“You know I don’t get it Mel why don’t you just reply to him? I mean what is there to lose?” Erin questioned me as me lounged in the lounge room like slobs as we watched Liam play the Play Station through stoned eyes. We were facing the symptoms of someone who only had an hour sleep as they decided to have a movie marathon.

“What’s there to gain?” I grumbled under my breath, my lack of sleep making me even grouchier about such a delicate subject.

Erin puffed a sigh of frustration and worry, “Look Mel for all you know he m-“

“Erin, she doesn’t have to call the douche alright?” Liam cried breaking his concentration from the game. And to think I had myself believe he wasn’t listening nor caring in the slightest. “The guys a dick and honestly it was his loss to lose Mel. Mel’s part of our family now, dad’s already declared her as his, he has nothing to gain and neither does Mel.” Liam said fiercely with his usual sisterly protectiveness. He was one to be something you’d call overprotective and so was I, we both sought bonding over worrying about Erin. “He fucked up his own life, he doesn’t deserve Mel, end of discussion.”

And although he called my biological father a “dick” and such I couldn’t help but smile as I watched Liam Cormack turn his face back towards the video game and continue to shoot the living daylights right out of any attacker, like a true protector.

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I cursed underneath my breath as I weaved in and out of people down the main street, it was ten to six and people were rushing to shops before six o’clock, otherwise known as closing time. In Epping it was usually such a small and quite friendly town but in between five thirty and six our main street turned into a wild zoo. I often compared to the scene in Mean Girls where they do the wild scene like animals, every time it would bring a smile to m face and I’d laugh like a clinically insane person to myself.

However today I just couldn’t find the will to smile today had been…painful to put it lightly. I was so wrung out and spiraled into havoc that nothing was comforting, my thoughts were spiraling and I just didn’t know what to do. First it was detention, than it was words that I overheard and to top it all off there was the whole “I'm awesomer than you” debate I had daily with Madison Hoover, she just didn’t seem to understand what the word “slut” truly meant. I had literally handed her the dictionary the other day and tried to break it down for her, and yet when she looks in the mirror she doesn’t see trash but rather cash. As if she was really some sort of asset. Don’t make me laugh. To put it lightly it just wasn’t my day.

So as I streamed down our main street barging people over that barged at me also (minus the grannies, I'm not that heartless) I rushed to reach Erin at her mum’s work before she was out that door. I glanced hastily down at my watch and although it screamed at me “You’re too late!” I defiantly pushed on cursing softly under my breath at the hold up before me at the pedestrian. That was one thing about me I was stubborn, I didn’t give up and I did what I wanted to do. It wasn’t like I had someone to actually boss me about, I fended for myself.

Cursing with impatience I ran my hands with a jagged and harsh edge through my hair and ran across the street in a rather illegal way. Another thing about me; I was far from patient. I can’t wait for things to happen I make them happen. Ignoring the profanities I continued you on in a brisk pace only flipping off a couple people from school that were courageous enough to send me a disgust glance as if I was literally grime. I hated that, the sneers of those in school that really thought they’re all that. I mean seriously so you got a boob job, what do you expect from the world, a freakin’ Nobel Prize? Filthy animals those people are the ones that walk around with a gleam in their eyes and a condescending smile on their face that said “Bow down!” by now though they realized that Melissa just didn’t bow down, it wasn’t part of my nature. I had been trampled over too much and it just wasn’t part of my criteria anymore. Standing up on the other hand…..

Reaching the door that would lead me to Erin I stopped puffing with a wide smile of satisfaction until I noticed the closed sign. I cursed, again, a horrible habit of mine. I racked my fingers through my long hair again and clucked my tongue with weakness. For what I had to do I did want to bow down though, for the first time in my life I wanted to run away and cower in the corner. I wanted denial land. That land Erin loved so much behind those books of hers. I wished at times that I could be so naive. I didn’t want to bring this news to her, or rather suspicion.

That was my one and only weakness, you know all those girls that walk around saying in a corny and sickly sweet voice “my boyfriend owns my heart” or some rubbish like that? That wasn’t my weakness, I knew way better than to give my heart to any filthy male, to give a male the chance to literally squeeze my hearts to bits and sink their teeth and claws in like a rabid beast. I knew better, I learnt that experience years before I even had my first boyfriend. So in other words my weakness was and never would be a guy.

