When walking into the house my mom welcomes us with big hugs and bright smiles. There is nothing like her hugs. She also smells like pumpkin pie spices so this excites me. She takes us outside to show us a pumpkin that is still not rotten because they never carved it.
"Oh, mom thanks for telling me both you and dad were Alpha blood." Her smile turns into a frown as I announce it to her. She quickly changes her expression and says
"It's okay mom we can discuss it later after the holidays." Her smile comes back again as I say this.
"Of course we can sweetie." She smiles at me and then she grabs my hands and holds them.
"Oh honey you are glowing, you two go together like peaches and cream." That causes both of us to blush and his grip on me to tighten.
My mom lets us back into the house. I can smell all the wonderful scents that make me want to jump for joy. The mix of vanilla and pumpkin swirls through the air and right to my nose.
I walk into the kitchen to see my brothers Max and Miguel sneaking some cookies. They notice me and drop the cookies and then come running toward me. Miguel has tears running down his angelic face.
"You come back fo me." Max just hugs me tightly. He is terrible at pronouncing words correctly and before I left, he started going to speech therapy.
"I will always come back to you. After all, you are my brothers." They both smile up at me and run back to the tray of cookies. I am glad the cookies have become more important than me now. I can't stand the sight of them crying.
I look around to see none of the baking has been started. My mom always saves it for me, which I honestly don't mind.
"I need helpers, would you two like to help?" They both run up to me jumping up and down yelling.
"Pick me! Pick me!" They both shout jumping up and down excitedly.
"You two can both be my helpers." I hear Milo clear his throat.
"What can I do to help?" He asks and I run to give him a huge hug.
He gives me a gentle squeeze before asking me a ton of questions.
"How is college? Are you okay?" He pulls me closer to him as he rapidly asks me questions.
"College is good, and yes I am more than okay," I say pushing him away a bit.
"That is thanks to me," Anthony chimed in.
"Bro, how the hell have you been?" Anthony asks pulling my big brother into a man hug.
"Stressing over everything lately." I just remembered about the stuff that is in the car for them.
"Babe, can you go get the stuff from the car?" He looks at me for a second and then says, "sure."
My brother mouths me 'when did he become your bitch?' I laugh a little at that. I shrug it off. Not thinking of Anthony as being my bitch.
"Get out of the kitchen unless you are helping." He sticks his hands up in defeat.
"Okay, okay I am leaving, as long as you promise to not get all hands-on with my best friend." I smile at that comment and start washing some dishes out of habit.
"Sorry I can't make any promises." I wink at him and he walks out pretending to gag.
Oh, how I have missed this.
I prepare the Apple pies and begin to make the pumpkin pie.
The boys help me out a lot with rolling out the dough to putting them into the oven.
My mom comes into the kitchen a few times to baste the turkey.
All the smells mix into one amazing aroma. I take the pies out to refrigerate after they sit for fifteen minutes.
Then walking out of the kitchen to find my brother now being Sofia's bitch. His words, not mine.
Sofia sees me and smiles. I walk over to her so she doesn't have to waddle over to me. She is a brown-eyed girl with blonde curly hair.
"How is everything?" She smiles putting her hand on her large bump.
"He's a kicker. I can't wait to see him" She beams. My mother is now in the kitchen getting egg nog.
"Do you have any names picked out?" I ask curiously.
"Jason, Brendan, Ryder." She states proud of those.
"I like the name Ryder," I say pressing my palm to her bump. He kicks in response and I jump back at the feeling.
"See, honey I told you-you picked out a good name." Then I notice the ring.
"You are engaged?" Wait, when did this happen? I wonder to myself.
"Yeah, this sorta happened last week. We want to get married after we have little Ryder." I slowly begin to process this.
"Oh my gosh, I will take you to dress shopping!" My mom says, walking out smiling.
"Yeah, Dianna maybe we can find something for you as well." I begin to slowly question her comment. Why would I need a wedding dress, Anthony and I are not getting married.
"Yeah, I would love for you to be my maid of honor." I get up from my seat to hug her.
"And Anthony will you be my best man?" My brother asks my mate which also happens to be one of his oldest friends.
"Of course." He says pulling him into another man's hug. The happiness in the room has reached its limits as soon as Mr. Hudson walks into the room. Anthony's father, of course, has to ruin a good moment.
I clutch my fists, as I walk over to wide-eyed Anthony.
I wrap my arms around his waist hoping his touch will calm me. Thankfully it does while I put on a fake smile.
"Yay the Hudson bunch is here, just in time to eat." Mr. Hudson and his wife come over to greet us first.
"How is the glowing couple?" He asks referring to us in his monotone-like voice.
"Dad we are fine, let's go enjoy some dinner." My mother walks out with a large turkey pan, and Anthony runs to help mom carry it. Milo helps his wife get up from the chair. While Mark calls the boys in from their football game that they started playing in the yard.
The dinner is nice, the food is amazing. Anthony and I choose to skip dessert and go to bed. The trip was too long, the dinner was very weird between the families. Even Sofia's family left early. The dinner was spent talking about things we are grateful for and then marriage. Which was not a topic I like to get into.
I hated how Mr. Hudson complained about everything. "The turkey was too dry, the casserole didn't have enough green beans." It all made my blood boil. I know I am overreacting, but he was a total ass to my mom and her cooking and that is something you never do. You never insult my mom, or my family's anything, especially in my own home.
I can't even with his crap-
Authors note Happy Monday!!! How are you? What are your plans? How are work and school?