Chapter 22

"What? Why do I have to do it?" Kaleb whined.

"You're expecting Nina to do it, then?"

Kaleb scoffed. "No. I was expecting you to do it. You didn't do anything to help." He muttered making me chuckle quietly.

"You only cooked and mashed potatoes. I don't think it was that hard, Kaleb." Jake said as we piled up the plates.

Right now they were arguing about who gets to do the dishes. I was just enjoying their bickering as I started cleaning the table.

"But all you did was eat and sleep the whole day!"

Jake sighed. "Okay, one, I was sleeping the whole day cause I'm sick." he said holding out a finger. "And two this is my house and I can make you leave. Then you'll have three options, one is to brace that storm and go home, two is to sleep in the lobby, which I doubt they'd allow, and three come back up here and beg for forgiveness." Jake said smugly. He was smirking and had his arms crossed as he leaned on the island.

I laughed covering my mouth to try and cover it up. Kaleb was glaring at Jake then turned to scowl at me. I coughed and sobered up, biting my lip as I tried not to laugh.

Kaleb huffed and grabbed a plate going to the sink.

"That's what I thought so." Jake said smiling amused.

"Prick." Kaleb muttered but we all heard it.

"Stop whining you big baby." Jake said placing the glasses beside the sink.

I carried the plates and made my way to the sink when Jake stepped in front of me.

"Give it here, love." he said getting the plates from the hands and placing them with the other dishes.

I rolled my eyes as him as I went to wipe the table. "You know I was a waitress, I could've handled it."

I felt arms wrap around my waist. "I know." he said kissing my head.

I smiled and shook my head.

"Oh, can you remind me to call Maggie later after we're done?" I told Jake.

He grabbed the rag from my hand as I was wiping and I looked up at him in confusion. "Call her now. I'll finish up here."

I shrugged. "Alright. Oh, don't forget to drink your medicine."

"Got it."

I walked out of the kitchen and to the living room. I grabbed my phone which I left on the coffee table and called Maggie.

She picked up after the third ring. "Hey, sweetie."

"Hi, Maggie. I just called to tell you that I'm not coming home tonight because of the storm, other than that Jake won't let me."

"Oh. Well, alright, dear. But you don't have any clothes and stuff."

I ran a hand down my face. Right. I did not think of that one.

"We'll, uh, we'll figure something out I guess." I said as I felt arms wrap around my waist and a chin rest on my shoulder.

"Alright. Be safe and call if you need anything."

"Okay. Thanks Maggie. Be safe too, and can you please tell Mike. I don't want him to worry."

"I will sweetie."

"Thanks. Bye."

"Bye."

We hung up and I put my phone back on the coffee table making Jake let go of me.

"Wanna watch a movie?" he asked smiling down at me.

I shrugged smiling up at him. "Okay."

"Me too!" Kaleb announced.

I chuckled at him. This boy I swear. I never thought he was this childish from the first time I met him.

"Let's watch in my room. My DVD's are there." he said grabbing my hand. He then turned to Kaleb. "You're not invited."

"Oh, come on. You know I'm gonna crash anyways."

"You know he's right." I told Jake.

He groaned. "Fine. Come on." he said pulling me up the stairs and a happy Kaleb following us.

Once we got to his room Kaleb spoke up.

"Hey, can I borrow some clothes?"

"No way, man." Jake said disgustingly.

I chuckled at his face as he wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"Fine I'll just let Nina see my glorious and—"

"Fine! A shirt and pajama pants, that's it. You better keep your underwear on."

Kaleb smiled triumphantly as I laughed at Jake's reaction.

"You can look for a DVD while I get clothes." He said turning around and entering his walk-in closet.

I went toward his massive flatscreen where an XBOX was resting at the bottom on top of some drawers.

I opened a drawer to see a huge collection of video games stacked side by side neatly.

"Whoa." I gaped.

"They're in the right side. That's all his games." Kaleb said.

I scooted to my right and opened up the top drawer. As expected, a huge collection of movies, in alphabetical order. Did I mention it had four drawers and about twenty DVDs in each drawer?

