EGOMAINIAC

ERIN'S POV.

I never had a family before so every time I found myself around people who treated me like family I liked to enjoy the moments.

Moments like those did not last for long. Either they got tired of hanging around me and stopped talking to me or just said some mean things to me and I had to leave them alone.

Sometimes I wondered what it felt like to have a complete family. Even though I had parents when I was little it did not mean that they were always there.

I always loved my mother and I would never stop doing that but there was just something that I hated when she did.

For example when she forgave my father over and over again when he messed up. I get that she was trying to make sure I had a dad but it didn't do as much.

He would stick around for a week and go away. My mother would cry herself to sleep at night thinking that I couldn't hear her.

I was still a kid but I understood that she didn't want me to know what was going on. To save her the trouble I always lay there and heard as she cried her heart out.

She deserved her privacy and I didn't want to get in the way of it.

Katelyn and her family seemed nice. I had known her for a few days but she didn't seem to be a bad person. Who would invite you to their home just like that?

That was unless she was planning to kill me which was not likely to happen.

Just like me she was lonely and didn't have friends to hang around with. She was cool though it wouldn't be long until she had a lot of friends and forget about me.

It was something I always expected to happen and the funny thing is that it always did.

"What do you mean, Mateo's sister?" asked one of the brothers which I assumed to be Elijah. I couldn't keep up with almost the same names.

"What is wrong with the statement I said I thought my English is good didn't you u understand that phrase?", asked Edmund.

"Can you stop this stupidity what are you doing with Mateo's sister ?", Elijah asked him.

"Nothing can't adults just have fun together without people being pressed over it? ", Edmund asked Elijah as he sat down and served himself food.

"No you can't have fun with her, there are thousands of girls here and you just woke up and said no let me pick my enemy's sister "_said Elijah sarcastically.

Who was Mateo and why were they, enemies?

"Can you boys stop talking to me as if am not here am a grown up and I can choose who I want to sleep with without consulting my brother ", Alicia finally spoke up and both Elijah and Edmund didn't say anything back.

Katelyn had been quiet since the banter just looking back and forth. I could feel the tension in the room. They wanted to talk but they couldn't because I was there. I knew I was going to cause trouble.

"I think you guys need some privacy to talk so am going to leave you to it ", I said as I carried my plate ready to stand up.

"No, stay we will talk about this at another time when I won't be tempted to kill my brother ", said Elijah.

"Okay, "I said as I sat down and continued eating my food.

The rest of the dinner was quiet except for the loud chewing noises from Alicia. Everyone glanced at her firm from time to time but she didn't seem to notice.

"So Erin what do you do apart from work at the coffee shop that sells terrible coffee?", Edmund asked.

I hated everything about him. The way he was bratty, talked to people the way he wanted, and to make matters worse he was attractive.

"I work at the hospital", I said.

"Oooh that's where I have seen you from ", he said chuckling.

"Are you trying to be funny or what cause you're failing terribly at it ", I said as everyone at the table burst out into laughter except us.

"Am not trying to be funny I was wondering where I had seen you because am sure it was not my bed I would have remembered a face like that ", he said smirking.

I looked at him with disgust wondering why Alicia wasn't bothered by the choice of the topic he wanted to talk about.

"That is very unlikely ", I said.

"What is unlikely you in my bed? Trust me it isn't very unlikely am quite attractive people can't resist me ", he said.

"I'd rather die than share a bed with you ", I said scoffing.

"Be careful what you wish for, that can be arranged ", he said.

He irritated me with every bone in me. I just wanted him to shut up and not say anything quirky and stupid.

"Okay, can you all stop bickering like a married couple ", said Katelyn as she stood up and took the utensils to the kitchen.

"Wait why did you say you can't see yourself in bed with me ?", asked Edmund as I stood up to the kitchen.

He honestly couldn't be serious. Was his ego hurt that much that he thought everyone wanted him?

"Because I just can't what is so hard to understand there ?", I asked him.

"No that is not enough reason. Why can't you see yourself sleeping with me it's not a hard question. Is it because you don't find me attractive? That is very unlikely because everyone does ", he said.

"Yes I don't find you attractive and you are annoying, are you done asking me questions I had a very long day I would like to go and rest ", I said.

"You have no idea what you are missing out on ", he said.

"Ohh trust me I do, you're just an egomaniac who is obsessed with himself with a narcissistic complex who can't take it when other people don't find him attractive ", I said as I left the room and this time around he didn't have anything smart to say.

I was followed by silence as I went to Katelyn's room.