Diamond Rings and Shoes

''What should we do to her?'' Lucas asked as he took slow menacing steps toward me.

''I don't know,'' Zack answered.

He stroked his imaginary beard and thought deeply about different ways to torment me.

''Hey, I have a suggestion,'' I jumped in, ''Maybe we focus on the good part of this night,''

''Oh yeah, and what is part is that? The time when you threatened to drown me or the time when your brother tried to blind me,'' Zack asked.

He's so dramatic and for what? What does he gain?

''I didn't try to blind you and you were on my sister. I'm the one that's blind,''

''So what? Why do you care about what we do?'' Zack asked.

''Because she's my sister,'' Lucas said as if it were the most obvious thing ever.

''Your sister, not your property. She's her own woman that can make her own decisions,''

Could have fooled me.

I decided to sneak past them as they argued back and forth like little children. I felt like having another slice of cake and a glass of chocolate milk before bed.