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(Brad)
I was wearing a pair of black Calvin Klein sport briefs with a grey USMC muscle shirt and was getting ready for bed on Friday night when I got the text.
Sabrina: What you doing?
Me: Getting ready to sleep.
Me: Why?
Sabrina: This is Trish.
Sabrina: I'm using Sabrina's phone right now.
Suddenly the phone rang with facetime. The contact image showed it was Sabrina. I answered and saw a mass of red curls that quickly turned into Trish's laughing face in my sister's living room. I heard Sabrina and Crystal in the background.
"Hey," I said.
"Hey paddy, what you doing?" she asked in her cute Irish brogue.
"Just getting ready for bed, we have an early day tomorrow."
"I know, I'm super fecking excited."
"Me too."
She looked at me slyly, "So you have to drive over here tomorrow anyway right..." she trailed off.
"Of course."
"Sooooooooo what would it take for you to drive here right now?" she asked.
"A nuclear bomb."
She gave me a little pouty look and I heard laughing in the background.
She looked to the side where I couldn't see, "Shut up... no... shut the feck up... let me try... I don't fecking care...he will, I promise..."
Wondering what the hell was going on I tried to get her attention back, "Are Sabrina and Crystal there? Why aren't they on the phone?"
She looked back at the phone, "Huh? Wha... yeah, they're right here. I'll let you talk to them in a second."
"Okay, look Trish, we have to be up pretty early so maybe you guys should get some sleep."
"Funny you should mention that. We're having a girl's night and we planned on going to sleep early to be ready for the race."
"So what's the problem?"
"Who said there was a fecking problem?"
"You're calling me and asking if I could drive there right now, that indicates a problem."
I heard more laughter.
Trish glanced away and glared, "Fecking shut it!"
The laughter subsided and she looked back at me smiling, "We may have made some appletini's and are a little too drunk to drive don'tcha know."
Oh god, here we go, I had a bad feeling about this.
"Trish, we're running a race tomorrow. I am not going to drive there now to chaperone you all out to clubs or anything. Go to sleep."
"Just a second paddy, I promise that's not what we want."
I was starting to get irritable, they were keeping me awake and I sensed I was about to get used. I wasn't stupid, I knew Sabrina and Crystal were right next to her and the three of them were about to combine their will and use it to get me to do them a favor. I was hoping if they thought I was in a bad mood they might decide to forget it. Apparently, I wasn't scowling hard enough or they didn't care because I sensed the only option of escape I had was to hang up the phone and then ignore it the rest of the night.
I was fucked and I knew it but I put up a fight for form's sake. At least if I made them work for it I'd get some kind of return favor in the future, time to find out the punchline to this joke.
"What do you want?" I asked.
Her eyes gleamed, she must've sensed the kill, "Donuts."
I knew the second I acknowledged whatever the hell it was they wanted I was done, but I had to admit it still came as a shock to hear that particular request.
"Donuts," I said drily.
I heard my sister's voice yell out, "Krispy Kreme."
Then I heard Sabrina yell, "Jelly filled."
Trish's green eyes flashed and she looked off screen again, "Fecking bollocks, shut the frig up while I'm talking to him...
I heard more laughter and then she looked at me with a very fake innocent smile.
I rolled my eyes and sighed, I couldn't believe this was happening, I tried one last defense.
"You do know I'm forty-five minutes away right?"
Still smiling, "Of course paddy."
"And yet you still want me to get up and come down there and take you to get donuts."
"Of course not," she replied. "We want you to get up and get donuts on the way here. Nobody wants to wait for you to come pick us up don'tcha know."
"Of course, how stupid of me," I said sarcastically.
She nodded and I heard more giggles, she chose to ignore my sarcasm.
"No," I said.
"No?"
"That's right, no!"
I heard ohhhhh's in the background from Sabrina and Crystal. Her wild Irish charm had failed to work on me and they were letting her know it.
Her eyes narrowed, I waited for a womanly tirade. As I watched the screen I saw Trish turn around. Now I could see Sabrina and Crystal sitting on the couch behind her, wearing white t-shirts and grinning.
Trish looked over her shoulder at the smirking pair.
"Told you it wouldn't be easy," Crystal said.
"I'm not done yet," Trish said.
"Make her pay," Sabrina yelled at the phone.
Trish looked back at me, I was starting to feel confident, maybe my big sister wouldn't get involved, maybe I'd defy the three of them.