"He has Frozen?" I asked amused.

"Hey, that movie's great. Don't judge me, I bet you love too." Jake said coming out of the closet carrying some clothes in his hands.

He threw some clothes to Kaleb that hit him right on the face. "Here. You can change in the closet. I'm gonna use the bathroom."

"Thanks, couz!" Kaleb said hopping off the couch and heading to the closet.

"You better not touch my stuff! Or leave your clothes there!"

"Whatever!" He called from inside the closet.

Jake sighed and shook his head. He then turned to me. "Luckily, you left some shorts when you went swimming the other day. So, I just got you one of my shirts." he said placing them down on the sofa.

"So this is where I left them. Thanks, babe." I said smiling at him and turned back to find a movie.

I heard him walk to the bathroom and shut the door.

I found a movie and placed it on the coffee table.

My phone rang and I dug it out of my pocket to look at the caller ID.

I pressed the answer button and placed the phone on my ear. "Hey, Jace."

"Hey. How's it going?"

"Well, Jake's better."

"That's good then. What have you been doing the whole day?"

"Took care of Jake and hanged with Kaleb."

"Kaleb's there?"

"Yup. I made him buy medicine and he never left." I said groaning.

He chuckled. "Annoying, huh?"

"You have no idea."

"Excuse me, Mr. Fox. The meeting is about to start." I heard a lady in the background.

"Alright, thanks."

I heard the door open and I looked up to see Kaleb in pajama pants and a dark green shirt.

"Well, I gotta go. I'll talk to you tom, alright?"

"Okay. Bye." I said as Kaleb passed me poking out his tongue for no reason.

"Bye. Love you." Jace said as I poked my tongue out at Kaleb.

"Love you, too." I hung up and put the phone on the bedside table.

"So, what movie?"

"Let's have a Fast and Furious marathon." I said getting my stuff from the couch.

Jake got out of the bathroom wearing pajama pants and a gray wife beater.

"Hey, do you have ice cream?" I asked Jake.

He looked up at me. "Yeah."

"What flavor?"

"Uhm, I think I have cookie batter."

"Yay!" I said smiling at him. I then turned to Kaleb. "Kaleb! Get me my ice cream, and popcorn for you guys, or whatever you guys want to eat."

"What? Why me?"

I rolled my eyes. "Because I'm gonna wash up and if Jake goes you'll start the movie without us." I stated.

He opened his mouths but closed it again and narrowed his eyes. "True. But, I still can't carry the food by myself."

Jake groaned and walked to Kaleb. "Come on, you useless person." he said grabbing his arm and pulling him out the room.

I smiled and shook my head. I went to the bathroom to change my clothes.

I put on my shorts and Jake's shirt, which smelled like him. The shirt was like a dress on me. It looked like I wasn't wearing my beach shorts underneath.

I tied my hair into a messy bun and folded up my clothes and went out of the bathroom, at the same time Jake and Kaleb came back holding food in there arms.

"Wow. That's a lot of food." I said placing my clothes on top of one of the chairs.

"Believe it or not, that's all Kaleb's. I just got a bowl of popcorn." Jake said sitting on the sofa placing two pints of ice cream, a soda, and a bowl of popcorn on the coffee table.

I noticed that Kaleb had a bowl of popcorn, two packs of chips, a container of sour tape, a pack of gummy bears and two cans of soda.

"Pig, much?" I said sitting beside Jake on the couch.

"Oh, shut up. I'm only like this in Jake's house. He has a lot of good food." he said putting on the DVD.

"You mean junk food."

Kaleb groaned. "It's food!"

I chuckled as I watched him place huge pillows on the floor below me and a comforter. That caused me to raise up my legs on the couch as Kaleb sat down on the floor and pulled the comforter over him as he leaned on the pillows against the couch.

Jake got two blankets that were hanging on the couch and put one over me. He adjusted his sitting position and stretched his legs as he put another blanket on his legs and grabbed his popcorn and my ice cream. He then wrapped an arm around me pulling me close to him and we got comfortable as the lights dimmed and the movie started.