My Sister, Your Girl

“So, tell me why im only finding out about you now.” James says sitting on the large bed in my hotel room. James took me back to my place after the whole locker room scene. I knew this would be the hardest part to explain with finding my brother. It used to make me upset when I first found out about it and I would regularly think about it and it would make me sick, but now I’m used to it and really, I’m grateful.
“Well, where do I start?” I ask.
“Start with why I never grew up with you.” He states.
“That’s an interesting story. Good choice. I am 23 years old, so that makes me 3 years younger then you, yes I know your age, no its not creepy its called the internet. Anyway, so when I was born you would have been 3 years old and too young to understand much of the concept of what happened to me. You might of remembered your mom.” He stopped and corrected me.
“Our mom.”
I sigh, “Our mum, being pregnant but after that I disappeared.”
“I don’t remember.” He shakes his head concentrating to try and remember.
“I don’t expect you to. Anyway, I was born with a hole in my heart. I was a runt, a very very small baby and I had a very small chance of survival. Our parents,” I said emphasizing the ‘our’ “Didn’t have the money to pay for the care of a troublesome baby like me. I was expected to survive anyway. So, then my ‘new’ family adopted me. They were extremely rich, still are, so they had the money to pay for my treatment to fix my stuffed up heart.” I slowly lifted my shirt up to show him the scar that still remains after having to be reopened so many times. “You never knew about me because of that.”
“Why didn’t mum and dad tell me?” He said running his hands through his hair.
“No, no, this isn’t about me.” He says, “This is about you. My sister I never knew about. Im going to make up for all the years I missed. Im going to make up for all the stuff you have had to go through. Im sorry. Im really sorry.”
I give him a small smile and grab his hands after he stood up, “Hey James, its okay, you didn’t know. Im just happy I have my brother with me now.”
“Promise you wont go anywhere?”
“I promise.” I smile.
“So, you need help finding a place?” he asks.
“Yeah, I do.”
“Can you stay with me, I mean it isn’t just me, its Sidney, Kris and Geno too. But they wouldn’t mind you staying. Marc and his wife Vero live next door too. Please come Camellia. Stay in our house.”
I sigh, “Arghhh, James, I don’t know if that will be the best thing, I don’t want to invade you boys privacy.”
“Oh shut up, your not invading anyone’s privacy, besides you will probably change those boys for the better, and I want my sister around all the time now that I know you exist.” He was practically begging me.
I huffed, “Fine! Fine! Ill come stay with you UNTIL I find a place I like. Your really not gonna like having me around.”
“That’s a lie and you know it! Im so excited Camellia.”
“You can call me Cami you know.”
“Cami Cam! I’m so excited!”
“Im glad James, im glad.” I laugh.
“So lets get going!” He says grabbing my hand and throwing it into the air. Luckily, I didn’t unpack any of my stuff so all I had to do was get my toiletries and put it into my bag. James carried my large suitcase and I carried my nike duffel, handbag and yoga mat.
“Wow James, this place is huge.” I say when we pull up to the massive gate entry.
“Well, it has to fit 4 massive hockey players, so it has to be fairly big.” He smirks.
He pulls into what looks like his parking spot next to 3 other cars.
“Im gonna give you a tour. Lets start with the cars.” He smirks.
I nod and follow after him. “This is the garage.” He says pushing a button on his keys to open a massive door to a huge range of different cars. My eyes go straight to the Maserati. I walk over to it bright eyed. “You have good taste in cars sis.” He laughs. I point to the car then at him, “Is this really yours.” I ask.
“Yeah it is, you know what?” I peel my eyes off the car and look at him. “You can have it.”
“James!” I squeak. “Really!” He nods his head. I look at the car, “No no I couldn’t, this is your car not mine.”
