"Where did your other eyebrow go?" by Bailey R

“Where did your other eyebrow go? Never mind, I don’t want to know.”

Adelaide climbed in through the window shaking her head.  She zipped up her jacket and rushed out the words, “hurry up, we gotta go. Now.”

Rowan looked up in disbelief. “Seriously? First off, you know you don’t have to break into our house. It’s literally our house. Second, why would you crawl through my window? Your bedroom is right next-door!”

“blah blah blah… okay I hear ya lets go” She says completely ignoring her brother.

“Who What When Where and why?” He asks quickly, still unsure of what is going on.

“It doesn’t matter I just need you to drive. Come on lets go.” Adelaide begins pushing Rowan from behind closer towards the window. The keys are spotted on the nightstand and she grabs them shoving them into her pockets.

“Ade is 11:09, on a school night an-”

“And nothing. Ill explain once were on the road. Trust me it will all be worth it ”

They both climb out the window. Rowan stands arms folded and his face utterly unamused.  The window is shut and the screen lie on the floor.  He slowly looks at the screen and then back up to his sister nudging his head as if to say “fix it”.

“No… Rowan”, she whines “pleaseeeeeee you know I can’t put those things back on. It’ll take me an hour and we don’t have the time”

“Oh no that’s not how it works. You dragged me out of my room only after first breaking into it. You removed the screen. And you know that if dad sees this not on the window where it belongs he’ll freak. This is your responsibility”

She starts to fiddle with the screen visibly struggling.  Rowan has been looking down at his watch counting how long this whole ordeal would take her.  He starts tapping his foot at one minute, forty-seven seconds and by three minutes and eight seconds he’s ripping the screen out of her hands and placing it back into its proper spot in under nine seconds.

“Awe well thanks kid. I knew you’d save the day, or should I say night because technically its 11:16”

“Shut up Ade, just get in the car”

She presses the unlock button on the car remote and then tosses him the keys. They climb in, Rowan turns on the headlights and Adelaide the radio, and they are off. She doesn’t tell him where they are going, only where to turn. He goes along with it because he knows better than to ask.

“You know you wouldn’t need me to drive you if you didn’t ditch class thirteen times too many. You’d still have your driving privileges.”

She hums in response rolling down the windows and takes in the night. 

“Oh left and… stop!”

Rowan knew exactly where they were. “Winifred’s waffle house?”

Ade grabbed his hand and all that could be heard was the gravel under their feet as they reached the door.

She grabs his wrist, looks at his watch and counts down “Three, two… oh wait um so yea see I having a bit of a time gap here so I’m gonna just talk for a while until you notice or something like that.”

“Ade what are you on abou-”

“Shut up! Three. Two. One.” Adelaide excitedly opens the front door to an empty Winifred’s and drags Rowan in with her. Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing is blasting through the restaurants speakers. They sit in their favorite booth and are greeted with giant waffles covered in whipped cream and topped with rainbow sprinkles.

12:00 am.

“It’s our birthday!” She exclaims. “Happy 18^th loser. I love you more than every thing in this world.” There is a smile on Rowans face and he opens his mouth to speak and before words can come out he hears “except from these waffles ‘cause you know I’m a sucker for rainbow sprinkles”

Rowan slightly giggles saying “I know you do kiddo. Happy 18^th”

He looks up at her about to say “I love you Ade”, but stops once he sees her face.

           

“Wait. So what did happen to your eyebrow?”