My first multi-chapter Psych story! :) First chapter's kind of slow, but this is basically what happens before the theme song in the television program. :) Please read and review!
Disclaimer: Haha, yeah right...
Santa Barbara, 1987
"Shawn!" Henry Spencer called from the porch outside. "Your sister's here!" Shawn slumped on his twin-sized bed, crossing his arms and pouting.
"I don't care!" he yelled back. Henry entered Shawn's room carrying his daughter's bags.
"Why not?" Shawn's father demanded to know. After Shawn's sullen silence, Henry continued, "She's your older sister."
"Yeah, and she's like, thirteen and you just decided to ship her off at some weird boarding school in Zimbabwe," declared Shawn, disdainfully.
"First off, Shawn," his father said, inhaling deeply through his nose. "I did not send her off to Zimbabwe, I sent her off to Switzerland. Secondly, you should be proud of your sister for enrolling in high school four years early! And a private school at that!"
Shawn sat in silence, looking down at his untied shoe laces.
Henry sighed. "Fine. She missed you a lot y'know." He began to exit the room when he stopped in the door frame. He sighed heavily again. "I guess she'll just give your present to someone else."
Shawn's head snapped up at the word "present". He looked down again, pretending to look bored. "Fine," Shawn gave in. "I guess I'll go say hi." With his dad's smiling approval, Shawn ran out the door of his bedroom and into the kitchen.
"Goose!" Meagan Spencer, his sister laughed as he jumped on her lap. "How's my favorite ten-year old brother been in California?"
"Where are the presents?" was the first question that blurted out of his mouth.
Meagan ruffled his hair, laughing. His sister looked different than the last time Shawn had seen her. The last time he saw her, she had been his age, nearly three years ago. Her braces had come off, and she got contacts so her brown-framed glasses were gone too. Her long, brown hair that she usually pulled back in a ponytail was now cut short and permed. "Sure are the eager beaver! Anyway, how old are you again?" she asked, chocolate brown eyes wide open.
"Ten!" he mumbled, bashfully, swinging his legs back and forth as his older sister petted his head.
"Ten???" Meagan gasped. "Wow, you're quite the young man then, huh?" she laughed at his nodded head. She let out another laugh. "I guess you really want your present, huh?"
"Yeah!" exclaimed Shawn.
"All right, all right," Meagan said, getting up off of the chair. "Let me go get it in my bag!" she jogged off to get Shawn's present.
Shawn hopped onto a maple, wooden chair with pure delight. He swung his legs back and forth in anticipation, waiting for his sister to bring back the present. Suddenly, a rap at their front door rung in his ears.
"Shawn!" Gus's little ten-year old voice called. "Your sister home yet?" Shawn hopped off of the chair and opened the door for his best friend.
"Yeah, and dude, she's got presents!" he cried. Gus's eyes lit up.
"Did she get me any?" Gus wondered out loud, dreamily. He had a crush on Meagan for as long as Shawn knew him.
"Okay, Shawn—oh, hey Gus!" The boys hurried around Meagan as she sat down in the chair. "I was hoping you would come!" Meagan smiled at the eager little boys and handed them each a present wrapped in green wrapping paper.
Shawn and Gus tore open the gifts and they each "ooed" and "ahhed".
"A model of the Back to the Future car???" Shawn gasped. "Wow, Meaggie, I love it!" he made zooming sounds and ran around the kitchen, toy in his hand.
"My very own science experiment kit!" cried Gus. He flung his bony arms around Maggie's legs. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Your welcome, guys," Meagan said, smiling. She was happy to be home.
"How about we go get some ice cream?" Henry suggested, suddenly appearing in front of the wall where he had been surveying the scene. "Gus, d'ya wanna go ask your parents?"
Gus nodded his little head, eagerly, running out the front door to go get his parents.
Meagan and Henry walked off to the living room, leaving Shawn with his fabulous new toy.
"I missed you, Dad," sighed Meagan, hugging her father.
"I missed you too, Meaggie," Henry said, kissing the top of his daughter's head. "Only thirteen and my daughter has already completed one year of college. I'm so proud of you."
He wrapped his arm around his daughter's shoulders as they surveyed Shawn, who was making "zooming" sounds and running around the kitchen.
"I've never seen Shawn so… acting like a kid, y'know?" admitted Henry. "Whenever you visit every three years or so, it really brings out his inner kid."
"Thanks, Dad," smiled Meagan. "Glad I could help."
Henry paused, and then asked, "Do you think I work him too hard?"
"Please," Meagan looked up at her father. "You work him way easier than you worked me when I was that age!" the two laughed, and then walked out the front door, starting the car to go get some ice cream.
Present Day
"Shawn! SHAWN!" Henry Spencer panted, running through Shawn's office. "SHAWN!"
Shawn was cut off talking about the equivalence of Sandy running into Danny's arms at the beach and he and Juliet's relationship with Gus when he spun around to see his father screaming, shouting, and flailing his arms wildly like a lunatic.
"Whoa, daddio', what's the situation?" asked Shawn, casually, hands stuffed in jean pockets.
"What's wrong, Mr. Spencer?" Gus questioned, worriedly, thrusting aside Shawn's casual remark.
"Nothing's wrong," Henry cried. Shawn noted the excitement in his voice. "I've got some exciting news, Shawn, you're--," he was cut off by a very familiar female voice.
"Hello, Shawn." Behind Henry was a tall, slim, brunette thirty-five year old to be exact, wearing a gray, v-neck sweater and dark pencil-line jeans, long brunette tresses cascading down her back in a perfect chocolate waterfall.
Shawn didn't have to look over at Gus to know that he was drooling, his mouth agape. Shawn cracked a smile at his older sister.
"Hello, Meagan. Long time no see."
Like I said, first chap was kind of slow. :) More will come though! Please R&R!!!