After our excursion to the beach, my siblings and I went to our rooms to freshen up before dinner. I showered after Josie because I know I will be too lazy to do it later. When I was fresh as a daisy, I dripped coconut oil through the partings of my braids and massaged it into my scalp, then covered my head with a satin blue head scarf. I changed into a light blue hoodie with matching shorts and grey sliders before putting myself to use by setting the table for dinner.
My seat was in between Kai and Conrad, two people who make eating meals difficult. They would give me wet willies, take my food when I looked away and chew loudly in my ear on purpose. But tonight, it seems like Kai was the only one up to his antics and Conrad seemed inside his head.
"Steven I swear to God, if you look at the phone one more time, I'm putting it the screen basket," Laurel says to her son who was showing something on his phone to Jeremiah which makes the boys laugh.
"It's just we want to see your beautiful faces," Susannah says.
In here baby voice, Mum adds, "your gorgeous grown up faces."
"Nothing gorgeous about them," I mumbled earning a hurt look from Jeremiah.
"How rude," he says.
"Can dinner be a screen free zone. You know, like the olden days?" Susannah asked nicely.
"How old?" Josie piped up, "like when you guys had dinosaurs for pets?"
That made us kids laugh, but the adults rolled their eyes. Steven's gaze stayed on his screen, so Jeremiah took matters into his own hands.
"Steven," he said then snatches the phone from the boy's hands, stands up and lobs it into the basket behind us.
"Dude," Steven protests, "are you kidding me?"
"Boom! Nailed it," replies Jeremiah with a victorious smile before sitting down.
"Ooh- I wanna try," Kai exclaims reaching for my phone, but I got there quicker. I held it away from him with a glare. "Don't even think about it," I said lowly.
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Same Old, Same Old ⇻ The Summer I Turned Pretty
FanfictionSeason 1 Fem OC x Male OC School's out which means summer is in. For as long as she could remember, Abby has spent her summer holidays in Cousins at the Fisher's beach house. Before she moved to Boston, she lived in London, UK, which meant she saw t...