TILL WE MEET AGAIN

Chapter 6

Ellie

"So," Lucas begins to ask with his mouth half full." How did you two meet?" He points his fork at Aunt Medrine then at Ross.

We are having dinner at the guest house with Aunt Medrine and Ross.

Aunt Medrine chokes on her juice. Literally chokes. Ross hands her a napkin but one look at his face and we can all tell that he is trying not to laugh. And failing terribly.

"I will assume you didn't ask that," Aunt Medrine says when she can finally breathe.

"Why not?" Ross asks, his eyes dancing with humor. "It's a very interesting question."
That earns him a stern look from Aunt Medrine and he throws his head back and laughs while the rest of us watch in confusion.

"Come on," Blake speaks out. "Tell us... how did you guys meet?"

"Yeah we wanna know what's so interesting that Medrine choked on her food." Col, who is sitting beside me, voices out.

"Well, it was this beautiful sunny day when Medrine walked into..." Ross is cut short when Aunt Medrine quickly leans over and covers his mouth with her hand.

"We are not telling them the most embarrassing day of my life," Aunt Medrine exclaims.
Ross peals of her hand from his mouth and holds it.

"Come it's not that embarrassing," Ross teases. Aunt Medrine glares at him till he bursts out laughing again.

"Fine, it is one of the most embarrassing scenes I have ever seen," Ross confesses.

"Then we must know," Nova says.

"Exactly!" Marissa exclaims." It would be fun to hear one embarrassing story about our all perfect aunt."

"Tell us. Tell us. Tell us," Trent starts to chant rythmically and the rest of us join him. In no second, Ross starts to chant ' tell them, tell them' in beat with us.

"Oh My God!" Aunt Medrine exclaims in wonder.

An idea comes to mind when Aunt Medrine does not burge.

"How about this," I suggest, grabbing everyone's attention." We play a game after dinner and if any of us wins, we get to ask you any question we want about about your relationship."

Everyone nods their heads and turns to look at Aunt Medrine for her answer.

"Fine," she throws her hands up in surrender." If you win you can ask anything." A round of cheers follows that.

"Any suggestions?" Ross asks." Anyone?"

"Me," Nova says. She swallows the food in her mouth and speaks again. "How about chess?"

Trent, who is sitting beside Nova, suddenly starts chuckling.

"What?" Nova asks him.

"Chess!" Trent exclaims, looking at her.

"What's wrong with that?" Nova asks again, defensive this time.

"Nerd," whispers more to himself but loud enough for all of us to here.

I look at Col beside me waiting for him to defend his sister or something but he does not look bothered.
He actually looks amused. Before I can scold Trent, Nova does the unthinkable. She stretches her hand and picks the remaining piece of chicken from his plate straight to her mouth.

Ok, it's official. Nova is the easiest person to piss off.

"Dude, that's my favorite part." Trent complains, still in disbelief of what just happened.