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14.2| game week vacation bonding

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After breakfast, I helped Carina pack whatever little things that she wanted to take with her. Then I reached forward and gave her a hug. 

"I know we haven't been away from each other, like ever. But I hope you enjoy these next days instead of worrying about me. I'll be okay." Carina said as I pulled away from the hug. 

"Of course I'll have fun, as long as you promise to be safe and not put yourself in unnecessary danger." She chuckled. 

"I'm supposed to be the oldest one here, I should be saying that to you." I shrugged and pushed her out the door.

"Now go have fun! Bye." I waved to her.

"Wow, you seem to be in a hurry to get rid of me." I smirked and pouted. 

"I'm offended that you would even think that." I placed a hand on my heart in the most offended manner. She grabbed her bag as both of us walked downstairs. 

I went and stood right next to Lucas who was smirking. "What's gotten you this happy?" I nudged his side and whispered. 

"Nothing. Just gave our dear baby brother a talking to. It was hilarious seeing him turn into a tomato."

I snickered as I saw my siblings move out of the door. After everyone piled up in cars, Genevieve turned to us. 

"The house better be in the same condition I'm leaving it in, otherwise you'll be the ones scrubbing it clean from top to bottom." She looked at us with a glare that made a lot of people back down. Not me though. 

"What if it blew up in flames and there was nothing left to scrub?" Liam asked her. She turned her head to him. 

"Then baby brother, I'll make sure you rebuild the house. Brick by brick. Understood?" She asked. He gulped. 

"Yes ma'am." She rolled her eyes and reached out to give everyone a hug before getting in the car herself. I waved the car goodbye as all of us went inside. 

"So, baby sis. What do you want to do first?" Ace clapped his hands and looked at me. 

"You want me to choose?" I asked. 

"Yep. What is it going to be?" Interesting. 

"Do you guys have any board games?" Liam nodded and dragged me off to a storage cupboard filled to the brim with board games. I reached ahead and picked out a few that I liked. 

Monopoly voice edition. Monopoly cheaters edition. Monopoly deluxe. You could say I had an unhealthy obsession with monopoly. You couldn't really blame me though; Monopoly was the superior board game. Also, I was – if I say so myself – amazing at it.

"C'mon let's go." I dragged him as all of us settled down comfortably to play some very long games of monopoly. 

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"You cheated. No one is that good!" Ace accused Aiden and me.

I huffed in joking annoyance.

"Of course we didn't cheat Ace, you're just being a sore loser."

Of course we cheated. Wouldn't have been a proper game of Monopoly without someone cheating at it, so why not let it be us? I high fived Aiden as all of us finally got up and stretched our muscles. After there being too many people in the game, all of us had to team up in teams of two to make it fair. Aiden was sitting next to me and asked me to team with him. 

He looked like a small, sad puppy so I couldn't say no. Plus, turns out he's really good at cheating at monopoly. Like extremely good. I went towards the fridge and took out a container of ice-cream.