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else. I could do nothing without my meds. Too bad they did not chase away my tiredness.
                  “Get up, Emma,” Ellie demanded with her irritation thick in her voice. I knew that tone. It meant she was already at her limit. I wondered briefly if one of the kids had pissed her off this morning, and then all thoughts left me when she jerked the blanket so hard, I rolled to the other side of the bed sans blanket.
                  “What do you want?” My whines sounded more like a petulant five–year–old than an adult.
                  Her chest rose and fell with the effort she had exerted, and I could almost see her counting to ten, giving herself time to calm down. And when she finished, her fists slammed down onto her hips and she snapped, “What do I want? Well, considering we had plans for brunch at 10 and you’re still in bed, and let’s see, you had a date last night and never once called or texted me. How did I know if you made it home all right?”
                  There was the mother hen I knew and usually loved. “Sorry I didn’t talk to you. To sum it up, it was a horrific night and I just wanted to go to bed.
                  An immediate change overcame her. Her features softened as she moved to sit down on the bed. “Want to talk about it?”
                  Did she really just ask that? Hell no I didn’t want to talk about it. If I didn’t call her the night before, I had a good reason, and I did not want to fucking admit that for the umpteenth time, another guy loathed me before I even uttered one tiny peep. “No.” My answer was clipped and slammed the door shut on broaching the subject further.
                  Or so I thought. I should have known better.
                  “Just because he didn’t work out—“
                  I interrupted her as quickly as possible. “Stop. Just stop right there. I’m pretty much done after this one.”
                  “Emmm…” she sang, stretching my nickname out as if it had more than one syllable.
                  “What?”
                  “You can’t give up on everything because of one bad guy.”
                  My palm itched to slap her. “First, I’m not giving up on everything. Second, it’s been nine bad guys. Not to mention the countless others that never made it to the dating round.” Have I mentioned I loved my older sister? I do. Seriously. Really. However, she recently retired from the Navy and found herself with extra time on her hands. Time she loved to use to torment…I meant to help and support me. She made it her own personal mission to rescue me or something.
                  “You just haven’t met the one.”
                  Would it be bad if I throat punched my own sister? “The one? I’m pretty much convinced that he doesn’t exist for me. That’s fine though. I have…umm…I have whatever the hell it is I have. Now can you go away? I’m still sleeping.” I curled into a ball on my bed and tried to ignore my sister behind me.
                  “I know, Curley. She needs to get up,” Ellie said to my dog, and he answered with a bark. Traitor. To me, she ordered, “No can do. We have brunch plans, and I came to pick you up. So get up, get ready, and let’s get the day started.”
                  Curley barked again and jumped on the bed right before he pounced on me. “Oomph. Curley, lay down.” He refused to listen and started whimpering. Thanks to my sister breaking in this morning, he was now awake and wanted his food pronto. Maybe I should be happy she waited until after 9:00 A.M. to assault me this morning, considering there had been more than one occasion when she snuck in before seven. I would have killed her this morning if she tried that shit. I still may.
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