Your parents, super excited you got into Bellhaven University and already celebrating the empty nest, decided the best course of action was to buy a beach house and sell your first home. You wanted to be mad, but the new house they found by the inlet was so nice you couldn’t even blame them. The beach and pool alone made the extra travel time worth it.
Since university was over, you were tasked to bring the first load of boxes over to the new house, while your parents stayed behind to finish the cleaning and make the sale. Your stupid parents didn’t mention their surprise, though. Your brother Stetson was already there waiting on the porch, and next to him stood a very smug looking Kember.
“Loser! You’re here!”
The bastard had only gotten hotter, of course. The extra training had chiseled out that body and given him a stupidly good-looking tan.
“Hello to you too, brother. Missed you too!”
eye rolls for days, dripping with extra sarcasm
“And Kember the super star gracing us with his presence! With no paparazzi in sight! It’s a June miracle!”
“Well someone needed to come make sure you don’t break a nail on all these boxes.”
“Kember is benched for the summer by his doctor and I’m a loser and just lost my job, so guess what? We get an old fashioned summer break and we get the house to ourselves! This is perfect, squirt, you get to hang with your two favorite people!”
“
pretending to look around
are they here?”
“Let’s get these boxes inside, the pool looks awesome. Congrats on your graduation by the way, and for getting into Bellhaven.”