Tiny Dancer (Luke Hemmings' Little Sister)

Chapter 12: 'Not a normal family dinner'

After I got out from dance class, Jack was waiting for me outside to take me back home. I made him ask mom if Kenzie could come back since I hadn't seen her in a while. The whole way home I told her about the tour and a lot about Ariella too. We had finally gotten home, and me and Kenzie ran straight upstairs to change out of our dance clothes.

"Are you excited to go back to school tomorrow?" Kenzie asked. I wasn't going to tell her, but I was scared. I didn't know how people would react about me being Luke's sister. It would either be really good, or really bad. Their was no in between.

"I wouldn't say excited. I am caught up on all of my work though so it's alright." I shrugged. We picked out our outfits for school the next day since Kenzie was sleeping over. I don't know how we did but we had somehow convinced our parents to let us have a sleepover on a school night.

"Girls, dinners ready!" I heard my mom yell from down stairs. We raced down the stairs to see who would get to the bottom first. "Woah, slow down before you crash into something. I'm not taking anyone to the ER tonight." My mom laughed as we ran into the dining room. I sat down next to Luke and Kenzie sat on the other side of me.

We had a normal family dinner, talking about the tour and how everyone's day was. But of course, having three older brothers there had to be some type of fight. The fight started off small, but escalated quickly. It stared by Ben putting a tiny bit of whipped cream on Luke's nose. It didn't end there and it ended up turning into a full blown whipped cream fight. Me and Kenzie took cover underneath the table. Mom was trying to get the boys to stop and dad just laughed the whole time. I felt really bad for Ariella, she was kind of in the middle of the battle.

Once the full bottle of whipped cream was gone they stopped their war. I peeked my head out to make sure it was safe, and I signaled for Kenzie to come back up to. Mom was pissed at the boys for making a mess, so she just walked out of the room and told them to clean it up themselves.

"This is our time to escape. Slowly back away the run on 8." I whispered to Kenzie. We both started to back away as I counted, "5...6...7...8... RUN!" We ran just as fast up the stairs as we did going down.

"Not fair!" Luke yelled at us from down stair.

"Not our mess!" I fought back. I slammed my bedroom door closed so they knew I was done with the conversation.

Me and Kenzie watched Netflix until we were forced to go to bed because of school tomorrow. I ended up not being able to fall asleep because I was too anxious about school, so I did what I always did and went to Luke's room. I heard voices so I put my ear against the door to see if they were still awake or if it was just the TV. I heard Ari talking on the phone since it was only around eleven-thirty. I opened the door quietly and stuck my head into the room. She told whoever she was talking to on the phone that she had to go. Ariella raised her eyebrows at me as if it was a signal for me to start talking.

"I can't sleep. Where's bubba?" I asked her while picking at my chapped lips. It was a bad habit that I had picked up when we were on the tour.

"He's in the shower. Why do you need Luke though? Can't you just go to your mother? That's what five year olds do." She said in an obviously annoyed voice.

I walked over and sat down where Ari had previously been sitting on Luke's bed. It used to be my side, I went through a phase when I wouldn't sleep without Luke. Then he moved out and I was kind of forced to.

"First of all, I'm nine not five. And second, I always sleep in Luke's room when I can't fall asleep." I shrugged. Ari was acting weird, she hadn't been mean since the time on tour and I was really confused. She was actually acting quite childish. I mean, I'm nine years old and I think I may be more mature then she is.

"Well I'm sorry to break it to you, but that spot's already taken." She muttered sarcastically. What in the world was her problem? Gosh, this girl was moody.

"Yeah, I know. By me. The guest room's down the hall by the way." I smiled at her before getting under the covers and laying down. Maybe I've been hanging out with Michael to much, I think I may be getting too sassy. The other boys disliked Ari greatly, she had always been rude to them. Sometimes even totally acting like they weren't there.

She scoffed but obviously didn't give up in fighting with me. Ariella walked over to knock on the bathroom door where Luke was showering. I decided to be as annoying as I possibly could, and pretended to fall asleep.

"What's wrong babe?" He asked through the door. Ari leaned her forehead against the door, "Your little sister in being annoying." She pouted.

Luke came out of the bathroom wearing sweats and an old band T-shirt that I'm pretty sure was Jack's. "Harley, get up. That's where Ari is sleeping. You have your own room." I squeezed my eyes shut tighter hoping that he would just let me stay if he knew I was asleep. "I know your faking it Harley, now get up before I go get mom." He said, I shot up quickly knowing if he got mom that she would be mad for two reasons, being woken up and at me for 'bothering them'. I glared at both of them before running out of the room and back into my own. Laying back down next to Kenzie, I squeezed my eyes shut thinking it would help me fall asleep faster. It eventually worked.

(A/N: Wow, I'm so sorry this took so long to finish!! I ended up injuring my back in ballet and it's been really uncomfortable to type on the computer. That was a big problem considering I go to cyber school. But I'm finally feeling a bit better so here you go!)