Excerpt: Terrible People

He smirked. “I’m your big brother. I can call you whatever I want.”

There. That was a big old checkmark in the column marked ‘not the brother’. “Ah! That’s a good point! There’s no way you can be my big brother. See, my big brother is almost ten years older than me, and there is no way that you are ten years older than me. You barely look two years older than me!”

Charlie smirked, blue eyes crinkling slightly.

Damn. The blue eyes black hair caramel skin thing. That was another thing they had in common. Maybe she should start making a list.

“Our family ages well.” He grinned. “Go on, tell me you haven’t been telling people that you were twenty one since you were sixteen.”

“Fifteen.” She pouted, looking away.

Charlie roared with laughter, delighted by this. “See? We age fast, then stay young.”

“You make us sound like vampires.”

He snorted. “We don’t sparkle.”

“I noticed.” Kelly grinned. “Would probably save us on body glitter though, if we did.”