Something Better by Stephanie Lyon (i am reading a book txt) 📖

CHAPTER 1
SAVANNAH
I was lying in my bed, almost asleep after trying for the last two hours when I hear a knock on the front doors. I sat straight up and felt my heart beat speed up; it was almost midnight and was pouring rain outside. Who the hell goes to someone’s house at almost midnight in the pouring rain?
My heart was definitely beating faster than normal as I walked down the hallway to our front door. I tiptoed into the kitchen and grabbed the meat cleaver from the butchers block. I knew I was probably overreacting but I felt better knowing I had something to protect me.
I put my hand on the knob for a second before opening, the meat cleaver in my other hand that was shaking. This person had to be crazy if they decided to come over here at midnight in the pouring rain. I tightened my grip on the handle of the meat cleaver as I twisted the knob and swung the door open. “Jesus it took you long enough” summer said stepping around me and coming inside. My grip loosened and my heart beat started to slow down. I rolled my eyes as I set the meat cleaver back in the butchers block and made my way back to the living room where she was now sitting in my dad’s leather recliner. I sat down on the couch across from her. Her blondish brown hair was wet and tangled; her makeup was all messed up.
Me and summer met right after I moved here when I was seven and she ran over to me showing of her Barbie bike her dad just bought her for her birthday, which I found out years later was the same as mine, I honestly didn’t think we would be friends for long because of how different we were but now where almost seventeen and best friends.
“What the hell where you doing coming over here at midnight when it’s pouring rain are you crazy” I snapped standing up and handing her the blanket my dad always kept on the back of the couch. She smirked as she wrapped it around her.
“My mom got arrested” she said staring at me intently waiting for me to answer. I just shrugged because I knew her mom left her with her dad when she was only a couple months old. Summer hated her mom and never bothered to try and meet her I guess she would be happy if her mom got arrested.
“So…” I said waiting for her to tell me why or why she even cared.
“So my brothers moving in with us” she said. I froze. What the hell she had a brother? She never mentioned she had a brother and they sure didn’t have any pictures at her house of a brother. I thought she was an only child.
“You have a brother”
“Well I just found out tonight when my dad told me he was moving in with us” she said playing with the loose thread on the blanket. “all I know is he’s a year older than me I told my dad I didn’t want to hear anything else and locked myself in my room, but I wanted to tell you because your my best friend and I’m freaking out” she said really quick. She always talked fast when she was nervous. I didn’t really know what to say to her it’s not like this happened every day to any other of my friends.
“Umm...wow I thought my family had some pretty bad secrets” I said trying to make her laugh. I guess my family really didn’t have any secrets, none that big. My dad was a doctor so I didn’t really see him much anyways and my mom died when I was three.
“God I know my family is so screwed up” she said playful ling rubbing her arms over her face. “You mind if I sleep over”
“Nah” I said glancing around at my dead silent house.” Dad’s at work so it’s just me and you” I said laying myself out on the couch.
“thanks for listening” I heard summer say, I was too tired to keep talking so I just nodded my head and before I knew it I was sleeping.
When I woke up the next morning summer wasn’t there. I reached around for my phone until I found it lying on the floor. I knew she would have left me a text. There where two texts on my phone from summer.
Hey thnx for listening last night I’ll see u at work.
Don’t forget it’s Friday night everybody’s coming to my house :)
I sent her a smiley face and checked the time summer and I start work at Sarah’s dinner at eleven thirty and it was already nine o’clock I still had another hour before I had to take a shower and get ready. I grabbed the remote of the floor and turned the TV on.
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HAYDEN
I didn’t even know I had a sister or a dad forty eight hours ago and now I was being forced to live with them. My mom never even mentioned the fact that I had a sister. I probably would have never of known if she and her new dumbass boyfriend didn’t get arrested.
The house was huge compared to the one bedroom apartment my mom had us living in. as I walked to the front door I saw something tapped to the front door.
HEY HAYDEN,
WELCOME TO YOUR NEW HOUSE, I’M WORKING LATE TONIGHT THE DOORS UNLOCKED MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE, CHOOSE ANY ROOM YOU WANT ON THE SECOND FLOOR , THE FRIDGE IS FULL TO. YOUR SISTER SUMMER SHOULD BE HOME AT ANY TIME TO GET READY FOR WORK. WELCOME HOME.
