The accomplishment of light

21

    "Where is Ella?"
   
    He screws up his face sighing
   
    "They are in the ballroom and all the other doors are locked from the outside. Don't let them get too rowdy, and don't let them call the bloody fire brigade again although I have told them if they get a call to come here to ring me before they leave. I swear they are a handful"
   
    I snorted, shaking my head, my family were crazy, so much more so than any other. Mum kisses Ardens cheek and takes my hand and pulls me towards the house, dads jump in front of her as Carter pulls me towards his chest.
   
    "You better be good"
   
    Scott points his finger at mum, she groans
   
    "Seriously, what can we really get up to? We are in a locked room"
   
    Jaxon snorts rolling his eyes
   
    "Oh please like you lot haven't plotted up skemes before, we ain't no fools"
   
    Mum sticks her nose in the air childishly
   
    "I have done no such thing, now please move so i can join the party"
   
    Mum tries to move around them as I turn yawning and resting my head on Carter's chest
   
    "You'll be good won't you? What am I saying your always good, your perfect"
   
    I grin up at him as he leans down to kiss me.
   
    "I promise I'll get into no trouble without telling you first"
   
    He chuckles nodding his head and kissing me again before he pulls back and takes my hand
   
    "That's all I ask, we better get you inside before Ella is bored to death by talk of weed farming and engines"
   
    Yeah me and Ella really are the odd ones out, mum and Fay too. We are all just so different, we like clothes and shoes and shopping as where they would happily live out of the back of a car, I couldn't tell you the difference in an English car or an American one
   
    "Maybe so but if you handed them a bag of tools and some wood what would they make? If you gave them paper and told them to draw plans for a house what would they come up with? We are all different in our own ways, but it doesn't give them an excuse to be rude, disrespectful or bitches. Don't let them talk down to you, either of you"
   
    He was back reading my every thought and I have to admit I don't hate it. I smile as he opens the door for me, I walk in and shake my hands off but stop and grin as popa drake walks in. I squeak and run, jumping into his arms.
   
    "Well hello to you too"
   
    He chuckles as he catches me, my pops was my best friend
   
    "Sorry I'm just so excited to tell you I'm building another house for mum and dads, they decided on option 2"
   
    I say as he places me back on my feet, he grins holding my face in his hand.
   
    "We are so his favourite"
   
    Cleo chirps excited to see him too, she had been really really quiet but it was nice to have her back.
   
    "Oh that's a good one, your mum will love the kitchen"
   
    I pull away nodding my head
   
    "Yes! I can't wait to do the interior and make the table"
   
    He points at me
   
    "I still want one so don't forget me"
    
    I roll my eyes
   
    "Of Course your next in line I promise"
   
    Carter wraps his arms around me nodding at pops and kissing my cheek.
   
    "Enough avoiding, go to the party, give Ella her present then you can come back and talk to pops if you want"
   
    "Yeah go save the poor girl before they give her alcohol poisoning"
   
    I chuckle and turn taking the bag from the table. I take a deep breath and enter the hall but I was a little taken back by what I'd found.
    
    The ballroom was completely different to what I remember it as, it had large sectional sofas around the area where everyone could sit, a table sat to the side with food and drink. The place was covered in jars and jars of pink and white flowers, the place looks just beautiful.
   
    "Carly you're here"
   
    Ella gets off the couch looking spectacular as usual, her long red hair was to her waist and curled to perfection with a green ribbon in her hair, she wore doc martens on her feet with black tights, a green tartan mini skirt with a green square neck T-shirt crop top that sat just above her bellybutton.
   
    She had a white silk sash across her chest that said "bride to be" on it. She looked absolutely beautiful.
   
    "Oh Ella you look amazing, and that smile lights up your face. Having a mate has done you good"
   
    She hugs me so tight I almost fart. She snorts at my thoughts and pulls back slightly
   
    "Please sit beside me and talk about something I can understand?"
   
    I chuckle nodding my head
   
    "Ofcourse, now tell me how is Aaron settling in? Is he nervous?"
   
    She nods, pulling me towards the seating area as she hooks my arm with hers
   
    "Very, he's glad your sending him men though, at least he will have some people on his side"
   
   
   I was confident the werewolf community would eventually learn to love Aaron but it was still scary sending him here on his own
   
    "They will be, Carter made sure of it"
   
    We fall into easy conversations as we usually do and don't stop until it was present time.
   
    It was unusually dignified for my family, they almost acted respectful. A stark comparison to the hoodlums that they normally are. Well that was until Ella opened her first present and all sophistication went out the window and in its wake were my family, my real family, unruly, funny, quirky in their own ways but most of all devious and mischievous.
   
    First she opened mums, even I went bright red when she pulled out an array of sex toys. Ellas eyes popped open wide as she stared at them like they would bite her and after attaching a nipple clamp to her finger maybe she was right.
   
    She looks to me panicked as I pull them back into the box and away from her before she faints. She gives me a silent thank you glance before she continues.
   
    She moves onto Isla next, stopping as she looks at Isla who cracks up and starts to laugh.
   
    "Show them what it is! I swear I crack myself up"
   
    She giggles and I howl in laughter when poor ella lifts a sex for dummies book from the box.
   
    "Your all awful bitches when you want to be aren't you"
   
    She snaps as we all laugh, it was genuinely hilarious as I wipe tears from my cheek. I hand mine over next
   
    "Here try mine, it's not so bad"
    
    she smiles at me
   
    "Thank you"
   
    She pulls it out and opens the top gasping at the beautiful white sweetheart neckline corset.