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“I’m ready,” Katie announced with a firm nod as she assumed a fighting stance while Chloe stood there, wondering where she went wrong as she took in the Spiderman costume that she hid in the basement to stop something like this from happening.
She should have asked Uncle Nick to drop Katie off when she had the chance, Chloe thought as she stood there, watching helplessly as her sister struck another attack pose even as she had to admit that wasn’t really an option. She loved her uncle, she really did, especially since he’d moved in after their parents died so that they could stay together, but they were more like roommates than a family. He was barely home and when he was home, he was either watching a game, sleeping, or telling her to stay away from Cole.
Not that she really had a choice, not with Cole taking it upon himself to sneak over here every chance that he got, Chloe thought as she stood there, thinking about the stubborn teenage boy who’d made sure that they had an amazing summer. Every day, he stopped by before work to annoy the hell out of her and right after work, he showed up with enough food to feed an army, took over the TV, and ignored Katie’s attempts to make him cry. When he wasn’t doing that, he was dragging them out of the house, taking them swimming, to the movies, dragging them over to his house for dinner, and making her like him a little bit more than she did the day before, which was the problem.
She was a pity case and sooner or later, Cole was going to lose interest and move on, and she was going to do the same because the only thing that mattered was the little demon determined to drive her crazy. Speaking of her sister…
“I’m really going to need you to go change,” Chloe said, really hoping that her sister took pity on her this morning.
“And I’m really going to need you to accept my need to embrace my secret identity,” Katie said with a firm nod.
“And I’m going to need you to go change so that we’re not late for the first day of school,” Chloe said, gesturing for her to get on with it.
“We’re not going to be late for school, not with my skills,” Katie said with a firm nod as she took up another fighting pose.
“We will if we don’t leave now,” Chloe said, trying not to think about all of the demerits that awaited her this year for being late. Last year, she finished the year two demerits shy of getting a written warning, which would have put her scholarship at risk and-
She couldn’t lose her scholarship.
“Then, you should go,” Katie said with a firm nod and a gesture for her to do just that.
“If I leave, then, who’s going to bring you to school?” Chloe asked as she pushed her glasses back up her nose.
“I don’t need to go to school,” Katie said, following that up with a firm nod. “I need to fight crime.”
“No, what you need to do is get your little butt back upstairs and change,” Chloe said, debating the odds of dragging her upstairs and getting her to change quickly, only to decide that they weren’t very good.
“I’m supposed to wear a costume on the first day,” Katie assured her with a solemn nod.
“You’re really not, though,” Chloe said, adjusting her bag over her shoulder as she did her best not to panic.
“I really am. It’s a rule,” Katie said with a pitying look. “Besides, Cole isn’t here yet.”
Biting back a sigh, Chloe said, “He’s not coming.”
“Why not?” Katie asked, frowning in confusion.
“Because he’s probably still getting ready for school.”
“Then, we should wait for him,” Katie said, moving to push her glasses back up her nose only to remember that she wasn’t wearing them.
“If we do that, then I won’t be able to drop you off at school and make it to first period on time and I’ll end up getting written up on the first day,” Chloe said, wondering how she was going to pull this off. There was no way that she was going to be able to get Katie to school on time every morning, not with her little sister determined to do everything within her power to drive her crazy.
Frowning, Katie asked, “What time were we supposed to leave?”
“Ten minutes ago,” Chloe said as she watched her little sister strike another pose.
Nodding, Katie said, “You really didn’t plan this very well, did you?”
“Please don’t make me beat you,” Chloe mumbled hollowly.
“You’d have to catch me first,” Katie pointed out.
“Are you going to go change?”
“We don’t have time,” Katie said as she grabbed herGhostbuster’sbackpack and headed for the door with a satisfied sigh.
“Please don’t do this to me,” Chloe said, really not looking forward to facing Katie’s new teacher.
