MICHELLE

"MICKEY! DID YOU EAT ALL THE COOKIES AGAIN!" Maeve stormed into my room, completely unannounced, no knocking beforehand.

"Jesus." The box in my hands fell to the floor, landing right on my big toe. "What the hell Maeve! Ever heard of knocking?"

"Ever heard of sharing? You ate all the cookies, didn't you, fat ass?" She was swinging around an empty box of cookies as she yelled at me.

Ignoring the pain in my toe I walked towards the girl and began to push her out of my room "no, I already told you I don't like those kind of cookies! They taste like ass!" Once she was through the doorframe I stopped pushing her and grabbed onto my doorframe "maybe ask your stupid brother, he's the one that always eats all the food."

Maeve, rocking the thirteen year old attitude, rolled her eyes and stomped back down the hallway and towards the stairs.

"And if you call me a fat ass again, I'll beat the shit out of you!" I called after her before slamming my door and going back to setting up my room.

My room was practically completely finished. I had repainted the room a very light shade of green (my favorite color), my bed had been put together (thanks to my Step-father Declan), all my bookcases were set up (once again, thank you Declan), my clothes were all hung up in the closet, and my shelves were screwed into the wall (again, thanks to Declan). The only thing I had left was to put away all my books, the only problem with that was that my dad was still mailing most of them. Right now I only had the five books I had managed to shove in my suitcase.

"Hey sweetie." My mom swung open the door, once again, there was no knocking. "Declan and I are running to the store, you want anything?"

Now that the door was open I could hear Maeve and her twin, Finn, down the hall arguing over the empty box of cookies.

Ignoring the two, I shrugged "not really."

My mother began to leave the room but paused "hunny." She looked back at me, her eyes sad.

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry about your siblings. They are always yelling at each other and—"

I cut her off before she could continue "it's fine, mom. I actually like arguing with Maeve, helps me with my anger."

My mother looked down, hiding her smile "well, if you ever get sick of it, just let me know. Got it?" I nodded "and if you're worried about your first day of school, don't be. The lads there are pretty 'keep-to-themselves' kind of people."

"I'm not worried." I was freaking out. "But thanks."

"Okay." She hummed, clearly not believing me. "Well, we'll be back, don't burn down the house."

"Ha ha." I sarcastically laughed "that was one time and I was ten."

My mom chuckled, before closing the door mumbling an "I love you."

"Love you too."

AUTHOR TALKS!!
Just a small glimpse into Michelle's home life. Maeve (half-sister) is the classic younger sister, Quinn (Michelle's mom) is very sweet lady. The two boys that you haven't met yet (Declan (step-dad) and Finn (half-brother) are both nice people and I can't wait to actually introduce them.