Former Country Girl

Exploring The Home

The Johnson siblings, going from in a circle starting at the left top: Mikey, Lily-Grace, McKenzie, and Stevie

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"Hello?"

I wiped my tears and turned around. I was met with one of the boys. I inwardly groaned, there was no way I was going to remember them all.

"Cashton, right?" I asked hopefully.

He gave me a weird look. "Cashton's the baby. Guess again."

I took the time to look at his features. The curly hair was very well tamed and his eyes were a nice green color. He had big biceps, which must have come from working on the farm.

"Forrest!" I said, positive with my answer.

"I'm Mark," he said with a smile.

"Oh." Why can't I remember who's who!

"It's fine if you can't remember, a lot of people get us mixed up. Except Lynnette, but that's explanatory."

Right, there are rarely any girls in the family.

Then I really looked at Mark. I realized I didn't know him, well if course I didn't know him I just got here. Or at least recognize him. I met most of the boys in the pool, but I don't remember him as one of them.

"Wait, you weren't in the pool, where were you?"

"What?" Mark asked confused.

Now I was positive. I don't remember seeing him except when Lily-Grace did the introductions. Unless I missed something, I had never seen him.

"Where were you earlier?"

"Huh?" Now it was his turn to be confused. Then his face lit up.

"Oh, I was running errands for Aunt Joy. I picked up Lily-Grace on the way back so that's why she's here earlier than what she was supposed to be. We were both confused when we saw my youngest siblings outside with Lynnette trying to climb a ladder."

"So when she called Stevie the oldest," I started, my head spinning with ideas. Stevie was almost three years older than Lily-Grace, so that makes Stevie seventeen now. How old is this Mark guy?

"She meant in the house. I'm eighteen."

Woah, that surprised me. He didn't seem like the oldest, in a way, Charles did.

"Oh."

I tend to say that a lot now with all these boys. Too much info means my brain is being overheated.

"Sorry about that I don't know why I started rambling, but I wanted to say hi to you personally."

Wow, someone who actually cares? That's new.

"I just want to say if you need help with anything, my room is down the hall. But now that I think about it, you'll really need it."

"Thank you so much!" I said jumping up to hug him. He'll be more help to me than Lily-Grace definitely.

He laughed lightly. "No problem, I know it has to be confusing for you so I'll help."

"You are my hero!" I said. Then I blushed. I sounded like a little kid.

"No problem," Mark said, lightly laughing. "I just wanted to say hello. I'll let you get back to unpacking."

With that, he walked away, leaving me in my room. I think I found my favorite Johnson cousin.

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It took my almost half and hour to unpack all my clothing and find more spots. All the clothes I brought was not fitting into the three drawers I had, so I had to settle for keeping the rest if my clothes in a suitcase and placing it the closet with the rest of the unused ones.