Things Happen For A Reason

Chapter 1

I opened my eyes to the sunlight streaming through my curtain. I rolled over to check the time on my phone 9:30 A.M. during summer definitely not I should still me alseep. I slowly get up into a sitting position on the edge of my bed. "Brianna" I hear my mom shout. I get up to go find her in the kitchen "yes," I say walking up beside her. "I have to work so can you watch your brother and sister for me?" She asks.
"Yes" I reply back. It ain't like I do it all the time anyways. I go back to my room turning the light on thinking at least they are both still asleep. My mom walks in my room to tell me "that she is leaving and to call her if I need anything"
"Okay I love you be careful text me when you get to work," I reply back. I sit on my bed well there goes my plans. I lay back closing my eyes.

Next thing I know I wake up to my brother screaming. I look over at the time 10:30 A.M. I get up quickly and run to my brothers room. I find him laying on his bed still half asleep crying. I go sit next to him "everthing is okay it was only a bed dream" as I rock him slightly. I give him his juice and turn the TV to the Disney Junior Channel. I walk out of the room going to fix him some bacon and eggs. I start to fix the food and think maybe I should fix some for Aubrey too. As I finish up the food, I hear Aubrey walking into the kitchen. "Here," I say hading her a plate with bacon and eggs on it.
"Thank you," Aubrey says taking the plate from my hands. I fix my brother's plate making sure it's in little pieces for him to eat. I walk to his room sit up so you can eat. I leave the room to go fix me a plate and a drink as I start to walk to Carters room I hear my sister say "Can you bring me a drink please." I walk back into the kitchen grabbing a cup, opening the refrigerator to get the sweet tea out, pouring it in the cup. I grab my plate, my drink, and Aubrey's tea. I take Aubrey her drink sitting it down on the table and walk in Carters room. I sit next to him and he hasn't touched his food. "Do you want me to help you." He just nods his head up and down. I pick up the fork and poke the eggs until I feel there is enough on the fork and he bites down on the fork, I pull the fork out of his mouth leaving the eggs to chew. He chews at a distant speed, but slowing down as he swallows his food. I think why is he acting like this. Usually he has eaten half of his plate. I go get my phone so I can text my mom and tell her how he is acting, when I get back to his bedroom he is eating by himself like me feeding him never happened. So I just go sit beside him brushing it off as I pick up my plate to finish my food. I look over at him as he is handing me his plate. I finish my food quickly and walk out of his room and into Aubrey's room taking her plate from the bedside table then tale all three plates to the kitchen to wash what's in the sink, plus the plates. I finish up the dishes and go to check on Carter. I peek in his room and he is laying on his bed just watching TV. He's maybe getting sick, usually that boy is bouncing of the walls at around 12 to 1, and its about that time.

I hear Aubrey calling my name, taking me away from my thoughts. I walk into her room and she says "Hey remember our cousins in Florida?"
"Yes of course how could I forget." I say walking over to her bed. "Well Sam wants to Skype us and his friend is over at his dorm," she says. " Okay that's fine with me I haven't talked to Sam in a few months anyways," I say. Aubrey texts Sam and tell him to Skype us when he got done with his homework. As we sit on Aubrey's bed we have basic conversation and I realize how much I miss talking to my sister. Sam calls and Aubrey answers but doesn't turn our camera on for some reason. "Hey, how have you been?" I ask.
Sam replies "Great, loving the beach and college life just gets hard at times. He turns on his camera, so we see Sam and his friend. My jaw drops as I see the light icey blue eyes and the perfect tan he has. I ask "What's your friend's name?"
Sam replies "Bentley." Our camera is on at this point showing my dumb-founed face from drooling over some guy I have no clue about. Sam and his friend look at me and say "What's that face about?" laughing to themselves.
"Nothing y'all just caught me off guard," I reply back. We all continue talking about how life has been these past few months. I hear Carter cry, so I say my goodbye's and walk out of Aubrey's room. "She is always having to watch him, she can never do anything she wants to do because mom has to work all the time," I hear her say to Sam and Bentley.