Unions Forged

Unity

When we arrived her mum greeted us at the door and enveloped us in a hug squishing us so tightly I was worried it might affect the baby. "Hi I'm Maggie" She said beaming at me, it's true what they say about pregnant women they definitely do glow. Shelby ran out to collect the bags and returned with my dress for tonight. She pushed me upstairs and into her bedroom which was equally as grand as mine and she told me to start stripping because I only had two minutes before dinner. I headed for the bathroom connected to her bedroom to get changed but she stopped me and said that I should get over my inability to be nearly naked in front of people. I thought it was weird that she was so accustomed to being partially nude in front of people, didn't she have any concerns about her body she caught my frown and seemed to understand what I was thinking "Oh honey, any man would be lucky to tap this" I laughed at that. I was in awe of how at ease she appeared to be and how confident she was. I wished I could be like that my whole life. I had wanted to be the type of girl Shelby was but I just seemed to lack the confidence. I stripped to my underwear and she tutted at me when she remembered what it looked like. "Oh crap I forgot about those, give me a sec". Giving my underwear a disgusted and disapproving look. Yes I was three sizes bigger than the current bra I was wearing and this bra was childish but I personally didn't think it was that bad I mean no one else was going to see it. She ran down stairs in a dressing gown and when she returned she was carrying my bag of lingerie. She threw a dark blue lacy bra and pant set at me and told me to put them on. I immediately made my way toward the bathroom. There was no way on this earth that I was going to get completely naked in front of her. She just tutted again and said "Don't worry I won't look, although you really shouldn't be so much of a prude".

I blushed and stripped off my bra and knickers and replaced them with the new more grown up ones when her brother stormed in. "Oh shit" He said, staring at me. I froze in shock and didn't know what to do so I just stood there and blushed, I think I could have rivalled a beetroot at that point in time. Shelby however went and stood in front of me. "Ever hear of something called knocking? Might want to try it one of these days". She placed a hand on her hip and gave him a shooing motion, he left but yelled from the other side of the door "dinners ready".

I put on my dress still blushing, "Sorry about him, don't worry he won't ever do that again he will knock in future I will make sure of it". I nodded stiffly, feeling a little awkward and embarrassed. I mean other than Shelby that was the first person to see me in my underwear and well his reaction hadn't been bad but I didn't particularly want a friend's brother to know what I looked like in my underwear.

Shelby put some makeup on my face and put my hair into a fishtail plait, after that we were ready to go down stairs. When we entered the dining room her brother had a smirk on his face and Shelby smacked him over the back of his head. "Ow what was that for?" he asked.

"The fact you're alive, that you're a perv, that you don't apologise, you're sat in my seat, the smug look on your face, the fact that you ditch me in the morning, that we have to share the same air, do I really have to go on?" Shelby said, their dad laughed and grinned at me as Lucas got up to move. He purposely knocked shoulders with Shelby and she just stuck her tongue out at him as she sat in her seat.

"I bet you're glad you don't have any siblings?" He motioned for me to take the seat to his right.

"Erm well I don't know really, I guess" I said feeling nervous. I had always wanted siblings but I understood why that wasn't an option, sometimes when I was younger it would get lonely being by myself so I always had an imaginary friend who I played with.

Her mother came and said "Are you helping or not?" In a snappy tone to Shelby's dad.

He rolled his eyes "Aye woman I'm helping" He stood up and gave her a smack on the bum as she walked out the door I heard her squeal and I blushed at the display of affection. Shelby just rolled her eyes and Lucas made a gagging motion. I laughed at them; they all clearly loved each other even if they did take the mick and insult each other. The dinner passed without any commotion and it was full of laughs and jokes. Mainly everyone making digs at Lucas for running away. Lucas tried to make a few jokes at my expense about the fact that he had seen me partially nude but Shelby just clobbered him over the head making him wince.