Instead my weakness was my best friend and what I’d call my sister. Erin. Erin was the most beautiful girl I literally knew and she was the best thing that ever walked into my life. She made me grow a backbone and stand strong and proud, although she’s utterly oblivious to it. She had this friendly innocent purity about her that unintentionally she was just perfect in her reaction with those she loved. She just knew when it was needed for a deep personal discussion, a joke, advice, a girl’s night, a cry or just pure crazy wild fun. She just knew. And she was utterly and completely oblivious to what she did for those she loved; she didn’t see it or understand. She was just purely beautiful inside and out. But every person had their downfalls and Erin’s was facing reality instead of living in denial land, also known as stories and dreams. She never faced the reality of the so called perfect life and rather convinced herself it was perfect. There were multiple bits of advice I could give her starting wi-

“Mel!”

I snap around to find Eli pausing by his car a bit up, his hand on the driver’s sides door handle. I pursed my hand as he looked at me happily and with a bit of concern. Did I look that frazzled?

Eli was, well putting it bluntly, a sex god. He had caramel brown hair that made you just want to drool and run your tongue all along it searching for the richness that came when you ate caramel. He had a body and build just like any other sex god but it was his eyes that left you catching your breath. His eyes were of a piercing water blue that pulled you under until you were literally drowning in their depths. However I didn’t agree, I think I was the one and only person to never find Eli attractive in the slightest, sure I could agree that he was handsome and all but he did not a thing to me. No reaction and I couldn’t find it within myself to find something in him that made my heart stammer. He just did nothing for me.

Erin had tried multiple times to try and set me up with him, with hints and all but she didn’t press it too much. Eli and I just had to glance at each other with ease to be able to see the secrets hidden deep behind our bones. It seemed that the Cormack twins had something within them that was a mixed response. They were oblivious to what was right in front of them. Eli and I never spoke words of what secrets we held and truths but it was easy to see it just through observation. They were blind of reality.

“Are you looking for Ez?” he asked bringing me out of my inner turmoil.

My head snapped back up in his direction as I tugged on my bottom lip rather roughly with my teeth. I pushed the hair from my eyes “Yeah,” I cleared my throat awkwardly as I walked towards him so I didn’t have to shout “I was.” I admitted although it was rather obvious it must have been for some serious reason, I never ventured to Erin’s mum’s shop for a couple reasons but if I did…..well it was obviously rather important and serious.

“You just missed her actually; she just left with her mum.” Eli said.

I should have known I thought to myself smugly, of course Eli would know of Erin’s whereabouts, he probably had hung out with her and bugged her, with some lame excuse as to why. What did I say about her being oblivious?

“I figured.” I sighed sadly at my failure to reach here on time.

“If you want….” Eli hesitated before continuing “I can drive you up to theirs and you can see her.” He offered.

I rolled my eyes at him “You wish lover boy.” I smiled at him.

Eli narrowed his eyes at him “I'm not gay wi-“

I barked out rather loud laughter as I held my chest “I didn’t mean her brother you imbecile!” I cried, tears running down my face. “But it is rather nice that you’re keeping your preferences opened. I mean if you lose one you’ve always got back up Cormack for a replacement.” I teased.

Eli rolled his eyes used to my teasing and banter, he returned it too but I rather liked to take it to the next stage, a rather dangerous next step. Such as letting such words slip in front of an oblivious Liam or even Erin. Sometimes I literally questioned getting them a CAT scan.

“Well in all honesty that would suck for you Mel, I mean if I take both of them it only leaves you with Alekay.” He said making my eyes narrow as I looked at him. “And yes I am implying you partner up with the dog and therefore making you a dog, or rather a female dog which are called a bitch.”

I clicked my tongue at him in disapproval “Eli don’t fight with the unbeatable.” Was all I said before making my way up the street at his remark.

“If it’s any consolation for you Mel I'm the one that’s going to end up with the dog and you with the twins!” he shouted out down the deserted and darkening streets as it reached nearly quarter past six.

I glanced over my shoulder at Eli, a smile of sympathy shared between the two of us; we were in the exact same position.

We were both helplessly in love with the Cormack twins.

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