So you've met the girls...here's the boys :)
CHAPTER 2:
The most evil of all the days
EPOV
I wake to the sound of The Bangles. Strange as it may seem, "Manic Monday" is one of the few songs that will wake me up and not irritate the living shit out of me in the process. However, making my cousin Emmett understand that concept is damn near impossible, as he has teased me mercilessly about it ever since I arrived at his place last Thursday. However, having grown up with Emmett and having learned how to give as good as I get, I may have loaded a few new songs onto his iPod...I can't wait to hit the gym and see the look on his face when he cranks up his workout mix and hears Justin Bieber and Ke$ha.
I groan as I stretch and try to work out the kinks in my back from sleeping on an air mattress in the spare room of the house Emmett shares with Jasper, my other cousin. It's a decent enough air mattress, I guess, but I can't wait until I find a place of my own and can sleep in my own bed again and wake up feeling more like the 27-year-old I am instead of a 40-something. Most of the time, I've got no problem with Mondays...just another day, really...but today the lyrics of the chorus ring true: I do wish it was still Sunday, which was actually a very fun day. Jasper, Emmett, and I spent a few hours looking at all the apartments that were for rent here in Forks (which was about 7 places...fuck this really is a small town!), then spent the rest of the day drinking beer, eating nachos, and playing video games.
I manage to drag myself out of the inevitable pit in the middle of the mattress and make my way into the kitchen to see if the other guys are up yet. Jasper is at the stove frying up eggs, and Emmett is slumped over on the kitchen table. I smack him on the back of the head to make sure he's still alive, 'cause I don't wanna have to explain to my uncle Mike and aunt Lauren, Em's parents, why their son is no longer breathing...Uncle Mike would probably get a laugh out of death by masturbation plus hangover, but Aunt Lauren, my mom's twin sister, would definitely not see any humor in the situation.
"OW! What the fuck, asshole? That hurt!," complained Emmett as he rubbed the back of his head. I just shrugged and went to pour myself some coffee.
"Just making sure you're still alive, dirtbag. Sue me for not wanting to explain death by spanking the monkey to your folks," I said to him as I sat down at the table across from him with my coffee. Jasper started laughing as he dished out the eggs onto 3 plates for us.
"Em. Dude. Take a chill pill and shut the fuck up and eat your damn breakfast," Jasper told him, smirking. "We both know you were too damn drunk last night to get it up." I nearly spewed coffee out of my nose, I was laughing so hard.
"Anyway, I think I'll go back to check out a couple apartments again today and try to find something, because sleeping on that fucking air mattress much longer is gonna break my damn back," I said to the guys. "How about we meet up for some lunch? I'm getting kinda sick of chef Jasper's gruel and water diet." That earned me a smack on the back of the head.
"How 'bout my folks' diner? The food's great, and they'll probably give it to us for free. Plus my mom's been bugging me to bring you around since I told her you were back," said Jasper. "I've got my lunch break at 12:30, and we both know The Hulk over there," he gestured at Emmett, "won't be fully functional and conscious until about that time anyway." Emmett flipped him off, which in his world is as close to a coherent answer we'd get at 9 A.M.
"Works for me," I responded. "It'll be nice to see Aunt Kate again too, my dad's been on my case to stop and see her and Uncle Jake ever since I told him I decided to move back here." Kate was my dad's "baby sister", and since my folks are still living in Chicago, my dad doesn't get to see her very often. I knew that her and my uncle Jacob had lunch at the diner every weekday, along with about half the town. There may be other restaurants in town, but Forks Diner has the market cornered on atmosphere and good food, hence the reason it's the go-to spot for just about everybody in town.
Well, now you've met the boys...please let me know what you think, but be kind! This is un-beta'ed so I make no claim to perfection...plus it's about 3 AM for me so my brain is not quite functioning on all cylinders...
