Endless Summer (emison)

6

"You look different." That was the first thing that Alison said when her older brother Jason opened the car door of his cherry red Jeep Wrangler and got out. The last time she has seen Jason was on April break when he came back from college for a while. In April, he had long hair, tan skin, and acted like a total creep. This time, Jason had neatly kept and parted hair, whiskers, and Aviator sunglasses. Someone who didn't know him would've thought he was completely normal just by looking at him.

"Well it's nice to see you too." Jason said, sarcastically as he opened the back door to let out Pepe. Alison's beloved dog Pepe sprang out from inside and ran as fast as he could towards the porch steps to greet Alison. Alison bent down and embraced Pepe with open arms. After all, Pepe was her dog. She had gotten him for Christmas a few years ago, giving Jason no right to take Pepe away from her.

Alison rubbed Pepe's stomach, getting dog fur all over her in the process as she watched Jason haul a suitcase out of the back of the car. "Where's mom and dad?" he asked as he walked up the blue porch steps.

"Mom's grocery shopping for your return, and dad's playing golf with Noel's dad." Alison said. "You're in luck, I think mom's buying your favorite things. Sounds like she actually missed you."

Jason chuckled, Alison knew he didn't believe her, but Alison still liked to tease him about it. It was true though about their mom buying Jason's favorite foods, it was his own fault if he didn't believe it.

"I see you're still a bitch to everyone." Jason remarked, as he walked inside. Alison stood up and followed him inside, an angry retort rising to her lips.

"Not to everyone." Alison said angrily, forgetting the mean thing she was going to say.

Jason laughed again and headed towards the stairs, skipping two at a time and out of sight. Alison glared angrily at his back and huffed. She shouldn't have to stick around her house while Jason was here, especially when all he did was make her angry.

But her mom had told Alison that she couldn't leave the house until she got home from the grocery store. Her mom didn't want Jason and Pepe to be home alone while Alison was out doing "party things". As much as Alison wanted to head over to Emily's house, all she could do was send a text message that said "SOS, my brother is still a creep :/" to her. She stroked Pepe as she waited for Jason to return. She heard him moving around above her as he put his clothes in his drawers and got settled. She knew he was going to drill her with questions the second he got down the stairs. Jason had always been nosy about that sort of thing.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Jason came bounding down the stairs. His footsteps had the same heaviness to them as they hit the wood. He appeared in the kitchen where Alison was, and plopped himself down on one of the bar stools at the island.

"So, how has your summer been?" Jason asked, starting with the questions.

"Fine." Alison said, not tearing her eyes from looking out the window at the ocean.

"How many guys have you hooked up with this summer?" Jason asked, trying to hold back the laughter.

"None. Thank you very much." Alison hissed. Like Alison, Jason knew just what to say to get his sister in a bad mood.

Jason laughed and unlocked his phone. "Is there a drive up movie tonight?" he asked, typing on his phone.

"Yeah at 9, after the sun sets." Alison said, leaning on the counter. During the summer, Cape May did drive up movies once a month where they showed an old movie or a movie that just came out. People would pay $10 to drive their car up onto the sand of the beach in front of a giant projection screen. You could open your trunk or set up a picnic on the beach, whatever you wanted. A lot of people showed up every year, no matter what the movie was. The movie that they were playing for June was, Grease.