Slightly Less Badass

~Chapter Three~

The rest of the day was thrilling- note the sarcasm. Because of the weather reports that told us the rain should stop soon, we wasted an entire day. We kept waiting and waiting but the storm seemed unending. So almost the whole day was spent by us sitting in the living room hardly saying anything. Every once in awhile someone would look away from the TV or up from their phone to make a random comment.
"Rain looks like it's slowing down."
"Would someone turn the volume up? I can't hear."
"I'm hungry. And bored."
"What a fun vacation so far."

It wasn't until around 6:30 that we finally decided to get up. I was sitting on the couch, quietly reading a book when Jacob decided to prop his feet up on my lap. I immediately shoved him off but all he did was put them back up.
"Stop it," I mutter irritatedly as he puts them on me for the fourth time.
"I'm bored," he whines.
"Good for you now leave me alone."
The cycle went on for several more minutes but I still didn't bother looking up from my book; he put his feet on me, I pushed them off, he put them back on, I flipped to be next page of my book then pushed him off again.
"What are you even reading?" he asks and finally pulls his feet off of me.
"I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Not my favorite out of the series but still good," I murmur distractedly.
"Isn't that series for children? And you're re-reading them? They don't even look that good. Plus reading is just a waste of time."
A hushed silence fell upon the room. I placed my bookmark in my book and slammed it shut.
"Did he dare just say that?" Rina asks. She, I know for a fact, has read the series at least five times. I have only read them two other times. This was the only book series I ever re-read.
"Idiot. You better run," David warns. He's made this mistake before, too, and knows the outcome isn't pleasant. But Jacob isn't smart and ignores the warning. Instead he decides to offend us further.
"Oh it's just a dumb book, calm down."
"Seriously I think you better run," David says again with panic in his voice. He has to hold Rina tightly to stop her from tackling Jacob.
"You better apologize," I say in the calmest tone I can muster. We may have gotten older but Rina and I are still huge book worms.
"Nerds," Jacob scoffs. I look over at Rina. I can tell she's thinking the exact same thing that I am. She stops squirming and sits there calmly. She gives me a small nod and I wink in reply. David lets go of her in confusion. I open up my book and get back to reading. Out of the corner of my eye I see Jacob shrug but David still seemed terrified. He knew better than to assume that was the end of this. He knew something horrible was in store for Jacob. But Jacob was too dull to realize it himself so he simply put his feet back on my lap. The stupid cycle continues for about ten minutes.
"Alright this is ridiculous," Rina abruptly shouts. "David, order us a pizza. Mira, come help me get something."
I reluctantly set down my book and stand up. Rina glares at Jacob as he opens his mouth to say something.
"And you just sit there and think about what you've done," she tells him sternly. Surprisingly, he obeys and quickly shuts his big mouth and looks away. I have no idea where Rina is leading me but I follow her quietly. We stop in front of a small closet. She opens it up and, just like the Tardis from Doctor Who, it's much bigger on the inside. The shelves are full of all sorts of random board games, cards, toys, movies, costumes, makeup, and stuff to color with. There were more activities in that closet then I've ever seen before. Without even seeing what she was grabbing, Rina starts piling things into my hands.
"David's parents share the house with the rest of his family so his younger cousins often need entertainment," she explains as she hands me Monopoly.  She keeps grabbing random stuff until both of our hands are full. I glance around the closet and see that we hardly even got anything; the closet was still bursting with things.
"We can come back later for movies," says she. Together we walk back into the living room. The boys haven't moved from their spots on the couch. We let the games fall out of our arms and it lands on the floor with a loud bang. Jacob and David still don't move. They hardly even glance over at us.
"Well, fine, if they wanna sit there and be bored then they can," Rina mutters to herself and starts sorting through the pile on the floor. I kneel down and we separate them into categories; fun games, decent games, and games that we won't play.
