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Oh! And, read Firework13's story: Mightier Than The Sword. It's a great story. Don't worry if it's a sequel, I didn't read the original. But it's got lots of Zu/Ka fluff. And super sad. That's y I luv it, and y I want Firework 2 hurry up and write the next chapter!
Otay! On with the story!
In 2day's chapter: It's Thanksgiving! And Zuko gets to meet the rest of Kellie's family…
And I'll hopefully b doing another behind the scenes…
Chapter 16: Zuko, Meet My Family!
A few weeks of November passed, and it was Thanksgiving. As of every other year, Kellie's family was going out to her cousins' house. Where the rest of herfamily would be waiting. Except this time, it wouldn't be the entire family…
"Oh come ON! Zuko! Just wear it! One night, and you'll never have to wear it again!" Kellie pleaded. They were supposed to have been at her cousins' an hour ago.
"No! That shirt's hideous!" Kellie smirked.
"So is your armor, but you don't see me complaining about it." Zuko grumbled, and reluctantly, put the shirt on. It was a blue striped polo shirt, what's not to like?
"I HATE blue!" Zuko muttered. Kellie just smiled.
"Really? Cause I think you look hot in blue." Zuko looked up at Kellie. Her smile seemed sincere enough to trust, but in her eyes, Zuko could tell most of that had been a lie.
You know, he really IS hot in blue.
SHUT UP ALREADY! Paul and Shelly already think I'm dating him, I don't need the rest of the Bracht family to think the same! Especially Max and Austin! They're younger than me!
Kellie's thoughts were like this all the way to her cousins' house.
In the drive through the country, Zuko saw interesting animals.
"Kellie, what are those?" And he pointed to some animals grazing.
"Those are horses. Sorta like rhinos, but gentler, and less bulky, and considered beautiful."
Zuko smiled, he wanted a horse.
When Kellie's family (that didn't consist of her brother, because something came up at college) appeared through the basement door, aunts and uncles immediately went into the same routine.
"Hi Kellie! My, you've gotten tall since I last saw you!" Kellie rolled her eyes as she hugged her relatives. Same thing every year.
"Everyone downstairs?" Her Uncle Bob nodded.
"Before you go, Kellie, who's this?" Kellie looked to Zuko, slunk in a corner of the kitchen, trying to disappear.
"That's just Zuko. New friend of mine. Rather shy. Let me show him everyone else, and let's see how he reacts." Kellie dragged Zuko out of the corner, and downstairs, but along the way, she whispered to her Aunt Dana.
"Bring the video camera down there, and watch. This is going to be good, trust me." Dana smiled, and did as her niece asked.
"HI GUYS!" Kellie bounded through the door that led to the study, where she and her cousins went every year, since the adults hogged the upstairs. Her cousin, Danielle, same age as her brother, screamed. Kellie laughed.
"You scare too easily." Kellie looked down at her cousin.
"Is it just me, or have you-" Danielle glared up at her.
"Don't say it."
"Shrunk since I last saw you?" All Kellie's cousins went into an uproar of laughter. Except Danielle.
"Haha." Danielle glared. Kellie turned her attention to another of her cousins, and wrapped him into a bear hug.
"Hi Erik! I think you've shrunken too." Erik flushed, humiliated. He was two years older than Kellie, and yet she still beat him in a height contest.
Erik's brother, Jens, the only cousin of Kellie's that hadn't beat gotten beat in a height contest by Kellie, had to pry her away from his little brother so he didn't suffocate.
Kellie sighed as she watch her cousin, Clayton, and her younger cousins Max and Austin, as they played a semi-graphic, and violent, video game.
Max shouldn't be watching that.
"Oh my God!" Max squealed as Clayton blew the crap out of an enemy on the computer game.
He's been like this since I was in the sixth grade. He probably was in 2nd. Hard to believe his parents allow him to talk like that. My parents get enraged when I say something like that.
Austin, who was only younger than Kellie by two years, turned around, and was the first one to take notice of Zuko.
"Kellie, who's that?" Everyone, even Kellie, turned to face Zuko. Their attention was on him.
"His name is Zuko. A friend of mine. He's staying with us for a while." Max ran up to her and tugged on her arm with a grin.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Kellie gasped, and pulled her arm out of Max's grip.
"No!" And walked over to the free computer. She immediately began to surf the web. She got into a web conversation, and they were laughing hysterically in seconds.
Zuko walked up to Max, and whispered in his ear.
"She's lying. We're going out, she just doesn't like the whole world knowing. So don't tell anyone, got it?" Max nodded, with a giant grin. Max could be trusted, but only for so long.
