winter was always trying to figure out ways to try and get into Sam’s pants, and she knows how much it pisses me off. I wanted to kill her when she openly started to flirt with him the moment I came in. It looked like they were holding band auditions because we were looking for another vocalist that could harmonize with me on some of our songs. I just hope that vocalist wasn’t her.

She sang a few more songs and then Koda wanted to give his fingers a break because they were cramping from strumming the guitar. Koda and I took this as our chance to go rummage through Sam’s kitchen for food since we’re both major gluttons. Luckily we found a few bags of chips in the cupboard and some cola in the fridge. I also happened to find some strawberries in the fridge so I figured I would dip them in some chocolate later once Winter left. There was no way I was sharing chocolate covered strawberries with her. After gathering our snacks we went back to the music room. Before entering the room we heard a crash and then Winter came running out like a bat out of hell. I don’t know if Koda noticed that her makeup was a mess, but I sure did. 

Her mascara and eyeliner were running and her lipstick was an absolute mess. I wonder what happened to make her look like such a hot mess. I shrugged it off until we went into the music room and I saw that Sam had the same shade of lipstick that Winter was wearing smeared a crossed his cheek and neck.

I felt raw rage and disappointment running through my veins and I knew I had to find a place to calm down, so I pulled my Speedy Gonzales impression and booked it to the en-suite bathroom.

The second I hunkered down in the tub I began to bawl angry hot tears because I didn’t know who to be mad at Sam, Winter, or Myself. I felt so many emotions in just five minutes that I hadn’t felt in so long that it had my mind and body on emotional overload. It was like someone had put me on a train at full speed that was about to crash and I didn’t know how to stop it from crashing.

"Knock, Knock, Knock".

 I'm pulled out of my thoughts when I hear a knock at the door. I must have made a noise to signal that it was okay to come in because in the next second Sam was sitting across from me in the bathtub just staring at me. I kept my head down in between my knees because I didn’t want him to see my messy makeup. I didn’t even want to look at him because of what had just happened. I just wanted to curl up in a ball and let my emotional breakdown continue, but I guess he had other ideas.

30 minutes later

After half an hour of me giving him the silent treatment and the cold shoulder, he finally resorted to bribing me with chocolate rose petals and an all-night supernatural marathon to get me out of my very comfortable spot in the bathtub. He literally had to make a trail of chocolate rose petals to get me out of the comfortable bathtub. By the time we got back to Sam's music room my face was full and covered in chocolate. Sadly Winter had come back to the music room with fresh makeup that looked like she had never been crying. Knowing that my face was covered in chocolate had her laughing her butt off at me. I wanted to go hide again, but unfortunately, the ringing of the doorbell stopped me from running because Sam said he would get it, but before he did he looked at me and said stay as if I were a pet; I didn't object though. The person at the door happened to be my brother because of the following conversation that ensued as I proceeded to eavesdrop.

“Hello, Samuel would Briar happen to be here by any chance?"

“Yes she does happen to be here, but I don't feel inclined to give her over to you Atticus because there must be a reason she's here other than over at your place. Why might that be?"

“You may be her best-friend, but I am her older brother and I don't feel inclined to tell you everything, Samuel."

“You may be her older brother, but it seems you must have done something to piss her off, so yet again I ask what was it that pissed her off?"

“It’s none of your concern, so if you would kindly go and get my sister I would like to take her home."

“Which home hers or yours?"

“Again that is none of your-"

"IT IS MY CONCERN WHEN YOU KEEP HER AWAY FROM ME!!!!! SO NOW IF THAT IS ALL YOU CAME FOR I BID YOU ADIEU!!!!!"

The next thing I heard was the front door being slammed and Sammy thundering his way upstairs. When he got back Winter finally began to catch her breath. After she was able to speak again the words she spat out were like acid being spit in my face.

“Why would you pick a hot mess like her over a hot person like me? Just look at her she has chocolate all over her face and she’s an emotional and physical wreck. Why would you want such damaged goods? Why would you pick her over me?”

Okay sure I don’t have the skinniest body and I know I’m an overall wreck, but she didn’t have to say it like that. It shouldn’t even hurt coming from her but, it sure as hell did and I couldn’t figure out why. I could feel hot angry tears beginning to well in my eyes, but Koda pulled me into his chest before Winter could see and laugh at me even more about it. I just wanted to disappear again, but then her words finally began to sink in. She had said that Sam wanted me and I was about to ask him if that was true, but he spoke before I had the chance to say anything.

“Get Out! You’re not needed here in this band or in this house if all you’re going to do is be rude, disrespectful, and downright toxic to people around you! We don’t need that negativity around here. That’s not how we do things around this place.”

I peeked out from Koda’s chest and saw that Winter was opening and closing her mouth like a fish looking for something to say back to him, but was coming up with a blank. Meanwhile, Sam was staring her down red faced and downright scary looking. After a few minutes of such an intense silence, it was broken by Sam’s older brother Luka coming into the room with Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. DeMew sweet buns. Luka happens to also be Koda’s boyfriend. It looked like he’d come home from college and had stopped by the themed café that was near their house since they were piping hot and looked absolutely delicious. The tension finally broke when he finally spoke.

“Why do you all look like you ate something absolutely bitter?”

That’s when Winter gave a disgruntled huff, grabbed her things, and ran out of the room. Within a minute we heard the front door slamming shut. Luka looked absolutely flabbergasted, but Koda just told him he would explain everything to him later. In the next second, I was being yanked out of Koda’s arms by Sam and being carried off to his room.

When we got there he opened the door and threw us both onto his Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. DeMew shaped bed. I was beginning to ask him what all that was back there, but he cut me off by telling me that we would all talk about it later. After that silence fell over us, but it was a nice silence.

After a little while, Luka came in and sat the sweet buns down on the nightstand and quietly left. Sam then reached behind himself and grabbed them and we ate them in silence. Once we were done with our snack we both hunkered down for a nap. He with his arms wrapped tightly around me and me snuggled into his chest like when we were little and I would stay over.