p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Drew's POV/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I held the bag and the longer package a little tightly on the monorail, getting some strange looks because of the red and green wrapping. Seriously, we have three months until Christmas, and May just has to choose red so regardless of what mine was in, I looked like I was full of Christmas spirit./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Such is the curse of my fabulous hair./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Once the monorail shuddered to a halt, I was the first to get out. I held my passport at the ready for the computers at the entrance of LaRousse City, my hometown./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I got on one of the moving sidewalks, and fiddled with the package. I never could figure out why seeing my little sister made me so nervous. Maybe because I still felt like it was my fault./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I stepped off and continued walking until I was in the richer part of town. I stopped when I reached the huge high tech building with a huge glass dome for a roof, the main part being circular with two smaller rectangular sections jutting from the original. It was made of huge white slabs of stone, with a huge, oak double door at the entry. Home sweet home./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I shoved the box under my arm and shoved open the heavy door with my right hand. It didn't even creak, so I knew that Clair was definitely still as silence obsessed as ever. Clair was my aunt, she had been taking care of my sister for seven years now. She had dark green hair always kept in a tight security bun. I've only ever seen it anything less than perfect once. She had cool gray eyes that saw just about everything, and sometimes still scared the living daylights out of me. She was also very persistent on matters other than her hair and silence, and that would be my interactions with people. She very much disapproved of Gary, no matter how many times he had tried to charm her. Gary had never been to my house, but as my roommate, he had met her a few times when she came to visit me at the school. She had high standards, and so far, I'm pretty sure Kenny was the closest to being accepted by her. They all thought she was my mother. She approved Solidad readily, and hasn't yet met Air Head, but those are the two that know she's my aunt and not my mother. If she found out who my fake girlfriend was, she'd probably kill me./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Why my sister Tabitha and I were not being taken care of by our parents? Well, only one person knows the full story to tat other than me. Tabitha was too young to remember, and I had no desire to tell an eight year old that story./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Closing the door which no matter how many times I used it, it was still just as heavy, I called for my sister, "Tabitha! I'm home!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Inside of the house, there was marble flooring and white pillars that held up the glass dome, cast over the area like a net. there were two huge sets of stairs leading to the second and third floors, which were made of ever glossy glass. The walls were pristine white, and had several pieces of advanced technology built in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I saw the light green haired girl bound down the steps, taking two or three at a time. It's a wonder the glass never cracked. I smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Miss me?" I smirked right before she tackled me with a hug./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Not as much as you missed me! Do you remember what today is?" she smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Would I have these if I didn't?" I held out the two gifts./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Drew, one of these isn't from you. You don't wrap gifts in red unless it's Christmas," she told me with confusion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I ruffled her hair, "Guess who it's from then, if you're so smart."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""It's not one of the boys. They aren't that nice, and they wouldn't remember if you told them, which you didn't. So that leaves the two girls, Solidad, and May. I haven't even met any of them, so it wouldn't make sense to begin with. Unless," she grinned like a shark, "Drewy has a girlfriend!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Nice try, but June is not my girlfriend," I tried very hard not to blush. I knew she knew. I don't know how she knows, but somehow, she figured it out before I did, "But I do have a fake one," she had already began talking./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yet. Come on, first off, you've only given two people nicknames, May, who you really just refuse to call her by her name, and me," she checked off using her fingers, "It shows that you only do that to people you really care about and are overprotective of. Not to mention possessive. You wouldn't let me have a friend who was a guy until two months ago, seriously! And don't make any excuses."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Is this what you do in your free time? Seriously, talk about not having a life," I flicked my hair./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Only because a dear brother of mine won't let me go on a journey!" she huffed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You have to wait until you're ten, Tab," I reminded her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You were eight too when you left! Remember? It was your eighth birthday, just like it is for me now!" she countered./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Just open your presents already," I sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She stuck out her tongue and opened the green bag then grinned, "Drewy, you do know I have a life other than skulking about how much you need to get together with May."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It was the newest system from her favorite gaming company. It was a headset of sorts called NerveGear, that practically transferred you into the virtual world. You became your avatar./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I guess I'll just have to buy my own games," she sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I didn't want to choose one you already beat," I defended./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She rolled he eyes and unwrapped the larger gift./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Oh no. Please tell May did not just get my eight year old sister a sword./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Her eyes widened and were filled with joy, "I love your future girlfriend so much. So. Freaking. Much. I can't wait until she's my sister in law."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I face palmed to hide a blush that was coming on./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""So, you know you could have just introduced me to May and announced that you two were dating instead of buying me fancy video game systems, right?" she smirked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Ah, shut up."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Come on! It's going to happen eventually!" she protested./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Let's just go eat dinner, Clair probably made you cake," I changed the subject, beginning to walk to the kitchen./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""One of these days," she replied in a sing song voice, skipping after me./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Used to be 18/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Two chapters in one day, and three chapters so far in a week! Yeah, I might even post a third today, you never know. Since I posted this too fast for anyone to review, no shout outs. But all you readers are amazingly fabulous! :D/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Hope you liked yet another one of my OCs, Drewy's little sister Tabitha./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Oh, and if anyone caught the reference, tell me. It would make my day./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Review please!