Mixed Feelings

1

Tristan Gibson(16) casually ‘fell’ out of bed at the sound of his alarm. It was Seven on a Saturday morning. The warm July sun just started to peak through his neon green curtains. With unruly hair, and only a pair of boxers he walked down the 2 flights of stairs and into the kitchen. Grabbing an apple, he plopped onto the couch and loudly turned on Head Bangers Ball on MTV. Only his brother Eli was home, his parents were gone for the month on a cruise to the Caribbean. 2

Eli Gibson(17) lie in front of the TV completely passed out with a bottle of unmentionables. A light pool of spit was on the pillow that had once been under his head, but was now between his legs. Rolling over Eli let the pillow fall and that alerted his little brother of his existence. Then, as if he had not’t even noticed the music Eli woke up rubbing his eyes. Looking around, the teenager yawned and looked at Tristan. “Wha’re doing here?” He said slurring every word. An eyebrow was now raised in confusion. 3

“Uh…I’m kind of watching TV. What are you doing here? Don’t you sleep in the basement now” Tristan replied nonchalantly while picking up the pillow and consistently hitting Eli over the head with it. After about 3 minutes of that fun and excitement , he jumped up from the couch and walked over to the open window, mind you still in boxers, and waved at Anna, the next-door neighbor girl. 4

Eli glared after his brother who was always off doing stupid stuff to win Anna’s love. But she seemed to smart and innocent for his ways. Rolling out of the leather couch he stood up and let the blankets drop from around his body to show him wearing nothing but blue boxers with red lines on them. He walked over to the fridge and waved to Anna who was looking though her window over at them. But of course he didn’t care if she saw his ‘goods’ he wasn’t trying to show off for her! 5

Anna Farran(15) had been up only because her dog was outside barking its head off. And when she went to go see what Coco was barking at she noticed her hilarious neighbor standing at his window waving. Trying to suppress a laugh she waved back. Then seeing Eli walk by and seeing HIS wardrobe she couldn’t hide her humor. Letting out a light laugh she soon got over it and yelled over to Tristan, “HEY LOSER! What you doing in about an hour?” 6

Tristan smiled and casually ran his hand through his hair and did his best James Dean “Hey baby not a thing.” To tell the truth, Tristan had fallen madly in love with his neighbor and was always competing with Eli for her affection. 7

Tara Jeret, a girl of 17, rang the Gibson’s doorbell at that very moment. She had just moved in across the street and decided to meet her neighbors, since she was starting school there in the fall. She had long black hair with pink streaks, converses, black and white Tripp pants, and a black t-shirt with a white skull logo on the front. The sleeves of course were mesh. 8

Seeing that Tristan was too busy flirting with the neighbor Eli made his way to the front door and reached for the brass doorknob. But then realized that he was in nothing but his slightly undersized boxers, “Be right there!” He didn’t want to let whoever it was see all of him. Running over to the couch he grabbed a blanket and wrapped his lower body so no one would see anything. But he still let his slick upper body showing, then answered the door. 9

Anna grinned, “That’s good…’cause you’re coming over soon!” And with that she disappeared from the window and let the black curtains fall over the old Victorian windows.  10

“Ok, sure! Should I dress for any certain occasion, or can I grace you with my presence still in boxers?” Tristan called after her, but just decided to put on a pair of old ripped blue jeans and a tight black t-shirt. He walked out of his bedroom, in which he was getting dressed, and into the bathroom where he put on eyeliner and brushed his hair so it covered his left eye, a common Emo thing. Slipping on his converses’ he walked passed Tara and Eli. 11

Tara blushed, her cheeks now as bright as the streaks in her hair. “Oh, um, uh” she smiled and tucked her hair neatly behind her ear. “I’m Tara, I just moved in across the street” 12

Eli grinned, “Yeah, I’ve never seen you around here before” He quickly pushed the untied hair out of his face and frowned. It was being rather annoying this morning. Eli usually kept it back in a tie and gelled most of the time, but when he DID let it down the black hair was such a sight. 13

Anna heard Tristan yell something back to her, but hadn’t understood what he said until it was too late. It was probably for the better, better for her wonderful look that is. 14

Tristan walked up the sidewalk and to the beautifully crafted white door of Anna’s 2-story Victorian Home. He didn’t even bother ringing the doorbell; he just opened the door and wandered around her home. “Heelllooo” he yelled, but with no reply he walked up the spiral staircase and into her room. With a cautious eye, he looked to make sure no one was around before diving into her closet and tried on her shortest pink dress. 15

Tara smiled as Tristan ran past but then refocused on Eli. “Yea, im starting 11^th grade this fall. So I’m Tara and you are?” Her eyes kept darting between his captivating eyes and the blanket covering whatever was underneath, with that thought she began blushing yet again. 16

