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Chap.3

"You're Max!" The older boy says. How the crap was I supposed to act around them? I thought they'd be older. Closer to my age... the older two of the kids had the same eyes as Iggy, so I'd assume these were his siblings.

"Yeah. How did you know?" I asked out of curiosity

"Because I told them!" The little girl answered, sporting a shit eating smile. She had this crazy charisma. With that one enthusiastic sentence I was already loving her like my sister- er cousin whatever...

"Yeah, Angel knows everything." The youngest said. He had the same dirty blond hair as me...

"These are Angel and Gazzy, my kid brother and sister. Ari's your little bro." Iggy pushed me forward to them as he said this. Ari and Angel grabbed onto one of my arms each, while Gazzy started to push me from the back towards a room that looked like the living room.

"You have to sit here." Angel told me, and patted a regular looking arm chair. I decided it'd be a good idea to play along.

"But why?" I pretended to whine.

"Because we put the special pillows on this couch!" Ari said this with a 'duh' sort of tone

"Oh alright then." Once I sat down they started to fight with each other.

"No! I want to sit next to her"

"NO ME!"

"My sister though!"

"My cousin!

"She was my cousin first because I'm older!" By this time some lady(probably my step-mom)came into the room having heard the noise the kids were making.

"Hey now! What's going on?" She asked. She looked to nice to be mean so her scolding was kind of out of place.

"Mommy" Ari bounded towards her and wrapped his arms around her middle "I want to sit next to Max."

She looked over to me and a look of understanding crossed her face.

"Oh Max you're here already." I don't understand why she had to go and state the obvious...Ari came over to me and planted himself on my lap. I didn't protest since he was only a little kid.

"...yeah." I answered awkwardly. I didn't even know what to address her as. Mrs. Batchelder? what was her first name anyways?

"Call me Quin sweetie." And just like that she answered all my unspoken questions. She then turned to Iggy.

"Oh James dear your parents are on there way - you better go and change soon. You two too." She continued to say to Angel and Gazzy. They all looked about ready to bolt out the door.

"Well what are you waiting for? Go and change." She told them again. Once they left she turned back to me and she seemed to study me with a thoughtful look on her face. Before I knew what she was doing she was sitting next to me on the couch. The thoughtful look still evident on her face.

"Wow. Max you are a very pretty girl. Ari was so exited to find out his big sister was going to come and visit. Imagine my surprise when Jeb told me this! Oh, I'd always known he had a daughter. But after all these years of trying to get you to come and visit for the summer and you never wanted to come-"

"What do you mean I never wanted to come?" I interrupted her. What was she going on about? They never asked for me to visit.

"Didn't your mom ever tell you that-oh..."She stopped saying whatever it was that she was saying, but I had already gotten an idea of what she was about to say. Did mom really keep this all from me. Or was it Jeb who just scripted this all. That was probably very unlikely seeing as even I didn't think Jeb would do something like that. I opened my mouth to say something but Quin beat me to it.

"I'm afraid i've said to much...Max. Pretend that this conversation never happened." She said in a rushed tone all the while getting up and making her way out of the room.

"Wait-" I was interrupted by the doorbell.

"I"LL GET IT!" Gazzy yelled from up stairs. And within the following second I heard what sounded like a stamped coming from the stairs. I slowly made my way to the front door.

"Why aren't yoou wearing the clothes I got you!" A lady in her mid-40's stood at the base of the stairs next to a man. They both wore very nice clothes.

"Oh...I'm sorry mommy." Gazzy's broken voice came from next to the still open door.

"Don't apologize! Go Change!" The man reprimanded.

"Dad relax, he was about to change when you rang the bell-" Iggy stated while making his way down the stairs still fixing his tie. So that's why they didn't want to change

"Don't defend your brothers mistakes-" Whoa...really nice way of treating your kids.

"Chill out dad!" I agreed with Iggy on that part. These people really needed to lay off.

"Don't you go telling your dad to chill out!"

"um...hi." I interrupted

"And who are you?"

"I'm Max-"

"Oh yes Maxine."

"No just Max please"

"Maxine it is then."

"..." I gave them my 'look' but they stayed as oblivious as always. I didnt' like them. Since they were Iggy's parents that made them my aunt and uncle.

"So what do I call you?" I didn't bother with the formalities. They weren't worthy of it. Quin was nice so that's different.

"Excuse me? Do not use that tone with me!"

"Fine then. Shall I call you lady and man then?"

"How dare you! Foolish child! Go to your room!" These people were some crazy ass fuckers... I looked over at a highly amused Iggy. I'd need to ask him about these guys later.

Jeb thought it a nice idea to make an appearance at that moment.

"Oh hello. I didn't know you were here." He tells them

"Well obviously. Your daughter has some very bad manners!"

"Olivia you think every one has bad manners." He blew it off. And i felt a microscopic bit of respect for him. He dismissed the man all together. I came to the conclusion that they didn't get along well.

"Max this is my sister Olivia and her husband. Now lets go eat." And with that he abandoned us kids with those crazy people. Angel fell a couple of steps while skipping down the stairs. As I went to help her up I heard her dad say "Clumsy brat." I really needed to find out what was going on...

AN: Sorry I havn't updated, i've been packing (im moving :P). Again I'd like to remind you that this story is being made as I go along and because of this I loss my damn motive. So please feel free to give me some ideas. Please.

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