While Brooklyn's offer to allow Holly to spend the night in her room, to give Aubree a place to stay seemed surprisingly nice in the moment, to an extent that made Makayla a bit skeptical, if she actually had a second to absorb what was going on, it probably wouldn't have seemed so strange. Brooklyn was allowing Holly to eat her cookies and watch a movie with her, and actually seemed to be attempting to diffuse the tension between her sisters, rather than add to it, as she seemed to be known for doing. Though it seemed odd, Makayla wasn't going to complain, partly because even if Brooklyn was being fake, she appreciated the gentle nature for now, and partly because she was far too caught off guard by Aubree's forwardness to really be paying attention to the blonde. "No, no, it's okay," she responded, shaking her head as she dismissed the idea. Feeling like that wasn't the right response, though it wasn't even said in a dismissive or rude manner, she continued, correcting herself. "I mean, thanks, but it's just not going to be necessary." She had barely finished saying that by the time that she turned to face Aubree, who she addressed then in a tone that she really wanted to sound stern and certain, but came out more tired and pleading than desired. "Aubree, you can't stay here. We don't have the space and I-" She cut herself off there, knowing that no reason she could give, that was true, would be good enough to convince Aubree to go. If she admitted that she didn't have it in her to deal with Aubree's antics, she would be a bad sister. If she pointed out that she and Holly didn't get along and it wouldn't be fair to ruin Holly's holiday by including Aubree, she would be a bad sister. She wasn't going to win with logic, so she just shook her head. "It's just not going to work tonight, I'm sorry. Don't you have somewhere else you can stay?" Although it had to have been pretty clear that she was Aubree's last option, Makayla didn't know for certain that that was how bleak Aubree's situation really was. For the past few years, she had lost contact with her sister to such a great extent that she really only knew her through the social media posts she made, which always made her life seem decent. She would post pictures of food at restaurants, always seeming to tag a different guy on the plate full of food opposite hers and on weekends, pictures of her with unfamiliar girls at a bar would appear on her timeline.
Aside from Makayla just not having the time or care to play detective in Aubree's life, what probably also played into her just assuming that her sister was doing alright was that as kids, Aubree had always seemed to make a big deal about being the best. She would never accept defeat and always had to prove to everyone that she was the smartest and the prettiest and the most liked. It often came in the form of purposely putting others down to win the favor of those that she admired, like how she would purposely get Holly into trouble to make their father think that she was that much better of a daughter, and so on. Though she didn't like to acknowledge it a lot, Makayla did have a sort of maternal instinct that extended beyond Holly. With how dependent Holly was, it was hard for her to really focus any of that energy on anyone else, but it wasn't like she didn't worry about Aubree. As fucked up as it was, there were times when she actually worried about her father, despite all of the stress and problems he had caused throughout her entire youth. She cared about her sister and that was why when Aubree said, "If I had somewhere else to go, I wouldn't have showed up at your door empty handed on Christmas Eve, now would I, sis?" Makayla could feel her argument against Aubree staying growing even weaker. "All right, but just for tonight, okay? And you'll have to sleep on the couch when they finish watching TV, then." Unlike the last time that Aubree had stayed with them, Makayla wasn't going to give up her own bed for her sister, and she also wasn't going to make Holly give hers up either, despite knowing that there was a chance that the redhead would actually want to spend the night in Brooklyn's room, given her well-known obsession with her.