When it became apparent that the commotion at the door was going to be more complicated to sort out than just letting Cara into the apartment, as Brooklyn had thought it would entail, she paused the movie. Holly had rushed back to her rambling frantically about how the girl at the door would ruin their Christmas, which caused Brooklyn to glance back at the unfamiliar person in the doorway, before looking back to Holly. She clearly knew the girl, and it was off putting that Holly of all people would be so adamant about not wanting someone around, but she didn't seem like an imminent threat. From the quick glance that she took, straining her neck in the process, she noted that the girl was probably around Cara's height, had a pretty face, and didn't seem to have done anything intimidating in those few seconds that Holly could have interacted with her in the doorway. Regardless, she was glad that Makayla appeared then, and after addressing Holly, went on to address the girl at the door, who she called Aubree. It was quite possible that after Aubree had stayed the night a few weeks back, that Holly had said the name in Brooklyn's presence, but Brooklyn hadn't remembered it. She had left that night from Colton's party, fairly abruptly, to clock in a couple of hours at work after two of the girls on staff that night had fallen ill during their shift. By the time she got home in the early hours of the morning, Aubree and the girls were asleep, and by the time that Brooklyn woke up the next afternoon, she was gone. She didn't even know that the girl had stayed there, but that didn't mean that Holly or Makayla hadn't mentioned it, and she just wasn't listening when they did.
With the television now paused, it was easier to hear how Makayla didn't sound very eager about the girl's arrival either, but once Aubree responded, she clarified that she was related to Makayla. Brooklyn had only responded to Holly by holding her pointer finger in the air, to signal for the girl to hold on a minute as she listened into Makayla and Aubree's conversation, trying to figure out what was going on. She had called Makayla her "baby sis", Brooklyn heard, which meant that she was older than Makayla, but given Makayla and Holly's sister relationship, Brooklyn wasn't sure if that meant that they were biological sisters or not. Aubree clearly looked more similar to Makayla than Holly did, and she knew that siblings could be different heights so it shouldn't have mattered, but the height difference between Aubree and Makayla was throwing her off. Figuring that she and Makayla were going to talk more, Brooklyn dropped her finger and was ready to ask Holly why she didn't like her, when footsteps sounded and Aubree was soon standing in front of her. Although the movie had been paused and Brooklyn had been far more tuned into what was going on in the apartment than the screen in front of her, it bothered her that Aubree had chose to stand directly in front of the television, as if to demand her attention. It really reflected Brooklyn's tendency to hate being forcing her to do anything, more than anything else though, since as far as the surface level reflected, Aubree was simply being polite. At least if they were not including the way that she sent a pointed look Holly's way as she answered Brooklyn's unspoken question about being biologically related to Makayla. "As long as you don't plan on standing in front of the TV all night, I don't mind," she said, shaking Aubree's hand only because it was right in front of her facing, but skipping past the formality of offering her own name. However, the smile that she offered made Brooklyn feel like she wasn't being catty, and once she pulled away from Aubree, she looked back to Holly, who stood beside her spot on the couch. With a gentle pull on the back of the girl's shirt, she signaled for her to sit back down, and she hoped that that also translated into non-verbally telling her that things would be fine. Brooklyn didn't doubt that Makayla wouldn't be able to comfort Holly if this sister of hers was actually that problematic, but she also personally wasn't going to let the girl act aggressively towards Holly if it got to that point. And in a move that she knew she would regret tomorrow morning, and probably tonight to, she looked back at Makayla and said, "If you don't want someone sleeping on the couch or the floor, Holly can stay in my room tonight."