Part 5 ~ Banks' POV
There's a wine stain on my grandfather's rabbit fir rug and my grandmother's antique rosewood table is still in splinters on the floor. We've only been here sixteen hours!!
I can already hear the lecture I'm going to get when we get back. 'I'm very disappointed in you Adam, you're brother would never have allowed this to happen.' Yeah because my brother's a winner all right, he should be sainted or something.
I'm so tired right now, I could snuggle up nice and warm under the kitchen table and take a long nap, but I think people are waiting for their breakfast. I was up all night trying to figure out who is responsible for this mess because somebody's going to have to pay for it. Technically Taz's trip through the table caused it all, but she wouldn't have fallen if Kory didn't push her. Still none of it would've happened if Averman hadn't brought the wine up from the cellar. Oh god, smacks self in forehead*, someone's going to have to pay for the missing wine too. It's going to be me, I can see it now. The price on the rug alone is probably more then most of my friends have saved for college.
I woke up this morning to the sound of a scream coming for the upstairs bathroom followed by Taz yelling. "Nobody look, I'm naked." Then there was the skitter of feet and some Irish cursing. Someone is in trouble.
However after that Portman yelled up to her. "If I wasn't gay before seeing that, I am now." So I think after she kills Kory for whatever she did (I know it was Kory because everyone else knows her well enough to know, you don't piss her off before noon) the larger Bash Brother may see some of her awesome wrath.
Oh well, I am looking forward to spending a nice relaxing day with Charlie, alone by the fire or in the hottub. Annie somehow managed to convince Kory to hit the slopes with her and Luis, so today's she's my best friend. I think they're taking Averman too, since Annie gets a kick out of him. Plus Luis needs some male company and he's pretty close with Les these days. Taz is still mad at Charlie for sticking up for Kory last night and has been avoiding him like the plague all morning. I'm not sure which is more bruised, her butt or her ego. For once I may get my boyfriend's undivided attention. The rest of the gang shouldn't interrupt us either, Portman's heading down to the lodge to sign up for ski-board lessons. Taz wants hot chocolate so she and her girlfriend are going down to the Snow Side Cafe, she doesn't realize Maya plans on doing some skiing first and Fulton still determined to have the worst possible time will be locking himself in his room all day. That's okay with me, I'm not getting involved this time, every time those two fight its cause for trouble for anyone that attempts to help. Wild buffalo's couldn't drag me into that situation. Jesse has made it very clear he's not wasting another minute in the cabin when there's fresh powder and hot snow bunnies out there. Unfortunately for him though he'll be spending the day trying to teach Goldberg, who's never skied before, to learn how to stand up.
I'm preparing breakfast before everyone takes off though, because I'm nice like that. Strangely though I'm actually cooking for everybody, because everyone is awake, even Taz and she's not much of a morning person. Last I saw of her though I think she was making a gift for Kory, it's a crown that says 'Royal Pain' on it. I'm amazed at what that girl can do with construction paper and glitter. I just hope there's not another scene from the Matrix displayed in the pallor.
"Hey who wants to eat? I'm making corn beef hash and eggs." I go to the doorway of the kitchen and stick my head out. Portman immediately shoots me a dirty look and I hold up my hands. "Don't worry Dean, we bought you some of that imitation egg crap last night, it looks sort of like boogers, you might like it. As for the hash, you're screwed."
"You should've just let him starve." Fulton sneers.
Luckily Goldberg is sitting on the rocking chair in the living room and decides to give us some comic relief. "Is the hash kosher?"
Now if you know Goldberg, you know he's the most non-Jewish, Jew in the world. That starts and uproar of laughter and Portman doesn't have a snappy come back yet anyway so it's all good. 10:00 AM and no official arguments, I think that may be a record for us .
"So what was all the yelling about this morning, Taz?" I ask while setting some plates out on the table, she's filling glasses with orange juice, I think because both Charlie and Kory are in the living room now and she's trying to avoid them.
"Your boyfriend's friend snuck into the bathroom and flushed the toilet while I was in the shower. First the water went to like a million degrees on me, then I practically froze. When I jumped out really quick I saw she stole my towel too. Little bitch."
Sorry I asked.
"Corn beef hash?" Taz picks up an empty can that's sitting on the counter and I turn my head.
"Yeah."
"You're making stew for breakfast, Banksie? I thought you had more class than that."
"What are you talking about? That's hash right there 'Taz." I gesture to the frying pan.
"That?" She leans over and crinkles her nose. "It looks like dog food."
"Taste like it too." Portman yells in, Fulton instantly tells him to shut up.
"In Ireland it's a stew, here it's disgusting. And by the way pancakes are a dessert not a breakfast food. If you guys would have asked me that years ago, you would've known."
Oh please don't let her follow me around for the rest of the week.
After we eat they all get ready to go but not before Kory's coronation. Taz makes a big deal of Kory having to sit in the prettiest chair we have before sticking the cardboard crown on her head. "Since you think you're such a princess and since Charlie here kisses your butt like your humble servant, I hereby crown you 'Princess Kory 'The Snob' Montel."
Kory just sighs and waves her hands. "Off with her head."
