"Bitch wake up" a new voice calls me
I slowly crack my eyes open to see four of my five cousins gathered around me. Joey, Summer, Charlie and Cora.
"Oh shit! You're here!!" I scream as I jump up out of my bed and onto my nearest cousin, Charlie. He was five years older than me at 21 years old, but we'd always been really close along with his younger sister,Cora, who's 19. He was tall like most of the men in my family and had dark brown, almost black eyes along with the black hair he inherited from his dad, my uncle. He also had a wide smile with the one chin dimple, similar to mine, we were the only two in our whole family who had it. He was definitely mischievous and was always the ring leader of our cousin insanity but he also knew when to calm us down. He had a devious smirk that you could just tell was pure trouble from a mile away.
"Hey B" Charlie laughs, calling me my childhood nickbame he gave me when I was four and he was ten
"Hey C" I grin
"Let me talk to my bestfriend now" Cora, Charlie's younger sister pulls me away into her arms
She was suprisingly shorter than me at a whopping 5'2" height but was she fiesty. She, like her older brother and sister, had the dark brown eyes, only she had light brown pin straight hair. Along with that, she also had freckles similar to mine across her nose. She was probably the most like me only much worse. She loved fighting, which was probably the only difference we had and she was a sarcastic asshole. She also had no sense of a filter whatsoever, I gained my most useful education from her. For example, up until fifth grade I had no idea what yaoi or BDSM was...Leave it to Cora to explain it all to me.
Her older sister Carrie, was definitely the more girly one. She was curly black hair with the dark eyes and perfect skin. I've never once seen her with a pimple or mark on her face. She's the oldest in their family at 25, and is the second oldest overall after Zach. She was extremely outgoing like Cora, only she actually had a functional filter. It was safe to say she's the most sane out of all of us.
"Okay I want a hug for my favorite cousin now!" My younger cousin Summer whines. She was a freshman this year after just recently turning fifteen. Her mom was my dad's younger sister.
"I'm going to pretend like you don't say that" Charlie pouts
"Oh sorry Charlie!" She laughs laughs as she jumps into my arms. She had the same blonde hair, and bright blue eyes that she got from her mom, along with long legs and tan Skin that she most definitely got from her 6'5" dad. Her name was the most accurate depiction of her. She was amazingly outgoing, bubbly and smiley. She loved the outdoors, animals and her anything nature related, along with volleyball and cheerleading which were both her life.
Her older brother, Joey, had similar traits to his younger sister. He had wavy light brown hair and bright blue eyes identical to Summer's, along with the towering height, only he was paler. He had the Kalanski smirk like the rest of us and had the exact same set of dimples the twins had. He was definitely the charmer of the family and would literally flirt with anything and literally anyone.
All of my brothers, cousins, and I were really close. Oldest to youngest being, Zach, Carrie, Ryan, Joey, Charlie, Cora, Arrex, Ace, Beck Me, Colton, and then Summer. All ranging from 29 years old to 15.
"Where's my husband?" Cora questions
"Cora, Travis isn't coming over this year" I laugh at her. Last year, Travis, from the football team, and his family came over for Thanksguving because their flight to Miami got cancelled. "He's currently in Miami partying with his cousins"
"Damnit, the one time I come back he's not here" she pouts. Last year Travis flirted with her constantly and she was loving every second of it.
"Okay no, you don't need a fuckin husband yet, god Cora calm your tits" Charlie glares at his sister
"They are calm! Fuck off Charlie" Cora taunts her older brother
"Cora your tits are never calm" Summer chimes
"Nope" I agree with her
"I hate all of you!" Cora calls behind her as she exits my room. We all laughs at her expense before following her out.
"YAY! MY OTHER BEST FRIEND" We all head Cora yell from the kitchen
"Hi Cora" Caleb sigh as he puts her down from his hold. The two of them became quick friends when were were young solely because of their names both starting with the letter 'C'.
"Wow you're up early" Summer teases while giving him a hug
"I know, it sucks" he laughs before moving onto Charlie and then Joey doing the guy hug thing "but Princess promised me my own pan of pumpkin squares and I want a good breakfast"
"Oh fine" I huff before walking to the garage where all the desserts were set to grab his small pan of pumpkin goodness
"Here you go Kazer" I grin as his eyes go wide at the pan. He really fuckin loved these things.
"I love you" He says seriously, not taking his eyes of the pan
"I know, I'm pretty fuckin awesome" I grin
"Family! I'm home!" Em calls from the front door "and I brought stuff!"
Everyone greets her in the front room.
