--Ephram

It was weird having her there all the time. I started to notice things about her that I hadn't noticed before. Her hair wasn't exactly black it was more like the color of cherry coke and her eyes were not just gray they had flex of blue in them. I also noticed that she read a lot and spent a lot of time alone rather than spend it with me, Delia, or Spring. She also had the greatest effect on my moods. More so than Amy ever did, so hearing her say that seeing me and Amy together hadn't effected here hurt some what.

I went inside to find my dad just coming in the side door as Spring and Delia fought over movies. I walked passed the feuding eight year olds and stood in the door of the kitchen. He had brought pizza and per Autumn's request it was vegetarian. I smelled it and then was tapped on the shoulder by the ever so short Autumn. I wasn't exactly pleased with her. However as I looked down into her eyes I couldn't bring any of that anger to surface and I smiled. I literally wanted to beat the mental crap out of my self for it but I still smiled. Dad started talking and Autumn started nodding and speaking but I didn't hear a word as She picked up the pizza and walked into the TV room with it. I followed. She set the pizza on the coffee table and then flopped back on the sofa.

"So did you munchkin's pick a movie yet?" she asked as she crossed her legs. I sat on the arm of the couch and she smiled up at me.

"No, I wanna watch wizard of Oz! And she wants to watch Willie Wonka" Spring said as she held up the DVD of 'The wizard of Oz' which she had remembered to rip from their DVD collection the day she was brought here. I looked at the covers and then remembered that Delia is terrified of Willie Wonka. Before I could even speak Autumn plucked a tape from the rack and tossed it next to the pizza box. It was Snow white.

"There! Now we're going to watch this, now Spring, put the tape in" she said as she sat up cross legged on the couch I yawned. And she looked up at me. "Wanna go somewhere?" she whispered as she smirked.

"Where? I gotta keep an eye on Delia you know" She nodded.

"Right… kids" She said as she tilted her head to the side. "Then do you want to go up stairs and watch a better movie?" She said as she leaned back. I nodded.

We took half of the pizza up stairs and sat on the bed in her room and watched 'From Hell' half way through she fell asleep leaning against me. I didn't even notice it until the movie was over. I then looked around her room. My eyes fell on the calendar. Tomorrow was thanksgiving.

Amazingly this was to be the year when my dad took on the world by having almost the entire town over for thanksgiving. I looked down at Autumn as I thought on this. It wasn't going to work, something was going to go wrong. Even though he wasn't cooking, Summer, Autumn's older sister was bringing the food, she was a caterer and she often did things like this for people. Still something was going to go wrong I knew it simply because it always did. She stirred and her head fell into my lap. I shook her a bit. She stirred and her eyes opened.

"I gotta get back to my room so you're gonna have to get up" I said as she got up and yawned.

"I'm sorry I guess I was more tired than I thought" She said as she smiled. She stood and stretched. I stood and walked back to my room. "Good night" She spoke as she closed the door behind me. I went back to my room and almost instantly fell asleep.

In the morning I was woken up by my father banging on the door telling me to get up because Autumns sister was here and she needed help with her things. So I got up and showered.. I glimpsed the clock on the way out it was 11:26 the people were supposed to be here at three.

I stood at the top of the stairs and watched as a tall blonde woman started bringing bags and boxes in. She looked up at me and smiled.

"C'mon hun don't be shy I need all the extra hands" She said as she waved me down. I stood and gawked at her. She looked like Autumn only she was blonde and had hazel eyes. Autumn still seemed some how better looking however. I followed her out side to a car that was sitting in the driveway. It was an old mustang, late sixties and it was black. "You must be Ephraim" I opened my mouth to say something but she waved her hand. "Autumn told me a little while ago, your dad sent her and the girls to go get cranberry sauce, which I being absent minded forgot!" She laughed a little and opened the trunk and handed me more boxes.

"What's in the boxes?" I asked as I tried to keep my chin above them.

"One has a big thing of stuffing, the other has meat, another has cake, basically.. food" She said as she laughed. She grabbed a couple of bags and slammed the trunk before she took me by the hand and pulled me into the house. "Just put it on the table" She said as she smacked the table. She grinned and pulled her hair into a massive bun on the top of her head like Autumn does when she's about to do some type of work or something. I did as she said. Just then Autumn walked in the door.

"Sum!" She screamed as she ran to her sister and gave her a hug. She then yawned.

"You probably don't remember a lot of things but you and Ephram were bathed together when you were like two" Summer said laughing. I felt my face get hot I was blushing.

"What a greeting" Autumn said with a laugh as she looked at me with a smile.

"Well I try to be as creative as possible" Summer said as she tussled Autumns hair. Summer was taller by a couple of inches. "After all I only see you five days out of the whole year, now I have to get to the kitchen" She said as she grabbed Spring by the hand and pulled her into the kitchen with Delia behind her.

"She seems cool now but wait till we start fighting, it always happens, she hates me" Aught spoke with a smile as she looked up at me.

"Doesn't seem that way"

"Yeah well, me and her are four years apart, There's too much of an age difference between us" She said as she leaned against the wall. She then sighed and flipped her hair "Just promise me that if I start to go for a knife if she says anything that you'll stop me"

"I'll try but I don't necessarily want to be between you and the blade of a knife" I said as she looked up at me and laughed.

"Just keep me from making a scene" she spoke as she smiled and walked into the kitchen.

Two rolled around rather fast and all of us kids were told to get up stairs and change. I didn't feel like it but it seemed rather worth it to see Autumn walk out of the bathroom with hair wet and a towel wrapped around her. She stuck her tongue out at me as we passed each other in the hall.

I took my shower and got changed. She walked into my room while I was tieing my tie. She sat down on my bed and then fell over. She was actually semi-dressed up in parent pleasing appearel. She had on a long black dress that managed to hover between formal and in formal. I was wearing my favorite red botton down shirt and matching tie. I turned around and looked at her.

"You know my dad is gonna come in here and wanna know why you're on my bed" I said as I looked at her. She smiled and shook her head.

"Then tell him I'm recovering from our hours of passionate love making that we managed to fit in somewhere between breakfast and lectures about how to arrange carrots on top of stuffing" She said with a grin as she covered her face. I couldn't help but to laugh but it was an awkward laugh because in all truths that's what I wanted.

"I think we should get down stairs" I said as I turned around and looked at her. She shook her head.

"Can't I just hide in here?" She said as she pouted.

"No C'mon, if it gets bad, look at it this way you can always lock yourself in the closet" I smiled she smiled and stood.

"If I blow up at my sister you are aware that it'll be all your fault" She said as she started for the door I followed her.

"Yes, I am wear of this, and I will take full responcibiliy for anything that gets broken" I said as we made our way down the stairs.