~ Y O U R   P O V ~

   I was nervous, was she okay? Okay as physically or mentally? I mean, Catherine said that she had a concussion, some cuts, and other things, but she never told me how bad the damage was. So that's why I'm asking.. is she okay? There's only one way to find out...

   I heard the little footsteps that probably belonged to Emma. I also heard the footsteps of Tal, Josie's boyfriend. Josie has been my friend for awhile, but we separated ways quickly after high school hit. She moved, so she had to go to a different high school. We said that we would keep in contact on online systems. It worked for a couple of months, but it soon faded. We texted like 'hey!' Once every two weeks or so, it didn't last long until we ignored each other for a long while.

   I look at the stairs, and saw her. She had a pastel pink dress with a little bear head in the middle. She had her favorite stuffed animal with her, and still had her pacifier. She really needs to let go of that thing.

   I bend down, expanding my arms for a hug. She dropped her pink stuffed animal and ran to me for the hug. You can hear her little footsteps on the wood floor, it was cute.
She tried to use her arms to extend all the way around me, but the only thing she could do was touch around my sides. I hug her, anyway. I hug her like it was gonna be my last. I never felt this much care for my sister before, we never gotten along. Well, some of the times we didn't, but we still had those nice moments with each other that could never be forgotten.

   "Sissy!" She said, in her little baby voice.

   "Emma." I say, letting go of her.

   She looked around and soon spotted Jocilyn. She ran for her and hugged her legs, since Joci didn't notice that Emma was running for her. Joci seemed surprised for a minuet, not too long before Joci bent down and hugged her. Tal grabbed her little pink bunny animal and stood next to Josie.

   "Jozilyn!"

   "Emma." I can see Joci smile from hearing her say her name again.

   "It's good to see you!" Emma says like what a adult would.

   "Growing up so fast..." Joci drags her finger on her face to pretend that her fingertip was a tear.

   Emma stopped hugging her then looked behind Joci, where Mark and Jack stood. Her facial expression gotten a little scared. She didn't really like strangers, I was like that when I was young.

   "Hey there," Jack says in a baby tone.

   Jack slowly bent down to Emma's level. And that's when Emma backed up a little. I walked over to Emma to comfort her,

   "Don't worry Emma, they're my friends. They won't hurt you." I say, trying to tell her that they won't.

   "My name is Sean, I've heard a lot of great things about you!" Jack says, trying to sound energetic. (like he was trying to)

   Emma walked a tiny bit closer, "My name is Emma.." she says shyly.

   "Awe, I wish I had that name." Emma looked at Jack.

   "But Emma is a girl name!" Emma giggled, getting more comfortable.

   "Pft, that doesn't mean anythin'," Jack acts, "I can be girly too!" He flips his invisible hair and Emma giggled, again.

   "Shun!" Emma started flapping her arms around for some reason which made most of us laugh.

   "It's Sean, Emma." I correct her.

"Nah it's alright, I'll stick with Shun for now," Jack laughed while opening his arms for a hug.

   Emma hesitated for a second, but then she hugged him. Jack, of course, hugged back. Jack was surprisingly good with kids.
They hugged for about 3 to 4 seconds before they broke apart. Emma then looked at Mark, her expression went back to square one. Fear.

   Mark did the same that Jack did, slowly bent down to his knees, but Emma didn't back away this time though. She just looked at him.

   "Don't worry, he's a friend of mine." Jack says as everyone else nods.

Emma just nods, trusting him, and takes a step closer.

"Hey Emma!" Mark says in a high pitched voice.

"Hi.." Emma shyly says.

Mark sits criss-cross on the floor, "I'm Mark,"

Emma just looks at him.

"do you like games?" He asks.

Emma nods, "Except Y/N never let me play with any of her games..." Emma gives a sad face.

Mark looks at me, "How dare you!"

"Don't worry Emma, I have lots of games at home. We can play with them all day long!" Mark gives a thumbs up.

"Yay!" Emma sticker her tongue at me which made everyone laugh.

