Eternal by London Saint James

said, looking at his brother with
one eyebrow rising.
    “I still cannot believe what you can get women
to do,”
Chandler
mused. “I mean, most women like to enjoy their food and don’t want some guys
tongue slobbering up their face while they are trying to eat. How totally
uncivilized.” His laugh filled the room.
    Cayden gave his brother a rude gesture.
    Chandler
looked at me, still smiling like a goofball. “Winter, you do
disappoint me. I thought you had better sense. Would you let me do that?”
    I gave
Chandler
a fiery glare of my own.
    “Uh, no,” I returned emphasizing the “no.”
    “See what I mean. Only you could get away with
such behavior, Cayden. And where did such behavior come from? I know you were
raised with better manners than that.”
    Chandler
was still chuckling.
    Cayden smiled an impish grin. “Sucks to be you,
Chandler
.” He placed
another bite of noodles into my mouth, lifting one noodle from my lips with his
tongue then he sucked it from my mouth into his. “These are the best noodles I
have ever tasted.” Cayden looked back at his brother quite smugly. “And by the
way, my manners are fine.”
    “Oh yeah, what would Aunt Elsbeth say?”
    Cayden shrugged. “She's not here, so it's a moot
point.”
      “Umm….” I
licked the sauce from Cayden’s chin. “You know I believe you are right.   These are really great noodles. Here, babe.”
I pulled some more noodles from the box with my fingers. “Open up.” Sauce
dripped from my fingertips. I placed the noodles to Cayden’s mouth. “Mmm…,” I
murmured when he sucked them free from my fingers.
    “Yuck!”
Chandler
replied with a smile then reached for another box.
    Chandler
stuffed a large won ton into his mouth and chewed it loudly. Then
he flung a spoon full of rice, hitting Cayden in the chest.
    “Hey!” I protested, picking up a spoon full of
rice of my own, flinging it back toward
Chandler
.
“Don’t pick on my man. I may have to kick your ass for that.”
    Cayden laughed and touched the tip of my nose
with his fingertip. “Awe, thanks baby.”
    I softly kissed his lips. “Anytime, babe.”
    Cayden’s face was beaming with a large evil
grin. He placed his fingers into the sweet and sour sauce then rubbed it red
and sticky down my throat. “Oh sorry,” Cayden said, trying hard to keep a
straight face.
    “Nice my brother,”
Chandler
interjected smugly. They gave each
other a high five.
    I looked at Cayden with a large smile breaking
across my face. Cayden smiled back. I placed my hand on my hip. We smirked at
each other. “Cayden, babe…you did not just do that?”
    “Yes, Winter, I believe I did.”
    “And after I was defending your honor,” I
replied, indignant.
    I felt a large piece of something hit the side
of my cheek then heard
Chandler
’s
booming laugh. “I think you have some broccoli on your face, snowflake.”
    I peeled the green sprouts from my cheek while
glaring at Cayden then at
Chandler
.
“I see how it is. You are both pretty darn sure of yourselves thinking I can’t
kick both your asses cause I’m a girl.”
    “A girly girl,”
Chandler
interjected, still laughing.
    “Oh, it’s on,” I said, smirking.
    “Bring it on,” Cayden teased.
    I stood up from his lap in time to join into an
all too childish, all too ridiculous, and all too major food fight between the
three of us.
     
     

 
    Chapter Seven
     
    Happiness
     
    After some major destruction to the dining room,
a lot of elbow grease to clean it up, which included me perched upon a chair on
my tiptoes, stretching up while Cayden steadied me so I could peel noodles from
the chandelier, I finally made it into the shower. I was a soiled mess. It took
quite a long time to wash all the debris from my body and even longer to wash
it all out of my hair.
    Once I was squeaky clean and dressed in my
nightclothes, I gathered up Cayden’s dirty clothes along with mine and took
them to the laundry room to wash. I passed
Chandler
inside