The Family [Book Two]

Forty One Bonus

Tavi Marie Sanchez

"Can you stop?" I rolled my eyes snatching the remote from Tyson.

He smacked his lips and sunk down further in my couch.

"Tav, do you have anything other than water?" Samari asked coming out of my kitchen.

I smacked my lips. "Some bleach."

Her jaw dropped, me and Tyson laughed.

"Ha ha ha, very funny." She rolled her eyes and walked over to the couch and sat down next to Tyson.

I walked into the kitchen and went into the pantry and grabbed a Gatorade for her. I walked back in the front room and handed it to her.

"Did y'all hear about JJ?" Elle asked looking up from her phone.

JJ was our cousin, he was our uncle Johnny and our auntie Danielle's son.

"Sum' happened to him?" Tyson asked looking over at her.

"Daniel posted on Instagram about how he was in an accident the other day." She said.

Since our dad and Johnny didn't get along, we all lost our relationship with them. Our mom thought it was best that they just kept their distance if they didn't want a blood bath. Especially after uncle Johnny had got shot and auntie Danielle flipped her shit.

Tyson shrugged. I smacked his shoulder.

"They're still our family." I said.

"And? We ain't seen them since Elle and Samari was babies." He said. "They ain't my family."

Tyson always hated the fact that uncle Johnny left our father to go get our mom. He said that if uncle Johnny really cared about our father, that he would still be here. But that wasn't the case at all.

But since Tyson was the ticking time bomb, the hot head, and the lunatic, we all let him keep his thoughts and we kept ours.

"You were a baby too, Tyson." I said shaking my head.

"I said what I said." He ended the conversation.

I laughed.

"I just commented the hands and a heart from the family." Elle said.

I nodded. "See, you are the sweet one." I leaned over and pinched her cheek.

Samari sucked her teeth. "When she wants to be."

Elle nudged her. Samari nudged her back, harder.

"Aye, knock it off. What did pops tell y'all?" Tyson asked.

They stopped and folded their arms.

Spoiled asses.

They were all over my house because I lived closer to their school than they did. My dad called me and asked me if they could stay over until he got off of work and he would pick them up after. Of course; my dumb ass... I said yeah.

Our mom was at work, but knowing her, she would be pulling an extra tonight and staying longer than she normally does.

"You guys hungry?" I asked falling over on the couch, into Tyson's lap.

He groaned.

"Yeah, get off me fat ass." He pushed me off the couch and I rolled on the floor.

I reached up and pulled his hair.

"Awww, fuck!" He shouted smacking my hand away.

"Can you order pizza?" The twins asked at the same time.