Chapter 9 family ties
It was a week before the Cohen's were going to leave for Hawaii they had planed their family holiday around it they were to leave two weeks before the reunion and fly home the day after. They would spend two weeks making their way around the Hawaiian Islands then on there last day they would fly into Honolulu the girls would spend the day shopping…well Summer and Annie, whilst Seth the boys and Hannah would spend the day at the beach they would meet up again at the reunion.
Summer got up early that day she had to spend the day getting ready, Seth was going to be at the office this morning tying up loose ends before they left then he would be in charge in the after noon while Summer was finishing up at the office. This morning they would be packing what they wanted to take with them Summer had already packed for Hannah, Joel, Seth and herself, Harlin was half packed and Annie could pack her own bags.
"Mummy Annie says I can't take Mr. Piggy" said Hannah running out crying. Mr. Piggy was a three foot tall stuffed pig that sat in the corner of Hannah's room it was her favourite and biggest stuffed animal, her grand parents( Sandy and Kirsten) had sent it to her as a fourth birthday present. " Annie's right sweetie Mr. Piggy would not fit in your duffle bag, let alone any bag we are taking" said Summer " Mummy please" said Hannah with her best puppy dog eyes, this was were Summer was at her best although her daughter could make the heart melt of the meanest man Summer was able to look past that and see that Hannah was only trying to get her own way, with Seth he would have given in straight away. " Hannah no he's to stay here, that my final word." As Hannah went to sulk Harlin caught her " hey chicki why the long face?" he asked. Chicki was his pet name for her when ever she was sad, Harlin may have been older then Hannah by a few years but they were best of friends and when they wanted to be inseparable which was most of the time they would do every thing together, Harlin's friends did not mind cause they all got along with Hannah better then they did with their own little sisters, needless to say they were none of Hannah's friends. " I can't take Mr. Piggy" she cried
" well I can see were mum is coming from think about Hann if we were to take him how would he feel being stuck in the plane when we went from one island to the next and we are only going for two weeks, think about it no one would be here to keep the monsters from hiding under your bed waiting for you to return. Mr. Piggy has to stay here and keep the monsters way from your room he is the only thing at scares them why do you think he's so big? So he can scare those mean monsters away. How about you take KiKi she can go swimming with you that way and spend the night with you in bed." Said Harlin in a clam voice so as to get his point across to his sister " ok kool thanks harn beer" said Hannah laughing " hey" he replied.
Harlin walked from were he was talking to his sister out to the living room where his mum was " your problem with Hannah solved" he said walking over her looking over her shoulder " oh no, no thanks needed" he said sarcastically " oh well then I wont thank you" said Summer baiting her son " what….oh nice one mum…and yes I have finished packing I just came up to tell you.. not that you were going to ask" he said cheekily walking back to the stairs to his room. The Cohen house originally only had four bed rooms and the pool house when Harlin and Annie were younger and the twins were babies that was fine none of them minded but now that they were older they all wanted their own rooms, so in order to do this they need to either build up or on to and as they could do neither they decided to build two rooms under the house, Harlin's and Hannah's. He was glad of this cause if he were stuck with either of his other two sibling he would not handle it. He loved them both but he and Annie had not gotten along since she went to Harbour and Joel was a little to whiny for him Hannah was just right not to noisy and when she was it was because of him. He liked it this way it was his little haven, he was nothing like his mother and father, ok he looked like Seth and had Summer's eyes but that's as far as it went neither of his parents could tell who he was most like, although when Sandy had come to stay they were so alike and thought along the same lines it scared Seth so much he asked his father if he had a clone. Harlin knew he was most like his grand parents, he liked it that way although he could never figure out what he had in common with his grand mother and lets face it he and his other grand father his mothers dad were at two totally different ends of the personality scale.
Annie walked down the stairs to the living room " Mum do I really have to fit every thing into this small case its like so small" she complained Summer looked at her daughter who was standing next to a suit case half her size " Annie it's the biggest in the range and not to mention the biggest one we are taking any one would think you going to live there." Summer looked at her daughter and saw a bit of her self at fifteen in her but then again Annie had a lot more then she did when she was that age. For example a mother who cared for her all Summer had had was the Monster. " fine ok sure I'll fit a months worth of cloths in to a two week bag" said Annie turning around " Annie we're only going for two weeks" said Seth coming in and kissing Summer on the head " thank you for letting me know sooner dad" said Annie sarcastically " don't you take that tone with me" said Seth. " dad what would you know what growing up in Newport Beach is like didn't you grow up in some hippy shack?" she said looking at both her parents. What would they know they don't know what its like growing up here I hate it here always have but no they love it here she thought. "Annie Jane Cohen your father and I do know what it is like to grow up here as we both did grew up here. We even went to your high school believe it or not." Said Summer. Annie loved her parents, half the time she thought they spent too much time fussing over her younger siblings. She never got that much attention any more not that she minded but she would once in a while like to know her parents did know what she was going through. Annie had a lot going on, in her life at the moment and all she wanted was to be able to sit down with her mum and talk about it; but she did not know how to ask Summer, her mother always seemed so cool in high school from what her dad had told her. How am I going to talk to her if she was so cool she probably never liked the geek of the class well… all but dad but he's not really a geek she thought " ARR mum don't get out the horrid middle name who on earth thought of it Annie Jane yuck" she said cringing "you could have worse trust me" said Seth walking out of the room to see what his other children were doing.
Joel sat in his room looking around it had been his dad old room so it was still painted blue, he liked it that colour it reminded him of the beach. Although he did not have to look far it was only a walk away. He could hear Hannah laughing down in her and Harlin's room, I wish I had some one like that, I really do why can't I hang out with them. He thought " hey buddy " came Seth from the door " hi daddy" " so why aren't you with Hannah and Harlin down stairs?" Seth asked. " because they hate me" said Joel in a monotone " They don't hate you, I'm sure if you asked if you could join in they would let you" said Seth pulling his son on his lap and hugging him. It was not that his brother and sister hated him he knew they didn't but they were always having so much fun and Hannah was always making him laugh, Joel did not want to have to live up to the same thing cause he was just not that type of person. " ok so what have you got in this bag" asked Seth ending the silence between them. " just some lollies and Ryan my bear and a spider man comic" answered " one comic you only have one comic have I not taught you anything if your going to take a comic take one of the classics my dear boy" said Seth, shacking his head " daddy you wont let me take one of the classics though not to Hawaii" said Joel " that's true why don't you take another spider man one and I'll see if I can get a copy of one of the classics so you can take it." Seth smiled at his son and lifting him off of him.