"Merk!" Emma sat on Marks lap and motioned Tal to give her stuffed animal.

Mark wrapped his arms around her as Tal walks over to them. He gives the stuffed animal to Emma and she hugs it, "Her name is Sasha." She gives Mark her stuffy.

"Oh! Really?" Mark moves a bunny ear out of the animals face.

"Yea! I have more in my room. I'll show you!" Emma stood up.

She grabs his hand and starts to pull him to the upstairs. He quickly got up and started following Emma to her bedroom. She was all energetic and jumpy that she ran up the stairs, "Wait! I'm just an old man, I'm to old for this," Mark says in a old man voice.

Emma giggles and waits for Mark to get up the stairs. As he finally got up, they're no where to be seen anymore because they ran to her room.

"Great, now I'm not gonna be her favorite." Jack pouts and half of us laugh.

"Don't worry, she likes you too." Catherine pats him on the back.

I look at Jack and Jack looks at me. We looked at each other for about 8 seconds until Catherine snapped us out.

"Cmon ya love birds, I'm cookin' some dinner," Catherine says in a Irish accent, "do ye want some beer er ya want somethin' else."

"Ookay, I want water.." He started, "and that Irish accent can be done better." Jack looked around the place for somewhere to sit.

"Pft, says the worst Irishman who won't even get a pint." Catherine walks to the kitchen as Jack rolls his eyes playfully.

   "I CAN DO A IRISH ACCENT!! OI MATE R YEEEEE UP FOR SUM COOKEEES?" Joci says with a voice crack.

   "....no." Me and Joci laugh at Jacks response.

   Jack finds a couch that's in the tv area and sits over there. I sit next to him, not really knowing what to do while Emma is showing her collection to Mark. To be honest, I don't know how many stuffed animals she even has. Catherine always spoils guests (especially younger kids).

   I sigh, getting a little tired. But I refuse my eyes to drop. I get my phone out and go on social medias. I've been getting a lot of people to follow me and liking my profile. 3/4 is part of Mark and Jack. And the rest is just luck with friends.

   My eyes are still getting droopy. I know that Catherine wouldn't mind me to take a nap. Though, I feel bad, me sleeping on THEIR couch. And in THEIR house. But.... sitting on a warm, soft, couch. Smelling the warm food that's cooking in the kitchen. It's almost the perfect moment to sleep. But I guess I'll pull it back. Plus, I don't wanna skip dinner.

   I look at Jack. He was on his phone, texting or doing whatever he does. I yawn and stretch my legs and arms. My stomach sorta showed because of my shirt being short enough. But whatever.

   "You sleepy?" Jack asks, not even looking at me.

   "You think?" I stop stretching and let my arms and legs go.

   "If you don't mind, I'd like to take a selfie with you for instagram."

   "Sure, sure. I'm in." I floof my hair a little to at least look presentable.

   Jack scoots a little closer so then both of us could be in the photo. He gets on SNAPCHAT instead and looked for filters to use. I was about to question him about the Snapchat thing, but I decided that could be for later.
He finds a filter and both of us waited for the filter to download. It downloaded and it focused on our faces.

   "Say pineapple on pizza!"

   "Wait what?"

   "JUST DO IT WOMEN!!"

   "OKAYY okay." I giggle.

   "3...2...1..."

   "PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA!!" We both say as he took a photo.

   It actually looked pretty decent. It wasn't even Christmas, but it's still cold around here, so it's good enough. He looked pretty cute in it, too. And this time I'm not stopping myself from saying it.

   (I know they are actually wearing Christmas hats in the photo, but let's pretend it's just part of the filter xD)

   ~ T I M E   S K I P ~

   I felt something shaking me. No, not something.. someone. I slowly open my eyes to see Jack in front of me.

   "You fell asleep while I was telling a story about when I slipped on ice."

   "Oh...." I felt my cheeks get a little red, "well, so sorry Jack. I was out of it." I sit up from the couch.

   "SEAN, DID U GET UR GIRLFRIEND UP??!?" Catherine yelled.