So much for the calm day I was hoping for.
There's a wine stain on my grandfather's rabbit fir rug and my grandmother's antique rosewood table is still in splinters on the floor. We've only been here sixteen hours!!
I can already hear the lecture I'm going to get when we get back. 'I'm very disappointed in you Adam, you're brother would never have allowed this to happen.' Yeah because my brother's a winner all right, he should be sainted or something.
I'm so tired right now, I could snuggle up nice and warm under the kitchen table and take a long nap, but I think people are waiting for their breakfast. I was up all night trying to figure out who is responsible for this mess because somebody's going to have to pay for it. Technically Taz's trip through the table caused it all, but she wouldn't have fallen if Kory didn't push her. Still none of it would've happened if Averman hadn't brought the wine up from the cellar. Oh god, smacks self in forehead*, someone's going to have to pay for the missing wine too. It's going to be me, I can see it now. The price on the rug alone is probably more then most of my friends have saved for college.
I woke up this morning to the sound of a scream coming for the upstairs bathroom followed by Taz yelling. "Nobody look, I'm naked." Then there was the skitter of feet and some Irish cursing. Someone is in trouble.
However after that Portman yelled up to her. "If I wasn't gay before seeing that, I am now." So I think after she kills Kory for whatever she did (I know it was Kory because everyone else knows her well enough to know, you don't piss her off before noon) the larger Bash Brother may see some of her awesome wrath.
Oh well, I am looking forward to spending a nice relaxing day with Charlie, alone by the fire or in the hottub. Annie somehow managed to convince Kory to hit the slopes with her and Luis, so today's she's my best friend. I think they're taking Averman too, since Annie gets a kick out of him. Plus Luis needs some male company and he's pretty close with Les these days. Taz is still mad at Charlie for sticking up for Kory last night and has been avoiding him like the plague all morning. I'm not sure which is more bruised, her butt or her ego. For once I may get my boyfriend's undivided attention. The rest of the gang shouldn't interrupt us either, Portman's heading down to the lodge to sign up for ski-board lessons. Taz wants hot chocolate so she and her girlfriend are going down to the Snow Side Cafe, she doesn't realize Maya plans on doing some skiing first and Fulton still determined to have the worst possible time will be locking himself in his room all day. That's okay with me, I'm not getting involved this time, every time those two fight its cause for trouble for anyone that attempts to help. Wild buffalo's couldn't drag me into that situation. Jesse has made it very clear he's not wasting another minute in the cabin when there's fresh powder and hot snow bunnies out there. Unfortunately for him though he'll be spending the day trying to teach Goldberg, who's never skied before, to learn how to stand up.
I'm preparing breakfast before everyone takes off though, because I'm nice like that. Strangely though I'm actually cooking for everybody, because everyone is awake, even Taz and she's not much of a morning person. Last I saw of her though I think she was making a gift for Kory, it's a crown that says 'Royal Pain' on it. I'm amazed at what that girl can do with construction paper and glitter. I just hope there's not another scene from the Matrix displayed in the pallor.
"Hey who wants to eat? I'm making corn beef hash and eggs." I go to the doorway of the kitchen and stick my head out. Portman immediately shoots me a dirty look and I hold up my hands. "Don't worry Dean, we bought you some of that imitation egg crap last night, it looks sort of like boogers, you might like it. As for the hash, you're screwed."
"You should've just let him starve." Fulton sneers.
Luckily Goldberg is sitting on the rocking chair in the living room and decides to give us some comic relief. "Is the hash kosher?"
Now if you know Goldberg, you know he's the most non-Jewish, Jew in the world. That starts and uproar of laughter and Portman doesn't have a snappy come back yet anyway so it's all good. 10:00 AM and no official arguments, I think that may be a record for us .
"So what was all the yelling about this morning, Taz?" I ask while setting some plates out on the table, she's filling glasses with orange juice, I think because both Charlie and Kory are in the living room now and she's trying to avoid them.
"Your boyfriend's friend snuck into the bathroom and flushed the toilet while I was in the shower. First the water went to like a million degrees on me, then I practically froze. When I jumped out really quick I saw she stole my towel too. Little bitch."
Sorry I asked.
"Corn beef hash?" Taz picks up an empty can that's sitting on the counter and I turn my head.
"Yeah."
"You're making stew for breakfast, Banksie? I thought you had more class than that."
"What are you talking about? That's hash right there 'Taz." I gesture to the frying pan.
"That?" She leans over and crinkles her nose. "It looks like dog food."
"Taste like it too." Portman yells in, Fulton instantly tells him to shut up.
"In Ireland it's a stew, here it's disgusting. And by the way pancakes are a dessert not a breakfast food. If you guys would have asked me that years ago, you would've known."
Oh please don't let her follow me around for the rest of the week.
After we eat they all get ready to go but not before Kory's coronation. Taz makes a big deal of Kory having to sit in the prettiest chair we have before sticking the cardboard crown on her head. "Since you think you're such a princess and since Charlie here kisses your butt like your humble servant, I hereby crown you 'Princess Kory 'The Snob' Montel."
Kory just sighs and waves her hands. "Off with her head."
So much for the calm day I was hoping for.