"Are we there yet? Lana's bouncing so much that I'm afraid the car's going to tip over soon!"

"Almost calm down, and don't make that face, we all know you love Lana, Will!" I started to laugh at his face.

"Seriously, almost everyone knows, it's so obvious, and that's one reason why I think your perfect for Mina." I stared dumb struck at Mara. Will and Lana started laughing.

I'm sorry let me introduce us, I'm Mina Minster, I'm 23 and on my 2nd year of college, my best friend is Mara Tucker, she is 23 as well, and has a 3 year old daughter Lana, how Lana came about is a long and rare story, which I will explain later. Will is my boyfriend and is super sweet, he is 24. We are in my car on our way to my moms house for Christmas break.

"We're here!" I exclaimed.

"Finally, it's about time" Will said under his breath, I glared at him.

"Lana?" "Yes, auntie Minay." Replied Lana. "You're not allowed to bounce inside, so get it all out of your system now." I said. Will's eyes widened. "Okays." Said Lana.

Then Lana started bouncing uncontrollably in Will's lap. Me and Mara started to laugh our heads off.

I got out of the car to open the trunk. "Hi, are you friends of Ms. Minster?" asked a blonde girl.

"Yea, I guess you could say that." I said grinning.

"Sorry, let my introduce myself, I'm Melinda Grey. I live across the street." Said the blonde girl.

"Really? I didn't know that anyone moved in there, hmmmmmmmmm, oh sorry! I'm Mina Minster." I said.

"Stupid me, Ms. Minster said her daughter was coming, my bad." Said Melinda with a grin. "Who are your friends?"

"Well the girl with the black hair is Mara, my best friend, the little girl is Lana, Mara's daughter, and the man is Will, my boyfriend." I explained.

"Your friend has a daughter?" Melinda asked questioningly.

"Yes she does, and the origin of Lana is not what you're thinking." I said.

"How do you know what I'm thinking???" Melinda asked.

"You're thinking she was stupid to have sex and get pregnant. But that's not what happened. And I prefer it if you didn't ask Mara anything about." I said menacingly.

"Okay, whatever, but promise you'll tell me, when we become better friends." Melinda asked.

"Only if you let us call you Mel, Melinda is too much of a mouth full." I said laughing.

"That seems fair" Mel said smiling. "Want some help with your bags?"

"Sure." I turned around and said jokingly "Lana, please stop bouncing before you give Will a heart attack."

Lana jumped from the car and then started running around the yard. She stopped right in front of the huge acorn tree. With big beady eyes she said "This is the most gigantiest tree I've ever seen!!!!!"

"If you want, when you get older I'll teach you to climb it." I told her

"REALLY!?!?!?!?!" She asked. "THAT WOULD BE THE AWESOMIST!!!!!!"

We all started to laugh. Lana was going through a stage were she added -ist to most words, and it was just too funny.

We then walked into the house, my mom was sitting on the couch.

"Hey mom!" I said smiling like a big goof.

"Mina, there's someone here to see you." My mom said.

"What are you talking abo-" but I was cut off.

"Hey little sis long time no see. How's it going?"

There on the couch next to my mom was my older brother, I dropped everything and stared dumbstruck, how could she let him in here when mom knew I was coming home.