Glass half full

Chapter 8

After having a shower and getting changed into some sweats and a hoodie I made my way downstairs and follow the wonderful smell of food. Omg I am so hungry. I went to the kitchen to find Donna putting the last touches to what looked like marry me chicken, wow I am salivating. "Donna that looks and smells incredible" "thanks love, Jodie called and said how hungry you were and I know you love it, it's really easy to make too so thought why not, anyway I digress, give everyone a shout and start setting the table." "yes Ma'am" I say cheekily and stand at attention quickly before I run out of the kitchen laughing as I hear her shout after me.

I set the table and sit down, Donna came in a few minutes later with the dinner in a big serving dish, she asked where everyone was " oh shit, I forgot to shout everyone" I jumped up and went to the bottom of the stairs and shouted everyone for dinner before making my way back to the dining room. "Does this mean I can just move the serving plate in front of me if no one else is here?" she laughs at me "no darling, everyone needs to eat" I pout at her and Charlie comes in and laughs at me. "Mum what did you do, she's trying to look sad but looks like she's shitting herself"

"Charlie don't use that language in here!" my turn to laugh at the fully grown man getting told off by his mum. Next thing I know I'm getting a slap to the back of the head by Jodie. "What was that for?! I didn't do anything"

"I don't know but I feel like you were responsible for it" I was about to respond but was interrupted by James "in the famous words of MLK, can't we all just get along" I smiled and again was cut off from speaking by Charlie this time "who's milk, are they famous?"

Omg to say I am on the floor laughing my head off would be an understatement. I can hardly breathe. I calm myself down after a few minutes and the tears are streaming down my face, I can't believe what he said, I thought he was joking but I can see the questioning look on his face. "See this right here is why we are friends Charlie, you always give me a giggle when I need it!"

"Son I said M-L-K as in Martin Luther King" James said shocked. "Ohhhhh, alright. Y/N did we learn about him in school?" this boy I swear. I can't believe he took and passed history for GCSE, we were in the same classes and he was my best friend but things like right now has me questioning a lot.

"Yes Charlie, in history" he just nods away like he's trying to remember.

I get distracted by my phone buzzing and when I look at the notification I frown in concentration as I open the email from Dana. The email basically gives me an outline of a job she needs doing and a plane ticket to go to New York the day after Hazel's funeral. The job is to catch a man cheating on his wife, fucking typical, men uuggghhhh vile creatures. Anyway back to the email. It gives me a brief overview and all I can say is wow this woman has had it tough. Married 3 times, has a 6 year old daughter, currently pregnant and needs the evidence for cheating so she can file for divorce. Well the woman has to be rich too to afford Dana as well as me. I only get sent on the bigger cases because I'm more discrete than most investigators but hey I'm not complaining it'll get me away from here for a while and give me time to myself.

"YN!! I've been trying to get your attention for 5 minutes, what the fuck are you doing?"

"Jodie language!"

"Sorry Mum, YN isn't answering me" Jodie says with a frown.

"Sorry I got distracted by work" I say and put my phone away in my pocket, Jodie huffs and goes back to eating her dinner. I speak with Donna about the funeral plans when she asks and she lets me know that everyone will be there. I smile and thank her and then once everyone has finished eating I help clear and clean the table and dishes.

Once everything is sorted I walk around the house trying to find the idiot that doesn't know who MLK is. I eventually find him in his room and knock on his door obnoxiously loud and keep knocking until he opens his door. I give him a cheeky grin and he huffs but opens his door wide to let me in. when I see his TV I squeal. "you are such a girl!"

"why thank you Sir Charlie" I say and wink at him and sit down whilst robbing his ps4 controller and take over his paused race.

"You say that but you've got a bigger dick than me!"

"Aww, you're cute, are you still a bit sour about that? Just remember, it's never what you have it's always how you use it and how did you even come up with that just by me calling you sir Charlie"

"Ain't that the truth! Although I'd rather not listen to my ex and brother comparing dick sizes"

"Ok enough I'm not taking any more about it anymore, I don't like this energy. Changing topic now. So ynn when do you leave?"

"I'm leaving the day after the funeral, apparently the plan is for Dana to fly here from London so that she can drive the car back and take me to Manchester airport in the morning. I'm going to New York, hopefully it won't be a massive job but apparently it's quite high profile so needs to be precise, can't afford any mistakes and I won't jeopardise my reputation either" I tell the siblings and then I celebrate my race win with a little dance.

I look around and see Charlie sitting on his own, I point towards his door with a questioning look, "she missed you a lot and since you finally ended it with she who shall not be named and thought she would be able to see you more" I bow my head and look at the floor feeling like crap. I hear Charlie get up but still jump a little when he puts his hand on my shoulder. "I don't want to make you feel bad but it would be nice for us to see you when you want to come and see us, the last few times you've been here you've used it as an escape. Which ye were like family so it's not that bad but it would be nice for you to come and actually spend some proper time with us. Also I don't know if Jodie's said anything but she and James weren't doing so good last I heard"

Well I feel even worse now!!! "I'll go and check on her, thank you" I say to Charlie as I give him a quick hug before leaving the room and going to Jodie's room. Someone give me strength please.

another chapter :) thank you for staying and reading, I know its taking a while but we're getting there!