“Well it’s yours now. I owe you that much.”
“You don’t owe me anything James.”
“I want you to have it, besides you don’t have a car yet anyway.”
“Thank you!” I yell. “Wow thank you, thank you.”
My bond with James is growing. No not because he brought me a car, but how alike we are in so many ways. I feel like I grew up with him and never got taken away as a baby. I know our bond will grow to be inseparable, and that he will be the overprotective big brother. He is everything I imagined him to be. Really, his just like myself.
“Sid, G, Tanger!” James yelled.
I heard fumbling down the big stairs that centered the house.
“Yes? Oh.” One of them said. I think it was Sidney but I couldn’t be sure.
“This is my sister. Camellia. I don’t think I really introduced you guys to her properly, I was pretty overwhelmed.” He laughed.
“Sidney Crosby.” He smiles extending his hand to mine.
“Camellia Neal.”
“That’s a nice last name.” James laughs. Sidney’s hazel eyes stare deep into my blue eyes.
“Nice to meet you little miss Neal.” Sidney smiles.
“Nice to meet you too Canada’s golden boy.” I laugh back.
Our introduction is interrupted by another loud male voice.
“Damn Nealer, nice find.” He whistles as he makes his way over to us.
“Cami, this is Kris Letang. Tanger, this is Camellia NEAL.” Making sure he said the Neal extra loud.
Kris raises his eyebrows. “Well, nice to meet you.” He shakes my hand. “Mon ami, you have a beautiful sister.”
“Shut up Tanger.” Yet another deep male voice says. Although this voice has a thick Russian accent.
“Geno.” He shakes my hand.
“Camellia-“
“Neal.” He finishes. “Nice to meet you.”
“Likewise.” I smile.
“Camellia is going to live with us for a while, until she finds a place and moves out. Although im fine with you just staying forever.” James says. “Is that okay with you all?”
They all nod, “That’s fine, will be good to have a female figure around.” Sidney laughs.
“Okay, so ill show you your room and you can settle down. James instructs ascending up the stairs. I look at my bag and start to hall it up behind me.
Sideny intervenes and grabs the luggage off me. “Im fine, really.” I say trying to take the suitcase out of his hands. “I got this Neal.” He laughs and pushes me along proceeding up the stairs. I smile to myself, well his sweet. I follow James with Sidney behind me. There is a long hallway after the stairs. “This is Sids rooms,” James says and I look back at Sidney smiling as James continues, “This is your room.” Sidney drops the bag at the door and I continue to follow James on the tour of the upstairs tour of the house. This is Genos room, this is Kris’ room and mine is the very last at the end.” He points at the last door on the very end of the long stretching hallway. There were frames of each of the boys jerseys hanging on the wall, there were shelves with pucks, hanging hockey sticks and team photos as well as photos with the Stanley cup. I go back to my room and James stand’s at my door.
“Let me know if you need anything, oh and you can decorate this room however you want, its officially yours, give it some color, this house defiantly needs it.” I look at the large room with plain white walls. It had a nice sized bathroom and a big walk in wardrobe. The furniture was a classic white timber. The bed was at least a queen and had a plain deep blue cover on it with red, blue and purple striped pillows. It was defiantly boring. I walked along running my thin fingers along the plain walls. Some artwork was defiantly needed so I decided to head to the shops and buy a canvas with some paints and maybe a few decorations and even a bed cover.
“Hey, im just heading out to buy a few things for my room, is that okay?” I said to James who was sitting on the couch with Sidney watching ESPN.
“Yeah, take the Maserati, remember its yours now.” I smirk, remembering that James had given me such a gorgeous, classy car.
“Thanks again James, for everything.” I say before walking out into the garage and hoping in my lovely car. Lets see what this baby can do.

