That Family- Episode 2

In The Kitchen

Jakob walked downstairs, and trailed his new sister into the kitchen, where Sierra was eating an apple at the island, and Billy was next to her reading a cookbook.

"How're you getting used to the new house, Kelce?" Jakob asked her, opening the cabinet and looking through the cereal boxes.

"Slowly," Kelce replied evenly, with a pencil clenched in both of her hands. "My room is very... beige," she traded the pencil for a bowl on the table, and looked up at Billy. "May I have toast?"

"Sure, white or brown?" Billy asked, hopping out of his seat.

"All toast is brown," Josh announced, walking past the kitchen "You're thinking of bread,"

Billy chuckled and brought a load of bread over to the toaster (which Leo had assured them he fixed).

"Maybe I can drop by the hardware store and grab some paint for your room," Jakob suggested "What color are you thinking?"

Kelce thought a moment. "White,"

"White?" Billy echoed, handing her the toast.

Jakob watched her switch out the bowl for the toast, and rolled his eyes "Someone needs to get this girl a doll or something,"

"What shade of white?" Sierra asked.

"Does 'blinding' count as a shade?"

"Blinding white..." Jakob shrugged. "It's your room,"

Cassie marched grumpily into the kitchen, and threw herself down on a stool. "Morning," she snapped. Billy came back with his breakfast.

"Hey Cassie, that's my seat," he said politely, gesturing at the stool.

"Do you want it?" Cassie stood up and lifted the stool over her head, and Billy held up his hands in surrender.

"Nope. I'd rather stand in silence than lay in pieces so..."

"What's wrong with you?" Sierra asked, watching her sister set the stool back down.

"My boxing tutor just quit," Cassie growled. "He said something about me accounting for more than half the pain in his life. Now I have to go to the gym," She spat out the last word in disgust.

"What's wrong with the gym?" Billy asked.

"Who's going to fight me at the gym?" She whined. "Maybe I should just go find someone in an alley somewhere, to beat the shit out of..."

"No!" Jakob choked "I'm sure you could find someone who'd let you mutilate them in the gym. Right guys?"

Billy, Sierra, and Kelce all became very interested in their breakfast.

Jakob flipped them off and returned to Cassie. "You should go to the gym. In fact, we should go to the gym,"

"We?" Billy and Sierra echoed.

"Oui," Josh called from the living room.

"Sure," Jakob ignored them. "I'll come along. If it'll keep you out of alley brawls,"

"I don't care," Cassie shrugged.

Billy and Sierra exchanged a look.

"Do you even know how to work out?" Sierra asked.

"I don't need to," Jakob replied "I'll just watch,"

"Why don't I make you a sandwich to eat while you're at it?" Billy said sarcastically, then he turned to Cassie "What do you want for breakfast?"

"I eat assholes for breakfast," she growled.

Jake and Jack froze in the doorway. "Gross,"

Billy picked up the bowl Kelce had left on the counter, set Jakob's hand in it, and offered the bowl to Cassie. "Bon appetit,"