27. Followed

"...what? no, Grady! I'm just going to Player. Look, it's before opening hours for a couple of hours max, I'll be home around seven or eight. It's just going to be the four of us."

"Or nine, or ten, Ella...it hasn't even been a week since you got back from the hospital." Grady sounded irritated more than upset with me, he has always been the perfect son. Everyone has to follow his reasoning, if not then he would step down from his pedestal and fix everything and every one to his liking.

It was then when I realized that my supposedly fun brother Percy rat me out to my overprotective brother Grady, saying that I was going out for drinks. Grady was scolding me, telling me that I should still get some rest since I hit my head pretty hard last time.

But I was not budging, and he took a deep sighed and muttered in annoyance. "Me and Percy will pick you up, nope..." he cuts my words when I was about to object. "You should think about that before you set your drink date with your friends, whe