Mark awoke with a smile on his face. It was the first day of summer... well real day of summer that first weekend doesn't really count. As he got up and walked over to the bathroom to take care of the morning routine he paused to look in the mirror. He saw himself, an average 17 year old boy about 6 foot even with brown hair, he had a fit body but by no means ripped a good looking fellow if he didn't say so himself. See most teenagers dreaded the summer vacation with family, the separation from friends, computers, significant others and getting couped up in a car with your family, but his family was different.
You see ever since his mom, Mary, came across a strange deck of cards that had changed the summertime for her family forever. His mom was a 40 something year old school teacher who worked at the same school he and his siblings attended so she got the same time off that they did. She had red hair that she kept short and a slim figure as she enjoyed taking care of her body. She stood at 5 ft 8 so while a good height not nearly as tall as his father. She had a large b/ small c cup chest. She enjoyed garage sale hunting and one day came across a strange looking deck of cards that the owner was all to happy to get rid of saying, "I've had enough adventures its time to share this gift with others. Don't worry deary the rules inside explain it all just come back and tell me about it if you want and we can swap stories." It had scared Mary at first but decided not to press the issue and took the cards.
That was a fun summer. Mark thought as he remembered last summer. His mom had tested the cards with just his father first, and once they discovered they worked they devised a plan for the summer.
His father was an accountant with a lawyer who had pretty flexible hours since he and his good friend from college had started a firm together and been decently successful. He stood a bit taller than mark and you could see the family resemblance. He was a good father though every year packed the family up in the van and started out on the road to wherever his destination for the summer would be just like his father did for him and his family. He always had some national park to hike, or worlds largest this or that to see, and living in Kansas city they were in the center of the US with, as he saw it, the best location to go any where. The worst part was that he always kept it a secret from the kids and just tell them to pack for everything.
And pack I have Mark said as he looked that the 3 huge bags he had packed for the trip as he headed on down the the breakfast he could smell cooking downstairs. Though the size of his belongings were nothing compared to what his sisters would have to pack. "oh well a couple of them will be mine in a bit." he thought to himself as he walked into the kitchen.
"Good to see the last one is up. GOODMORNING sleepyhead!" His mom greeted him cheerfully as she laid a plate of pancakes before him. He ate, his two sisters sitting at the table across from him. His older sister Katie had just graduated high school and would be going to college the next year. Where Mark took after his father she took after her mother. She was almost the same height with the same red hair though she wore it longer. She was a cheerleader which kept her in good shape and ran with the almost popular group in school. The real difference she had from her mother was that she was sporting a pair of full C cup breasts. His other sister was the odd ball in the family. Her name was Erin and she was a tomboy. Star player on the girls freshman soccer team that year she was very athletic. she was short though at 5ft 1 though their mother kept telling her she would grow. She had her hair cut as short and unlike her sister it was brown. her breasts weren't to large yet only an A but she knew she was about to break into the b cup range. Her and her sister still remained close despite their differences although Erin was at how Katie would try to change her subtly to act more like a girl.
As he finished up quickly and helped his father get the car ready while Katie called her friends and said her goodbyes his mother went to get the cards. Those magical cards. They allowed his family to have the vacation of their lives last summer and now that they were experienced they were ready to make this trip even better. His mother believed that overusing the cards would make them dull and instead said that they were only to be used over the summer. So Mark and his sisters had had to wait the whole year for this day to come again. To them it was bigger than christmas. He suspected that his parents had used them without the kids during the year but he could never tell, nobody could. Finally the time came as the preparations were complete and the family gathered in the kitchen with the box containing the cards in the middle.
"Well family time for another vacation. Everybody remembers the rules right?" Mary said. as everyone nodded quickly. "Well just in case ill read them off again so were all on the same page.
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