Spin The Bottle

11 | It's Her

His mum laughs, "You can always make yourself something else to eat if you don't want cereal."

"But you know I hate cooking," Chris whines.

"Now you're acting like a baby. Dramatic much?" His mum smirks.

"Chris, stop acting like a baby," Emily tells him smiling.

"Listen to her!" His mum exclaims.

Chris groans and sits at the kitchen table.

"Want some pancakes?" His mum asks.

Chris begins to grin, "Fuck yes."

"Language Christopher!" His Mum chides with a frown.

"Sorry," he apologizes and looks at Emily to see if she caught on to the bad word but she wasn't even paying attention.

They have breakfast together and Chris clears the table and wash the dishes after.

They settled down in the living room to watch TV and after about thirty minutes, Emily speaks up.

"Can you take me to the park now?" Emily asks Chris looking at him with puppy dog eyes.

Chris smiles and grabs both her cheeks with his fingers.

"How can I say no to those eyes? Sure. Let's go to the park right away."

Emily giggles, "Yeah."

She happily runs up to her room to get something.

Chris gets his phone and they exchange byes with their mum before heading out.

Chris unlocks the doors to the car and opens the passenger's side for Emily. She hops in smiling, "Thank you."

The shuts the down and walks around the car into the driver's seat.

He ignites the car and backs out of the driveway.

Normally, if Chris wants to go to the park alone - which barely happens - he would walk there. It's like fifteen minutes from their house. But he's going with Emily and it'd be better if they take the car. He goes to the park mostly to take Emily on play dates.

"So...Em?" He begins.

"Yeah?" Emily looks at him.

"Tell me about your school. Your classmates, you know. Your friends?" Chris asks her trying to make small talk.

"Well...." Emily trails off. "School's normal. Okay, but there are some days I don't wanna go," She confesses with a frown.

A chuckle escapes Chris's lips when she said that.

"I've been there kiddo and I still feel the same. I lot of people actually hate school, Em." Chris states.

"Yeah, I know. Nora makes school more bearable for me. She's my BFF and we do almost everything together," Emily smiles.

"I know that. Don't you have any other friends?" He asks. He doesn't want his sister to be one of those socially awkward people when she grows up. Or even worse- antisocial.

"I have three other friends in my class and there's this annoying boy that's always disturbing me," Emily says with displeasure.

"A boy, eh?" Chris frowns.

"Yes. He likes to piss me off. He'd be pulling out my hair in class and poking me. He sits behind me," she explains.

"Don't worry about him. Boys are idiots."

Emily giggles, "Including You?"

Chris huffs as he parks the car, "Of course not. I'm adorable."

Emily just smiles as they exit the car.