Chapter 15- Family Affairs
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"Will, come on. Let's go watch some Christmas movies," Mrs. Schuester called after her son. Will walked into the den and sat down on the sofa next to his older brother. The whole Schuester family had gathered at their parents' house for Christmas day. There was Will, his parents, his older brother; Zach, Zach's wife, and their two young kids.
"What are we watching?" Will asked, smiling.
"Elf with Will Ferrell," Zach replied, wrapping his arm around his wife. Will immediately thought of Emma, he missed her. They had texted each other a few times yesterday, but it felt wrong; like they were avoiding the big elephant in the room. He hadn't heard from her today yet, but knew that her whole family was going to Emma's condo for Christmas day as well. Their texts so far had been nice but it was like walking on egg shells, none of them brought up the incident once. Will's phone buzzed in the pocket of his khakis. Maybe it's Emma, he thought, hopefully. Will checked his phone, it read; 1 new text message from Emma. He opened the text as fast as the phone would allow him to.
How's your Christmas, so far? The day's almost over did you guys exchange presents yet? ;) Emma's text read. Will smiled and stared at the screen dopily. It's good but I kinda wish you were here. We did get our presents already. I got some CDs from my brother's family and a gray and blue striped tie from my parents. What about you? ;) Will typed back. He sent the message and waited for a reply. I wish you were here too! I got Purell from my brother and a new laptop from my parents. I have a present for you though. I can give it to you whenever you're comfortable hanging out with me again, Will read. Emma was being really nice to him ever since the whole thing happened and Will just wanted everything to go back to normal again. Will smiled and glanced at the TV screen, his whole family seemed to be clueless about the texts they were exchanging.
"Who are you texting, Will?" Zach asked, trying to peer at his phone.
"Just a friend," Will said, nervously. He didn't feel like putting up with his brother's teasing and nagging right now.
"What's her name?" Emily, Zach's wife questioned. Before Will could reply to her, Zach snatched the phone out of Will's hands. Zach began reading the texts out loud so that everyone could hear, even the little ones. Will buried his face in his hands and waited for it to be over.
"Ooh, Emma. Hmm, 'when you're comfortable hanging out with me again.' Sounds like she broke little Will's heart or something," Zach laughed.
"Be nice to him," Mrs. Schuester scolded. "What happened dear?" she asked Will.
Will shrugged, frustrated. "We had a little fight but it's good now," Will lied. Well, that's about half the truth, he thought.
"Looks like he's not going to give all the gory details, boring," Zach added, tossing the phone back to Will. After a few minutes, everyone turned back to the movie and Will was about to start texting Emma again. Taylor, Zach and Emily's four-year-old daughter crawled up on Will's lap. She rested her head on his chest. Will smiled; he knew that Taylor really liked him.
"Nope, Daddy you're wrong. His heart still works, I can hear it making sounds," Taylor declared. Will laughed along with the rest of the adults.
"That's right Taylor, I'm fine," Will said, smiling down at the little girl.
I have something for you too. I think I'm free on the 27th, can you hang out then? Emma read, happy that Will replied instead of shying away.
"So, who's the lucky guy?" Emma's brother, James asked. James grinned as he dried off his hands; they had just finished doing the dishes.
"What are you talking about?" Emma said, feeling her cheeks heating up already.
"Um, the guy you've been texting this whole night. I'm not stupid, Emma, nobody smiles like that for just a friend," James pressed, grinning.
"Well, actually we're not dating but he is my really good friend," Emma confessed, smiling just thinking about Will.
"Does this friend have a name?" James questioned.
"His name is Will. He has brown curly hair, amazing hazel eyes, and a nice smile," Emma gushed, not realizing how in love she sounded.
"Wow, you must really love him."
"No, I, uh, just friends," Emma stammered, nervously.
"For now," James laughed.
"It's complicated, you wouldn't understand," Emma replied, swatting him with the towel.
"That's right I wouldn't understand, even though I'm married," James said.
Mrs. Pillsbury entered the room, watching her two grown child bickering. "Will it ever end?" she laughed.
"So, did you hear about Emma's mystery guy?" James asked.
Emma's mom raised her eyebrow quizzically. "Mystery guy?"
"His name's Will," James said, while Emma rolled her eyes.
Mrs. Pillsbury smiled as she instantly recognized that this was Will, the glee coach. "Emma! You didn't tell me that you two had worked things out," she exclaimed, happily.
Emma's big, brown eyes darted over to James, picking up the hint James walked out of the room. "Sort of. I mean, we're not dating or anything but a few days ago we had a talk," Emma started.
"And?" her mom questioned.
"Well, we're friends again but just friends. We're taking everything really slowly including our friendship. I don't think he's looking to date me right away," Emma admitted.
"I'm proud of you, Emma. You did the right thing and I can't wait for you and Will to be together again," Mrs. Pillsbury said. Emma smiled and hugged her mom, despite her OCD issues. Emma whipped out her phone again. The 27th sounds great to me. ;) Emma wrote and sent it to Will.
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