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We have dinner plans, remember?”
    Colton pulled Averi in for a hug as a brilliant smile flashed across his face.
    “God help me if anything ever happened to you.”

     
    Chapter Five
    Ultimatum
     
    Averi kicked her high heel on the gas pedal as she sped off from the cemetery. She agreed to meet Colton back at home later on; she wanted to meet up with Shelly for a while. Averi was pissed. No, she was beyond pissed. She was ready to knock Randy into next month. Tim escaped her wrath by finally coming clean and admitting that he thought that Randy was acting like an idiot, too. She knew they would both be in the car. Randy picked Tim up from work every day at 3:30.
    “Call Randy!” Averi yelled at the hands free cell phone device that was installed in her car.
    One ring. Two rings. Three rings.
    “Hello?”
    “I have something to say that both you and Tim need to hear.”
    “Here we go… So say it… You’re on speaker phone. Say hi, Tim…”
    “Hi Ave…”
    “Hi, Timmy…”
    “So what is it that you have to say?” asked Randy sounding agitated. 
    “I’m real sick of your shit! I’m not five. I’m damn near twenty six years old. I can go out with whoever the hell I want. Colton and I are together.”
    “What , like together together? Dating?!” yelled Randy, clearly disgusted by the idea.
    “Like living together. We’ve been together for eleven years. Why do you think I took your house keys away?!”
    “How could you?!”
    “How could I? How could you! You have no right to control my life!”
    “I’m your guardian…”
    “I’m twenty-five years old!”
    “I’m still your big brother…”
    “You can’t even pay your own fuckin’ bills! Handle yourself! I’m an adult, I don’t need a friggin guardian.”
    “You better watch your tone wit’ me…”
    “I’m gonna stop you right there, Randy. Colton and I are together. Nothing and I mean nothing is going to change that.”
    “Yo Randy, you know she’s just going to do what she wants.”
    “Yo Tim, shut the hell up! You’re not helping matters…” said Randy getting hot under the collar.
    “You guys act like you’re the only ones affected by Mom and Dad’s death. I was there! I was in that closet with Seth for five hours before anyone came. I was shell shocked! His poor face is embedded in my memory. I can’t even remember what he looked like before. That’s how I remember him. Do you realize how fucked up that is?! If Seth hadn’t spun me around, I would be dead too! Uncle Shawn found me and I was so pale that he thought I was dead, too. Do you know what woke me up that night?! Colton throwing a rock at my bedroom window! He tried to warn us! He’s not the fucking enemy!”
    Crickets. Randy and Tim had never heard Averi sound so angry before. They were rendered speechless by her tirade, and rightly so.
    “I love you, both… But this is your last chance. I am having dinner tomorrow night at my house. You both need to be there. Colton will be there, too. Leave your bullshit at the door. It is your last chance to come to a truce or you will lose me. I love him. You don’t have to like that fact, but you do owe me enough respect to let me live my life how I see fit. I’m not kidding.”
    Silence.
    “Dinner is at six.”
    The line went dead.
    “Shit, she’s serious…” said Randy with a shocked look on his face.
    “This is going to turn into a blood bath,” said Tim looking out his window, shaking his head. He was as sick of the drama as Averi was.
    “No, it ain’t. I’ll leave my gun at home.”
    “Huh?! Did I hear you correctly?”
    “I’m not going to lose my sister.”
    Tim was at a loss for words. The impossible just happened. Randy backed down from a fight.
    “I might not like him, but I love her and she’s dead serious.”

     
    Chapter Six
    Steam
     
    Averi spent the afternoon blowing off steam. She didn’t want to be in a bad mood for her date with Colton, tonight. She met up with Shelly around three