Living With Half Brothers

Chapter 8

Alexander's POV:

Mike opened the trunk of his car for us to retrieve our bags.

"You should've taken them out after you got out of the car." He said as he opened it.

"We walked forward not backwards." Lexi said back.

"Hey, do you guys need help with that?" Felix said as came beside us.

"No thanks. We got it." I said as I pulled out my pack.

Lexi got her bag as well, which was quite smaller than mine.

"Why is your pack smaller than mine?" I asked her.

"Because unlike you, I didn't have any video games to pack." She said as she put her bag around her shoulders.

"I didn't pack any video games." I said.

"Then how do you explain the Xbox console that is peeking out of your pack?" She nodded her head towards my pack.

"It's not an Xbox console!" I defended. Although it was. "What about your books?" I asked her.

"I burned them."

"Really?" I asked with wide eyes.

"No you idiot. They will be arriving with Mike tomorrow. Right Mike?" She asked as she turned to look at him.

Mike shrugged. "Sure." He said before mumbling, "It's not like I have a choice."

What he means is, Lexi will keep asking him every minute - literally - to go and get her books from the apartment.

"I heard that!" Lexi called out.

"You were supposed to." He said back.

"Anyways, see you tomorrow Mike." I said as I gave him a hug.

He hugged me back. Then Lexi hugged him and he sat in his car and drove off. We looked back at the Jones family who was standing there with their signature smiles.

"Well? Are you both going to come in?" Sophie asked as she motioned to the front door.

"Sure." I said. We followed them in the house.

The camera guy, Sam, was behind all of us recording everything.

We walked up the front steps towards the door. Philip opened the door and we all filed inside.

Sophie and Lindsey took us to the kitchen saying that they would prepare a meal for us.

"Thank you Mrs. Jones. But we are not hungry." I said to her in the kindest voice I could muster.

"Nonsense! You both are eating some food right now." She demanded. "And please call me Sophie." She added.

Luke chuckled. "Just do as she says. She doesn't takes no for an answer." He said.

"You can give your bags to us. We can put them in your room." Harris said as he held his arms out to take the bags.

Left with no choice, we gave our bags to him and sat down at the dining table. The others sat down as well but Sophie and Lindsey went get the food.

"Our mom is the best cook. Anything she makes, it puts the restaurant food to shame." Felix informed us with a smile on his face.

"That's nice to hear. You guys are lucky to have a mom like yours." I said.

But nothing beats our mom because she had been a fighter her whole life. Even before she had us. But after she did, she kind of gave up.

"We heard some things about your mom too from our father. She sounds like an amazing woman." Luke said.