Hey, everyone. I'm a long-time reader but first time poster, so I appreciate criticism, but try not to be too harsh! I'll learn things about what formatting looks good and everything else from this story, so excuse me if the presentation is a little rough around the edges.
Usually when I read stories I find a very fine line between what is contrived enough to be funny, and what's just too contrived to be any degree of realistic, which I just find annoying. I think this story teeters on the edge of the latter to be honest, but I had fun writing it, and I hope you all have fun reading it too. I wrote this as a standalone, but if anyone is interested in a sequel or anything, let me know, and suggest ideas too, if you want!
Also, sorry about the names! I initially had a second sister who I cut out, but I left her name all over the place, which reading it back I noticed made no sense at all- it was pretty jarring. I guess that's why you use editors, huh? It should all be fixed now, so sorry if you read the stupid version.
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"Dan! Get up!"
"I'm coming, mum" Dan yelled back, dragging himself out of bed and heading downstairs, still groggy and bed-headed from a bad night's sleep. His watch read 9:02, or as his brain saw it, "far too early to be out of bed."
Dan walked into the living room to find his mother and sister already dressed, made-up, and clearly more awake than he was. His mother, Carol, was wearing tight white jeans and a light blue tank top. The jeans hugged her wide hips and made her butt look perfect, whereas the tank top allowed more than its fair share of cleavage to peek out of the neckline. His sister, Claire, was dressed more modestly in a white sundress they went down to her ankles. The dark hair she shared with her family was tinted slightly red, and was tied in a ponytail. Her smaller, perkier breasts seemed to defy gravity as they stuck out from her chest, but perhaps that came from being just eighteen, Dan thought.
Dan didn't exactly make a habit of eyeing up his family, but he considered that they had clearly tried to make themselves look especially good for a reason. If he was judging, he would say they had definitely succeeded.
"Claire and I have some shopping to do in town. We'll probably get some coffee and lunch while we're out, so we'll be a few hours." His mum said, zipping a coat over her generous chest
"...Ok." Dan scratched his head, confused. "So why do I need to be up?" He asked, strongly regretting his decision to get out of bed at all.
"My new laptop should be arriving today, but the courier didn't give a time. I need you to be in the living room while we're gone so you can hear when the guy knocks at the door" Claire said.
"Fine" Dan sighed. His old PS3 was in the living room anyway, so it wasn't like he had nothing to do.
"Thanks! Love you!" Claire squealed as she picked up her handbag and left the room. "Come on, mum!"