Big Brother
1323 Words
Luke Jr.
“Luke! Oliver won't stop touching me!!”
“I’m not even touching you Abby!”
“Seriously guys?!?!? What are we babies?!?” I look at Oliver and Abby in the rear view mirror.
“No!” They both yell at me.
“Then knock it off. We're close enough to the house, I'll make you walk the rest of the way.”
Silence.
I like silence.
“Can you take me to the store after dinner?” Callie whispers from the seat next to me. I drop my head and turning slightly to look at her.
“For why?”
“Well..I need some stuff from the store.” she mumbles looking at her hands.
“Ok eww. Can't you ask mom, moms being buying that stuff forever.” I ask as I pull into the drive way. I noticed Kades truck parked outside. At least he's here.
“ I can't ask mom she'll just tell me to use hers.” She says grabbing her bag of the floor of my mustang.
The car was a birthday gift from Dad last year, when I got my license. He had joked about all the chicks that were going to ask me for a ride home, little did I know the only chicks I'd be giving rides to were my little sisters. Lame.
“You're lucky I have to go to the store anyway.” I tell her, cutting the engine.
“Thank you! Thank you! Luke your the best brother in the entire universe!” She screams as she gets out of the car and slams the door.
"Be gental." I reminder her for the hundredth
"Sorry." she says as we walk to the garage door and I punch in the code for it to open.
Abby and Oliver sneek under the door when it's just barley a foot off the ground.
“No fair!” Callie screams at them “I get the TV first!!”
Shaking my head, we enter the garage and head up the stairs to the kitchen.
As we climb the stairs I can hear mom greeting Abby and Oliver.
“My babies! How were your days??”
“Fine” is all Oliver says.
“Mommy I got slime from the school store!” Abby yells excitedly.
“Great” mom replied with absolutely zero enthusiasm.
Haha my mom hates, no loathes slime. As I'm sure all parents do. Nikki made some huge messes with slime when she was younger. Pretty much ruined it for everyone.
As I round the corner there's a man standing in the kitchen that I don't know next to Kade. He kinda looks familiar, like a face from my childhood. But I have no idea who he is. He must be with Kade.
“Luke! How were the try outs?!?” My mom, my number one fan for life,
“ Mom….” I pause and look down, gotta build some suspense, “ I f*****g killed it!”
“Oh you!” She jumps up and hugs me, being almost six foot, Im so much taller than her. “Ow” she smacked the back of my head. “Watch you mouth.” She warns,” I'm Soo proud of you!” She squeezed me tight and plants a kiss on my cheek.
I set her down and look at Kade.
He smiles at me offering the bro-high five, with the back pat.
“Good job man! I knew you'd kill it.” He says as he steps back.
Kade, oh, Kade. I don't hate him, he's alright. I've known him my whole life. I even worked for him last summer. He was one of Dad's best friends. He comes around a lot, but daily since Dad died, doesn't take a genius to figure out why. But mom is oblivious, at least she pretends too. To stubborn to admit she likes the guy more than “friends”. She deserves a good guy, I guess like Kade. He's nice enough, takes pretty good care of her, if she lets him. He definitely makes her happy, she smiles more when he's around.
“Oh Luke, this is Jude.” Kade introduces the stranger.
Jude steps forward with his hand out. “Nice to see you again. You were just a little guy the last time I saw you.”
Knew it!
“Nice to meet you. Sorry I don't really remember.” I say shaking his hand.
“ No worries, Luke. It was a long time ago. But I used to work with your mom, back at The Warehouse.” He says, leaning back against the counter.
I look over at mom and she's nodding.
“That's right, Jude and I worked at The Warehouse together before we opened the kitchen, you would have met him at Christmas parties and BBQs.” she says looking at me.
The Warehouse was a factory my mom worked at when I was younger. I remember the parties my parents would drag us all too.
“Ok, maybe” I say, shrugging my shoulders, “What's for dinner? It smells soo good”
“Well since I new you were too make the varsity team. I'm making crockpot lasagna!” mom says throwing her hands in the air.
Aww this woman! “My favorite!” A say with a huge grin on my face.
“Go get cleaned up, it'll be ready in a couple hours.” She says patting my back pushing me from the kitchen. I head down the spiral staircase to the basement where my room and private bathroom are.
Once down stairs I see Callie and Oliver are playing video games. I head for my room and shut the door behind me. My room is pretty big. I have a king size bed, desk and set of drawers. I have a TV that I bought myself after working for Kade last summer, he helped me hang it from the ceiling and set it up.
I strip my basketball shorts and tee shirt off and throw them at the hamper, of course they made it in.
I turn on my stereo and head for the shower.
After I'm all cleaned up, I head out to the living room and join Callie and Oliver on the couch. Abby's coloring in a coloring book on the floor.
"Whose that guy?" Oliver asks.
"I already told you that's Jude." Abby says sounding annoyed.
"I wasn't asking you." Oliver snaps without taking his eyes off the screen.
"Chill out guys." I warn them. "He use to work with Mom and apparently now works for Kade." I inform my shyest sibling.
"He's so hot!" Callie decides to chime in.
"Eww" Oliver and I say in unison. before Abby starts laughing.
"Whose hot?" Nikki asks entering the room and ploping down next to me on the couch.
All four of us look at Nikki like she's insane. If anyone is going to pine after Jude it's going to be Nikki. If she wasn't my sister I'd call her kinda slutty. Being her big brother means I'm supposed to watch out for her and keep the creeps away, but let me tell you, she does NOT make that s**t easy! I've punched more guys in the mouth for saying s**t about her then I could count. So if Nikki doesnt know who we're talking about she hasn't been in the kitchen.
"You didn't go talk to Mom when you go home?" I say turning to look at her.
"I just walked in the door." she shrugs. "Why?"
"Oh my God Nikki! You have to go upstairs!" Callie starts freaking out and pauses the game. "I'll come with you!"
Callie grabs Nikki's hand and jerks her off the couch and they take off up the spiral stairs.
Oliver and I exchange a look and he tossed me Callies controller.
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