"So, which do you want to play first?" I ask Rina. She smiles wickedly and holds up a box. I groan; she wants to play Twister. She knows I hate this game and purposely chose it to annoy it.
"I hate you."
"You love me."
"No, not really."
"Yes really. We're gonna need more room to play this. I'll move the table and set it up. You convince them to get off of their asses and play."
I walk over and stand directly in front of the TV to try to get a response out of them. They do this all the time; whenever they don't want to participate in something they pretend like they can't see or hear us. It's really annoying but easy to change their minds. I grab the remote and change the channel. I can't help but smirk when I happen to see what's playing on Disney Channel. Within the first two seconds of turning it on, Rina is already singing along.
"No no no stick to the stuff you know. If you wanna be cool just stick to the status quo!"
David and Jacob groan and cover their ears. Almost immediately their standing up and walking towards the Twister board.
"Alright, fine we'll play just turn it off," David begs.
"How come it seems like that stupid movie is always on?"
"Because it's the greatest child's musical movie ever," I say and change the channel to something else. As much as I wanted to, there was no need to torture them more than making them play Twister with us.
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"Goddammit.. Oops didn't mean to cuss. It's just that this game is so incredibly stupid," I yell and throw my piece on the floor.
"You're only saying that because you're losing," I hear Jacob mutter. I glare at him. My whole family is extremely competitive so I didn't like that I have lost almost every game we've played tonight. Apparently I just really suck at board games. Within the next few minutes of playing, David lets out a shout of joy.
"Take that losers!" he yells. He's just won the game of Sorry. I resist the temptation to flip the board over dramatically.
"Bullshit. I used to be great at games. Y'all must be cheating or something," I grumble.
"You used to play against me and Cameron. That's the only reason you were any good, because we both sucked more than you," says Rina. Nearly the whole night her and I have been tied for last.
"I'm going to bed," I tell them and stand up. After siting on the floor for the past few hours it felt good to stretch out my legs.
"Ah don't be a party pooper. Let's play Monopoly," Rina says excitedly. She pulls the box out of our messy pile of games and starts setting it up without putting away Sorry. David rolls his eyes at her and cleans it up.
"It's already 11:46 and Monopoly always takes, like, five hours to play," says I. Rina pretends she can't hear me.
"Do you wanna be the hat or the boot?" she asks instead. With a sigh of regret, I reluctantly sit back down on the floor.
"Give me the boot."
"I'm hungry," Jacob says abruptly.
"Same. Go get me food," I say.
"We don't have any food. No one has gone to the grocery store yet," David reminds us. We finished the pizza hours ago so that wasn't an option.
"Go get me food," I repeat to Jacob. He pouts slightly and closes his eyes. After a few seconds he heaves himself up and grabs his car keys off of the table.
"Get ice cream. And chips. Ooh and some chocolate."
He glares at me. I smile back. I glance over at Rina and see her frown slightly at me. Before I can ask her what's wrong, the frown disappears.
"Get some Swedish Fish too. And you might as well get me some lemonade as well," she says.
"Mhm lemonade sounds good. Definitely get some of that. Preferably the pink kind," I chime in.
"Pringles."
"And get bread and lunch meat for tomorrow."
"A few frozen pizzas."
"Water bottles."
"Don't forget the chocolate."
"Or the donuts. You know the Krispy Kreme ones. Get a few boxes of that."
Rina and I just keep listing random things that we really don't need tonight but that he might as well get while he's there. There's no point in going to the store again tomorrow if he is willing to go now. He glares down at us.
"Do you have any demands?" he asks David. David looks slightly guilty as he nods his head.
"Beer and peanuts please."
"Ooh cheese. The big block that you cut up yourself, not the pre cut ones," I tell him.
"And of course then you'll need to get pepperoni and crackers with it," says Rina matter of factly.
"This is ridiculous. We might as well just all go to the stupid grocery store."
"Yay an adventure!" Rina and I shout at once.
"I'll get my shoes on," I say and quickly jump up, Rina following my lead. Jacob groans.
"I was just kidding," he says.
"Too late. Now they're excited," David says.
"You two are such children." Jacob sounds very exasperated with us but it just makes us laugh.
"Thank you."
"Now let's go!"