"Hey where's Arrex?" She questions
"Upstairs still sleeping, Why?" Summer asks
"I'll be right back" she grins before running upstairs
"Wh-" I start to say before Co just loops his arm around my shoulder and grins
"OW EM!! GOD I HATE YOU!" Arrex yells, followed by the rumble of footsteps following
"CLEAR THE WAY!" Em squeals as she tumbled down the stairs to flee my brother. She isn't fast enough though and Arrex catches her. She's quickly scooped up in his arms and is brought out to our backyard. With one last laugh,Em's thrown into our pool.
"ARREX THIS SHITS FREEZING!" She growls before climbing out if the pool
"Here I got you a towel though" he smiles sweetly at her. She just rolls her eyes as a small grin takes over her face before taking it from him.
"Okay so it's ten now, we have to go get ready and we'll be down in a bit" Summer says before dragging me away from Caleb's arm, the other two follow behind
"Okay I don't know what to wear, Em did you bring an outfit? Cause I don't have many nice clothes" I huff already knowing she probably brought me a skirt
"Yep! Here I got the beige sweater, and for you, this denim skirt with my black thigh high boots" she smiles proudly as she pulls everything out of her bag
"Oh god are those your hooker boots? I can somewhat walk in heels but not ones that high dude" they were literally like eight inch thigh highs.
"First off no, I brought the my three inch ones for you, and second, the other ones are literally only five inches!" She whines "besides I brought those ones for myself"
"Oh thank god" I huff before taking the clothes from her. I grab my bra and underwear before going out into the bathroom to brush my teeth and hair. I quickly get dressed afterwards and re-enter my room. None of them were dressed and were all still messing around
"Okay I'm ready" I tell them. I actually didn't mind this outfit, plus this sweater was really soft so I wasn't complaining.
"That looks cute!" Em sits up from her position in my floor with a lazy grin "Do you like it?"
"Yeah it's comfortable" I nod while looking down at the outfit
"Good, you can keep it" she lays back down "I never wear it anyway"
"Thanks!" I smile at my best friend who is now Laying face down on my floor "I don't wanna get ready"
"We're having fun" Cora grins at my from my bed
"I'll be downstairs" I laugh at them
"Tell your man-candy we'll be down in a minute"Em yells after me
"Shut up em!"
"Oh so I'm your man candy now?" Caleb questions with a grin as I reach the bottom of the stairs
"No!" I groan as I walk passed him into the kitchen
"I mean, I'm by no means opposed to the idea, I'd just like to know beforehand" he laughs as he follows me
"Don't let my brothers hear you, they might just kill you" I smirk before tieing the apron around my waist. I really don't know if they would, Caleb's been flirting with me forever.
"I don't know, flirting with you is one of my favorite past times, seeing you blush makes my day" he teases me
I just roll my eyes as him before grabbing all of the ingredients for the cracker stuffing. It was by far my least favorite one, but somehow both of my aunt's liked it so we made a small batch every thanksgiving and christmas.
"Here" he laughs as he hands me the box of crackers I was struggling to reach
"Thanks giant"
"No problem shorty"
"Wow look at you go!!" Em laughs as she enters the kitchen before twirling me around "already down to fuckin business"
"Yeah well my dads out back setting up the table with Cheri so I had to get started on the food" I laughs at her
"Are you guys still on for the football game later?" Beck asks as he joins us
"Beck when have I ever agreed to play football?" Cora scoffs
"Same" Summer agrees with our older cousin. I don't know how, but both of them hated the sport with a passion. It still baffled me. Football players run in our blood.
"I'm out" Em shakes her head "I still don't understand what's so fun about it"
Caleb and Beck both look at me expectantly
"Of course I'm playing" I roll my eyes at them.
"Just making sure princess" He laughs before slipping his Nike slides back on "I'll be back in a bit,"
"Don't be late for dinner Kazer!" I yell out to him
"Never in a million years!"
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"Its not your turn to be judge!" Zach yells at Ace
"Yes it is! I won the last round!" Ace fires back as he takes the black card from our oldest brother.
All of the kids were currently residing in the basement while the adults finished up dinner. The older ones; Zach, Austin, Mal, Kate, Carol her boyfriend Jake, Charlie, Joey, Cora, Summer, the twins, Emma, Alice-Em's older sister, Caleb, Jordan, Tyler, Wes, Beck and I, Brittany, Cody, Colton and Arya; were all playing Cards against humanity while the younger ones were playing Mortal Kombat on our Ps4.
"Yeah it is" Mal laughs at her husband "you lost last round"
"Damnit" my man child if a brother pouts while Ace smiles victorously and reads the card out loud.
"Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the doors and there is..." He reads out loud
I look down at my cards with a wide grin already know what I'm going to put in. Once we all throw our cards in the middle, Ace starts reading them off.
"...The birth of alcoholism... Masturbation...Some douche with an acoustic guitar...necrophilia... And two midgets shitting in a bucket" he laughs at the last one "the shitting in a bucket one" he says holding up my card
"How did necrophilia not win that one?!"
"What's necrophilia?" A small voice asks from behind us. Max, Julia and Bexley are all standing there with questioning looks on their face.
"Real nice Co" Austin huffs before turning to the kids "Nothing important girls, never repeat to a word your uncle says. He's a bad influence. what are you guys doing?"
"It's the boys turn to play so we wanted to see what you guys were doing" Max smiles at us
"Can we play?" Julia asks
"No!" Jordan shakes his head rapidly at her "Not this time dude, we can play later though okay?"
"Okay!" The all grin before running back to the other side of the basement
"Okay next card" I grin before picking it up and reading it
"Oh no... This is your captain speaking. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for blank" I read outbound a si watch all their faces light up. Oh no I though.
"Okay we're all in" Tyler says
"Okay..." I huff before I start reading them. They were actually the one I read were actually really good cards and the just kept getting better "Herpes...A sad handjob...Oncoming traffic...anal seepage..." I say before I start laughing at the last one "Obama's left nut" oh thank god.
"That one wins" I say through my laughs holding up the 'anal seepage' card.
Cards against humanity was definitely one of the most offensive and politically incorrect games made, everyone knew it was purely out of good fun. We never took it too far as to seriously offend anyone, and stopped playing when someone got uncomfortable.
"Oh that's mine" Caleb laughs as he takes the card from me
"Damn! I had a sad handjob" Tyler pouts
"Damn dude, I'm sorry,that must've been really upsetting" Arrex teases him making all of us laugh
"Shut up A" Tyler glares at him earning more laughs in the process
"Guys dinner is ready!" Caleb's dad yells down to us
We all look at eachother for a second before scrambling to the staircase. All falling over eachother in the process.
"I call first in line!" Em yells
"Can't call it Em, just have to get there first!" Arrex chimes before running slightly ahead of us all
Caleb grabs his shirt though and yanks him back.
"Nice try A" Caleb laughs as he reaches the top first, grabbing his plate from my dad and being first in line
"I don't think so" I smirk as I slip in front of him
"I'm first"
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"Okay team captains you have your teams?" my dad announces for our annual Thanksgiving day football game.
The captains this year were the oldest two kids, Zach and Austin. The adults usually almost never played, they just acted as the referees. Majority of the kids played though. Everyone playing included Zach, Austin, me, Ace, Arrex,Beck, Caleb, Mal, Colton, Cody, Arya, Charlie, Joey, Tyler, Wes, Jordan, and then Max, Julia, Bex, Sebastian, Sam and Derek.
We never played real football, just backyard bullshit as we liked to call it. Basically the only rule was no purposefully hurting eachother.
Everyone on my team was Austin, Me, Sebastian, Julia, Jordan, Charlie, Arrex, Mal, Colton, Wes, and Derek.
On Zachs team, it was Zach, Ace, Beck, Caleb, Cody, Arya, Joey, Tyler, Max, Bex and Sam.
"Okay Coinflip, Belle and Caleb, you two are up" Arron, Caleb's dad, called us up to the center of the yard "heads or tails?"
"Tails"
"Heads"
We both say at the same time. I always choose tails and he has always chosen heads.
"And the year, it's tails, Austin's team gets it!" Kerry, Ems mom announces
"Good luck Princess" Caleb smirks at us "You're gonna need it"
"You too Kazer" I mirror his smirk "Hope you aren't a sort loser" I say before walking away, I already knew he was. He was a sore loser and a horrible winner.
"Belle you're QB" Austin says
"Alright" I grin as I get in our line "ready! Set...Hike!" I yell before the chaos ensues. I dodge the people coming at me before looking in an opening. Jordan runs behind me, earning a quick pass before I take off next to him. Once he starts to get overrun he passes back to me and I throw it down to Seb for a touchdown.
"Already off to a good start" I grin before handing over the ball to Caleb "Step up your game Kazer
"You know me Kalanski... I never lose"
And it was true. Everytime our team scored, so did theirs. We were currently tied at 28 points.
"Uh guys?" Summer starts to say "It looks like it's going to rain"
"Eh we'll be fine" Joey days before looking up at the sky. It was kind of dark but hopefully it wouldn't rain.
About five minutes later, it started to downpour.
