Jill

-One-

I let my hair fall in front of my face as a veil like I always did. I turned up the music playing in my headphones really loud to block out any other sound coming from my family members on the floor above me. I kept the lights off so the only light was the light illuminating from my laptop screen.Christmas was always the worst holiday for me. I usually just locked myself in the basement, blaring music from my headphones, and doing whatever the hell I wanted on my laptop. No one really seemed to notice I was missing so it didn't matter that I was down here. Besides, why be up there where all my family that just didn't seem to understand me was. I knew I probably sounded like a whiny spoiled brat but it was true. I was criticized for everything I did."Jill!" I heard someone scream from upstairs. Since when did people start noticing my disappearance? I've been down here for 4 house and now they notice? Can't people just leave me alone like I'm dead or something? It'd make it easier on me and the rest of the human population. I just turned my music up louder response. "Jill!" my mom screamed at me from the top of the basement stairs, in unwanted light seeping from the doorway. "Jill, stop trying to pretend I'm not here. You're brother Jack is here, the least you could do is say hi and ask how he's doing." I rolled my eyes and paused the song. "Why should I? What has he ever done for me?" I hissed, crossing my arms and sitting back. "Can't you just leave me alone for the night? I get he's here and all just tell him I said 'hey' and pretend I'm not here." My mom rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Jillian, I don't have time for this. Just say hi and you can go back to what you were doing if it's really that important that you must ignore your family. It's one word: it's not going to kill you." I sighed, moved my laptop aside, and got up off the black couch. I trudged up the stairs and into the crowded living room where the rest of my family was. I looked around and found my adopted brother, walking up to him. "I'm not doing this because I want to but hello," I hissed at him. He raised an eyebrow at me. "That's a great way to start out a conversation but I have a feeling it's all the greeting all be getting from you so hello to you too." I collapsed to the ground choking as a joke to my mom. Almost everyone stared at me as my mom rushed over, grabbed my arm, and forcefully pulled me back on my feet. She was blushing bright red and I burst into psychotic laughter once I was back on my feet. "Quit it Jillian," she hissed in my ear as she dragged me away from the incident and everyone went back to what they were doing. I shrugged. "It's Jill and only Jill." *Picture of Jill*