-The day before Christmas Eve-
The doorbell rings it's familiar musical chime throughout the house. I look up from my phone, and I look around from my spot on the couch. My mom walks past me, her autumn dress sways with her steps. She looks at me.
"Thanks for getting the door." She says sarcastically.
"My pleasure." I say back. She walks out of my sight into the entryway, and she unlocks the door. My siblings come running down the wooden stairs. I look to my far right, and spot my two siblings running down. First Jamie, who's getting ready to abuse our 'once your eighteen you can leave whenever' rule. He runs through the living room, and yanks his keys off the rack, and without saying anything to anyone, he runs with a smile through the living room, into the kitchen and out the garage door. He's going to go meet his girlfriend for Christmas dinner. My step-sister, Kelsey, comes running down to meet our cousins, and their parents. I hear my dad set something heavy on the table. I hear the multitude of voices greeting each other in high, over excited voices. My biological parents divorced when Jamie wasn't even two. (He's the youngest, being a month over 18).
My dad went and lived in New York City, for the job opportunity, now he's a big name, owning a huge company up there. Me and my siblings stayed with our mom, and by the time Jamie was 5, my mom had remarried. She married a surgeon of some sort, like stomach surgeon or something like that. We moved into a new house, a large, three story house. The first floor being the kitchen, family room, guest bathroom, and a guest room. The second floor has Jamie's room, my room, and Kelsey's room, including the room my mom and dad's room. The third floor, is just one large room, complete with a fully stocked bar (that I frequent), a pool table, and a massive, 92 inch curved flat screen, for football weekends.
Roger is my stepdad, and his biological daughter, (my stepsister) is Kelsey. She's 19.
I watch as Rogers' brother walks in with his wife, and his daughter, Courtney. Kelsey and Courtney are best friends, they talk to each other almost every night on the phone, whether it's after school, or in the middle of the night, they never stop laughing like maniacs and cracking glass with their high pitched giggles. Not even thirty pounds of pillows over my face could block out the sound that rapes your ears from across the hall.
My mom talks to Charlie, my dads brother, and Gayla, Charlie's wife. The three of them all talk at once, and my eyes shoot back and forth between the small group of chattering adults, and the screaming teenagers. I stand up, and stuff my phone into the back pocket of my black jeans. Courtney, looks at me, and fast walks to me.
"Hi Matt!" She says happily, wrapping her arms around me for a hug. I hug back, patting her long blonde hair along her back. Courtney is a beautiful girl, blue eyes, pretty face, petite, and just an overall sweet person.
"It's so good to see you!" She says, letting go of me, and holding my shoulders. She smiles that beautiful wide smile. I look down a little bit to see what shes wearing. White lace shirt, black pants, long brown boots.
"You too Courtney." I say back. She turns and looks at Kelsey. I look at Kelsey too. Kelsey is one of the most amazing, most beautiful females I have ever seen. She has a toned body, perfectly sized breasts, a toned ass, perfect hips, beautiful long legs, long brunette hair, deep green-hazel eyes, a mesmerizing face. Courtney is 19, and she's about five foot four. Kelsey is about five foot five, and I stand at five foot seven. I can't stress enough just how beautiful and sexy Kelsey is.
I run my fingers through my lazily styled brown hair.
The three adults continue talking about the most boring shit I've ever heard, but they migrate into the kitchen to see Roger. I look at the girls.
They jump.
"Hey let's go get comfy!" Kelsey yells.
"I'm staying the night, but my parents are going home after dinner." Courtney says.
"Yay!" Kelsey yells.
They both smile wide.
"Let me go get my bag from the car and I'll meet you up in your room." Courtney says heading to the front door.
"Ok!" Kelsey yells, bolting up the stairs.
"Courtney, hold up, I'll help you." I say following her.
"Ohh, thank you Matt." She says, looking over her left shoulder with a smile.
I grab my leather jacket off the rack, and I throw it over her.
"It's cold, wear that." I say, unlocking the door.
"Thank you again." She says, wrapping the jacket around her petite frame. I open the door, and gesture her to go out first. She grins and walks out onto the porch. I follow closely behind her, and she leads me to her parents' car. I breathe in the cold, crisp holiday air. The large bare oak stands proudly above me. Courtney stops at the trunk, and types in a code, and the trunk unlocks with a small click. She pulls it open, and I step to her right. We both start moving some stuff around.
"Staying the night, huh?" I ask, shuffling things around.
"Yeah, it's been a while." She says, also moving things around.
"It has." I say. I finally find the bag, and I start moving things around to free it up.
"You know, Kelsey isn't the only reason I'm over here." She says, helping me free up the bag.
"Me too, I'm only here for the turkey." I say with a chuckle, and she giggles a small giggle.
"No, I mean... I'm kinda, um." She stutters, and steps back so I can lift the ridiculously heavy bag out of the trunk.
"Say what?" I say, holding the bag with my right arm, and shutting the trunk with the other.
"Uhm, you know what, never mind, it's not important, let's just eat go in and eat." She says with a small grin.
We walk up to the porch, and I open the front door for her, and she walks in, with me not far behind. She hangs my jacket on the hook, and I follow her up the stairs.
Once we get to the top, Kelsey's door opens wide, and they both shriek when they see each other again. I set the bag down infront of the left side of the stair case, where Kelsey's door is. I sigh.
They start talking about nail colors and hair, neither of which I want to be part of.
"You two have fun." I say with a grin, turning around to the stairs.
"Oh Matt, thanks." Courtney says with another small grin.