"You could have called." She opened the door to find her brother sprawled on her couch.
"I'm a fully grown woman, I don't need to call. Especially call someone that's not supposed to be in my house." She said pointedly, walking to her bedroom. Her brother shook his head, a lock of longish curly grey hair falling into his face.
"Yeah, but it doesn't mean your big brother doesn't worry."
"Right now you should be more worried about getting yourself and your damn dog packed up. You're going home tomorrow if I have to drive you. No ifs ands or buts." He pouted.
"But I'm your big brother."
"And you're going to be my big brother six hours away in your nice little place in Brighton Beach where you're far far away from me." She paused and glared at him. "Now I'm going get dressed and get to work." She said closing the door behind her, and pulling down a fresh set of clothes out of her closet. "Be ready to leave tomorrow morning." He rolled his eyes.
"Fine." he finally conceded, sitting back on the couch with his dog. "Hear that Cesar? Evil Ziggy's kicking us out to make room for her mean ol' boyfriend." He cooed to the dog, ruffling it's ears.
"Don't call me Ziggy." She said in a near growl, hating the childhood nickname that her brother had for her. "And I'll be back after work." She said, giving the dog, then her brother a pat on the head.
"Szia." He called with a wave and and she nodded and returned the gesture, closing the door behind her.
She felt bad about kicking her brother out, but she was sick of his "I know best" routine. Just because he had a relationship that worked was no reason for him to act as if he knew better than she did. She was more likely to twist that-she'd had more relationship experience than he had. After all, he had only dated two women before meeting the one for him, she still hadn't met the one.
Just because Aaron had been married for thirty years was no excuse. He had no right to intrude on her love life. Just because he had two wonderful children and had a nice little perfect family was no reason for him to think that he had every right to be the overbearing older brother and scare off everything that dated her.
He had done it with his daughter too, but now Rachel was happily married, with a child of her own. She groaned as she remembered that she had to get or make something for the second kid that was on the way. And Aaron had long since given up on his son, not even taking over the family business back in the old country had toned down the boy's playboy nature.
So Aaron thought it would be his duty to stand guard over her, as she was the last female member of the family left alone. He made up for his lack of a love life by making sure that everyone she dated was up to snuff. But she knew that he didn't even want to look for someone else, since Miriam died he hadn't even looked at another woman.
She frowned as she thought of her nephew and the state of the shop. It was in good hands, she could trust the shop to Lazer. She doubted her brother thought of what his son would pick as a nickname when the boy had been named. Aaron had assumed that he would go with Elie, but instead the boy had opted for a more "cool" variant on Eliezer, very much the same way she had opted to Americanize her name to something that most could pronounce.
She hated her brother if only because she had gotten saddled with the burden of the unpronounceable names. Aaron was a name most could pronounce, it was common enough. Hers, well, she'd hardly seen it as a name even in Hungary. It was common enough over there for its meaning, but there were very few who were named it. And she also had a middle name that her brother teased her mercilessly over.
She just wished her grand-niece would grow up and be old enough for Aaron to agonize over her, but sadly the little girl was barely three. It would be a long time until Sophia would enter the dating scene. So until then she had to put up with her brother focusing on her and her alone when it came to what she chose to date.
She just hoped that maybe she found someone worth keeping around this time, that hopefully she had found the one for her, the one that she would want to be with forever. She just hoped she wasn't rushing into a relationship with him with the thought that if he was going to be the one she could just jump right into things, her past experience had taught her that that was a horrible horrible mindset to have.
She parked her car in a spot and got out heading up to her office, putting all of her doubts about her relationship out of her mind. Right now what she had to worry about was the seemingly never-ending stack of paperwork.