~Anxiety~Christian Akridge AKA Christian Leave (fanfict)

Chapter 15

We walk up to the door to my cousins house and ring the doorbell. From the inside of the house I can hear my little cousin Nora scream, "Kayla's here!" she opens the door and runs out to give me a hug. "Kayla!" she screams. "Hi Nora!" I hug her back and pick her up. "You wanna meet someone?" I ask, without letting her answer I say, "This is my friend Christian, say hi,"

Nora nuzzles her face into my neck in shyness. Christian and I laugh, "shes a bit shy," I tell him. We walk into the house and I let Nora down. She runs into the kitchen and my Aunt Kristen come in with an apron on. "Hey guys!" she warmly welcomes us. "You must be Christian," she reached her hand out to Christian and he shook it, "Yes, its nice to meet you".

"Kayla, Kayla! Come downstairs!" she pulls me and I motion for Christian to follow. Their basement is a huge mess of toys. Nora's older brother, Keith, sits on the couch playing video games. Nora is 3 years old and Kevin is 8 years old. Keith looks up from the TV and mumbles, "Hi," and quickly returns to the game. "Kayla can me play dress up?" Nora jumps. "Sure!" I say. Christian and I sit down on the couch next to Keith and watch him play until Nora comes back. "Oh no, I don't think I can fit into any of these dresses," I complain. "That's okay, braid my hair!" she squeaks and turn around. I braid her hair into one french braid going down the middle of her head. "Done!" I say, "now lets find you a dress," I say digging through her box of dresses. "How about this one?" I pick up an Elsa dress and show it to her. "Yes!" she yells. I help her slide the dress on over her sweater. "I'm a princess!" she chirps and spins around. "Not yet!" I say digging through her box to find a tiara, and I place it on her head careful not to mess up her braid. Christian walks over and says, "Nora you look beautifully"

She blushes and doesn't say anything. "May I have this dance?" he says holding his hand out for her. She giggles, "okay". The two start dancing around the room and occasionally he picks her up and spins her around in circles. I can't get over how cute this is, I had no idea Christian was so good with kids. I discreetly record them on my phone.

I suddenly remember that I made myself an Instagram a while ago. I never even posted anything yet on my account, yet I have 400 something followers already. I go to the app and post the video with the caption "I guess I have been replaced". Nora giggles as she is spun in circles, I can see the excitement in her eyes.

"Dinner!" my aunt yells from upstairs.  We all sit around the big dinning room table.  My aunt made turkey, stuffing, pasta with meat sauce, salad, and a lot more.  I sat next to Christian and Nora and we all passed the food around the table.  I had some stuffing, salad, and pasta.  Since Nora is only 3 years old, I had to out the food on her plate for her.  

When every one was ready, we began to eat.  It felt different not constantly regretting everything I ate, but I love knowing that no matter what my size is, I will always be loved.  After dinner was over, we had desert.  We passed around plates of apple pie, coffee cake, cookies, and brownies.  Even after eating dessert, I didn't have that usual guilty feeling in my head.  My brother, Nora, Keith, Christian, and I all played hide and go seek in the basement.  Christian and I hide behind an arm chair.  Our shoulders are touching and he rests his hand on my thigh.  "I found you," Nora chirps as she peeks her head over the top of the chair.  We both sigh and stand up.  Ben was already found so we wont be  it next round.  The game goes on for awhile until we were all to tired.  Then we all just watched Frozen because that's Nora's favorite movie and she made us watch it.  I fell asleep in the middle of it and Christian woke me up when it was time to go.  Nora and Keith were also asleep so we were went upstairs quietly, making sure not to wake them up.  

Just as we were getting our shoes on, there is a loud cry from the basement, "WAIT!" Nora screamed and we could hear footsteps coming up the stairs.  She runs up to Christian and gives him a huge hug.  He bends down to her level so she can hug him around his neck and she does, but she also gives him a kiss on the cheek.  "Bye Bye," she quickly says and runs back downstairs.  My heart melts when I realize how adorable that just was.  As we walk outside to the car, I whisper to Christian, "gee thanks for replacing me,"

"My pleasure," he says and helps me in to the car.