Anna had been downstairs in the kitchen when Tristan had barged into her house. Not hearing him due to the headphones blaring Anti-Flag’s song ‘Die for you Government’. Then with an afterthought she walked upstairs to change into something more slimming, and less comfortable. But then seeing her door open Anna’s eyes started to dart around, maybe there was someone in her house? But then she turned around and saw someone in her closet. “Who are you?” She didn’t notice Tristan at first. 17

Eli followed Tara’s eyes down and blushed along with her. “Erm…I’m Eli.” He stepped back slightly, “Hey, you wanna come in?” Eli pushed the hair out of his face again nervously. This girl was cute, but probably wouldn’t talk to him again after this encounter. 18

“IM A PRETTY PRINCESS” Tristan said in his most fem voice while walking out of the closet in her dress, his own clothes lie on the floor in front of him. He moved his pelvis back and forth with a goofy grin on his face. 19

“Sure! Id love to come in” she hesitated a bit but then walked inside their home. “This place kind of reminds me of the house I just moved into” upon noticing the skateboard by the door she asked “Do you skate?” 20

Eli shrugged, “A little bit, it’s more my brother that skates, I just play around most of the time.” Walking into the living room Eli motioned for Tara to sit, “Come…I’ll be right back” 21

Anna raised an eyebrow, “What the heck are you doing in my DRESS?!” She reached forwards and tried to snatch it off of him, but to no avail. “MY GOD DUDE!” She looked down at his pile of clothes. Finally realizing that he had stretched it to no good she sighed and sat down on her bed. “What are you a cross dresser now?” 22

“Yup SURE ARE!!! How do you like the new me? Im a sexy lady!”  Tristan sat down next to Anna. “So where are we going or what are doing or who are we doing” with that last statement he humorously placed his hand on her thigh. 23

Tara walked over and sat down; nervously she twirled a strand of hair around her finger. She thought Eli was good looking and diffidently wanted to get to know him better, but with them both being so nervous and shy, it was going to be hard. 24

Anna put a hand over Tristan’s with a seductive grin. Then with a shrug stood up and said, “I dunno, depends upon what you want to do” She was going to keep him guessing as to what her intentions were. 25

Eli quickly ran downstairs and threw on a pair of Tripp pants that had green stitching and a Jack Skelington hoodie that had Jack and Sally on the front in an embrace. On the back it said “We’re simply meant to be”…his favorite one, then came upstairs. 26

Tristan smiled deviously. “Well, we could ya know…get better acquainted” with that being said he jokingly puckered up his lips in a humorous way. He knew that if he ever wanted to be close to Anna, he would have to learn to be more serious, but he couldn’t help being as goofy as he was. 27

“Nice clothes” Tara replied while looking up. She had been going through their DVD’S. She looked back down and let out a small gasp as her eyes laid upon one of Tristan’s ‘adult’ movies. 28

Eli looked to where Tara had gasped and sighed. He shouldn’t let his little brother be messing around with those movies…or leaving them around in any case. “Er…yeah, that’s Tristan’s” With that he walked over and stood behind her, breathing down her neck. 29

Anna laughed. Pushing him away she said, “Yeah, what a way to make a mood man.” With that she walked over to her CD collection and flipped though the CDs finally finding what she wanted, a mix CD with a whole bunch of Emo songs. Ones that made you rather depressed and want to just die. That was her favorite CD in the whole collection. 30

Tara, on quick impulse, turned around and kissed Eli, resting her arms loosely on his waist. It was an ‘in the moment’ type of thing, but there was something irresistible about him. 31

Tristan stood up and walked over behind Anna and wrapped his arms around her waist and resting his head on her shoulder. “Hey” he whispered in her ear. 32

Anna jumped slightly when she heard Tristan behind her. “Erm…hullo” she said pushing the CD into the player. Soon a rather depressing song came on. 33

Eli stepped backwards when Tara kissed him. It was really awkward for him. “Er…” he looked at her confused. It wasn’t exactly something he did on a normal day basis, but then again, she had kissed him first. Walking forwards again he kissed her on her lips deeply and passionately. There was a connection, he knew. 34

Tristan nuzzled against her neck and nibbled on her ear a bit before gently kissing her neck. But after realizing what he was doing he let go and walked into her closet to put his clothes back on. Upon exiting, now fully dressed in his own clothes, he spoke softly “Sorry that was out of line, if you want me to leave I can…” 35

Tara wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss, but after about 5 minutes of making out pulled away and rushed out of his house. A slip of paper falling out of her pocket as she left; it contained her address and phone number. 36

Watching her leave Eli’s mouth was open shocked. She had left, but of course that was a very odd occurrence, even for him in his odd ways. But once she was gone he found very little to do. Eli walked back over to the living room not even noticing the piece of paper on the ground and plopped into the same place he had woken up at, only to grab up the bottle of unmentionables and take a big gulp. No he wasn’t an addict… 37

Anna shook her head, but then said, “You better…mum might catch us” Her parent’s room was just down the hallway and she didn’t want them to catch the two together like this. 38

