'm surprised I'm not dead."

"Jack, I-I think you should leave." Skylar uttered the most shocking words I'd ever heard. I couldn't help but stare at him open mouthed as he ushered a complaining Jack out the door.

When Jack had left Sky turned to me.

"He likes you, you know." I didn't think my mouth could drop any farther, but it did.

"Wh-what?!" I screeched. Sky laughed without humor.

"Yeah. I don't think I can stand to have him around here if is falling for my baby sister. It's just not right. Especially because you hate him so much. I don't want either of you to get hurt. Or killed, for that matter." he said referring to my near death experience.

"I agree. I want to live a little longer than a month." the thought of Jack and me together scared me. I mean, not the kind of scary stuff that comes out at Halloween, I mean the worse-than-that everyday stuff. No ghosts, monsters, vampires, werewolves, or witches. Just a big ogre-sized guy falling in love with his best friend's little sister. Now that was scary.

"Riley, I'll hook you up with any other guy you want. Just not Jack." Sky continued.

"No worries, I don't want Jack. Although Charlie is pretty sweet." I said reminding him of the other guy that decided I was ''the one'' for him.

"And Charlie. No way will I let that happen again!" Sky laughed. He embraced me in one of those brotherly kind of hugs that I loved; because 1) they weren't mushy and 2) Sky was my favorite person in the world, my best friend until death. After that we'll sit and play checkers in the afterlife together. I loved this plan.

So, I dodged another bullet- for today at least.