   Now that made me more red. If you felt my cheeks you might be fooled to think that I was sick or something. I don't know if that's actually healthy to blush that much, but it happened.

   "SHES NOT MT GIRLFRIEND!" Jack rolled his eyes and smiled at me.

   "She's something.." I laugh at Jack.

   "Yep," I agree, "that's where Josie gets her part."

   We walk to the table to see Emma sitting on Marks lap. And Joci sitting next to them. Joci was talking to Emma and Mark as me and Jack sit down next to one another.

   "Wowie Y/N u have some staticky hair." Joci says as Mark and Emma look at me.

   I take my hair and smeared my hand against it. It made those little cracking sounds when ur hair is all static like. I bet I looked like a mad scientist.

   "Here Emma-" Catherine looks at Mark and Emma.

   She was holding a seat booster, for kids. It was for the kids who are too short and can't reach the table if they sit on a normal chair. But since she was sitting on Marks lap, she could see over the table.

   "Well then, Emma your gonna have to leave Mark and sit in the booster."

   "But I wanna stayyyyyyy!" Emma whined.

   "Do you want him to eat? Cause your head will be in the way of him seeing AND eating his food. Sorry hun."

   "Finneeee." She pouted and jumped off Marks lap.

   She slowly walked over, dragging her stuffed animal on the ground. Catherine pushes in her seat when Emma finally sits down. She quickly goes back to the kitchen to gets our plates of food. I wonder what we're gonna eat, cause it better be good. We can always rely on Catherine's dishes, but a lot of it gets burnt or barely cooked. Sometimes she has to do a quick fast meal because her planned meal didn't seem to go well. She isn't really a good cook, but she can merge 2 disgusting things to make it taste delicious. But Josie, though, she likes to cook some things. Not like the simple kinds like egos and scrambled eggs.. she likes to challenge herself and to try new things, but she's usually lazy so she makes stuff that are simple LIKE egos or scrambled eggs.

   I sit down in a chair and same with Jack. Joci randomly poked my nose which made me go cross eyed.

"Thanks, I needed that." I poke her back and we both chuckle.

Catherine comes back with steaming dishes. It wasn't as special as I might of thought, but it is delicious.
She sets a paper plate in front of me, I can see the steam come up into the air. I took a bite of my pizza but then spit it out right after.

   "IST HAWT!" I say, with my mouth open, moving my hand in a motion to shove cold air on my tongue.

   "Have you ever heard of blowing on your food BEFORE taking a bite?" Joci says as she does so.

   "Yez, i jest didn't kno that it wasz gunna be this hawt!" I get up to get a water bottle from the kitchen.

  I grab a water bottle and open it. My mouth wasn't as hot anymore, but I was still craving for cold water. I hold onto the cap while I take 3 gulps of water while going back to the table. Once when I get to my seat, I sit down and put my water on the table, seeing everyone around me eat. I blow onto my food and take a bite. I can see the melted cheese slowly detach to the other part of the pizza.

   "When I went to go get Mark and Emma, they were having a tea party." I look at Catherine then at Mark.

   "AND we played prince and princess." Emma adds.

   "Hey, the tea part was fun! Plus Mr. Snuffles and Miss bubbles were there." Mark takes a bite of his pizza as Emma nods.

   "They aren't party poopers like Cathrin." Emma slowly shakes her head back and fourth with a serious face.

   "A 6 year old just roasted a old lady." Jack whispered to me which made me chuckle.

   "Well excuse me but you don't even know the whole alphabet!" Catherine set her pizza down on her plate and put her hands on her hips.

   "Yea I do! A, B, C, E, D-"

"Okay, okay. Imma stop you there."

"It's A, B, C, D, E, not A, B, C, E, D." Catherine corrects.

"Nuh-uhh my alphabet is right!" Emma crossed her arms.

"Mark, help," Catherine swallows her food, "she will only listen to you."

"Ummm, well.. Emma," Mark looked at me, Jack, and Joci for help.

"The alphabet starts with A," Joci started.

Emma looks at Joci, "A," she repeated.

