Cousins… or Not?

Hey, I know that it has been a long time, but I have been busy with sports and school so give me a break, anyway, I hope that you like Chapter three!

"Hey dude's what's happening!" Jude said casually as he walked up to the lemon with his board under is arm, smiling at all the others around the table. They were all there. "One Lemon Smoothie if you please Caitlin."

"Hi Jude, you are in a good mood." Caitlin said handing him the smoothie.

"Yup, I got my board waxed and Jonesy's cousin is coming to town!" Jude said happily, he was still on the rebound from when Star dumped him and went gothic.

"Jude, you weren't supposed to tell anyone!" Jonesy said jumping up and putting his hand over Jude's mouth.

"Whoa, cousin, Jonesy, since I am your stepsister, um… why didn't you tell me!" Jen demanded standing up.

"Hehehe, well for one, the reason is, is that she is coming today, and that she is staying in your room with you, since Courtney is away for the rest of the month." Jonesy said now hiding behind Jude.

"Jonesy!" Jen yelled, "Why wasn't I told about this!"

"Some one was supposed to tell you… I think it was your mom!" Jonesy said hunkering down even farther behind Jude.

"What she would have told me!" Jen yelled hitting him on the head with her drink.

"Oh… uh… no… it was uh…me." Jonesy said standing up and running away.

"Jonesy!" Jen yelled.

"Sit down Jen, you can get him later for it and I will help you." Nikki said to Jen.

"Sorry, but I go to go to work!" Jen yelled at them walking away. "Grr…"

"Yeah, same here." Wyatt said standing up and leaving, "I will try to talk to him."

"Okay, I will try to talk to her." Nikki said. "Later."

"So…" Jude said.

"Yeah…" Caitlin said.

"Want to go out Friday?" Jude asked it just slipped out he looked at her.

"Um, sure." Caitlin said blushing.

"Ok, see you later." Jude said getting up and leaving.

"Later."

Jonesy's Side

"Are you normally a happy person?"

"Yes."

"Are you good with kids?"

"Yes."

"Congratulations Mr. Garcia. You are now Mr. Happy burger."

"Yes, thank you, I won't let you down!" Jonesy said shaking the interviewers hand. The interviewer was very monotone, and Jonesy lied his way through the interview. He quickly grabbed the suit and put it on. It smelled horrible, like rotten cheese. "Oh please, let there not be cheese in here. Ew…"

The day for Jonesy went by slowly, the suit was bad, more than one kid tried and succeeded to bite him. When his shift and day was over he left Happy Burger and headed towards the Lemon.

"Hey Jonesy." A female voice behind him said, he turned and looked. She was hot! No, only Nikki…

"Hi," Jonesy said checking her out from head to toe. She was very hot. Had short cut brown hair, light tanned skin, body hugging jeans, yellow high shoes, and a low cut belly shirt. Jonesy quickly fixed his hair, "Hi."

"Jonesy, you smell like rotten cheese." The girl said grabbing his arm, "Show me the mall, where you like to hang out and stuff."

"Ok…" Jonesy said. "Who are you again?"

"Hahaha, Jonesy it's me your cousin Tara."

"Tara! Your early!" Jonesy said looking at her, "Holy crap, you changed!"

"I know." Tara said laughing, "I got contacts and put away my glasses, I cut my hair, lost some weight, and got new clothes!" She said stepping away from him and spinning around.

"You look great!" Jonesy said smiling at her.

"Thanks, so were are we headed to?" Tara asked.

"The place that serves the best drinks, the Lemon." Jonesy said smiling.

"The Lemon?" Tara said crinkling up her nose. "That is a drink place?"

"Yeah." Said Jonesy not looking at her, "Here we are. Caitlin, two smoothies please."

"Hi Jonesy." Caitlin said handing him the drinks.

"This is my cousin Tara." Jonesy said offering Tara a drink.

"Nice to meet you." Caitlin said.

"Hmm," Tara said sipping the drink lightly and screwing up her face then setting down her drink. "Likewise, I'm sure."

"Okay…" Caitlin said heading back behind the counter and looking down.

"Now, where else do you go?"

Nikki's side

"Jen, listen to me. You can get him when you get home and as for his cousin, just deal with it, it will be over soon." Nikki said to Jen.

