The Bucket List

Chapter Five

"Laurel?"

"Yes, honey?"

"What is Raven like?" I shifted on the seat I was on, asking the question gave me butterflies. What if she was like Jaime? All smart, active, college-perfect, and realistic? Or like Lauren, being uncontrollable, a bit weird, and a troublemaker? I crossed my fingers under the counter wishing she wasn't like either of them. I can barely handle them.

Laurel looked up at and scrunched her nose. She just finished making three dozen cupcakes and Emma and Lauren already ate dozen of them. We were sitting in the kitchen and eating the delicious sweets, except for Jaime who insisted on starting her history paper, even though it was due next week.

"Well, she's a very unique girl. You'll never met anyone like her, that's a fact," Laurel said, her blue eyes twinkled, "I promise you two will be very close,"

"Is she like a Westfall?" Lauren said as she licked some icing off the corner of her mouth.

Laurel knitted her eyebrows together, "I'm not sure that I know what that means, Lauren. Care to explain?"

Lauren shrugged and slouched back in her chair, "I think human dictionary over there could explain for you," she elbowed Jaime in her side.

Jaime snarled at her, "Just because you called me that, I'm not saying anything,"

Lauren smirked at Jaime, "I apologize, but the human dictionary is having that time of the month at the moment,"

"That's actually true," Bridget added on as she peeled off the wrapper of a cupcake. Laurel let a loud laugh. I love her laugh, its warm and fills a room. Just like a mother's laugh should be. Emma went over to Jaime and gave her a hug.

"It's okay Jaime, I'm on mine too," Emma admitted.

"You're being helpful, Emma" Jaime said shrugged her off, "Or cute,"

Emma batted her brown eyes and smiled, "I'm always cute," she quietly giggled as she played with the blue dress she wore.

"Anyways, a Westfall is someone who's really pretty and popular, and everyone knows them and all boys love them and blah, blah, blah...you get it," Lauren waved her hand.

"Well, I've met Raven before and I also met Serena," my dad put in, "And trust me Raven is the complete opposite,"

"Aw, no offense Mr. J, but you're opinion doesn't count," Lauren said as she reached for another cupcake.

My dad raised his dark eyebrows and rested his hands on the counter, "And why is that Lauren Emily Dell?"

Lauren glared at my father for using her full name; she set the cupcake down, "Because you're the dude version of Baldwin. And Baldwin can't tell the difference between a drug dealer and a computer nerd," she replied as she jerked her thumb at my

I let my jaw drop, "Lauren that was one time! Plus he wearing his pants oddly low and had that weird tattoo on his neck," I called out feeling offended.

"That was a birthmark, dear" Bridget said

"Plus just because he doesn't look like Urkel or Sheldon Cooper doesn't mean he's not a nerd! I thought you learned that when we watched Black Hat," Lauren threw up her hands.

Emma looked up, her eyes narrowed at Lauren, "Don't you ever call Chris Hemsworth a nerd. Ever," she said in a low voice.

Laurel pointed at Emma with a cupcake, "I agree with that verdict thank you,"

"I told you, I don't always pay attention," I huffed.

"No offense Mr. James, but you and your daughter are pretty much oblivious to things you should already know," Jaime said as she typed on her computer.