The Ultimatum

Both Nolan and I tensed up and turned to see Raymond looking at us in confusion.

"Nothing." Nolan and I shouted out simultaneously.

We shot each other quick glares before looking back at Raymond, faking smiles.

He simply shook his head.

"Weirdos." He spoke trudging up to the living room and collapsing on the couch. "What's for breakfast? Arg, my head is pounding. Could someone turn off the lights?"

I gave my brother a deadpan look. "That's the sun, genius."

He squinted and simply threw a pillow onto his head.

All Raymond wore was a bath robe over his boxer shots. His blonde hair looked like a birds nest and by the dark circles around his eyes, I could tell none of his professors would be seeing him in class today.

"Hey everyone." I saw Rose show up bounding down the stairs looking to be in a more cheery mood than all of us combined.

She already had her backpack on ready for the day.

Raymond dropped the pillow and to my surprise offered a wide grin at Rose.

"Hey Rosie." He sung.

Rose let out a nervous giggle and bumped into the wall close by.

I flinched on her behalf.

"Uh, hey Raymond." She mumbled almost incoherently.

I furrowed my brows. Why the heck was my bestfriend acting so weird around my brother of all people?

Raymond sat up straight and offered a wider grin at her. "Thanks for taking care of me last night. Couldn't have gotten home without you." He winked.

I mentally gagged. "Okay enough of that." I told him in disgust. "Rose, I'll meet you in the car." I told her as I grabbed my car keys and tossed them at her.

Unlike my brother and Nolan, Rose had the hand eye coordination of a panda so she ended up fumbling with the keys and they fell right onto the floor.

Her face was almost the same shade of red as her hair as she bent over to pick everything up. Unfortunately for her, gravity wasn't on her side either so her books also came tumbling out of her backpack.

Rose looked damn near like a tomato now as she gathered everything up and scurried off.

I turned to Raymond who just looked amused. "Really?"

"What?" He asked innocently.

"No flirting with my best friend." I snapped at him.

Rose was literally my only friend since highschool who had always been immune to my brother's charms. Hence my only real friend. Everyone else who tried to befriend me always did it to get close to Raymond.

"Never noticed how cute she is." Raymond spoke.

I gagged. "Don't you dare. Besides, Rose is too smart to be seduced by the likes of you anyway."

Raymond rolled his eyes. "Whatever Sav." He whipped out his phone. "Yo, Nolan, we're hosting a party here tonight. Are you inviting Nicole?"

My head whipped to Nolan immediately remembering our kiss.

I found his eyes already on me and I looked away quickly.

"Nah." Nolan spoke breezily leaning against the island. "I already told you man, we broke up."

"But she's smoking hot." Raymomd argued.

"And psychotic." Nolan added without missing a beat. "She almost set my car on fire."

"Well you know what they say about the crazy ones in the sheets..."

"Okay gross." I spoke up stepping forward.

"And by the way, no one is having a party here tonight. Especially after what happened yesterday." I spoke.

Raymond scoffed. "Okay, mum."

I turned to glare at him. "I'm serious, Ray. Living with you two is literally every girls nightmare."

"Funny, that's not what most girls on campus say." Nolan spoke. He walked over to Raymond and they fist bumped like he had said something even remotely intelligent.

I stared at them blankly. "I'm serious. You two drive me crazy with the girls, the parties, the drinking... for goodness sake I have to clean up after you and buy groceries! You actually do treat me like your mummy and I'm sick of it!"

This time there were no jokes from either of them.

"Geez, Sav, breathe." Raymond spoke. "It's not that bad."

"Yes it is!" I screamed.

I realised how loud that had been and tried to calm myself down but dammit, I hadn't realised how much I had reached my breaking point.

"College isn't supposed to be like highschool. For once I want to live my life and not live in your shadows. So if you two don't get your act together? I swear I'm moving out."

With that, I spun around ans stormed out.