JAMES POV

“Shes nice.” Sidney interrupts as I stand at the big glass windows watching my sister pull out of the garage.
“She is great isn’t she.” I say.
Sid gets up and stands next to me. Camellia is all smiles as she reverses out. She gets onto the street and her foot hits the floor and the beauty goes sketches extremely fast down the long street.
“Woohooo, she knows how to drive that thing too.” I laugh.
“Wow, that girl can make it go, better then sitting in the garage, you never drove it.” I smack Sids shoulder and laugh, “Yeah because look how many other cars I have to choose from!”
“That is true.” He laughs.
“So was it a huge surprise when you found out you had a sister?” Sid asks sitting back down in his spot on the couch.
“Surprise? I was speechless. I never even had the slightest clue of even having a sister. I have no idea what mom and dad are gonna do when they find out she found me and she is living with me. I don’t mind though, I’m just happy she found me.” I say.
“She seems like a good sister, I’m glad she’s staying here, yanno she could be a really good influence on a house full of bachelors. Vero is gonna die when she meets her, she’ll love her.” Sid says.
“I agree Crosby, I agree.”

Camellia’s POV

I arrive home after finding a shopping mall. It wasn’t to far away from the house and I got everything I needed plus some extra things, like a waffle maker, and I successfully made my way back to the house. I was trying to slowly learn my way around Pittsburgh and so far I was thoroughly enjoying my newfound city.
“Im back.” I said walking through the door with bags hanging on my arms.
“Hey! Need help?” Sidney asked from the kitchen.
“Im fine!” I yelled back walking quickly up the stairs. I would unpack my clothes later tonight, but right now I was at my artistic prime and I was going to use this mood to my advantage. I set up my paints and the canvas on the ground and took out my phone with the picture I had taken last night. It was a skyline photo of the lit up city of Pittsburgh and I found it to be absolutely gorgeous. I sketched and outlined what I wanted and then worked my magic, taking the photo from my phone and in my mind and putting it onto my canvas with a series of gorgeous colors.
“Whatcha doing?” Sidney interrupted standing at my door. I finished the stroke of paint I was doing and looked up to face him.
“Well, I think im painting.” I said sarcastically.
“Whatcha painting?” He asked.
“You will see that when im done.”
“Can’t wait to see it then.” He said turning to go out the doorway. He stopped briefly and says, “Oh and the paint on your face looks really cute, brings out your eyes.” He laughs.
“Yeah, nice one Crosby.” I laugh back at him.
I continue to paint for what feels like days. The sun was setting outside and it looked beautiful. Sidney must of told the boys not to interrupt me because none of them have bothered me yet. After 7 hours of painting I had finished. I walked down the stairs with my artwork in tow and stood in front of the tv with the painting behind my back.
“So, ive finished my painting. Would you guys be interested in seeing it?” I asked the 4 men sitting on the couch. They nodded so I brought the painting out from behind my back.
“Tada!” I exclaimed.
They all looked at his thoroughly with wide mouths and bright eyes.
“Cami, that is amazing!” James said standing up and looking closer at it.
“You not really do it?” Geno said.
“Wow, that’s awesome!” Kris said.
Sidney remained sitting with a smirk on his face. The boys crowded me throwing questions at me. I was only focused on Sidneys face and expression.
“Like it Sid?” I asked.
“Impressive Neal, very impressive.”
“Thank you.” I laughed. “Anyway boys, I better go hang this puppy up on its wall. You don’t mind me using a few nails do you?” I asked.
“No, not at all.” James said.
I nodded and walked up the stairs.

This is the photo Camellia replicated the painting of -
http://chenected.aiche.org/events/aiche-conferences/annual/annual-meeting-2012-are-you-ready/attachment/pittsburgh-night-2/

I came to my room and made a sharp turn, standing at the doorway. I looked at where I wanted to put the painting. I decided just above my bed. I jumped up onto the bed nailing a nail into the wall. I huge it up and took a look, sighing in approval. I took out the bed covers I got, I choose a yellow chevron bed cover. I put it on a defiantly liked the brightness it gave to the plain white room. The yellow worked well with the art hanging above my bed. It was starting to feel a lot more me. I put some black pillows on the bed, and black accent decorations. I hung another few shelf’s up. I had 5 photo frames that I hung up also. One was of my family back in Maine, one from my friends at graduation, one of my best friend Hanna and I and 2 blank ones.

Camellia’s bed cover
http://www.pbteen.com/products/chevron-duvet-cover-sham-yellow/

I unpacked my clothes and stood again at the door admiring the couple of hours hard work I had just put in.
“Well, you made this room look great.” James said from behind me.
I turned around smiling brightly, “Looks good, doesn’t it.”
“Looks better then good Camellia. It different, but so unique and I love it.”
“Thanks.” I smile again.
“Ill get you a tv tomorrow to hang here.” James said patting the spot above the dresser.
“James you don’t have to do that.”
“I want to spoil you.” He laughed.
“You have done enough already, besides I have more then enough money.”
“Whatever,” He sighs, “Go to bed Cami. Ill see you tomorrow.” He gives me a light hug and walks out. I decide to quickly have a shower before going to sleep. Im taking my pillows off my bed when I here Sidney,
“I still don’t believe you painted that. You brought it didn’t you?” He said walking over to it and softly touching it.
“That makes sense since you walked in on me painting it.” I rolled my eyes.
He laughs his contagious and high-pitched laugh.
“Yeah that’s true.”
“Ill see you in the morning.” I say laying down on my bed and getting under the covers.
“Yeah, sweet dreams Camellia.” He says before turning the light off.
Sweet dreams Sidney, sweet dreams.

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