Summer has arrived. Elise Benson goes down to South Carolina for the summer with her sister and her sisters family to help babysit. She needs a break to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
Elise doesn't expect to meet anyone on holiday d...
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[Author Note: So I made a boo boo. Myrtle is in South Carolina so that's where the story takes place. Not north. And on with the story here! Enjoy!]
Chapter 1, Myrtle Beach
I was stuck in a rut. So my sister asked me to be her nanny/babysitter for the summer. I had agreed. We used to have so much fun on family trips. Every summer dad would take my sister Callie and I down to Myrtle Beach at our beach house for a whole summer.
It was magical times. Summer romances to family reunions. Back yard barbecue to beach picnics to. I loved the Wave stores where you could buy salt water taffy for $1 a box. It would not be the same without our dad.
But I felt closer to him going there with my sister and her three kids. And the husband to. Jeffery. Callie had twin girls. Hannah and Isabelle whom had my name as her middle name. Hannah could be a nightmare but I was close to Izzy.
They had a boy only one my sister tried once more before for another boy but she miss-carried. So we have our sweet Christopher. He looks more like my sister than his dad. And oddly enough the twins look more like Jeffery.
Jeffery was a good father he lacked to tend to his wife. So that was why I was coming along. So they could bond the marriage more. I understood that. I was here to help.
Maybe when I got back home to Michigan then I would know what I wanted to do with my life. And not have to live with mom. But mom did enjoy my company. After dad died she was lonely and I needed a place to crash when I broke things off with my long term boyfriend Warren.
After dad died of a heart attack mom had to sell the summer beach home down south. We were all bummed. But then Callie bought a condo right beside the beach. She said we were all welcome to use it.
We lucked out when she married a dentist. She had been Jeffery's assistant when they met and he had just opened his business. Turns out they had gone to the same college to but graduated different years.
I had done nothing but go from job to job. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to college. Because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. And here I was getting closer to being thirty!
Over the hill.....
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"Elise! Can you help Chris pack? He needs underwear not just comic books!" hollers Callie from down the hall. I was at her house to pack the car to go on our trip.
"Sure! I am on it!" I call back.
I head into Chris's room. It was a mess. Clothing and toys all over the place. Chris was half way under the bed and halfway out digging for something there.
"Chris did you pack underwear? Asking for a friend" I tease.
"Aunt Elise, do I question you if you packed yours!?" he grumbles. Not bothering to come out from under the bed.
"Well...?"
I grab his suitcase then opens it. Sure enough there were only toys and comics packed in there. Chris was only six and the twins were eleven years old. I laugh then shake my head.
"But there are hardly any toys at the beach house and dad said I could bring them!" protests Chris.
"How about this, we pack one for clothing then a second bag for toys and books. You will need a bathing suit and you need clean underwear to" I point out a reminder.
"Fine" he mutters. He was still looking for something under the bed.
"What are you looking for?" I wonder out loud.
"A candy bar. It fell under here" he explains.
"No candy before dinner" I remind him. They were strict about sweets in this house. And these kids craved it,
"Aw come on" he mutters.
I pull him out from under the bed. He is cute but looks annoyed with me, he has that Home Alone kid look with his brown hair. And he has cute brown eyes like my sister and I both did. Like my daddy.
Dad never had a chance to meet our Chris. He had met the twins. He would have been thrilled that my sister named Chris after him.
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"Will you let us get ice cream at the beach this summer!? After all it gets really hot there" he asks me hopefully.
"Sure! We can do that! I love ice cream to! But of course after you eat your lunch first. Otherwise sea gulls there will get it. They are pretty ruthless" I joke.
"And can we watch Power Rangers together? Hannah always wants to watch MTV" he complains. "Power Rangers are the best!"
"Of course we can do that. Tell you what if the girls want to watch that MTV, I have a tv in my room there and I will let you watch your show if you behave at the beach for me?" I ask him hopefully.
"Alright! Deal!" he exclaimed happily. We slap a high five on that one.
"MTV is better! You will miss a lot of good music aunt Elise" pipes up Hannah who had her Walkman headphones hanging on her neck. "Billy Idol had his new album come out to" she informs me. She loved music.
"I will catch up on music don't worry about me. We will all have the best time! Grandpa used to take us there every summer. We loved it. I would spend all day on the beach or in the ocean. Coming back home all tan! It was great!" I brag to them both.
"I am sure it will be. I better go call my friends while I am home. I have to give them our phone number to reach me there. I'm going to miss Hollie and Susan. They are my best friends. But they have a summer house in New York. Dad was considering that but mom had to talk him into this place" grumbled Hannah as she turns and walks down the hall.
"Beggars can't be choosers" I sigh.
"Huh?" wonders Chris. He looked confused.
"Let's get you packed. After all I did promise your mother I would" I remind him.
My heart skipped a happy beat. A whole summer getting paid to be at the beach. Taking care of my family. This was a great job. I was going to love being back there. This summer was going to be a blast.
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