Gypsy Rose“The Boys”
The afternoon sun was starting set, as Tony stared out the window, watching for the return of his younger brother. Derek had only been at university for a few weeks, but had all ready managed to miss most of his classes. Tony was quite disappointed. He knew his brother had an affection for the fairer sex, but had hoped the importance of grades would make him straighten up; apparently he’d been wrong.
A beaten, battered old car chugged up the road, Tony ducked down behind the ply wood bookcase he’d fabricated, so Derek wouldn’t see him spying.
“Oh Derek, that was a wonderful little cafe,” Tuulia sang out, “I’m so glad you took me there.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed yourself,” Derek said grinning, “now come over here and give me some sugar.”
“Well, you better be on your way, Tuulia, I don’t want you to be late to your next class.”
“Are you going to call me tomorrow,” Tuulia said, with big puppy dog eyes. “I was hoping we could hit a club downtown.”
“Oh baby, I really need to start concentrating a bit on my classes; otherwise, I am going to be placed on probation. We need to take a little break, just for a few weeks.”
“But Derek,” Tuulia said with tears in her eyes, “I thought everything was going so good between us. I’ve had a terrific time with you. I thought you cared about me.”
“Don’t cry, I’m not saying we’ll never see each other again, I just need a short break. The ‘rents will kill me if I get kicked out of school, okay.”
“Okay,” she sniffled, “but you’ll call me the minute you want to go out again.”
“Of course,” Derek said, patting Tuulia’s arm, “now drive home safe and make sure to get yourself to class. I don’t want to be responsible for you getting kicked out either.”
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“Where in the world have you been,” Tony said, as Derek walked in the front door, “your next class started over an hour ago. Your going to fail everything if you keep this up.”
“Dude, chill out,” Derek said pushing past Tony and plopping himself down on the couch, “I will get at least a B in the class. I found myself a pretty little blonde tutor that’s agreed to help me catch up on all my work. Now could you move, you’re blocking the TV.”
Tony grabbed the remote out of Derek’s hand and threw it to the ground, “This isn’t a joke, little brother. You need to start taking school more seriously or you’re going to end up out on your butt.”
Whoa, some animosity there between the brothers! But Tony has a point… Derek is a bit of a slacker/playboy.
Talk about sibling rivalry! These two are as different as night and day. I hope Derek can pull off getting his grades up - Tony has to let him make his own mistakes. I understand being protective, but Derek is a big boy.
Woah - the two brothers are like night & day, aren’t they? That’s going to make sharing a house difficult. But Tony, Derek is a big boy now & sometimes you’ve got to let them fall on their butt once to learn.
And then you can say “I toldya so!” hehe
Ah family bondage. Nothing like a little sibling drama - and very well written. I enjoyed.
I agree Tony. I think Derek is rapidly screwing up his life. He’s going to get kicked out of school if he doesn’t watch it. So wait… he’s worried about Tuulia making her classes, but he doesn’t go to his own? Derek, you’re going to be a failure in life if you don’t take college more seriously, dingbat! At least Rose has one child who has his head screwed on right. Sadly, Tony, I think you need to let him screw up. It’s the only way he’s going to learn the consequences of his actions. :-/
Ouch, sibling rivalry. Well, not rivalry, they’re just totally different. I like the way your characters are well-developped in this series!
Nice! Kinda sucks that the family views Anna’s path as one to not go down. When love happens and you know what you want/don’t want to do, you’d hope that your family can accept your decisions. Derek seems to have his head on straight, but what difficult footsteps to follow in huh? Oi.
Millions of updates and tons of drama, that’s what I like best
Ouch, I can see the Komeii…
Wow, Derek is proving to be more and more like Komei. He is really turning into quite the player. Poor Tony having to deal with him.