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"Ha! That old hag isn't my grandmother. I want Kasey to be my grandmother. Kasey's beautiful, dresses nicely, and she's rich. This old woman won't even buy me snacks. She's so cheap!" Kasey then pulled out a dress. "Faith, dear. This is for you. It's a foreign designer brand." The entire table burst into laughter. Noah shot me a look. "Come on, Mom. The family is sharing a meal. Don't ruin the mood." I looked at the frayed edges of my sleeve, feeling as if someone had ripped my heart apart. "Family? Ruin the mood? We're no family." I looked up and flipped the table over. Plates went crashing, and shards flew everywhere. Kasey cried out in shock, and Connor instinctively shielded her.

before looking up at me with a mix of disappointment and exasperation… “It better be over, soon Brielle. Because your father and I have planned a family trip for Friday—a much-needed escape from this insanity that’s been plaguing our family for days now. We all need a break, and that includes you, and I’m not going to let some…some legal hiccup hold us back.” A trip, really? I wasn't expecting that. The last time we took a family vacation, I was thirteen and sporting a sleek black swimsuit, a neon swimming cap, and goggles that made me look like a miniature scuba diver. We spent a week at the beach house in Outer Banks, North Carolina, where I spent hours building sandcastles, collecting sea

Nick flatly refuses her only to earn a smack from her. "We have a better plan." I say out of the blue and the three pairs of eyes move on me. "What is it, dear?" Maa asks. "Why don't you both, Nicole and Breece will come to stay with us for the summers or we can plan a family trip to a colder or coastal place." I suggest. I always wanted to go on a vacation with my family where we could make some unforgettable memories but due to the strictly arranged marriage between my parents and my Dad being always busy in his work, we really never got a chance to be a real family ever.

After packing up, I took a quick shower and checked the apartment. “Mom, can we take Zane and Angel with us?” asked Zayden hopefully. “Not this time, Zay. We won’t make it tonight then. They’ll take ages to get ready.” The truth was, I didn’t want Knox’s lectures to spoil my mini vacation. I called the Wildlife Learning Center and booked a family room for us. “We’re ready, mom! Why are you still in shorts?” asked Adrian with a groan.

I said against his mouth. "Six weeks," he confirmed. "And Monaco straight after." "The boat is already booked." I pulled back far enough to look at him. "You actually booked the boat." "Two weeks. Harbour view. Deck space big enough for the twins, Lily, Ethan and Faith. They can come the second week." He was completely serious. "I booked it the night of the first facility breach. I needed something real to look forward to." "Show me," I said. He picked up his phone, opened a booking confirmation, and held it up. A boat. A harbour. Fourteen days starting the week after Barcelona.

“You two besties now?” “With all due respect, I like her. And she’s gorgeous. If I were you, I’d still be on my honeymoon… in Indonesia.” He laughed and downed his whiskey. “I booked a few days at the lake house. Taking her whole family.” “That includes… Ernest Abertton?” “Yup.” “What the hell’s your plan with this family reunion?”

“Well, me falling sick made me realize we haven’t spent a lot of time together and it made me sad. You know, we always think we have so much time on our hands when in reality, we don’t.” “So I wanted us to take a trip but we couldn’t get the vacation house booked in time so I thought it was over,” she continued. “Which was why I decided to opt for a family dinner.” “But guess what?” She was almost squealing. “We just got a call from the vacation house and they were to secure our bookings! For an entire week!” “What?” “We are going on a family vacation!” She finally squealed. “All of us. And we’re leaving tomorrow!”

The look on my father’s face told me it was pointless to argue. I am so not in the mood to play Happy Family charade. “Understood,” I said, trying my best not to roll my eyes or give a sigh. I think I partially lost in the end. “Don’t look like I’ve just killed your cat. This is a family vacation, and Mr. Knight and his wife have so graciously chosen to host us. I don’t want anyone backing out. We’ll enjoy it like a family,” he said, his rough voice sounding like he had something stuck in his throat.

I am the middle child, and then we have a younger brother named Marvin, who is 18. Anyway, we were taking a family vacation in June four years ago. We live in North Carolina where we have easy access to both the beach and the mountains. We live more so on the beachside, so to mix things up we decided to vacation in the mountains in Boone, North Carolina. We rented a cabin and spent a lot of time eating, playing card games, chilling in the hot tub, watching movies, and just spending quality time together as a family.

Something beautiful. Something ours. A family.