Growing Pains

A Long Weekend (Part 4)

Ty's Pov:

Today was Alex's birthday and you would think I would be looking forward to it but I'm not. The reason being is because Alex, Jessie, and Lily's other cousins are coming over for the day. There are four of them just like how there are four of us and quite frankly they are some of the most snobby people on planet earth. Aunt Penelope's whole side of her family hate uncle Austin's side of the family. They hated everything my dad did when he was younger and they hated how aunt Penelope helped us so much. I wish they knew how hard my dad worked not only for himself but for his sons. But they don't see that. My aunt has come to our defense especially to her mother because she hates us the most, but I swear that family is way too ignorant. Anyway, the four kids consist of two twin brothers and two sisters. The youngest is 13 whose name is Elle. The twins are Jimmy and Jackson who are both 15 and then the oldest is Taylor who is my age at 17. All four of them are insanely snobbish and such goody to-shoes it hurts me physically. Alex, Jessie and Lily don't even like them all that much. Anyway, this morning wasn't so bad. When we woke up, Jessie and I gave Alex his birthday punches. Then we all went downstairs to Lily watching some movie, aunt Penelope making pancakes, dad on the phone and uncle Austin making coffee.

"Happy birthday baby!" Aunt Penelope says while running to Alex to give him a hug.

"Happy birthday Alex." My dad, uncle and Lily all say.

"Thx guys but mom, seriously why do you have to call me a baby?"

"Awww the baby's embarrassed." Jessie says while going to pinch Alex's cheek.

"Shut up!"

"Alright alright, don't start fighting already, here I'm making pancakes. Everybody come sit down at the table." Aunt Penelope tells us as if food is the most common defuser to our fighting, which it is.

"Good morning dad." I say to him.

"Good morning, how'd you boys sleep?"

"I uhhh slept fine." I said lying. Yeah I didn't really sleep good at all last night because I decided to sleep on the air mattress and let Mikey sleep on the bed with Jessie. The reason Jessie and I let him was because we did stuff him in the closet the night before and we did beat him that day for loosing that game we played.

"That's good, how about the rest of you guys?" Everyone answered saying they slept fine except Justin. I could tell Justin didn't sleep well again because last night all us cousins watched Saw in Jessie's room. Now Justin hates gore more than anything. He is fine with scratches or bloody noses but when he sees a gash or a harsh wound he'll get freaked. He is very squeamish when it comes to it. Even as kids whenever dad would take us trick or treating down our block, there was always this one house who decorated their house with fake dead bodies. The people who lived there were artists so they knew how to make it look real. Justin would hate going to that house during Halloween and would always freak. It's funny cause that shit doesn't even affect Mikey all that much and Mikey is okay with slasher films or gory films. But supernatural movies, that's a different discussion cause Mikey hates them. Justin is the opposite, he hates the slasher films or the gory films but likes the supernatural movies. Anyway, that's exactly why we put on Saw last night. We told Justin he didn't have to watch it but if he didn't we'd all definitely make fun of him for it. So he actually manned up and watched it. But now he probably regrets it because he does look like shit.

"Justin what about you?" Dad asks.

"Oh yeah, I slept fine." He said lying through his teeth. After we all finished breakfast we all started to get ready for aunt Penelope's side of the family to show up. The morning was stress free, there wasn't fighting or beating up well except when Mikey thought it would be funny to flush the toilet while I was in the shower so the water turned hot so when I got outside and I got ahold of him I thought it was only fair to give a couple of rib shots, but that's not really beating up well to me it isn't. As soon as we all started finishing getting ready, aunt Penelope's side of the family showed up. It was her mom Susan who showed up, the siblings and aunt Penelope's sister Christine and her husband Roger. We all said hi and greeted one another and then went outside to the back where everything was nicely decorated for Alex's birthday. Last night uncle Austin, aunt Penelope and my dad were decorating. We would've helped but they told us no since they thought we would have all fought with one another and just gotten in the way.