/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I held the bag and the longer package a little tightly on the monorail, getting some strange looks because of the red and green wrapping. Seriously, we have three months until Christmas, and May just has to choose red so regardless of what mine was in, I looked like I was full of Christmas spirit./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Such is the curse of my fabulous hair./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Once the monorail shuddered to a halt, I was the first to get out. I held my passport at the ready for the computers at the entrance of LaRousse City, my hometown./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I got on one of the moving sidewalks, and fiddled with the package. I never could figure out why seeing my little sister made me so nervous. Maybe because I still felt like it was my fault./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I stepped off and continued walking until I was in the richer part of town. I stopped when I reached the huge high tech building with a huge glass dome for a roof, the main part being circular with two smaller rectangular sections jutting from the original. It was made of huge white slabs of stone, with a huge, oak double door at the entry. Home sweet home./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I shoved the box under my arm and shoved open the heavy door with my right hand. It didn't even creak, so I knew that Clair was definitely still as silence obsessed as ever. Clair was my aunt, she had been taking care of my sister for seven years now. She had dark green hair always kept in a tight security bun. I've only ever seen it anything less than perfect once. She had cool gray eyes that saw just about everything, and sometimes still scared the living daylights out of me. She was also very persistent on matters other than her hair and silence, and that would be my interactions with people. She very much disapproved of Gary, no matter how many times he had tried to charm her. Gary had never been to my house, but as my roommate, he had met her a few times when she came to visit me at the school. She had high standards, and so far, I'm pretty sure Kenny was the closest to being accepted by her. They all thought she was my mother. She approved Solidad readily, and hasn't yet met Air Head, but those are the two that know she's my aunt and not my mother. If she found out who my fake girlfriend was, she'd probably kill me./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Why my sister Tabitha and I were not being taken care of by our parents? Well, only one person knows the full story to tat other than me. Tabitha was too young to remember, and I had no desire to tell an eight year old that story./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Closing the door which no matter how many times I used it, it was still just as heavy, I called for my sister, "Tabitha! I'm home!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Inside of the house, there was marble flooring and white pillars that held up the glass dome, cast over the area like a net. there were two huge sets of stairs leading to the second and third floors, which were made of ever glossy glass. The walls were pristine white, and had several pieces of advanced technology built in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I saw the light green haired girl bound down the steps, taking two or three at a time. It's a wonder the glass never cracked. I smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Miss me?" I smirked right before she tackled me with a hug./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Not as much as you missed me! Do you remember what today is?" she smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Would I have these if I didn't?" I held out the two gifts./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Drew, one of these isn't from you. You don't wrap gifts in red unless it's Christmas," she told me with confusion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I ruffled her hair, "Guess who it's from then, if you're so smart."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""It's not one of the boys. They aren't that nice, and they wouldn't remember if you told them, which you didn't. So that leaves the two girls, Solidad, and May. I haven't even met any of them, so it wouldn't make sense to begin with. Unless," she grinned like a shark, "Drewy has a girlfriend!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Nice try, but June is not my girlfriend," I tried very hard not to blush. I knew she knew. I don't know how she knows, but somehow, she figured it out before I did, "But I do have a fake one," she had already began talking./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yet. Come on, first off, you've only given two people nicknames, May, who you really just refuse to call her by her name, and me," she checked off using her fingers, "It shows that you only do that to people you really care about and are overprotective of. Not to mention possessive. You wouldn't let me have a friend who was a guy until two months ago, seriously! And don't make any excuses."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Is this what you do in your free time? Seriously, talk about not having a life," I flicked my hair./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Only because a dear brother of mine won't let me go on a journey!" she huffed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You have to wait until you're ten, Tab," I reminded her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You were eight too when you left! Remember? It was your eighth birthday, just like it is for me now!" she countered./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Just open your presents already," I sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She stuck out her tongue and opened the green bag then grinned, "Drewy, you do know I have a life other than skulking about how much you need to get together with May."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It was the newest system from her favorite gaming company. It was a headset of sorts called NerveGear, that practically transferred you into the virtual world. You became your avatar./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I guess I'll just have to buy my own games," she sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I didn't want to choose one you already beat," I defended./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She rolled he eyes and unwrapped the larger gift./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Oh no. Please tell May did not just get my eight year old sister a sword./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Her eyes widened and were filled with joy, "I love your future girlfriend so much. So. Freaking. Much. I can't wait until she's my sister in law."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"I face palmed to hide a blush that was coming on./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""So, you know you could have just introduced me to May and announced that you two were dating instead of buying me fancy video game systems, right?" she smirked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Ah, shut up."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Come on! It's going to happen eventually!" she protested./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Let's just go eat dinner, Clair probably made you cake," I changed the subject, beginning to walk to the kitchen./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""One of these days," she replied in a sing song voice, skipping after me./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Used to be 18/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Two chapters in one day, and three chapters so far in a week! Yeah, I might even post a third today, you never know. Since I posted this too fast for anyone to review, no shout outs. But all you readers are amazingly fabulous! :D/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Hope you liked yet another one of my OCs, Drewy's little sister Tabitha./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Oh, and if anyone caught the reference, tell me. It would make my day./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Review please!/p