Dana smiled. Kellie had been thinking right about video taping what went on in that room.
So, Kellie has a boyfriend!
After Kellie and Jens had their funny conversation, he walked up to Zuko.
"Listen, buddy. I'm not Aaron, so I can't tell what he would have done. But if you do one thing wrong here, you make Kellie sad, and your life will become a living nightmare, and worse. Until Aaron gets home from college, I'm her big brother." And just to show how much authority Jens had, he held up a fist. Zuko shoved it gently aside.
"Don't worry, I have no intentions of hurting Kellie." He looked at her, now having a conversation with one of Danielle's friends via the Internet, with Danielle screaming to get off. Kellie grinned evilly at her cousin, and wrote something mean to her cousins' friend, which made her claw Kellie away from the screen.
Zuko smiled.
"Cause I'm sorta like a big brother to her too."
At dinner, Zuko showed how much gluttony he was capable of. He took quite bit of everything, and ate it all at the same speed as Clayton and Jens. And THAT was saying something.
Zuko sighed rather happily as he finished his Thanksgiving meal. He looked at Kellie. She had taken barely anything, and hardly ate anything too. Mainly rolls without butter, and a bit of turkey. At big meals, Kellie never ate much.
Kellie noticed his gaze, and looked at Zuko's plate. She gasped.
"Zuko, how much did you eat?" Zuko grinned.
"I took about three mega-sized helpings of each. And ate it all." Kellie stood up, and clinked her fork with her glass.
"Attention, everyone! Someone has done the impossible! Someone has out-eaten my brother Aaron!" Everyone gaped at Zuko even more then when he had gotten his meal.
No one could out-eat Kellie's brother.
Zuko looked around the basement frantically. It was a tradition among the children of Kellie's family, at Thanksgiving, to play hide-and-seek. And Zuko wasn't It.
Zuko came into the work-out room, and hid in the closet. As he tried to scoot under a shelf, he grabbed something and yanked it. It moved against him. Zuko looked down and saw he was holding Kellie, flush against his chest. She had already taken this spot.
"Zuko! I found you! You're-" But Max, who had came into the closet, stopped as he saw what was happening. His cousin was being held against the new It.
"Oooh! I'm telling Jens!" Max knew how protective his cousin was over Kellie, and ran to find him.
"MAX! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" Kellie screamed. She tore herself out of Zuko's grasp, and tore after her cousin.
Zuko sighed sadly, he wanted to hold Kellie again.
"MAX!" Kellie screamed as she ran down the hall. Max was only a few feet in front of her, but Kellie was older, and faster, she was closing in very quickly…
They were in the den, and Kellie leaped at her cousin. She tackled him to the ground, and slapped a hand over his mouth before he could say anything.
Kellie looked up, and saw relatives looking at them.
"Oh, hi! I was just showing Max how to tackle! Right?" Max, who caught on, nodded. The relatives looked away, and looked at their football game.
Kellie got off the floor, and hauled Max up with her.
"What you just saw, never happened. Got it?" Max nodded, fearful.
Zuko looked through the darkness and Kellie's cousins, who were playing truth-or-dare.
"Ok, Zuko. You're the last one, then we go to bed. Truth or dare?"
"Dare." Erik grinned, he thought of a perfect dare.
"I dare you to, hold Kellie all night." Zuko nodded, and Erik grinned. Kellie, who had fallen asleep 45 minutes ago, didn't notice.
Zuko spooned up behind Kellie, and held her in his arms. He fell asleep very quickly.
Everyone else did, after seeing the sight of their cousin with a boy.
Everyone slept in that morning, and Max and Austin left while everyone else slept.
So they didn't hear Kellie's screams as she woke up to Zuko holding her. But Max had something better in store.
He couldn't keep the secret Zuko had told him any longer. He yelled it through the car.
"Kellie's dating Zuko!"
hehe. Like it? Here's a feeble attempt at behind the scenes.
Kellie: YOU MADE ME SLEEP WITH HIM! WHO PUT THAT THERE!
Jens slinks off. Kellie takes notice.
Kellie: JENS! YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!
Jens: Ok. I fixed the script. Where's my 100?
Zuko: here you go. –hands Jens a 1 hundred dollar bill. Kellie bursts through the door.-
Kellie: YOU PAID HIM! AGAIN! I QUIT!
Director: Someone, go get Kellie again. How many times is she going to need a pay raise to stay with us?
Haha.
LONG LIVE HIPPIES!
INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
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