"This time he has gone to far!" Jen said, "When he gets home, I will… I will… I don't know yet but it will be sincerely painful."

"Jen…"

"Masterson! This is work time not chat time." Coach Halder said.

"Yes Coach." Jen and Nikki said together.

"I will see you later Jen." Nikki said leaving.

"Okay Nikki." Jen said as she helped a guy with find a baseball glove.

Nikki walked to the Khaki barn and sat down behind the counter and opened up a magazine. She helped the people who came to the till and other than that she sat and read her magazine. After a while her day was over. She stood up and left ignoring the clones and their staring. When she got out she went to the lemon, just in time to see Jonesy with a girl on his arm. Nikki walked over to them.

"Hey Jonesy, who's this." Nikki asked crossing her arms.

"This is—" Jonesy started as he was cut off in mid sentence.

"I am his cousin Tara, and you are?"

"His girlfriend Nikki."

"Hmm, and that makes you?" Tara asked snottily grabbing on to Jonesy's arm again.

"Making him highly unavailable, and me his girlfriend!" Nikki said grabbing onto his other arm, she would never have done this before, but she was not going to lose him, not to her! "Jonesy, don't forget that we have a date and that we are going to the movies."

"Uh, yeah." Jonesy said looking at Nikki.

"But Jonesy your dad said that you would show me around. And that you would take me with you were ever you go, and might I remind you that when we talked on the phone you said that our would take me with you, where ever you went so that I would not have to be alone with your stepsisters and your brothers."

"Yes…" Jonesy said now looking at Tara.

"Jonesy, our date is to start right now." Nikki said pulling on his arm.

"Okay, lets go then." Tara said smiling at Nikki.

"Oh boy," Jonesy sighed.

When they got to the movies Jonesy sat in the middle while Nikki sat on his right and Tara on his left. He put his arm around Nikki's shoulders then he feeling Tara snuggle up to him he put his other arm around her shoulders. When the movie was over Nikki just stood up and left without a word. So Jonesy took Tara home.

Jonesy's Side

When Jonesy got Tara home, Jen looked at her in surprise.

"You are Jonesy's cousin?" Jen asked.

"Yup I am, and you are… Jen, the youngest step sister." Tara asked looking at her.

"Yes." Jen stated.

"Okay, then take me to my room." Tara said.

"Ok," Jen said leading her up the stairs. "Did Jonesy tell you that we would be sharing a room?"

"No," Tara said stopping in her tracks.

"Well we are so come with me." Jen said grabbing her arm and leading her to the room. "That is your bed. Goodnight." Jen pulled the curtain around her bed shut. Then opening it again she said, "And stay away from Jonesy, you are just going to get yourself in big trouble."

"Ok," Tara answered, "But I plan to get him.

The Next Day

"Okay Jonesy, this is not a bad restaurant." Tara said smiling at him. It was just them at a restaurant since Nikki was a work. Tara snuggled up to Jonesy.

"Thanks," Jonesy said moving over in his seat. They were having dinner when she said it.

"You are Very, attractive Jonesy." Tara said.

"Thank you." Jonesy answered smiling his sexiest smile.

"Go out with me." Jonesy almost feel off the bench.

"What?"

"You heard me, dump that Nikki girl and go out with me." Tara smiled moving closer to him.

"NO!" Jonesy said.

"What does she have that I don't?" Tara pouted.

"Well for one thing she is not my cousin!"

"Technically I am not your cousin." Tara said pointedly.

"What are you talking about!" Jonesy asked.

"I am adopted. Duh, jeez, I was adopted when you where 3!" Tara said crossing her arms.

"What!" Jonesy yelled drawing them attention. "Wait your adopted?"

"That is what I just said."

"No, this is some sick joke to test me. You are not really adopted."

"You are… wrong. This is not a sick joke and I really am adopted, ask your parents. Ask Jen."

"How would Jen know?" Jonesy asked looking at her.

"Your sister has guts, she talked to your parents about me, to do a history check or something. And she found out that I was adopted, and then she talked to me about it."

"How did I not find out about this?"

"Easy, you did not pay attention." Tara answered, "Like, if you looked closely, your eyes are all brown, while mine are gray. And I am shorter then the rest of the girls in our family. And this is not a tan, this is my real skin."

"What, but I thought you always tanned."

"That's because you only saw me in the summer."

