Chapter 3 "Cousins"

The next day Crystal asked Matt if he wanted to meet her family again. The last time he saw them was when he was 5.
"Matt wanna go with me to meet my cousins at the mall???"
" Yea, I haven't seen them in a long time!!! Who's going???"
"My 3 sisters Rose, Glenvie and Ariel. My cousins Geneleen, Heather, Jeff, Leah and Dale. My sister Rose is driving us."
"Ok, your cousins are cool!!!"
"I know!!!... O yea we're gonna take pictures at Star Studios. Wanna take it with us?!?!?!"
"Sure, I'll pay!"
"No, don't pay!!!" Crystal says.
"Ok ok I won't pay!!! Don't have a cow." He laughs.
"Glenvie, Ariel, Matt, Crystal we're leaving now!!!" Rose shouts.
"Wait I have to put on my eyeliner!!!" Glenvie says.
"Glenvie put some on me." Ariel said.
"I already have some on." Crystal says as she walks out the door with Matt.
Matt and Crystal are already sitting in the back seats of the car.
"Shotgun!!!" Ariel shouts.
"Hey, no i'm sitting in the front!!!" Said Glenvie.
Matt and Crystal are laughing. Finally after 5 minutes Ariel gives up.
"Gosh!!! Fine I'll sit in the back!!!" Ariel says angrily.
Rose starts the car. Glenvie turns the radio on. The song "Bump, Bump, Bump" by B2k is on. Crystal's favorite group. "I like your little sexy style, love it when you gettin wild, girl in the club with me, girl you should be in magazines with a crown on your head cause you's a ghetto queen like bling bling bling..." Crystal sings.
They're finally at the mall after 30 minutes of driving.
"Where do we meet them again???" Rose says.
"In front of Robinsons May." Ariel replied.
"Is that them???" Matt asks.
"Yea, how'd you know???" Crystal said.
"Because they were trying to get your attention."Matt laughs.
They start running to eachother.
"Who's that??? He looks so familiar!.!.!. He hot too!!! " Geneleen whispers into Crystal's ear.
"Matt this is Geneleen, Geneleen this is Matt my bestfriend!!!"
"Come on you guys lets go take the pictures before it gets busy!!!" Glenvie says.
"Ok ok let me tie my shoe first!!! Dale says as he bends down to slowly tie his shoe.
Glenvie gets mad at him. They all laugh. Jeff and Dale are the joksters. Rose and Leah are the serious people. Glenvie and heather the funny and cool people. Geneleen, Ariel, and Crystal are just different (you kno what Matt is). Dale is finally done tying his shoe. When they got to Star Studios it was still empty.
"See, nobodies here yet. My tying my shoe didn't keep us from getting here when it's busy. It's not like we were supposed to come at a certain time!!!" Dale laughed.
Everyone else laughed also. They got to get four poses. The first pose, Matt was int he back because he was the tallest. In front of him was Leah and Crystal. In front of them was Dale, Rose and Geneleen bending a little. In front of them was Heather, Glenvie, Jeff, then Ariel knealing. It was like a pyramid. Second pose, Geneleen and Crystal standing up with Matt in the middle. Beside Geneleen was Heather and beside Crystal was Ariel, both knealing. Between Heather and Ariel, Glenvie was laying on her stomach, her feet facing the left with her head down. Then Dale, Rose and Jeff laying on their stomaches, their chins were resting on their hands. Now Leah was laying also on her stomach, her feet facing the right with her head down. Third pose, tallest to shortest in a row was Matt, Leah, Crystal, Geneleen, Dale, Rose, Heather, Ariel, Jeff, then Glenvie. Fourth pose, they choose their positions this time. Crystal was on Matt's back. Ariel and Jeff were pretending they were kicking eachother's ass. Heather and Leah were doing an undiscribable pose. Geneleen, Rose and Glenvie were making faces. They were finally done and the pictures turned out great.
"I like the pictures. We should do this more often." Said Geneleen.
"Daaa stupid we already do... Just without Matt." Crystal Replied.
"Hey, you guys wanna sleepover?.?.?. You to Matt!!!" Ariel changed the subject.
"No, he can't. His girrrlfriend is gonna get mad." Crystal teased.
"Yea, I can go. And i'm not going out with Jenny anymore. I broke up with her on the phone last night cause I found out that she was only going out with me because i was an actor." Matt said.
"Awww... I'm so sorry!!! Why didn't you tell me???" Said Crystal.
"I guess it just sorta slipped my mind." Matt replied.
When they got to Crystal's house Matt, Dale and Jeff got crazy and started to pretend to fight. Rose and Glenvie went to their rooms. Leah followed Glenvie. Heather, Ariel, Matt, Dale and Jeff all went to Crystal's room. Crystal started a pillow fight by smashing Matt with her pillow she personally named Matt. Matt said playing around, "O' it's on now!!!"
We all started laughing. Then he started chasing Crystal around her room with her other pillow she named Jesse. They were so loud that Heather, Ariel, Jeff and Dale teamed up on them so it got even louder. When everyone was asleep Crystal took her diary and snuck into the bathtub. She wrote:

Dear Diary,
I don't know whether to be sad or happy that Matt broke up with Jenny. I know Matt's sad about the break up. I feel bad for him. But i'm also happy because he's single. I'm still asking, when is it time for the both of us to be together??? Will he ever love me the way I love him??? Is he ever gonna find out??? I can go on and on with these questions that I ask myself everyday. But if we do get together, will there be a sign???

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