YOU’RE DAD,
JASON
I laughed. He wasn’t my dad, he doesn’t even know me. I ripped the note of the door and opened the door which was open just like Jason said. It was a nice house, compared to the whole in the wall place where my mom and I where living. There was a large kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, and marble floors immediately to my right, damn they must have money. I kept walking and found the living room which had a leather couch and two recliners. They were all facing a seventy two inch TV on the wall. I turned around and saw a long hallway and a flight of steps; I took the steps two at a time. There were five doors along the hallway.
The door at the very end of the hallway had pictures tapped everywhere on it. I stepped closer so I could see them. The first one that caught my eye was a picture of two girls in the snow. The one on the right had blondish brown hair and brown eyes, she had to be summer, she looked just like my-our- mom. The girl next to her was a little thinner and had brown hair that went a little past her shoulders with the most shocking blue eyes ever and she was hugging summer – I heard someone scream from behind me making my turn around. Her right hand was on her chest.
“Oh my god you scared the hell out of me I didn’t know you were going to be here so soon” she said walking towards me. She looked even more like my-our- mom then she did in the picture.
“Sorry” I said stepping away from the door “I’m Hayden” I said holding my hand out. She eyed my hand before shaking.
“I’m summer” she said flashing me a quick smile. “I have to go get ready for work, any other room except for that one’s opened” she said pointing to the door at the end.
“Thanks” I said walking in the other direction towards the empty rooms.
I choose one that was on the opposite side of the hallway. It was huge with a king size bed and a flat screen tv hanging on the wall right above the oak dresser. I just stood their staring for a while. I didn’t fit in here at all, but I guess I would have to get used to it until I found something better. Well not better, but more simple I guess. I was still standing there when I heard summer yell something.
“I’m going to work I’ll see you later” she yelled.
“ok” I yelled back still standing in the same spot. I heard the door shut and decided to take a well needed shower, sense I haven’t had one in almost thirty three hours.


Chapter 2
SAVANNAH
Work was absolutely crazy tonight because it was A) Friday and B) some annoying kids birthday. There where kids everywhere and they thought it would be funny to throw crap at summer and I while we were giving them food. At six o’clock when the kids where long gone and mine and summer’s shift where over I could not have been any happier.
“God that’s was a fucking nightmare” summer said grabbing a piece of lettuce that was stuck in her hair and throwing it out of the driver side window. I laughed and she shot me a glare. “I’m serious after that I never want kids” she said turning onto her street.
“I do just not more than two” I said looking at my white shirt stained with all kinds of crap. I was glad everybody wasn’t supposed to be here until nine thirty because I desperately needed a shower. I hope to god when I have kids they definitely didn’t act like the kid’s back at Sarah’s they had no manners whatsoever and the moms did absolutely nothing about it, which really pissed me off.
When she turned into her driveway the kitchen light was on. “Your brothers here already” I asked as we walked the concrete pathway to her door.
“Yeah he came this morning” she said shrugging the door. She didn’t seem as upset about having him there as she did last night. “I’m home” summer yelled holding the door open for me. We both waited for him to answer but no one did. “Hayden” she yelled a little louder this time. Still no answer. “I’ll be right back” she said looking at me then darting for the stairs. I nodded and walked into their kitchen.
Five minutes later summer came back into the kitchen. “Can I take a shower first please I think there’s still cheese in my hair I said jumping off the counter where I was sitting. “Yeah hurry up we still have to order the pizza and bring all the games and movies downstairs” she said opening the frigorator door. I nodded and ran up the stairs to her door. The picture of summer and I on our skiing trip last year was tapped right in the middle of the door. I smiled at it before I went inside her room to grab a pair of plaid pajama shorts and a black tank top from her dresser that I left here from our last sleepover.
When the shower was hot enough I slipped of my clothes and stood under the water to relax my muscles before getting all the crap out of my hair and washing my body with my favorite body soap of ally’s it smelled like green apples.
As soon as I finished I wrapped my towel around me and started brushing my teeth. I