I got home from school to house full of laughter, and tea. I stumbled into the front room and found my Mum and Jacob's Mum, who's name I can't remember for the life of me, chatting and smiling to each other.
"Hey sweetie, how was school?" My Mum got up from her seat and came over to hug me
"Great, thanks, how was your day? I see you and..." I pause, trying in vain to remember Jacob's Mum's name "um, I'm so sorry but I can't remember your name!" She laughs and rubs my arm
"Don't worry, it's Pamella" I nod and my Mum shakes her head teasingly
"Thank you! I see you and Pamella have made friends," We all laugh, and I take a seat on the sofa, dumping my bag on the floor
"What did you do today?" I ask them and they look at each other and laugh, what on earth?
"Well, we did the shopping together and just chatted..." My Mum says, somewhat sheepishly
"Okay, sure...and why are you both grinning like maniacs?" I sarcastically question and Mum scratches the back of her neck, a sure sign from anyone that they did something embarrassing, but I was soon to find she was not the one to be embarrassed.
"We shared baby photos!" She finally confesses and I groan, putting my head in hands, mine and Alex's baby photos weren't your usual embarrassing, they were a whole new level of embarrassing. I'm sure by now my face is resembling a tomato.
"Speaking of babies, where is Alex?" I look up
"He's playing football" I explain and Pamella looks confused
"English football or American football?" I laugh and so does Mum, bless her
"Sorry, English football; soccer" She turns pink, just like Jacob does, wait, what? Why am I thinking about Jacob, he isn't even here! Mum says something but I don't catch it and she looks at me expectantly. "Sorry Mum, what did you say?" She sighs
"Go do your homework before dinner, Pamella is staying for dinner and Louise and Jacob should be coming over too." I nod and take me and my bag upstairs. I flop onto my bed, I'm so exhausted. Today was Tanya's birthday, I got her some perfume, a bracelet and some rubbers, which hopefully she liked, I mean she seemed to. Well, she kept on saying thank you and, so yeah, I think she liked them.
I do my homework quickly, not wanting to spend my evening on it, then go downstairs. Louise is sitting on the couch looking incredibly bored, in fact it looks as if she might fall asleep. I chuckle to myself and go into the front room. She immediately snaps her eyes to mine, looking so cute and hopeful. Mum and Pamella haven't spotted me yet so I gesture for her to come. She shyly hops down from the sofa, neither of the adults notice when we silently exit the room and go into the kitchen. I crouch down and quickly lift Louise onto a stool and she squeals.
"So are you the young miss Louise?" I ask smiling brightly leaning forward onto my elbows
"Y-yeah, what's your name?" She says quietly fiddling with her pigtails
"Evie" She nods and repeats it, I nod in return "Where are Jacob and Alex?" I ask and she perks up at the name of her brother
"In Alex's bedroom, Jacob said that they have to do 'boy stuff'" She whines pouting and I just want to pinch her cheeks and cuddle her, I swear she is so adorable!
"That's not very nice, is it!" I say exaggerating my tone of voice
"No!" She agrees and frowns
"Well, shall we go upstairs and scare them?" I say menacingly, she grins and nods her head enthusiastically
I get up and lift her down from her stool, she holds my hand and I lead us upstairs to Alex's bedroom. I knock on the door and quickly pull her into my room, startling her, she almost screams but I quickly cover her mouth with my hand and she widens her eyes, but relaxes when she sees me smile. We peep out from behind the door and see Alex looking around confused. I hold up three fingers to Louise and count down, we then leap out from our amazing hiding spot and shout "BOO!"
Alex lets out a loud girly scream and Jacob just groans from inside the room, Louise starts giggling which then in turn makes me giggle. Jacob comes to the door and raises an eyebrow, to which I blush. What is happening to me? I feel like a huge pile of mush.
"That's what you guys get for being mean to Louise" I say and place a hand on my hips
"Jacob said it, not me!" Alex huffs and goes back into his room, meanwhile Jacob looks like a deer caught in headlights and splutters some gibberish
"I-I...sh-she, w-we didn't want Louise to see graphic images" He blushes and I roll my eyes, please, I can tell when he is lying, well partly, I'm glad they didn't show her GTA or Fallout, but they could've played something else.
"Your lying" I say with a nonchalant face and he casts a guilty look to Louise
"How could you!" Louise squeals, and for a moment I thought she was going to cry, but then she runs to Jacob and pummels him with her tiny fists. Jacob and me catch each others eye and start laughing. He picks Louise up and carries her into Alex's room where the TV is displaying the title screen to Disney Infinity, although I highly doubt that was there before, this is just so Louise doesn't see strippers, or death claws, or blood, or.... you get the picture. I leap on top of Alex who is laying on his bed holding a remote and he groans underneath me.
"Evie...get...off...me...now" He says, his voice sounding murderous, but he doesn't phase me and I just giggle, that is until he throws me off his body and onto the floor.
"Owwww" I whine whilst getting up and rubbing my butt
"Next time don't lay on top of me" He shrugs and I respond by jumping back on top of him and he sighs. I glance over to Jacob and Louise, she is sitting on his lap holding the remote while he shows her what to do. Cute! He turns his head and I quickly avert my gaze to the screen, although out of the side of my vision I see him smirk and I know he caught me staring, great. I involuntarily blush. Double great.
"Kids! Dinners ready!" I hear my Mum shout and I leap off of Alex while Louise whines about wanting to play more. I walk over to her and Jacob and crouch down,
"Don't worry, we can play more after" I say and she grabs my hand
"Yay!"
We reach the dining room shortly before Jacob and Alex, and scents of salad and potato fill my nose, not to mention mouth watering chicken. I lick my lips and go to a seat, Louise follows and sits beside me, in-between her Mum and me. Jacob sits opposite me with Alex between him and my Mum. Good job we have enough chairs, perfect in fact.
Picture is Louise!!!! Awwww! So cute! Another update, yayyyyy! Not too much happens in this chapter, but it's important to show how their families become quite close. Next chapter, will however, be a bit more eventful; by which I mean, plans for the christmas holidays! I know it's weird to think about christmas right now, considering its May, but try to imagine, because I started this story a while a go and I can't just suddenly jump from the start of the school year to the start of summer, time doesn't work like that in my story. Wow, this is a long author's note...Tell your pizza delivery guys! Vote and comment!
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