"Then B." Jack goes on.

"B,"

(Anndddd all that happens XD)

Once when dinner was done and THAT was over, we decided to take Emma to the hotel. Catherine packed stuff for Emma to bring to the hotel.

"Are we gonna see mommy and daddy?" Emma asks in the most innocent way.

I slowly turn around to see Emma. I look at her for 2 seconds before giving the eye at Catherine. Cat didn't tell Emma?!? She lied?!

"Hold on, Emma." I quickly walk to Catherine.

I pull Catherine away from Emma and the others. She was confused, she must of not heard Emma ask.

"YOU DIDNT TELL HER?!??" I almost yell.

"I'm sorry! Just her innocent face, I can't tell her!" She quickly answers.

"She's gonna be so devastated! We can't keep it a secret forever." I streak my hair with my hand.

"I know, I know," Cat shook her head, "but maybe we should wait-"

"We can't wait! She'll believe it for too long and once when we tell her she won't believe us because of what you said! I'm gonna tell her in the car." I started walking away but then Cat took my arm.

"Please, just be nice about it." Cat let go of my arm.

I look at her from behind but then looked forward. I know that this is gonna be hard, but I'm gonna have to tell her. I don't want to wait before I'm in my death bed.
I walk back to see Emma playing around with Mark, again. She's seeing the size difference between her hand and Marks hand. Mark soon took her hand and held it which made her giggle. Marks gonna be a great father.

"Cmon Emma, we're going to the hotel." I took the bag that's full of her stuff.

"Oki!" Emma jumped off the couch and ran to me and took my hand.

I took her hand back and started walking out the door. Jack yelled goodbye to everyone and Josie, Tal, and Catherine said goodbye in all different directions. I closed the creaky door and started walking to the rented car. I bet that we're almost out of gas.
Emma let's go of my hand and walks over to Mark.

  "Im sorry kiddo, but I have to drive the car." He takes out his keys from his pocket.

   "I can sit in the front seat though!" Mark shook his head.

   "You have to be 13 or older," he crouches down to her level, "and your only 6!" Mark pinches cheek which made her giggle. (The pinch doesn't hurt XD)

   "Okayyy." Emma gives a hug to Mark.

   Mark let's go of her and smiled. She smiled back as he sits up and walks closer to the car. Emma does so too, but doesn't follow Mark.

   "Kids love you," Joci says to Mark, getting into the passenger seat.

   "That's probably why I have so many children fans." He jokingly said.

   Mark gets into the car and puts his key in. He was about to turn the key for the car the start until-

   "I'm too short!! I can't get into the car!" Emma whined.

   I was about to help her get up but I was already in the car, buckled up. Jack was the only one that wasn't, because he was putting away the bags in the truck.

   "Here ya go." I can see from the window that Jack picks Emma up.

   The door wasn't opened so he had to hold her with one arm. With his free hand, he opens the door and plops her next to me, Jack gets inside and Emma was in the middle.
I look around for Emma's seat belt but I don't see one. I look at Jack as he was buckling himself up.

   "Umm jack, there isn't a seat belt where Emma was sitting.."

   Jack stopped himself before he connected the belt to the.. um..thingy mabober. He then thought for awhile, but when the car started, he blinked and then undid his seat belt all the way.

   "Okay, this is the only option then-" Jack took Emma randomly, which made her jump

   He set her on his lap and then started taking the seat belt. He then put the seat belt around him AND Emma and bucked it up.

   "This is gonna be a bumpy ride, so be prepared." Jack moves his knees up and down to make Emma jump a little, like she were actually in a bumpy ride.

   "H-H-e-e-e-y-y-y-y!" She laughs. (U know when ur in a car, that's in a really bumpy road, and when you talk it sort of sounds like ur talking into a fan? Yea, hopefully this makes sense XD)

   Mark drove off the neighborhood and into a freeway. I wonder how I was gonna tell Emma. Now do I think about it, Is telling Emma in the car a good place to start? Should I wait till we're in the hotel...?

  
    Should I wait when we're home?
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