"Are you really going to sleep in that? This house is really hot at the moment, and I am pretty sure I saw you sweating earlier while we were down stairs, just cause you took a shower doesn't mean it won't happen again." Carl said as he took off his shirt since he was hot himself.
She stood their nervously while looking at him, biting her bottom lip she looked at him with pleading eyes, "I can sleep with it on, it isn't a problem."
He knew why she didn't want to take it off but he was trying to get her to see that he treated her as a real friend, leaning down he hugged her waist while whispering in her ear, "Come on it is okay. You don't have to worry about me saying or being disgusted by you. When you decided that we are friends then that means we are now friends for life so get use to it, now come on I want you comfortable while you sleep no self conscious."
He stayed hugging her while rubbing her back as her breathing had picked up some, he held her close while she calmed down, he knew it was going to take her a moment to get right. Running a hand through her black hair which she was finally letting flow freely, she was holding him tight too while rubbing her face into his chest since she wasn't tall enough to actually reach his face.
Although they never talked about what happened to her it didn't mean he hadn't heard rumors, but that was all they were other then the scars no one had really knew what had happened to her. Unless she wanted to talk about it he wasn't going to bring it up either, he was just hoping that he could help her heal in some way, hopefully one day she would open up to him enough to let him know what happened though.
After awhile she pulled back and slowly reached down to the bottom of her hoodie, she paused before looking at him in the eye, she must have seen what she was looking for since she went back to taking it off. As it came over her head she was wearing a black short sleeved T-shirt, she held the hoodie bundled up in front of her stomach while keeping her arms at an angle so that he couldn't see her wrist.
He reached down while looking her in the eye with a smile, "Don't worry. It is just us here, Ian decided to take Fiona's room since she is gone for the night. Come on let's get to sleep."
She nodded letting out another breath, setting her hoodie to the side, "So how is this working, do you want me to sleep in Ian's bed? Do you think he will mind?"
"Well do whatever you want. You can take his bed or get the wall side on my bed it is up to you." He said with a shrug not minding.
Standing there a moment she thought it over, moments later she jumped into his bed while scooting close to the wall after settling in she looked at him while patting the spot next to her. Nodding he jumped up into the bed next to her turning out the light that was attached to the board on the bed, he opened his arms to her as an invitation which she gladly took scooting inside them as he held her close.
"Thank you.... I know you are curious about-----"
He cut her off before she could continuing even as he traced the scars that ran up and down her wrist, "Don't worry about it. I am not going to ask about them or pressure you to tell me anything, plus I don't listen to the rumors at the school. Just tell me when you are comfortable."
She nodded against him, the room went quiet as they laid there, "I was at my psychiatrist before coming here, I started seeing her three months after the incident. She is kind of the reason we met, telling me that I needed to push myself and make friends again... I was scared I wouldn't be able to make one again."
"Well now you don't need to worry about that anymore. I like you so that means you have a friend for life, well unless you do something that is unforgivable which the only thing I count that as is Backstabbing me." He said while kissing the back of her head.
She didn't answer verbally but scooted closer to him and wrapped his arms tighter around her. Understanding her message he kissed her head one more time before closing his eyes to sleep.
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They woke up that morning tangled together their limbs all over the place, he knew that he slept calmly so she must have effect his sleep somehow, well not somehow she was definitely the cause of it. He chuckled some while setting her to the side, she was still asleep and he didn't want to disturb her because of it, instead he was going to let her sleep in while he went to make her breakfast.
They weren't going to start with the plan with Frank until later, heading downstairs he saw Debby standing there making food herself, it was still weird to him that she was younger then him seeing as she was the older one before. Shrugging he shook that off, she did get a lot more story then the original him so it wasn't that bad actually since she was still doing all the things she was doing.
"Morning Debby, what do you have planned for the day other then Frank's fake funeral?" He asked while taking stuff out to make a simple eggs and toast breakfast.
"Nothing really. Though I do need to go and see if the same people from last year are signing up for daycare this year, I don't know if I will have a drop in kids or increase. With summer approaching I need to figure it out before so I will be ready."
He nodded, "Yeah that is true. Well if you get more I don't mind helping a little if you need it."
"Thanks." She said with a bright smile since we all did out own things summer, of course we helped when needed but summer was more of doing what we wanted while also making money for the winter. "So who is this girl? Another one that you are sleeping with but you aren't in a relationship like that crazy girl Kassidi?"
"No Sammy is a friend, and like a normal friends we had a sleepover that didn't involve anything sexual." He answered while rolling his eyes, he didn't think he was that bad. He had only slept with three women; Cassidy, Kassidi, and Svetlana other then that he hadn't been sleeping around with a lot of women or anything.
"Sure she is." Debby said with a smile.
He shook his head but said nothing as he went back to finishing up the breakfast he was making, as he did so people started to trickle into the kitchen. He had to stop for a moment to let in the workers for his bathroom before going back to it, the last person in the kitchen was Sammy.
She came down in some cotton shorts and her hoodie while yawning, she walked right over to him and watched as he put food on a plate before taking it away. "Hey! That was meant for me." He said with a frown.
"I am your guest, and I am going to be here on your tragic day to support you for you dead father, so that means that this plate of food is mine." She argued back with a smile before she dug into the food.
