ROSE
I jolted out of my sleep as I heard sudden thumping and shouting from down stairs. It was 7p.m. I slept for three hours, I washed my face and sprint downstairs as I heard the shouting again.
I found Nick and Jack grabbing each other's hair in the lounge, as always Nick was squeezing his neck and jack was trying to punch him, jerks how am I going to stop these bulls, Max and Alex were standing at the corner watching them horrifically.
"Guys...guys stop" they continued to fight like hulks.
"Get Max out of there and leave" I looked at Max who was pale.
As they both went upstairs, I shouted at them again but it was hopelessly reckless.
"Hellooooo, are you even listening to me, oh my God mum and dad came back, stop it" I shouted with all my energy which worked this time.
They both froze like statues, Jack had a black eye which was swallowed completely and Nick had nose bleed staining his shirt, they looked miserable and quite funny. I couldn't stop myself from laughing. My plan worked they really believed that our parents are back. I hold my stomach while laughing and nearly crying. I fooled them so easily poor boys. They looked at me after they figured it out.
"What now you stained your favorite shirt and if mum or dad saw this all, you both will be dead" I pointed my finger at Nick's shirt, who now looked worried.
I looked around the whole lounge, which was giving miserable look, one of the chair and sofa were upside down. And the whole floor was messy with all the pebbles which were now out of decoration tray. I started collecting them when I heard tyres screeching outside, I looked at Nick who was still standing there with complete shock written on his face.
"The heck bro, aren't you going to help me, clean the shit you've created here" I put all pebbles in the tray, and set the chair back under table.
Jack and Nick were already gone, how am I going to move this huge sofa upside down it's heavy. They both are dead, mum will not tolerate this today.
"Hi mum dad how was your day, I thought you weren't supposed to be back before 12am" I quickly stood up and moved away from the sofa.
"Oh my God, what happened here, your brothers fought again I'm not going to tolerate this anymore, and is that blood on the floor" mum shouted while throwing her bag on the table furiously.
My ears nearly lost their hearing when my mum shouted, she glared and begin arguing with dad that she's sick of these dramas on weekly basis, and one of them should be in university's dormitory.
"Hey you ok kiddo?" dad called me.
"Yeah I'm fine dad" I assured him.
"Now tell me what happened before your mum starts fuming again" he sat on chair.
I narrated the whole scenario which made him laugh that how I lied to them and they both stopped. I helped him with setting sofa back to its place, unexpectedly dad was in good mood after long time.
"Go and check if Maximus is alright, I'm going to check on you idiot brothers" he said.
As I entered Max's room I found him crying and hiding behind his bed while Alex was busy in listening to songs. I cursed both of my brothers in my mind while hugging Max.
"Alex what happened down there?" I pulled his earphones out of his ears.
"Let's go to my room, let him sleep, come on Max it's fine, take some sleep and you'll be fine, be a big boy" he squeezed his shoulder.
"I don't know seriously, I was watching movie with Max, suddenly Jack was thrown in front of me and I understood the whole situation so we both stayed at the corner" he sat on his bed.
"You're right they were fighting like mad bulls, thank God you both didn't get hurt" I laughed.
"Yeah I mean they both should act like elder brothers, rather then that they act like kids, well let me reach eighteen I'll also get strong and will be able to stop them, right now I'm no match" he burst into laughter.
While laughing by mistake I looked at the door and found Jack glaring at both of us. My laughter stopped and I pinched Alex who was still laughing as he saw Jack his laughter stopped too and tried to hide his laughter.
Jack's one eye was swallowed, may be Nick punched him too hard. Can't imagine how much painful that would be, but he looked funny and miserable at same time.
Alex slowly grabbed my hand and we both ran downstairs before Jack could catch us and then again we burst into laughter.
"Shut up, both of you" dad put his book on the table with bang.
I was trying hard to control my laughter when I saw Nick, he had a tissue in his nose and his hair were still pulled up without any hair band, may be Jack pulled them so hard that not even hair gel worked. Then I lost my control and laughed with tears.
"Rose this is the last warning stop laughing now and take Alex with you, and you both in my study room right now" dad said while pointing his finger towards Nick and Jack.
I gave them thumbs up which angered them more, they both followed dad like zombies, God have mercy on their souls dad was angry like I've never seen him before.
After hours I heard door opening and when I checked I saw them coming out, thankfully I was watching from upstairs. They both were red as tomatoes fuming in anger, dad was holding their ears and they were walking towards mom. Obviously they had to apologize for the mess they had created.
When we all sat for dinner, everyone was quiet except for Alex and Max who were busy in discussing video games. I was sitting with Jack and Nick was sitting with mum.
"So why were they fighting dad?" I said while putting spaghetti in my plate, I might regret for not keeping my mouth shut.
"Why don't you ask them?" dad looked at both of them.
"So big bros what happened?" I asked without looking at them.
"He mixed red chilli in my shampoo" Nick said while his face turned red with anger.
"What the heck that was not good, you got some nerves messing with Nicholas the great" I slowly said to Jack who was looking down in his plate, his eye was now better and nearly healed.
Alex burst out laughing which result in spitting water all over his plate. And Jack was trying hard to control his laughing too but was miserably failing.
"You're dead, you're dead Jackson making fun of me in front of everyone" he growled.
"Stop being childish Nick, no one is making fun of anyone here, you hit him and that's the end" mom shouted.
The fork in his hand twisted completely and he punched in the plate and it break into two pieces and his hand started bleeding. But it looked like he didn't care.
Jack was off the table in a blink, and I was hiding behind him only mum and dad were sitting, Nick pushed his chair back so hard that it hit the wall and his eyes turned black and he looked horrific, for the first time, I saw his canines coming out of his mouth and he growled viciously and I felt like nearly having a heart attack any second. Jack hide under table and I followed him.
"Come out, afraid of me now, let's see what you got Jack" he said in animalistic voice.
We crawled from where mum and dad were sitting, as he saw us he growled at us both again.
"Calm down Nick, I told you that you can't do this in the house" mum shouted.
"Say sorry to him you've disrespected him, he's older than you don't make fun of him" mum warned, he was looking inhumane, I walk towards him as my legs shivered and my heart thumped loudly. I felt numb with every step I was taking towards him....
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