A now fully clothed Jen, stormed into her brothers bedroom.
"You Made me the youngest!"
The sight that greeted her was a more muscular, shirtless and better looking version of Jen's former self holding Sarah in his arms, they clearly had been making out.
Sarah immediately yelled out "Tiff!!" annoyed at the breaking up of a passionate moment with her boy.
Mike was equally annoyed "Jen, what the hell! Get out of here!"
Jen was amazed at how much he looked like Jon, but also she clearly saw who it was behind those eyes...this was Mikey, formerly younger brother to Jon by almost a decade and now two years her senior. He stood about 6'3" and quite literally had a six pack and short cut sandy brown hair which was still wet from the shower he had just taken.
Tiffany came rushing behind Jen. "Sorry, she just stormed off."
Then her mother showed up. "What's going on here? Sarah, you know the rules about being in Mikes room!"
Mike glared at Jen, who was the cause of this disruption. There was something both intimating and awe inspiring about him to her, he was so big and powerful which she experienced in a way that she never had as a guy because Jon was never as small as Jen.
"She just burst in!" Mike tried retorting
"and ripped your shirt off?" their angry mother shot back "Girls, Living room, I'll talk to you in a minute"
The girls quickly shuffled out of the room and down the stairs to a large living room, while muffled arguing could be heard upstairs.
The living room had a large couch and three chairs, with a fireplace, bookshelves, and a 70 inch flat screen above it all, but none of that caught Jen's attention. It was the family picture of Jen, with braces probably about 13, her 15 year old brother in a football jersey, and then a studious but darkly dressed 17 year old Zoe along side clearly older looking parents. In the stairwell they had passed a senior picture of Zoe, smiling and looking less than angsty or Goth, but certainly more the bookish type than a jock or cheerleader. The stairwell also had a photo of Mike in football gear winning what she assumed was a championship. Then there were a few pictures of Jen, which revealed that she must only now be getting out of her awkward stage and hitting her swan stride, she was deeply embarrassed by all of them, even though she had only had her face for less than a day, she felt that feeling on a deep level.
They talked in whispers
"what the fuck Sarah! You made me the youngest!"
"What the fuck Jen! You got me in trouble with your mom for making out with my boyfriend! NOT COOL!"
"Whoa! What! Who said you could date my big brother!" The words came out more naturally than Jen expected.
"Both of you shut up. We are in enough trouble as it is!" Tiff interjected.
"You were supposed to watch her." Sarah turned her anger to Tiffany
"and you were supposed to ease into this whole new world, not dive tits first into your new boy toy" Tiffany retorted
"Don't call my brother that!" Jen shot back defensively.
"Oh, Now you're fine with him being your big brother." Tiff responded.
The Door opened. They all went silent.
There was a beat, and then, a collected Mrs. Madison came down the stairs.
Sarah tried to get ahead of it " I am so..."
"No..." Mrs. Madison took control of the conversation "No words from you please"
"It seems you girls need a reexplaining of the rules. No people of the opposite sex in anyone's bedrooms. Ever." she pointed this at Sarah.
"I realize you are going to be over a lot, and I like that, we are all excited for this coming school year and what it might bring. But you know what would ruin that school year? The Head Cheerleader getting knocked up by the Quarterback!" These words hit as hard as she meant them to.
"So you obey the house rules, or you lose the house privileges. Understood?"
"Yes" the girls said in unison, some out of fear and others out of respect.
"and Sarah, I think you and Mike need some cool off time so no seeing each other for a week, you've been over every day for the past three months and I think you two could use some time to yourselves. Hang out with Jen all you want, but give it a rest with my son."
Sarah was indignant "That's not fair! You can't just break us up!"
"I'm not breaking you up, I'm giving you a break. It'll be good for you, focus on your cheer leading, maybe." she looked at from Sarah to Jen as she said this in a code which seemed to say "get my daughter on the team and we'll talk"
Suddenly a light went off for Sarah. "yeah, ok...fine..it's just a week."
"Alright then." and with that the conversation was over.
They sat in awkward silence for a mintue before Tiffany broke it with "Lets get out of here, we were going to the Mall right?"
Sarah said " yeah...education day." She didn't seem as happy as she was when she came in.
Jen didn't seem that happy either, but they all got in the car anyway.
