Stepbrothers (Paused!!) (Editting!!!!)

Chapter 6

Tomorrow is Christmas and my mom and I finally get to have a day alone together and by that I mean we go shopping together. We are going to get the boys present for Christmas and well my mom wants to buy something special for Mr. Rivers.

I'm very happy to finally have a day with my mom alone. But I wish we were going to do something other than buying those brats some gifts. We go to the mall and the first place I stop at is obviously Hot Topic I just really like everything there because there's band shirts and other cool things in there I want. As I stop by outside I look inside the window who seems to be drag me into going there. There were costumes and Christmas theme things hung up in that in the darkness of the store. I wonder if Angel ever comes by anything here probably I mean we both love the darkness. I still remember his smile yesterday and how warm it was. We didn't really talk I was too shy to scared whatever, but we had a great time kind of not yelling at each other anymore.

My mom pulls my arm and drags me into another store I reach my arm out to try and reach for Hot Topic "If you love me let me go..." I sing, but my mom doesn't smile. I glanced at her face and realized that for the past days we've been living there, she look like five years older.

"Not now Colleen we're not going to that store right now. " She answers annoyed which surprised me. I though we where having a good time.

"Maybe Angel would like something from there." I make up an excuse hoping that she would say yes.

"I think it's best if we buy the boys some color don't you think? And maybe some color wouldn't hurt you either." she looked at me up and down. I don't that. My mom has never acted like this before she's always been fine with style. She wants be to dress freely. Probably mr. Rivers said something about that.

My mother holds up the most random shirt, "Do you think this would look good on Andrew?"

"I don't know, what do you think?" rolling my eyes not looking up at the shirt she's showing me. "I've had enough of your attitude we're going home!" My mom has never yelled at me like that before which kind of made me flinch and if it wasn't for the pile of clothes behind me I would of fell back. My mom stares at me too she didn't mean to, that's what she's thinking.

It's always just been my me and her, We where just the mother and daughter who'd get along so well. I look down at the tiled floor underneath my shoes.

"I'm going to go see what's over there" I leave her side and pick a pile of clothes to choose from and to be honest I don't even know what I'm looking for. My mom walks behind me, she opens her mouth to speak, but then closes it to choose her words wisely.

"I didn't mean to-"

"It's okay Mom I understand. It's my fault, I pushed it too far." I rest my hand on her shoulder, she pulls my arm and wraps it around into a hug.

"Would you wear this?" she held up the the big oversized black shirt with a skeleton on it. I laugh a little my heart skip the a beat of how adorable that was. My mom doesn't know much about teen fashion so that was very sweet.

After we get our stuff about an hour later we go to the 99 cent store to buy bags Christmas bags Bows and tape. Everything we were going to need for wrapping up gifts. I've never been an expert at wrapping gifts so most of them were patched up to fill in the gaps. We are wrapping gifts in the car so there is no peeking.

I'm anxious about tomorrow. I'm celebrating a holiday with my new family. My mom looks at me and touches my cheek,

"It will fun. I promise." I can't believe anything she says anymore. She says that I would get used to the boys and I haven't. Then she promised to make it better and she hasn't, I still miss my dad and my house and my old room.

We get back home and decide to hide the gifts in my closet which has a whole mess of shirts on the floor because I haven't any time to put my clothes to wash. "You seriously can't be shy to live here or else you're going to go going to have to go to school with dirty clothes for the rest of your life."

"Not the rest of my life" I reply harshly. My mom nods her head solemnly and walks out of the room I feel bad for hurting her it hurts to hurt your family members specially our own mothers.

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It's Christmas and my mom and I are finishing up the details and taking out the cookies from the oven. I blow on them so they could get cold faster and I could eat one because I've been eyeing them all day my mom slapped my hand
"Not until we eat dinner" I sigh and put them down on the table. Mr. Rivers comes out of his room with a towel wrapped around his waist. I look away quickly my cheeks burn red in embarrassment I could tell my mom is uncomfortable for having him near me shirtless too. He kisses my mom's cheek and gently touches my shoulder as he passes by me and get to the refrigerator to grab a beer for himself. Not to mention He's the one in charge of the turkey he said he always liked making the turkey so that's what he's in charge of today. I wonder what Angel's going to wear today I mean is he going to wear the black shirt? or the other black shirt? I know which one I'm wearing the black shirt of course.