Chapter 14

                                    

                                          
Patrick's POV
                          
I woke up to a soft knock on my door.
                          
"Patrick?" Jacqueline whispers through the cracked door.
                          
"What's up Jack?" I whisper back being mindful of Rian, who was starting to stir in my arms.
                          
"Can I come in?" She starts to open the door wider.
                          
"Yeah kiddo, come on in. Rian's still asleep though just heads up." I remind her.
                          
She comes in and sits at the foot of my bed, looking at a still sleeping Rian. "We all like her you know. Well we don't know about Jessica but the rest of us like her." Jackie looks from Rian to me.
                          
"What do you mean?" I furrow my eyebrows.
                          
"We like her Pat. As in we approve of her. If and when you guys get together, we all approve." She clarifies.
                          
"You approved of her when she was in her first Olympics." I fire at her.
                          
"Yeah but I didn't know her personally at that time did I? No, I didn't. So shut it." She sasses.
                          
"Keep this sassiness up and I'll return all your Christmas gifts." I fire at her.
                          
"Did I mention you were my favorite sibling because you are." She gives me a smile.
                          
"Kiss up." I mutter.
                          
"I learned from the best." She looks at me.
                          
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask.
                          
"You where such a kiss up growing up! You would kiss up to everyone for anything." She explains.
                          
"No I didn't." I protest.
                          
"Yes you did! Stop denying it!" She points her finger at me.
                          
"Shhhh. Don't wake Rian." I scold her.
                          
"It's Christmas. You're lucky I didn't come in and bounce on you guys when I woke up." Jacqueline laughs.
                          
"Yeah like you did last year?" I glare at her.
                          
"It was 11 in the morning Pat! Everyone was coming at like 2! You had to get up!" She whisper yelled at me.
                          
"Whatever. Im going to wake Rian up then we can jump on everyone else and wake them up, good?" I ask my partner in crime.
                          
"Deal." Jacqueline gets up off the bed and stands by the door.
                          
"Hey Rian. It's time to get up buttercup." I whisper softly, shaking her to wake up. She turns over in my arms, facing me. Her eyes flutter open. "Morning beautiful." I whisper getting a smile from Rian.
                          
"Morning." She whispers back.
                          
"Merry Christmas!" I give her a smile.
                          
"Merry Christmas Pat." She matches my smile.
                          
"Jackie and I are going to go wake the others like we used to. Meet us in the hall when you're ready." I leave a soft kiss on her forehead before sliding out of bed and over towards Jacqueline at the door.
                          
"Merry Christmas Rian!" Jackie waves to Rian.
                          
"Merry Christmas Jacqueline!" Rian answers still half asleep.
                          
"Ready to pounce?" I look at my little sister.
                          
"Bitch please! I was born ready." She responds.
                          
"Swear jar." Rian says softly from the bed. Jackie and I burst out laughing.
                          
"Yup! I definitely like her!" Jackie says after calming herself down.
                          
"Let's go!" I said still laughing, pushing my sister out the door.