"Fuck this I'm going in" Em says from the sidelines. Cora and Summer follow her in.
"Me too, I'm out" Mal says as her, Alice, Austin, Zach and Kate all run back to the house.
"Lets go play mortal Kombat!" Max yells to Julia, Bexley, Sam, Derek and Seb
They all smile and laugh before following everyone else.
"Is anyone else going in?" I question looking back at the guys
"Nah I'm staying out" Caleb says. The rain was loud but we were louder
"Me too" The twins nod
"I'm staying" Beck agrees
"Us too" Charlie grins, slicking his now wet hair back
"Since our captains left, we have new captains" Jordan smiles "I nominate Belle and Co"
"Agreed" The rest of the guys nod along
"Okay next touchdown wins guys!" Caleb says
"It's our ball Kazer" I hold my hand up. He throws it over and we get into line
"HIKE!" I yell.
I jump out of Beck's reach just before he was tackled by Jordan. I look for an opening but couldn't find it so I myself take off with the ball.
Just before in about to reach the marked off end zone, I'm picked up before toppling to the ground. I hold tight to the ball as we roll on the muddy ground.
"You should thank me" Caleb grins from above me, mud now spattered on my face
"For what? Getting my brand new sweater muddy?" I retort
"You were about to run right into a hole" he states as he pushes himself up, placing a hand on either side of my head "I saved your ankle"
"Oh my night in shining armor" I grin at him as the sarcasm drips from my lips "How can I repay you?"
"Hmmm" he fake thinks before bursting out into laughter "you have mud on your face" he gets up and offer a hand to me
"I do not" I say while taking his hand to stand up
"Yeah you do" He states before a mischievous smirk is places on his face "right here!" He yells before wiping a streak of mud down my face
"You're dead!" I yell before dropping the football and chasing after him through the rain. In like process I grab my own small handful of mud and throw it at him, only I miss and it hits Beck directly in the chest.
"Belle what the fuck?!" Beck yells at me, I just laugh before running away
Within minutes all of us that remained outside were in an all out mud war. The sweater I was wearing was now a beautiful muddy brown and my hair was no longer the golden blonde. It has stopped pouring, now left and a soft sprinkle as we run around our backyard like muddy psychopaths.
"Mom! They're having a mud war!" Derek yells before him, Sam and Sebastian all run outside to join us. I laugh as I watch Caleb get nailed in the face with a mud pile, thrown by my nephew.
"Nice fuckin shot Seb!" I laugh as I give him a high five
I feel mud sweep down my left leg just before I'm spout to throw more mud at Arrex. I look down only to see Max smiling up at me.
"My own niece?!" I fake dramatics
"Sorry auntie Belle! Uncle Caleb gave me $5" she shrugs innocently before running back to Caleb's awaiting arms. He just winks at me with a smirk before throwing a handful of mud at Charlie.
I look to the side to see Jordan practically holding Arya as he smears mud through her hair, beside them My tow brothers nails eachother in the face with mud piles.
I was glorious chaos.
"KIDS!" May and Cheri both yell angrily from the patio "get up here"
And glorious chaos over.
All of us trudge up the patio with shit-eating grins on our faces. We were all very proud of ourselves.
"How does this happen every god damn family party?" Cheri questions, crossing her arms
"We're messy people" I smile
"Bails started it!" Caleb grins as he blames it on me
"No! You did!" I smack his shoulder as I look up at him
"All of you are messes" my aunt Kate laughs
"Bailey's on laundry duty" Cheri says looking at me "Since it was you'd great idea to start it"
"Wh-I-No!" I say looking back and forth from her stern look to Caleb's smirk.
"Yes! Now all of you hose off" My dad says before handing Arrex the hose.
All the adults return inside along with Em, Cora and Summer leaving us.
"You asshole!" I punch his arm "Now I have to do all the laundry. I'm so going to get you back. I hope you know this"
"Oh I do Princess" he smirks before spraying me with the hose
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"Okay we're going out for dessert, we'll bring you something back" Cheri says as she grabs her Jean jacket
Because of Caleb, I'm now stuck at home doing laundry while they go out and get our usual Thanksgiving day dessert. To say I was pissed,was an understatement, it was my favorite part of Thanksgiving.
"Alright I'll see you when you get home" I say before walking upstairs with he laundry basket full of mud filled clothes.
I hear the front door close just as the garage door opens. I peak out the laundry room door just as Caleb appears at the top of the stairs, still in his muddy clothes, only now with a change of nice folded clothes in hand.
