Being the Baby Brother (ON HOLD)

Chapter 21

Baylor's POV

We just landed in Maryland and Noah is super excited, he slept most of the flight so now has a lot of energy.

"What are we gonna do first?" Noah asks as we are waiting at the luggage belt.

"I don't know bud" Jackson says, winking at me.

We had a plan to have Brennan and his brother Caden pick us up at the airport. I know Noah has missed Brennan a lot so he's gonna be excited.

We grabbed our suitcases and went to the pick up zone, I saw Caden first and then Brennan, but Noah hasn't yet. A smile forms on Brennan's face and he steps out of the crowd, and Noah sees him.

"Brennan!" Noah yells and drops his suitcase, running towards his best friend. They engulfed each other in a huge hug and fell to the ground.

Noah's POV

I was so happy to see Brennan. I knew we were gonna meet up, but wasn't expecting it now.

"Oh my god! I missed you!" I said and stood up off the ground.

"I missed you too!" He smiled.

I turned to see Jackson smiling while Baylor was filming me.

"Thank you guys!"
I said and ran into them with a hug.

"You too Caden!" I laughed.

"Let's go! I need food!" Baylor exclaimed, grabbing his suitcase.

We all went out and got into Caden's car. Jackson sat up front with him, so I was in between Baylor and Brennan in the back.

"How's school in Seattle?" Brennan asks.

"Really good, but we have to wear uniforms which I don't really like, but other than that it's good. I am on an indoor soccer team with a bunch of kids from my school" I told him.

"Cool, we miss you at school and soccer" He tells me.

"I miss you guys too" I say as we pull up to the restaurant.

Even though Brennan and I do still text all the time, seeing him in person is so different, it's been like two months.

"How did you get off of school?" Caden asks Jackson.

"Oh, are thanksgiving break started yesterday, just like two days earlier thank you, so we aren't missing any school." He explains.

Yes, my mom did die very close to Thanksgiving, actually the day before...

We ate lunch and then Caden and Brennan drove us to our rental house.

"Ok, we will see if we can get together later this week" Caden says before rolling up the window and driving off.

"What are we gonna do now?" I ask, bouncing on the front steps of the house.

"Not sure, chill out" Jackson laughs at my excitement.

The rest of the day, we just chilled out, well Jackson left to get the rental car but other than that, we just relaxed.

4 DAYS LATER

Jackson's POV

My dad got here last night, which made Noah very happy. This week has been great. We hung out with all of our old friends and did every fun thing we never got to do in our town, but today is the day we came for.

It's been 5 years, 5 years since I last saw her. 5 years since a stupid drunk teenager hit my mother's car.

I lay in the bed, staring at the ceiling, tears dripping down my cheeks.