HE'S My Step-brother?

CHAPTER 3

"Oh... well you see the thing is... GOTTA GO!" I spin on my heels and speed walk back down to the basement.

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"Oh my god. Jo!  GET YOUR SELF TOGETHER!!!  You can't even talk to boys without getting yourself embarrassed!" I say slapping myself in the head.

Wow.  I thought that my mom said only my brother and his four band mates were going to live with us.  I start to have a panic attack and breath in sharply hastily. I grab my iPhone off the piano and dial up my mom. 

"Hello? Jo?"

" *breath* Mom... *breath*"

"Jo, honey, calm down.  What's wrong?  Are you having a panic attack? Honey sit down and relax, you can slow down your breathing. Focus, pumpkin, you'll be alright."

After about two minutes of my mom calming me down with her soothing words, my breathing was normal and I could talk.

"Ok, Joanna, why were you having an attack?" 

"Because mom! I was down stairs talking with ONE DIRECTION and-" I was cut off.

"You were talking to them?" 

"Yes mom. I can actually talk to people other then you guys and Brandon!"

"Ok ok! I'm sorry, continue"

"Thank you. So where was I? Oh yeah, I was talking to the guys and the door bell rung.  Tell me mother, who do you think it was?"

"I'm guessing that it was the other pack of sweet hot guys?"

"Did you just call a group of teenagers hot? Mom!  Hello Miss. Cougar!" I earn a chuckle from my couar mom.

"Pumpkin!  Get on with your story!"

"Oh yeah, well, it was that other band, 5 Seconds Of Snowflake?" My mom giggles over the line. "Mom! I called one of the guys, wow!!!  I was thinking it in my head and I said it out loud! And and and mom!!! It was so embarrassing! Then I sped walked out and into the basement!"

"Ok honey calm down.  You don't need to get all worked up about this.  Just go down stairs and act like nothing happened.  Maybe even re-introduce yourself!"

"Yeah... Thanks Mom.  I'm going to go workout ... get all this stuff out you know?"

"Sounds good pumpkin!  Well, I  have to get back to work, Jim and I will be home by eight!  Love you and remember, be nice to those boys!"

"Love you too, bye dearest!" I say hanging up the the phone.

I stand up from the chair and begin to walk up the stairs.  I stop when I get to the door and crack it open starting to think of my plan to get upstairs, change, back downstairs, and then outside to my trampoline without being noticed.  I look to my right : nothing, look to my left: no one.  I let out a breath that I didn't know that I was holding in.  I straighten out and open up the door all the way. I turn my body to the left and book it to the stairs and up to my room.  I close the door behind me and walk over to my closet to my gym clothes section, which includes my various colors of Nike sport bras, Nike Pro shorts, Nike pants, and Soffee shorts.  I pick out a pair of Nike Pros and a sports bra.  I tug off my regular clothes and pull on my new clothes.  I grab my phone and speakers and walk over to the door.  After I look both ways out the door and I run down the stairs and around the corner into the kitchen.  I find all of the boys there.  Thankfully all of their backs were facing me, so they didn't see me and I back out of the room quietly. I get to the back door and slide it open and walk over to my trampoline. I set my phone and speakers down after I hit shuffle on my music.  The song that came on was "Twerk Anthem" by Tony Junior.  I hop up onto the tramp and start warming up by doing a couple of backhand springs. Then I move onto tucks and standing fulls. After about 10 minutes of the tumbling I decide to work on my basket toss. The toss I'm doing is a kick-double down.  It's where I get thrown up in the air and I kick one leg up in the air then on my way down I spin twice and land on my back.  When I'm doing it with people the people would catch me but since its only the tramp and I, the tramp catches me.