"I'm gonna take a shower" he tells me before walking into the bathroom
"You were just at your house! Why didn't you shower there?" I yell out to him
"My house is quiet and dark, I hate showering when I'm home alone. I have this weird irrational fear of getting murdered, naked with my dick out" he jokes making me laugh
"God you're an idiot" I shake my head before throwing half of the clothes in the washing machine
"Yep!" He yells back before closing the door
After getting the first load of laundry into the washer, I go to walk back downstairs but get an idea just as I walk passed the bathroom.
I silently open the bathroom door and slip in to grab the pile of clean clothes on the counter. After getting all of his clothes along with his phone, wallet and keys out of his pockes, I sneak back out and quietly close the door.
He should be out of the shower any second, and when he does his clothes will then be residing in our pool.
I hear the shower shut off and the curtain open.
"BELLE!" I hear him yell angrily before the door opens
I stand up and run to the bottom of the stairs before turning around and looking up. Caleb was standing there, with only a towel snugly wrapped around his waist revealing his body...and v-line. Wow. He was...wow. No. Nope. Control yourself Belle. Brothers best friend.
He stood there glaring at me with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Where are my clothes?" He grunts
"I don't know what you're talking about?" I say innocently with a grin
"My clothes Belle" he orders
"OH! You mean these clothes?" I question as I hold the pile out from behind my back
"Belle..." he warns, but I don't hear the rest of his sentence as I had already taken off towards my backyard
I hear his footsteps behind me just as I throw the back door open. I'm almost to the pool when a strong arm wraps around my waist and I'm pulled back into a hard chest.
"Nice try princess" he says smugly as he carries me back inside. Still holding me over his shoulder by the waist with one hand "But I'm faster than you"
"How the fuck did you get me over your shoulder with one arm?!" I yell suprised. His other hand had been holding his towel up the whole time.
"I'm just THAT skilled babe" he says cockily "plus you're light as hell" he says before He walks into he bathroom really quickly and comes back out with a pair of basketball shorts on.
"I am not light" I scoff. I knew for a fact, if I was, I'd actually be skinny. Instead I have a more curvy body, that's majority muscle and obviously some fat. I mean I wasn't obese, I had a healthy body, but it just wasn't the typical teenage girl body. I had an hourglass figure, broader shoulders and muscular arms along with a more muscular butt and freakishly strong legs. I was by no means dainty looking, and I knew for a fact I wasn't light. I weight just under 150 lbs
"Yeah you are" he states simply "I deadlift weight heavier than Ace, Arrex and Beck combined believe me, you're light as hell"
"Do I look light?" I question with an eyebrow raised "cause I KNOW for damn sure I don't. I don't have the same cute body as Em or Summer or even Cora." I argue with a grin. At this point I've just accepted that I'll never look the same as them.
"And? DUDE you're fuckin gorgeous, don't demean your own body. You don't have to look like them. You're athletic and curvy, and adorably short. Of course you're going to have a different build than them." he says looking me directly in the eye.
I just roll my eyes with a stupid grin. He was just saying that. "Eh it's just stupid" I shrug
"Princess, nothing about you is stupid" He grins down at me before throwing his arm around my shoulders "Don't doubt yourself, cause you're possibly the best fuckin person I've ever met"
"You aren't so bad youself Kazer" I smile up at him "granted you can be an ass sometimes but I have to admit, you are a pretty good guy" I smile up at the teddy bear. He definitely got on my nerves at least three times a day, but he always knew how to make me smile. he could make anyone laughs and was super protective of the people he loves
"Aw you mean it? I though you've hated me all these years" he smirks at me
"Oh believe one there have been times where I've wanted to suffocate you in your sleep." I admit "but I have to admit that you aren't a horrible guy. You never have been"
"Im glad someone sees me that way" he smiles sadly "most people don't"
"They don't know you like I do" I state simply "you're just as confusing and misleading as I am. At a first glance most people see you and automatically label you as the scary douchebag bad boy. When in reality you're just a sweet, adorably funny, teddy bear"
"Who likes to fight" he adds with a small grin
"Who definitely likes to fight" I laugh at him "oh and make fucking hilarious jokes at really inappropriate times"
"Anything to see you smile Princess" He says holding his hand out to me "Now how about I get you out of your laundry prison and let's go get some pie"
"My dads gonna yell at me" I say reluctantly
"I'll tell him I kidnapped you. What kind of partner in crime would I be if I let my Bonnie suffer?" He grins down at me as he slips his arm around my shoulders" besides your dad loves me, so we're good"
"Hm, you might wanna out some clothes on before we go anywhere" I start laughing at the fact that he was still just in a pair of shorts.
"Yeah good plan"