My 13 Crazy Brothers

Chapter 2- The Big News

Camrynne's POV

It's been 2 weeks since I broke my arm and the pain isn't as constant anymore. I've mostly spent my nights on the couch, sometimes watching my brothers play in the backyard through the window. I fell asleep on the couch last night after dinner. I think I remember Jack carrying me up to bed. I looked over at my alarm clock. It was 5 am!! I didn't have to wake up for another 2 hours. There was no way I was going to fall back asleep. I sighed and stared at the ceiling. Ouch! I got a sharp pain in my arm.

I decided that I was going to read to kill some time. I turned on my bedside lamp, got up and grabbed a book off my shelf. I flopped back down on my bed and flipped to the first page. I fumbled with the book and it fell out of my hand. I guess it's hard to read with only one fully functioning arm. So I guess I can scratch reading off my list of things to do in the next 4 weeks. Movie it is then.

I hopped out of my bed and walked out into the hallway, closing my door quietly so I wouldn't wake up any of my brothers. I walked down the long hallway, down the 2 flights of stairs, down another hall, and through the kitchen. The light was on in the kitchen. That's odd, I looked over to the table and saw Mitchell drinking a cup of coffee. I jumped.

"Mitchell, you scared me. I thought you were at College"

"I am, or I was. I came home last night to visit, you were asleep. It was late so I crashed here for the night."

"Oh, okay" I was walking out of the kitchen when Mitchell stood up.

"What, I'm gone for 2 weeks and I don't get a hug from my baby sister?"

I turned around and looked at him holding his arms out and smiling at me.

"Oh right. I'm sorry my brain doesn't function this early in the morning." I walked over and gave my brother a hug. He squeezed me tightly.

"Well, I've got to go back to College now, see you soon!" He said unwrapping us from our hug and walking towards the front door.

"Bye," I waved and ran to living room and jumped on the couch. It was now 6:00. I guess I don't have time for a movie anymore. I'll just watch a couple episodes of Full House.

After 2 episodes of Full House I walked into the kitchen to get some breakfast. My brothers slowly started filing in 1 by 1, except for the quads, they came in altogether. Everyone grabbed cereal and made toast or whatever they wanted to eat. I finished first so I began my journey back to my room. Man our house is huge. Well I guess it has to be if there's 16 people living in it and two dogs.

I finally reached my bedroom. I closed my door and locked it behind me. I went into my bathroom and took a shower. When I was done I wrapped a towel around me and blow dried my hair. I finished and went into my closet and picked out a pair of black soccer shorts and a plain blue t-shirt. I put my hair up in a messy bun and went downstairs. It was 7:35, I was making good time. The only people in the kitchen now were My parents, Elliot and Blake. Elliot doesn't go to school yet and Blake's school doesn't start until 9:00. Blake, Isaiah, Noah, Gavin, and Xavier all go to the same school but the quads take longer to get ready. I grabbed my backpack packed my lunch and went and waited at the front door. There's five of us that go to high school so we all drive together.

But before we left my mom called everyone into the kitchen. She said she had a big announcement. I hope she's not pregnant, I can't risk having another boy in the house. When everyone was in the kitchen my mom began.

"I have big news," she said, "I've just gotten a huge job offer, it's going to bring in lots more money to care for our big family."

There was a chorus of 'cools, awesome, good for you's and that's great' my mom had a worried look on her face and she was biting her lip.

"That's not all," she continued and sighed, "We have to move."

"WHAT?!" Everyone shouted.

"How far?"asked Will.

"We're moving to California," my mom replied.

"As in America?!" Isaiah inquired.

"No you dodo, as in Iceland," Hunter told him sarcastically.

"Okay enough of that, we will be moving on Sunday so after school I need you to all start packing. Speaking of, you guys need to get to school. Off you go now."

All I could do was stand there the whole time with my jaw dropped. That sure was big news. I couldn't believe we were moving to a different country in 4 days! My whole life was in Australia, I couldn't just up and leave my life. But I guess we had no choice. We were finally on our way to school. It was 8:00, it took us 20 mins to get to school. The ride to school was silent. No one dared to speak. We were actually going to be on time today. Usually we're late because it's always so hectic in the house. We arrived and Rhys spoke.

"Time to have the best 4 days of our life."

Everyone nodded in agreement and went their separate ways.