He sighed before starting all over again as everyone else in the kitchen laughed at him, he only needed to get flowers for Frank's funeral so his job wasn't that hard. Debby was getting the suit, while Lip got the coffin along with Ian going to get the drugs needed to put Frank down.
Taking his other food made he took the seat next to Sammy while sending her a glare, that just earned her stealing his orange juice. He growled while everyone else laughed at the two of them, it was a big difference to how they were when Kassidi was around, though he didn't care much about that.
He was wondering how they were going to act when he brought Svetlana back, at least; Frank, Lip and Kev knew what she did for a living. Pushing it to the back of his mind he decided to worry about that later, instead he finished up his food so that he could hurry and get the flowers that they would need.
"Alright well I am going to get the flowers now, come on Sammy." He said while standing up and dumping his plate into the sink.
She nodded getting up and doing the same, he walked to the living room to wait while she went to get ready, he was surprised she was actually staying. At the moment he was making plans on his phone, he couldn't do the whole car stealing thing anymore, the last time almost got him caught so he needed something new to do.
At the moment just like his other life the internet was taking off more in making videos, he was thinking of joining the trend but he was checking what counted as good. So far the only things he has seen was like early YouTube stars did, no one was doing the big things he remembered, there were hardly any doing games at the moment too.
Since that was the case he thought it was a good idea to join, he could be the one to stand out if he started it, but he knew it wasn't going to be that easy.
"Ready to go?" Sammy asked walking into the room while putting on her jacket.
He let those thoughts slip for a moment, "Yeah let's head out."
Thirty minutes later they were walking back to the house as he saw Fiona and Steve showing up too, "Hey Fi, why do you look so worried?"
"What do you mean?! There is a Hurst outside the house right now, how am I suppose to feel!!" She growled at him.
"Oh that, well that is nothing really. We are fake killing off Frank so that his creditors will get off his back." He explained while lifting up the flowers, Sammy laughed at his side since he explained it like it was just something normal to talk about.
Fiona rubbed her brows while sighing, she didn't say anything else as they all walked back to the house, everyone inside was moving around frantically as they were getting ready. He set the flowers near the casket while walking to his room so that he could his suit for it, he had to send Kassidi a text about it so she wouldn't interrupt in the middle of it.
It wasn't long before the guys showed up at their house, everyone got into acting mode, Carl was actually trying his best not to laugh his ass off at the moment. This was really stupid, well more like the men were seeing that they stupid enough to buy this crap, if they did more then slapping him they would notice something happening.
"No our boss wants us to stay with him until he is in the ground." One said with a small smile, that was also the same time that Fiona gave him the signal to go.
Sneaking out the back door while no one was looking he took a bowling ball and walked near their truck, with all his strength he pulled back and watched it sail through the air. The back window crashed causing the alarm to go off, before they could come outside he ran back into the house while grabbing the dead meat that was in the bag.
"Hurry let's get this in here before the come back inside." V was saying as Lip and Kev were moving Frank's body out of the coffin and hiding him upstairs. Ian and Carl started to put the dead meat inside after putting on some gloves, they both gagged while doing it, to the side he could see Sammy trying not to laugh.
They were able to get it all in there before the men came back inside, when they did they were already lifting it to put it in the Hurst at the moment. The men helped them since their weren't enough boys to carry it, they replaced Fiona and Debby who were trying to help.
A quick trip to the cemetery they put the coffin in and already dug out grave, at this moment Frank should have been going to hide at the Alibi, he could only shake his head. The gravestone was blank, with Fiona describing why they didn't put his name on it so the men wouldn't get suspicious about it.
Moving to the Alibi everyone started telling Frank stories, the people who usually were at the bar were also there to help out, Carl didn't tell on though and listened on. "Hey Kev since we did this right then drinks are on me." He said with a smile while everyone around him cheered.
"You sure about that kid, these guys can really drink." He said with a raised brow.
"Yeah just put it all on this card." He answered using the debt card from the money he did keep in the bank which was more then enough to pay for more then two thousand drinks here.
Kev nodded before starting to serve people more, Sammy was watching it all with interest a small smile on her lips, "If this is how you live then you have a really interesting life, nothing like this every happens in my family." She said while taking a drink of her shot.
"Yeah my family is.....a little much, but they all have good hearts. Well maybe not Frank, he would sell us out in a moment just to gain something for himself." He explained.
"I see." She said while the two men who were staying to make sure it was all real finally took off.
"Be back in a moment." He told her while walking towards Fiona who was alone at the moment after everyone stopped shouting in celebration, "How was your night out with Steve? Was it everything you thought it would be?" He questioned.
"Somewhat..... It was really just a night of fun away from not worrying about you guys. Not that you are a handful or anything but, it was just nice to have at least one night away from being the person who took care of everything, you know what I mean?" she said with a small smile on her lips.
"The you should do that more often. No one is telling you to be here all the time, since I have started working the bills have been taken care of and we haven't really had any problems. Sometimes you can rely on us and leave Debby and Liam for us to watch while you do something." He said while leaning against the wall and looking around.
"I will think about it, though I don't really see it happening to often though." She said while bumping his shoulder lightly.
He nodded before leaning over and kissing the top of her head before heading back to where Sammy was, at the moment she was talking to some of the regulars like Kermit and Tommy.