Tristan sighed and kissed her once more before walking out of her room and down the stairs but due to nerves ended up tripping and falling the entire way down the spiral stair case. Upon reaching the end he shouted up “I’m A-OK” 39

Tara stormed up to her room and buried her face into her My little Pony Pillow Case (her sisters really, but her ATREYU ones were In the wash). She couldn’t believe what she had just done, she had just met Eli, but the strange thing was, she wasn’t expecting him to kiss her back. 40

Eli took another gulp of the drink and felt the liquid go down his throat soothing his nerves right away. He was just trying to forget the additional rejection of another girl. But of course that wasn’t new because he was a complete weirdo. “Honestly…who kisses a girl upon meeting her?” He said to himself. 41

Anna jumped when she heard the crash. Running to her door she slammed it open and looked down at Tristan sprawled across the bottom step with a goofy grin on his face. “What on Earth?” She was worried for his safety, but he HAD said he was ‘a-ok’ so she shouldn’t really worry…right? 42

“I kind of ….uh…tripped” he said lifting his head and struggling to get up but then gasped out in pain, he had sprained his wrist. Of course, being a goof and a skater, he kind of got accustomed to pain, sprains, and breaks. 43

“Apparently you do, wait until I tell mom” Emily said. She was a a short little brunette with a pony tail and an attitude. “Your not supposed to have company over, ESPECIALLY girls, and wait until dad finds out your drinking again. He’ll kick you out” with that thought she smiled and spoke to herself. “And then I can get the basement to myself again…” 44

Eli shrugged taking another drink. “It’d be wise of you NOT to tell them.” He picked up the pillow that had been placed between his legs earlier and threw it at Emily. “Now go play with your dolls or something” 45

Anna gasped. “Oh my gosh…are you ok?” She slid down the spiral banister landing right next to him. Looking at his wrist she said, “It doesn’t look broken…” How she knew that was a mystery to her even. 46

“Too bad, and im 10 I DON’T play with dolls!!” Emily ran into the kitchen and picked up the phone, stumbling with the buttons trying to remember the emergency number. “YOUR IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!!!” 47

“Yea, it sure doesn’t feel like that” Tristan winced but then smiled while he sat up. “Ill be fine, don’t worry so much, its not like last year when I skated off the roof into the pool and broke my leg and got a concussion” he laughed remembering that painful yet exciting memory. 48

Anna shook her head, “Yeah, not as bad…but you must remember, I was the one who pulled you out of there and almost drowned in the process!” Laughing she helped Tristan to his feet. “You sure you’re gonna be ok?” 49

Eli jumped to his feet quickly and ran over to his sister, stumbling slightly. With a quick and sturdy movement he grabbed the phone from her. “Look KID! I’m really NOT in the mood to play right now. Now get outta here…NOW!” With that he slammed the phone against the blue and black countertop. 50

Emily stamped her foot and grabbed the phone. Once she had a good grip on it she ran upstairs but tripped halfway to her room. While on the floor her mom had answered “Hey mom you’ll never guess what Eli did!!” 51

“Yeah Ill be plenty fine” Tristan said brushing off his shirt with his good wrist. He took out a scarf he had in his back pocket and wrapped his sprained wrist. “this should heal up in no time” He turned to walk away but then kissed Anna quickly and whispered in her ear, “I never thanked you for saving me, Thanks” 52

Anna absent-mindedly placed her fingers where Tristan had kissed her. “You’re…welcome” she said blushing slightly. Anyone else would have done it, but she had been the only one there, her and Emily. 53

Eli ran up the stairs after Emily. “What the hell?” He saw she was talking into the phone and no doubt it was to mother. Grabbing the phone out of her hand he spoke, “ER…hullo?” He glared down at Emily when there mother answered, “What have you been doing to your sister?” Eli frowned. “I erm…beat her at a game of DDR and she was just pissed off” He wasn’t really aloud to cuss, but it didn’t matter. 54

Tristan walked into the house and heard some commotion upstairs, he figured Eli and Emily were arguing but upon seeing the Alcohol bottle on the counter he sprinted upstairs. He knew his brother. Not a nice guy when drunk. 55

Emily sat there and held her breath, slightly shaken. She knew that look, Eli WAS NOT happy or amused. She tried inching away but his gaze had her frozen to the floor. 56

Eli hung up the phone after talking to there mum and started to lean forwards. This was the last time she was going to play around with him. Grabbing her shirt up he began to whisper in her ear up close, “You ever fuck around with me again…and I’ll personally beat the living shit out of you. You hear?” And with that he threw her onto the ground rather forcefully. 57

“WHAT THE HELL?!?!” Tristan screamed while slamming Eli against the wall. He looked down at his terrified little sister who was now in tears, and glared at Eli.58

(Thats all I have for now, ill put a continuation up soon as possible) 59

60