our long game | josh matthews

senior projects

SOPHIE POV

this afternoon i was sat in my living room trying to come up with a concept for my senior project, but so far it was a total bust.

no ideas came to my mind. and it was hard to focus when my whole family is sitting in the living room eating chinese food.

we had just gotten back from a cruise by the way, and of course it was chaotic. our first day luke caught some girl- yes caught a girl and zuri was convinced she was as a mermaid. then second day we visited a italian island where jessie's necklace was 'cursed' and luke and ravi were focused on impressing island girls and i was followed around that entire day by our tour guides little brother. then the last day jessie had enough with all our arguing and turned the boat around- leading us into a straight storm where emma almost fell off the boat and we almost died.

but we eventually made it home safely and now i was stuck catching up on the school work i missed while on vacation.

"My fortune says, You will be blessed with many children." jessie read and looked around at the five of us "I don't know about blessed."

"Mine says I have a large sum of money coming my way. Did something happen to Grandma?" luke asked excitedly and i scoffed while writing ideas on my paper

"Try to sound just the tad bit concerned." i told him

"Ooh, I'm going to be on a magazine cover!" emma squealed

"That's your fortune?" zuri asked her

"No, I just got an email. Oh Sophie check your email." emma said and i sighed setting my notebook aside

i unlocked my phone and ready the email i was sent 10 minutes ago "What's it say?" ravi asked me

"I'll be modeling for a brand and... oh looks like i'm dancing for austin moon for his new york shows." i said excitedly

we all became pretty good friends with austin and his friends ally trish and dez when they came to new york so austin could perform in time square. but things didn't go as planned for them, but it made emma's day forsure.

"Honey that's amazing." jessie told me and i smiled and started texting austin about it

"All right, who stole my hair?" bertram asked walking in from the kitchen with his foam head his hair used to sit on

"Father Time?" "Mother Nature?" ravi and i said one after another and without looking up from my phone ravi and i fist bumped

"No, I mean my toupee. I already lost my hair once. I can't lose it again!" he told us walking over to the couch

"Can't you get a new one? Something more Brad Pitt, less armpit?" zuri asked him standing

"No, it was custom made. My concert's in a few hours, and "the Hair" can't be the only guy in the band without any hair!"

"Don't worry, Bertram. I'll help you find it. It'll be perfect practice for my audition. I'm up for the role of Detective Phyllis Marlowe in a film noir TV commercial." jessie told him standing from her spot

"We know. You've been making us watch all those 1940s mystery movies." luke said rolling his eyes

"The mystery is how we stayed awake." zuri told her and i scoffed "Who said we stayed awake." cause i sure didn't after the first three movies

"And why everyone talked so weird back then?"

"They sounded totes cray." emma agreed

"So, what's the commercial for?" luke turned to the red head