Lila looked up as the door is opened. Standing there was her cousin Mark. “Hi Mark!” she said, smiling.
“Hey, Lila. It’s going to be nice to have you here for the summer. Let me take your bags.” Mark relieved Lila of the bags and carried them inside.
Lila stepped into the house. There was a sweet smell coming from the kitchen. She figured it was her aunt Lori’s cooking that she had always loved. Lori was her mother’s sister, and therefore Lila’s aunt. Her uncle David came in from the other room. “Hey, there, darling. How have you been?” he asked, shaking her hand.
“Oh, I’m fine, thank you,” Lila said, smiling.
Lori came in from the kitchen. “Oh, Lila, you’re here!” Her aunt ran over to her, hugged her, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Lori had always loved her young pretty niece and always treated her like she was her own daughter. Supposedly, Lori had always wanted a girl, but she had only given birth to one boy-Mark.
“Hi, Aunt Lori.”
“Well, Lila, look at you! You’re absolutely beautiful!”
“Thank you,” Lila said, blushing.
Mark returned from upstairs. “I took your bags to your room. You want me to show you?”
“That would be great,” Lila said, following Mark up the stairs. Mark was 19 years old, in his first year of college. Since the college was close to home, he stayed with his parents while he went to college. Mark was about 5’11” with dark black hair and tan skin.
“Here’s my room,” Mark said. “You don’t want to go in there. It’s a mess. Here’s the bathroom. At the end of the hallway is your room.”
“Your parents’ room is downstairs, right?”
“Yeah, down past the den.”
“All right, thank you. I’ll have to unpack my things.”
Lila sat on her bed, unpacking her clothes and getting used to the new room. |