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dragged out of class with the intention of having me beat the
    snot out of the bully. We walk into the office, looking for this big bad bully only to find these two scraped up and covered in
    mud. Dad demands to see the little boy who beat up his son and talk to his parents only to be told that this adorable little girl
    was the culprit."
    "Hey! He started it by shoving the worms down my dress!" Joe argued, laughing.
    "I had to do something to improve that ugly ass dress you were wearing. It looked like you were wearing a couch," Eric teased.
    Joe rewarded him by throwing a hot roll at his head which he caught and happily ate.
    "A nyway," Nathan said, drawing back everyone's attention. "I, being the good brother that I am, offered to beat her up. Dad
    was at a loss, but still somehow managed to slap me upside the head when I offered."
    "You did not!" A lice sounded horrified.
    "He did," Joe agreed.
    "A nyway, once dad decided I wasn't going to kick her butt we hung around, waiting for Joe's mother so he could talk to her.
    We waited two hours and she never showed. By then dad fell in love with the little brat," Nathan said teasingly.
    "So did you, big guy," Joe said, sorting through the silverware.
    Nathan chuckled. "Of course I did. I knew right off the bat that you were good sister material. So dad who was at a total loss
    and this big baby," he jerked a thumb towards Eric, "decided she should come home with us where everything could be
    straightened out. Mom gets one look at her and gushed and decided she was keeping her."
    "So, you like, all adopted her?" Camie guessed.
    Everyone except Caitlyn shook their heads. "Not exactly. Even though I think Dad mentioned more than once before he passed
    away that he was going to kidnap Joe and adopt her we never made it official."
    "He would have to," A lice said with a watery smile.
    "It didn't matter what the law says we all heard him referring to Joe as his little girl so it didn't matter," Eric said, earning a sad
    smile from Joe.
    "So she never lived with you?" Camie asked, seeming determined to find out exactly what Joe's role was.
    "She became an instant fixture in the house. She went with us everywhere, did her homework here, had chores here, but her
    mother wouldn't let her move in with us which was okay until she was about fourteen and then she started to sleep over here
    more often until she was living here and mom told us to go get her stuff. She stayed here until after she'd been working on the
    ambulance for a while and could afford to live on her own. I think she was nineteen at the time?"
    "Yes," Joe said as she finished setting the table and started placing bowls of food on the table. "I moved out a month or two
    before Eric did."
    "Only because you stole the apartment I wanted," Eric pointed out, stealing another roll.
    Joe simply shrugged.
    "Okay," Camie said slowly. "So Eric and Joe are like brother and sister?"
    Eric and Joe shared a look of horror. Nathan winced and even A lice shook her head, looking like she might be ill.
    "That's a seriously horrifying thought," Joe muttered. "Kind of disgusting actually."
    "Damn straight," Eric said, saluting her with his half eating roll.
    Chapter 5
    "Eric, why don't you sit over here?" A lice asked, gesturing towards the empty seat next to Camie.
    Eric kept his smile pleasant. "I'm fine where I am. Besides, I wouldn't want to interfere with your time with your friend."
    His mother scowled in his direction. He didn't care. He came here to spend with his family and meet his brother's new
    girlfriend, not be set up with an ice bitch, who was now sending glares at Joe every time she thought no one was looking.
    Seriously where the hell did his mother find these women? The last one she brought over had just separated from her husband
    and wouldn't stop bawling throughout the entire meal. Did she really think he was desperate?
    "But-" A lice started to argue their seating arrangements.
    "I'm already settled, mom. Everyone is.