Having succeeded in a side-along aparition with her son and two nephews down the street from the the Molina residence, Catalina Phoenix walked swiftly down the street. "C'mon boys. The sooner we get there the sooner you can have fun!" the woman said excitedly. She smiled at them as her son, Axel, walked next to her and placed an arm around her, giving her a kiss on the cheek. He had passed her up when he was about eleven and she had stayed five feet tall since she could remember.
"No worries mum. It's always nice to be fashionably late," Axel joked, squeezing his mother's shoulders. He was extremely excited to be going to the Molina's for the duration of summer. Probably what he was most excited for was the fact that he was going to spend with entire summer with his best friends, especially Emmy, but that was kept under wraps. As his thoughts were spinning through his mind he was suddenly hit in the back with a soccer ball. Excuse me, Gaelic Football. "Oi!" Axel shouted, laughing and looking behind him.
Finnegan chuckled and shrugged, acting as if he had no idea who had done such a thing. "Sorry mate. Seamus made me." Naturally, the boys always blamed stuff on each other. In this case, it was Finn's younger brother by one year. While Axel was busy thinking about Emmy, which he knew all too well, Finn was thinking about Elissa. True, sometimes he thought she absolutely hated him, but he was determined to make her fall in love with him. And good luck Finn. She was an absolute spitfire, but that's why he loved her: she dared to be different.
Seamus scowled at his brother, but returned the laugh all the same. "You're goin' down Finn," he muttered. He and Finn had been kicking the ball down the street as they rounded the corner to their destination. The younger blond boy picked up the ball after it bounced off his cousin's back and placed it under his arm while his brother threw an arm around his shoulders. He was actually quite excited about spending some time with his brother's friends, seeing as he would think he was cool if he got to hang out with the older kids. Who wouldn't think that?
Rounding the corner once the house was in view, Cat picked up the pace slightly as she moved up the driveway. The boys went running up to the door and she couldn't help but chuckle. Once she made it to the door, she ruffled each of their hair then rang the doorbell. "Don't annoy the girls too much," she warned jokingly. She received small chuckles from each of them. "I'm just gonna come in for a moment. I'd like to say hello to Marianela and Mitch." |