I rushed to the bathroom, quickly grabbed my toiletries and prepped my music to listen to while showering, I play my fav song 'Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez', I strip and hop into the shower I wash my face and body, if I wash my hair it will still be wet by the time our visitors had left the house.
When I'm done I just slip on a shirt and some boxers and rush down stairs.
"Hey dad just curious who's coming over, will I be impressing anybody?" I ask, my father has had a history of asking friends of his to bring his sons over to 'hook' me up with them.
"Well a very, very important friend is coming over and his wife and son" he says, I look at him with my bitchy face, he was doing it again, trying to do matchmaking even when he sucked at it, but it's someone important so I must look my best.
I jog upstairs and get changed (the outfit above is what she wears), I then sort out my makeup just some mascara, eyeliner and a lil bit of skin colored eyeshadow. I straighten my white hair and begin to walk down stairs when I hear voices, I have one foot out the door and I quickly turn back around and grab the necklace mum gave me. I then walk back down stairs, glamorously as ever.
I walk to the front door to find my father hugging a tall man with fair skin , black hair, white teeth and a beautifully crafted black suit with a red tie. Behind the man is a woman, presumably his wife, she is kinda short, with a head full of beautiful blonde curls, her eyes are piercing blue, her skin is lightly tanned and she has the most stunning smile, she is wearing a cute little floral dress with red heels.
I look for my step brother and don't know where he is until I hear his voice outside talking to somebody, I stand there smiling while nobody notices me. I watch as the woman looks over my dads shoulder and smiles, she pushes past my dad and her husband.
"Hello my names Clarissa, you must be Malia" she says smiling her dazzling smile.
"Yes that's me, but you can call me mal"I say returning the smile. She turns and waves for her husband to come over, he comes over and stands taller, I straighten up.
"Hello, I'm Mal" I say holding my hand out for a hand shake.
"I'm Marcus, but you can call me Marc" he says accepting my hand shake.
"Well dinner is already on the table and we don't want it getting cold so, let's eat" says my dad. We all turn and then Marc turns and says some stuff out the door and in walks my brother and next to him a boy that makes my jaw drop to the floor. He has short blonde hair, with deep dark blue eyes, lightly tanned skin and a jawline that looks sharper then a knife. My brother walks up to me and closes my mouth.
"Sis close you're mouth or you'll catch flies. Sorry about her she's a bit weird" says my step brother to the boy, I blush bright red and put my head down and let my face be covered in my hair. We all sit down my father at one end, Marc on the other end. Clarissa and my step mum are sitting next to each other chatting, my brother and the boy are sitting together closer to my father and me well I'm sitting right next to Marc and his son.
Marc's cool, he's actually awesome he has an awesome taste in music and books, he has a really funny personality and makes a lot of jokes that I get. After dinner we move onto dessert, which is just ice cream but with different toppings and flavors, when did we go shopping?
"Jake! Stop making male organs out of your ice cream!" Growls Marc, I jumped lightly when he said his sons name.
"Alex is doing it too" he says pointing at my doofus step brother.
"Alex, stop it!"says my step mother.
"My god, the only sane child here is Mal" says Marc as he shakes his head and goes back to his ice cream. I don't appreciate being referenced as a 'child' but I'll take it as a compliment. I keep eating my vanilla ice cream with gummy bears and by the end of the night everyone was tired. Everyone goes outside except me because I usually clear the table, I look over at the seat and see jakes leather jacket that he wore here tonight, I grab it and rush back outside, Jake looks up and sees me holding his jacket, I push it forward with my head down he takes it and his fingers brush my hand I look up at the sudden coldness coming from his hand to my warm hand.
"Thanks Malia" he says smiling.
"No problem" I say I say goodbye to Marc and Clarissa and hurry back inside and finish off the dishes. I walk upstairs and just flop into my king sized bed, I groaned and then remember I am wearing makeup so I get up wash my face and get changed into a big jumper and tights, I walk back downstairs with my socks on my feet so the tiles don't freeze my feet off, I walk into the kitchen to find my dad sitting alone.
"Hey dad, why are you sitting here alone?" I ask, he looks up.
"No reason just thinking, did you like Jake?" He asks.
"Uh he was cute but I didn't really talk to him I talked to Marc more than anyone in the room, nice guy." I say.
"Well you're actually going to be going to school with Jake, he's the same age as you and Alex is going to be in a different class obviously because he's older."says my father.
"When do I start school?" I ask.
"Tomorrow, you'll be riding to school. With Jake, Alex and Jakes friends"he says coolly.
"Awesome, I'll be the only girl in the group, that's a way to walk into school with all the boys around me"I say enthusiastically.
"Yea and he'll also be showing you around the school as I asked the principal yesterday over the phone"he says, awesome won't be able to dodge him now. Wait why would I want to dodge someone like him? I don't know but I don't want to be around him with the influence he has on me. I sand up and smile as I turn to walk up the stairs.
"Hey dad can I read that letter now?" I ask.
"Yeah sure" he says worried.
"Okay, I'll go do that myself" I say walking up the stairs and to my room.
