Sky's First Christmas

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 - December 21st

Sky's POV

I woke up at 9:24am. I went downstairs to have breakfast then I was going to have a shower. Once I got downstairs, Mum and Luke were already in the kitchen, eating breakfast. Fine. I'd just skip breakfast. I went upstairs to have a shower. I usually take long showers and Mum comes to my room to shout at me, but this time she didn't. I think I was in the shower for a solid 25 minutes. Mum didn't shout once. I went looking for the hairdryer. I couldn't find it anywhere. Last time I used it, I left it in my bedroom. Maybe Mum knew where it was. If I didn't have it, she did. I was about to ask Mum but then she came to my room anyway.

"Morning Sky."

"Where's the hairdryer?"

"In my room. I'll get it for you now."

She hadn't even said anything about the fact that I hadn't said 'morning' back. She came back in with the hairdryer and gave it to me.

"Sky, I've got to go out and see my editor, so I'm leaving you with Luke, ok? I'll be back at around 7"

"Yeah whatever."

"Sky, is there something wrong?"

I really wanted to tell her that I wasn't happy that she was practically ignoring me.

"No, nothing's wrong."

"Are you sure? You can tell me anything, you know that don't you?"

"Yeah I'm sure."

"Ok then, I'll see you later. Bye."

"Bye Mum."

Then she left. I was on my own with Luke. Great. Maybe he wouldn't be happy that I was here. Maybe he would. I dried my hair then went downstairs. Luke was in the living room, watching some science programme or something.

"Morning Sky."

"Morning Luke."

I didn't want to be rude in case he told Mum.

"Come sit by me. We can have a chat." He said.

Oh god. Was he going to tell me that he didn't like me at all? All the same, I sat by him. He turned the telly off.

"I think since I've gotten here, you've felt left out."

How does he know?

"Umm... yeah, I have."

"I'm sorry I didn't realise until this morning, when you came in to have breakfast but me and Mum were already in there, when Mum only took me out for lunch."

"It's ok. I'm just glad that someone noticed."

"Do you want to play a game? Just you and me?"

"Ok then. What do you want to play?"

"We could play a board game or we could play something like a ps3."

"I fancy playing a ps3, but I don't know what game."

"How about Mario? Do you know that game?"

"Yeah. Clyde likes to play it with me sometimes."

"Ok, let's go play."

He stared walking up to the attic. I don't know why. The console was down here with the telly. I followed him up anyway.

"Mr. Smith, I need you!"

"Hello Luke. What can I do for you?"

"Load Mario. Two players."

"Of course."

Then two controllers popped out. I had no idea that Mr. Smith was also a games console. It was really cool all the same. Me and Luke played for a while then he ordered us some chips for lunch. We were still playing Mario, trying to complete the entire game. Later on, Mum came back.

"What are you two doing?"

She sort of gave us a shock.

"We're playing Mario together." Luke told her.

"How long have you been playing?"

Neither me or Luke knew.

"We don't know." I said.

"Mr. Smith, how long have they been playing?"

"Approximately 7 hours and 37 minutes."

"Well I think you should give it a break now. 7 hours is too long."

"Yeah ok." I responded.

Then me and Luke went downstairs. Mum came down shortly after.

"Right, I'm going to cook food, it won't be long." Mum told us.

"Why don't I help? We don't want the kitchen getting set on fire." Luke quickly said.

"Why not let Sky help?" Mum suggested.

"Me?"

"Yeah. You two could probably cook better than I would."

"Um.. ok then!"

Mum took us out to the kitchen. She gave us some frozen sausages, some frozen mash and some frozen peas. Me and Luke cooked them. Luke did most of it and I got the plates, knifes and forks out. Once he was done, he put the food on the plates. It smelled really nice. We gave some to Mum.

"This is really good. Well done to the both of you."

"It's ok." Luke said.

After food, Luke suggested that we played a board game. I decided to because the more I got to know Luke, the more I wanted him to be here. He was an amazing brother. We played some game called Cluedo. I didn't understand it but luckily Luke helped me and I won. Afterwards, we realised that it was getting late, so we went to bed. I was glad that I'd had a day alone with Luke because I hadn't realised how nice he was. I went to say goodnight to Luke this time. He was glad that I did. I also said goodnight to Mum. Then I went to sleep.