Page 114 of Set the Moment
Jace
Thanksgivingwasmyfavoriteholiday until twelve hours ago. I can’t eventhinkof smelling food let alone being around it because I know that I’ll throw up.
I kicked Kacey out as soon as Sienna walked away from me, I don’t even know what possessed my mom to invite her, but I ended up telling her and everyone else in this family off as well.
Asa and Jackson could’ve told me, hell, they could’vewarnedme that my ex-girlfriend would be sitting at our fucking dinner table when I got home.
Instead, I walked in the house blind, thinking I would surprise my mom with Sienna and everything would be fucking dandy.
The thought of Sienna being alone on Thanksgiving has my chest hurting.
The look on her face, those diamond-like tears brimming in her eyes…They were enough to make a grown man cry, and I did. Vulnerability and showing emotions is masculine, and I did both last night when I cried in the shower, thinking of Sienna and her parents.
Knocks sound on my bedroom door and I groan for the fifth time as Asa and Jackson try to get into the room.
“No!”
They don’t care, instead they open the door and tumbling in like the large assholes they are.
“I don’t want to talk to you cunt pockets. Get out or I’m telling Mom.”
They have the nerve tolaughat me.
I squint my eyes, lifting my head from my pillow as Asa lays down next to me and Jackson pushes me over to be in the middle of them.
“Putting me in a brother-wich? What are y’all, five-years-old?”
They ignore me, instead making themselves comfortable before Jackson speaks.
“We’re sorry. Mom didn’t tell us her plan…She just said she had a surprise for you,” Jackson says, turning to face me, but my eyes are trained solely on the light-up stars on the ceiling of my childhood bedroom.
“I knew. Whenever Mom says she has a surprise, I just assume it’s a girl. Jacks is dumb,” Asa quips, shrugging carefully as Jackson sighs.
“You’re dumb,” he retorts with a pout.
Asa twists to his side, “In my defense, dickhead, I thought you liked Cleo…Whole time, her cousin looksexactlylike her. I mean Cleo’s cute and you were always going to her house in the summer—”
“Ew! I thought he liked Georgia…But then again all they do is argue and they’re both blondes…” Jacks adds.
Closing my eyes, I say, “Both you are fucking disgusting.”
“So you went to the Jones’ every day because of the cousin? I mean Sienna is gorgeous, had she been a little older I’d—”
I cut Asa a sharp look as he rolls his lips in.
“So, she’s the one.” He smiles as I huff, turning my head back to the ceiling.
“Get out of my room, I hate you both. Go play on the side of 210,” I tut as my brothers cackle at my expense.
“The highway?”
“Did that little asshole just tell us to play on the highway, Jackson?” Asa asks, humor riddling his tone as Jackson chuckles.
“He did…He’s whipped.” Jacks smirks, patting my head as Asa copies him.
“Whipped!”
Footsteps alert us of another person's presence, and soon enough my mom’s voice sounds throughout the room.
