Sounds of Summer|Braden Higgins|

ONE

THE ELDEST FEDER  CHILD drove down the dirt road that would lead her to the house that her father got built before they moved. Margaret, or Maisie as she liked to be called, had just finished her last day of school at the privet school she had been going to and she was finally reuniting with her family that she had missed dearly. Mostly her twin, but don't tell that to her two younger siblings.

While her parents and younger siblings were all for moving and changing schools, Maisie wanted to stay and finish at the private school where all her friends were before she started a new school. Her parents had agreed and one of her friends parents had agreed to having the sixteen year old stay with them until she had finished.

But now she was on her way home and she couldn't be more excited. She missed them and her best friends even if her, Charlotte and Donna talked to each other everyday. Maisie pulled her Range Rover into the driveway of the house before killing the engine. The dark haired girl climbed out just as the front door was thrown open and her family came pouring out.

"Maisie!"

"The real summer fun can start now!"

Maisie spun around, bending down to pick up her younger sister and hugging her. One by one, everyone hugged the teenage girl, the hug with her twin being longer than the others. The twins had a close relationship and they told each other everything. There were no secrets between the two, well except for the ones they knew together.

You couldn't turn the twins on each other. When they were younger when one twin was in trouble, the other was in trouble. They did everything together and that's the way it was always going to be.

"Don't the three of you have school today?" Maisie asked, as she leaned against her car.

"Yes, and I have to get to work." Roxanne told her eldest child before rushing to get in her car.

"Mais, you should've been here earlier!" Keithie exclaimed, wrapping his arms around his older sister's waist. "Becky left the door open and a deer got inside the house!"

"Let's get to the end of the driveway." Lenny told his kids.

"Last day of school, Greg." Keithie told his brother, "Last chance to ask out Nancy Arbuckle."

"Nancy Arbuckle?" Lenny asked, bouncing a ball on Becky's helmet as she road around him. "You like a girl? Is that why you've been taking those long showers?"

"No!" Greg tried to defend himself. "I, I'm conditioning my hair. That's all I do in the shower. Condition my hair."

"Yeah, that's not what the deer told me." Lenny let out a laugh as Maisie let out a giggle.

"That deer's a lie!" Greg shouted, playfully pushing his twin.

"I heard," Becky said, driving around her Dad and siblings in a circle, "that too much conditioning can make you go blind."

"What?! Where'd you hear that?" Lenny asked his youngest daughter.

"Higgins."

"Oh, I should kill him."

"He's too chicken to ask her out, dad, because she's the hottest girl in school and Greg is fugly."