Misunderstood (A Neighbor from Hell YA #1) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,65
familiar looking girl standing off to the side with a little girl doing her best to drag her toward the arcade games.
“Isn’t that their neighbor?” Mikey managed to get out just as the little girl that really seemed to have it out for Cole, suddenly turned around and–
Yeah, that was definitely their neighbor, Mikey thought, biting back a wince that Cole probably wouldn’t appreciate at the moment. At least, she didn’t think he would, but since he was currently trying to crawl away from the little girl hellbent on beating him with a cutout of Tom Cruise, she decided just to go for it only to cringe in sympathy when the little girl somehow managed to get her hands on a wet floor sign.
Chapter 27
“Please don’t make me hurt you,” Mikey said when Jonathan tried to move his sleeping bag closer to her.
“Why are you fighting our love?” Jonathan asked only to grunt in pain when Sebastian shoved him aside so that he could place the sleeping bag that he’d borrowed from Uncle Jason on the floor next to her.
Once he was settled, Sebastian reached over and helped himself to the pillow that he saw Aunt Haley give her earlier and settled back with a satisfied sigh. That was followed by a pained grunt of his own when the vicious little pain in the ass reached over and snatched it back, causing him to hit his head against the couch.
He considered stealing it back but decided that he’d wait until she was asleep. Wondering how he’d let her talk him into this, Sebastian pulled his iPad out of his sweatshirt pocket as he took in the rest of the living room, absently noting that everyone else had moved their sleeping bags closer to the television. Well, except for Braxton and Cole. Braxton had been given the other couch to sleep on since he was considered a guest and wasn’t used to them yet. And Cole…
Was standing by the large bay window with an icepack pressed against his head, glaring at his neighbor’s house. That probably wasn’t going to end well, Sebastian thought as he reached for his Coke only to end up sighing and plucking it out of Mrs. Blaine’s hands.
With a glare, Sebastian finished off half his Coke and placed it back on the end table with a look of warning that he knew the older woman was going to ignore. When she’d decided to join them for a movie, he had a feeling that it was just an excuse to get her sugar fix. Judging by the way that her eyes narrowed dangerously on him, he knew that he was right.
“Don’t make me tell Aunt Haley, Grandma,” Sebastian said with a look that told her that he would happily tattle his ass off if she pushed him.
With a huff, Mrs. Blaine focused her attention back on the movie. A few minutes later, movement out of the corner of his eye had him sighing and reaching back to steal his Coke away from her. This went on for several minutes until Mikey got up with a sigh and disappeared into the kitchen only to come back a few minutes later with a bottle of water.
Mikey managed to steal his Coke back when the feisty woman grabbed it and handed her the bottle of water. “Here you go, Grandma.”
At Sebastian’s stunned look, Mikey shrugged it off as she said, “I don’t like to be left out,” making Mrs. Blaine’s lips twitch. Sebastian held his hand out for his Coke, but Mikey simply ignored him and took a sip as she stepped over him and settled in comfortably on her sleeping bag. He turned his head to glare at her when he caught the murderous glare Braxton was sending their way.
Biting back a sigh, Sebastian reached over and stole his Coke back and finished it off before shifting his attention back to his iPad. Sometime later, he felt Mikey curl up against him. He swiped to the next page only to end up rolling his eyes when she grumbled in her sleep and snuggled closer. God, she really was a demanding little thing, Sebastian thought as he turned off his iPad and laid down next to her only to sit back up, reach over and swipe her pillow before laying back down and–
Glaring when she stole it back.
“You really are a brat,” Sebastian mumbled as he curled up on his side so that he could wrap his arm around her.