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“That was harsh, Joc. Even for you.” Aidan commented the moment that Tora walked out the door, leaving the two siblings alone inside their dining room. She didn’t respond at first, having already been dealing with her own guilt over how she had treated him. He wasn’t all that bad, and if she allowed herself to be perfectly honest, she was starting to like having him around. It wasn’t often she could say whatever was on her mind and not have to worry about the other person getting offended by it. Tora took everything she gave him with a smirk, not even bothering to whine when she got nasty. Hell, he hadn’t even snapped at her when she called him gay, which she thought certainly would have called for more than a smart remark. Scowling at her brother who continued to stare at her, Jocelyn threw her arms up in the air. “Alright, alright! I’ll apologize to him tomorrow, alright? It’s not like I was going to force him to leave you know. I was going to ask you to drop him off at his house.” The way Tora had left made her feel like she’d just kicked a puppy in the face; she didn’t like it at all. She’d never felt guilty for pushing someone away before, and now that she had experienced it, she didn’t want to ever feel that way again.

“But if you think this is going to force me into hanging around with him all the time, you’ve got another thing coming!” Arms folded across her chest, the redhead shot a glare across the table, trying her best to look perturbed at the idea of spending time with Tora. Aidan didn’t look convinced though, and she was lacking the energy to make the expression look more authentic. Sighing, she shoved her plate across the table top. “Look, I’ll apologize because I didn’t really mean for him to go running out like that. But an apology does not make us friends.” Again Jocelyn felt as if she was forcing herself to feel the way that she knew she should. Tora should be another name added to the extremely long list of people who annoyed her, but he didn’t, no matter how hard he tried to. Having lost her appetite, and wanting to be left alone, she gathered up her mess and rose from her seat, scooting it back beneath the table once she was standing. “I’m going to take a shower and watch a movie or something.” She grumbled, leaving the room to deposit her dishes into the sink before slinking up the stairs to prepare for an evening of lounging around and doing absolutely nothing at all to avoid the mess of homework she should be doing.

Inside her room, she went straight to her closet to kick her shoes off, deciding that she would go through her clothes to select her outfit for the next day so that she could stay in bed a few extra minutes. Once her task was finished she moved to her dresser to grab a pair of pajama pants and a tee-shirt and headed into the shower to wash up and prepare for the evening. While she stood in the shower, she thought about how she would approach Tora the next day, genuinely intending to apologize, but unsure exactly how to go about it. She honestly hadn’t meant to send him off like he was some sort of pest. All she had wanted to do was avoid having her aunt meet him and begin to assume that the two of them had some sort of relationship forming. Her aunt would not stop bugging her if she got the idea that the two of them were a couple, and Jocelyn didn’t need the woman chasing her around hounding her. By the time she was finished washing up, drying off and getting dressed, Jocelyn had figured that the best way to go about apologizing was to simply spit it out. With a course of action in place, she exited the bathroom and headed back into her bedroom to relax for the rest of the night.

The first thing she noticed was that her bedroom window was wide open, the light blue curtains covering them fluttering in the breeze that drifted in through the screen. The next thing that caught her attention was her bed, which had been made, not exactly neatly, but it had been made all the same. Not only was the quilt that covered her bed draping down to the floor, but the sheets had been ripped free of her mattress and the pillow case covering her pillow was lying in a crumpled heap on the floor. Pictures on her wall had been switched, most of them which had been perfectly straight now hung skewed. Clothes had been ripped from their hangers, her drawers were all opened up with her clothing half tossed from them. The entire room was a mess, and it had not been that way when she went off to the bathroom.

“AIDAN!” She screamed at the top of her lungs, her nerves shot at the mess that she now had to clean up. Had her brother decided to come in and trash her room because of how she had treated Tora? It was possible, but she couldn’t believe he would go to that extreme over something that honestly didn’t concern him.

Aidan can running up the stairs, leaning against the doorframe to catch his breath. His eyes scanned the room before finally landing on Jocelyn. “Why did you trash your room?” Jocelyn whirled around on him, glaring angrily at him. “I didn’t do this! Are you crazy? Why did you do it?” Stunned that she was accusing him, Aidan shook his head quickly. “I didn’t do this! I just came from downstairs.” Looking skeptically at him, Jocelyn folded her arms across her chest, her foot tapping on the ground. “Seriously Jocelyn, I had nothing to do with it!”

“So I suppose the mess just made itself, right?” Jocelyn asked, rolling her eyes at her brother’s adamant insistence that he hadn’t come in and trashed her room. It had to be him. The room had been mess when she left sure, but it had been a tidy type of messy with things slightly out of place, not everything thrown all over the place. Aidan was the only person in the house besides her, and she certainly wouldn’t have made such a mess; she was the one that had to clean it up. “Look, I don’t care if you’re going to admit if you did it or not, but you’re helping me clean it up, because you are the only person who could have done it. I was in the shower.” Sighing, Aidan reluctantly stepped into the room, not wanting to argue with his sister. In his mind he was wondering exactly what she was trying to do. Making a mess to accuse him of it for no reason didn’t make any sense at all, but there were quite a few times when Jocelyn didn’t make sense. “Fine. Come on and let’s get this cleaned up before Aunt Alicia gets home and sees it.” The two siblings began to clean up the mess, each one assuming the other had made it, and wondering exactly why the other would destroy the room. It didn’t take long before everything was straightened back up again Aidan left Jocelyn alone to watch TV, but after the mess in her room she wasn’t really in the mood to actually do so. Instead she stretched out on her bed on her back and stared up at the ceiling, trying to figure out what was going on. Had Tora snuck back into her house and trashed her room? Was Aidan covering for him? She’d have to ask the next day at school, but for now all she wanted to do was shut her mind off and get the whole thing out of her mind.

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