Chapter Two - A Gift
The night before any holiday can be pretty stressful, especially a whole family holiday half way across the world for two weeks. This was no exception for us Murphy’s. Mum was frantically rounding up passports, - and checking the expiration dates when dad gave her his old one by accident and she nearly had a fit - boarding passes and any other important paperwork needed and putting them into her pink plastic folder which then was placed into her smaller of suitcases, her hand luggage one. Dad had still not packed his bag and had only just returned - it was 9:30 - from the stables, he had said that it was of the utmost importance that all his horses were taken care of while he was away and expected to be contacted by his partner if the slightest of problem arose. Both Isaac and I had finished packed and were also on speaking terms again, and I had gone to help Emma pack.
“Emma, you do not need seven pairs of flip flops, why on earth do you have this many pairs?”
She looked at me with a frown on her face and her wild curly hair falling out of her ponytail. Everyone said that we look the same but I completely disagreed, she was beautiful and delicate with long curly hair and dark green eyes like Isaac and dad, her face was dotted with freckles like they had been gently touched on to her face by an artist, she was like a china doll, and she wasn’t too tall or too small. The only thing similar was our hair colour.
She went to reply but mum came in carrying six bottles of sunscreen,
“Okay girls, heres three each, starting out at forty, down to twenty five because honestly I don’t want you to go any lower, for some reason us ladies in the family are very fair skinned and I don’t want you sunburned, we can buy more if we need any when we’re over there.”
We each took three, “Have we all got the same?” I asked.
“No, Isaac and dad are starting at thirty but believe me, we are better off.”
Emma and I exchanged looks and then mum walked out muttering to herself.
“I better go put these in my bag.” I walked slowly to Emma’s door and hesitated as I went to walk out, “Oh, Emma, seven flippys: not necessary.”
“Gotcha!”, she answered distracted, I doubt she was even listening.
On the way to my bedroom I walked passed Isaac, he barely even noticed me as he was too busy on his phone. I continued on down the hall without saying a word until someone grabbed my arm and pulled me flying back.
“Woah! What?” I exclaimed and turned around to see who it was. Issac. So I guess he’d noticed me after all.
“What’s up?” I asked, assuming he wanted help packing.
“You know I text you saying I’d got you something?”
“Yeah?”
“Well, I was gonna give it to you earlier but you’d annoyed me so I didn’t want to.”
I rolled my eyes, brothers.
“I’m not in a mood anymore so would you like your present?”
I smiled, wondering what it could be, I nodded, “Yeah”.
He nodded back and turned walking to his room, “Follow me.”
I followed him into his bedroom which two hours ago had been the definition of tidy, was now covered in clothes, books, even some items of food.
“Wow, well we all know you’re back, Isaac.” I joked
He ignored me and went over to his desk, on it was a plastic bag, he reached in and pulled out a small black jewellery box, then he walked back over to me and placed it in my hands.
I was in awe, Isaac had always been a great brother but this was something all together.
Inside the box was a beautiful white gold necklace with a tiny little pale pink diamond stone, it was simple yet perfect, he defiantly knew what I liked.
“Isaac, I-”
“I just wanted to get you something, from me, to show that I’m always here. I know how hard it is leaving school, a lot of things are gonna change. When I saw you this evening looking all grown up, like a woman. Well, it made me angry because you’re my little sister, I can’t always protect you like I used to, especially being away now. With Emma, I still have a few years to keep her away from boys but you’re sixteen now and I can’t watch over you all the time. So this is just a reminder that I’m always your big brother and I’m always protecting you and if any boy asks who gave you that necklace, well you can tell them exactly that.’”
I smiled widely and hugged him tightly, “Wow, thank you Isaac, it’s so beautiful, I can’t believe you actually picked this out for me.”
I let him go, he looked a little embarrassed after what he had said but I wasn’t phased, what he had done meant a lot and I was glad that I hadn’t gone back to Louise’s party.
After Isaac helped me with my necklace we went downstairs and watched some stupid action film that he chose, I felt it was only right for him to make the decision after what he’d done for me, half way through the film Emma came in and joined as, it was definitely one of my favourite moments, spending time with both my brother and sister without one of us wanting to rip each others hair out was rare.
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