NFH
Thanksgiving Negotiations
The Plan: Part II
“What is wrong with you people?” Trevor heard his wife demand when he reached their closed bedroom door.
“Many things,” Eric said from the other side of the door with a sigh that matched his as Trevor rubbed his hands roughly down his face, not sure that he wanted to know what was going on in there.
Not after the last time.
“No, please, I don’t want to do this!”
“Stop wiggling!”
“I would if you’d stop touching my… Read More
Tournament: January Chronicle
“Please tell me that you’re kidding.”
“I’m really not,” Jason said, folding his arms over his chest as he glared down at the small woman that better not try to leave that bed again.
“But I have to-”
“No.”
“But-”
“No.”
“If you’d just let me explain,… Read More
Christmas Shopping
“Get in the truck,” came the demand that would have normally had her running the other way and yelling for her Dad, but since she had a math test waiting for her at school today …
Mikey turned around and climbed into the black pick-up truck, shoving her best friend out of the way in the process and once he accepted the fact that she was sitting next to the door, she shoved her backpack onto his lap, adjusted her baseball cap, put her seatbelt on, grabbed her baseball out of her bag, and sat back with a… Read More
Date Night II
“What the hell is she doing?” Kasey asked Sara as the two of them stood there, shaking their heads in disgust while Zoe did her best to ignore them.
“Trying to piss us off,” Eric mumbled absently around a handful of popcorn as he shifted to get more comfortable on the bed next to her as she lay there trying to figure out why this movie looked so familiar.
“Am I allowed to watch this?” Jonathan asked from her other side.
“Probably not,” Eric said with a shrug while she watched as the creepy looking doll suddenly sat up, grabbed a knife,… Read More
Date Night: Part I
“What if she says no?”
“Why would she say no?” Trevor asked his son as he stood in front of the closet door mirror, trying to get his tie right.
“That’s what I was wondering,” his son’s partner-in-crime asked from where she laid on her bed, rolling a baseball between her hands.
“Because she loves me,” he said with a sigh when he was forced to pull his tie free and try again.
“I thought she lost a bet?” Mikey asked, sending Sebastian a questioning… Read More
Passing Time: Part I
“I don’t wanna go,” Zoe mumbled into the couch cushion with a forlorn sigh that she felt didn’t convey just how much she didn’t want to go so she followed it up with a louder, longer drawn out sigh.
“What time are you supposed to be there?” Haley asked from the comfortable leather chair where she was devouring another bowl of brownie batter.
“Now,” she said with a pathetic whimper as she laid, trying to find the motivation to go only to decide that nothing was going to get her off that couch.
Absolutely… Read More
Playing Favorites: Part II
“I don’t know what happened,” Reese said with a helpless shrug that had his beautiful wife reaching over and absently patting him on the head.
“And you never will,” the woman that had somehow managed to get Mikey to come out of the pantry said with a pitying sigh as he sat there trying to figure out what happened.
One minute, he’d been working and the next…
Everything had gone to hell.
“Sebastian’s grounded,” Kasey said absently as she continued reading her emails, trying to figure out what baking challenge she was going to accept next.
“Which means he should be crawling through our… Read More
Playing Favorites: Part I
“We talked about this!” Reese heard Sara snap, which normally wouldn’t have fazed him and if hadn’t been for the, “I’ve got this!” that followed, he would have continued sitting there, staring at the pictures that Uncle Jared sent over this morning.
Rubbing his hands roughly down his face, he pushed his office chair back and went to find out what nightmare his unwanted roommates were getting into now. As he headed down the back hallway towards the kitchen, he considered sending them Trevor’s way and leaving his cousin to deal with them only he couldn’t do it. Well, he… Read More