"Oh, well, I am going to leave now." Jonesy said getting up to leave.

" Wait Jonesy!" Tara yelled then seeing Nikki walking towards them, she quickly caught up to Jonesy, whirled him around and kissed him. Then when Nikki was close enough Tara stepped back and slapped Jonesy right across the face. "How dare you kiss me, I am your cousin."

"Can it slut, I saw you kiss him." Nikki said to Tara, "Hey Jonesy, look over there." Then when Jonesy looked Nikki punched Tara squarely in the face. Jonesy turned looked at Nikki, then looked at Tara.

"I swear, I did not kiss her on purpose, I swear that I did not entice this." Jonesy said.

"Okay, so just come on, lets go." Then Nikki taking one last glance at Tara, "Stay away from my guy you slutty bitch unless you want your eyes to match."

Then walking away Nikki smiled to herself, Tara wouldn't be around for much longer. Nikki and Jonesy walked away. Tara slowly stood up, and then waling home she told her Uncle and Auntie what happened.

Later that day

Ring, ring. "Hey Jonesy, your phone is ringing." Nikki said poking him in the side as they sat at the Lemon. It was Friday night and Caitlin and Jude where missing from their group.

"Hello… hey dad… no… what… well for good reasons… yes it was… well talk to her… I bet you that she is lying… a black eye to prove it… No!" Jonesy then hung up his phone.

"What was that about?" Wyatt asked looking at him.

"Tara is whining and bitching about her eye." Jonesy said.

"Well what is wrong with her eye?" Wyatt asked.

"I will tell you, I saw that little slut and Jonesy out having lunch so I took a day from work and followed them and listened to them and found out that she is not really his cousin, and then she made a move on Jonesy so I had to take action. I saw her kiss him then slap him, so I did the most rational thing. I punched her so hard that it knocked her flat on the ground. She now is the owner of one shinning black eye." Nikki said smiling the whole time.

"And now she talked to my parents and they want me to break up with Nikki." Jonesy said to her.

"What, that little skank." Nikki said angrily.

"Oh, don't worry about her, she will be out of the house quicker then ever when I get home." Jen said smiling.

"Why?" Nikki asked looking at Jen, she had a weird look in her eye.

"Well for one, she left the cap off the toothpaste last night, two, she conveniently forgot the half hour rule and spent two hours in the bathroom so that I was late for work. Then to top it off, she ate the rest of my cereal, left out the milk and her dishes, and wore my favorite shoes without permission. I am going to make her time here hell." Jen said smiling wickedly.

"Good, she deserves it." Nikki smiled back, "Where are Caitlin and Jude, shouldn't they be here by now?"

"Yeah, they would be, except that they are on a date." Jen said smiling.

"No way!"

"Yeah way, me and Wyatt saw them go into the movies together, alone, just them." Jen said.

"Really?" Nikki was looking for them.

"Yeah, they are so cute together." Wyatt smiled.

"Hmm, well, I am going to head home later." Wyatt said leaving.

"Ditto, catch you guys later?" Nikki asked.

"Tomorrow." Then they all left.

Jonesy's House

"Welcome to my room!" Jen smiled evilly picking out Tara's favorite shirt and accidentally cutting it up then throwing it outside on the lawn, some in the tree, and some on the power line. "Hehehe, stay away from Jonesy."

Saturday

"Kids, I am sorry to say that your cousin is leaving." Mr. Garcia said to them, looking at Jen. "After talking with the restaurant owner, and with Jen and Jonesy I find that it is for the best."

"So the creepy girl is leaving?" Asked Jonesy's youngest brother.

"Yes, Tara is leaving," They heard honking outside, "That would be her cab. You all have to say good bye to her, but you don't have to touch her." Mr. Garcia said looking at them.

"Bye Tara!" All the kids said from the door.

"Bye, Jonesy, Jen, I will be back, see ya later." With that, Tara was out of their lives for the time being.

At the Mall

"So, how was your date last night?" Jen asked Caitlin and Jude, Wyatt and Jonesy leaning closer to listen.

"It was good, we have made a decision though," Caitlin started to say, "We think that we will go our again. And stay single until then."

"Oh, Caitlin and Jude, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…" Nikki sang.

"Hey!"

How was that, I know, shorter than the last two, but oh well, it is 12:22 am and I am tired. Have fun reading and peace out!

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