Chapter 1

Meeting my other cousins

I snuck up on Daddy and kissed his cheek, "Got you."

He whipped around, picking me up, and gave me a kiss before I could run away, "Oh, Cocoa-bear, you're never going to win like that." We made a game called Ninja kisses. I sneak up on Daddy and give him a kiss and ran before he could get me back. It was fun.

"Pfft." I stuck my tongue out.

"Yeah, I know. Come on, we should go practice one more time before it gets too dark. You almost had it." He put me down and we went outside to the woods. There was a large, wide-ish ditch that I could never make on the way to the pond. Daddy had to carry or catch me, but lately I've been making it to edge. Like on the edge and I'd always almost fall into the ditch. I can clear the candlestick or a 5 foot fence no problem, but Daddy won't be happy until I can make the ditch.

"But I cleared the candlestick." I brought up again.

"He won't listen." Stephen told me.

"You have to be well rounded, Cocoa. You can't just jump up over everything. I had to jump over several candles in a row once. I do to listen." Daddy huffed at Stephen.

"It's too wide." I complained.

"It's almost 6 feet. You should be able to make that. You can jump over the fence." Daddy retorted.

"That's different. And there are rocks at the bottom." I got on SeaBreeze, Indigo's, one of four of Stephen's daughters, horse. I learned I could summon their pets, too. It took more energy because they were animals and they liked to stay outside.

"You're not jumping with SeaBreeze." Daddy told me.

"I know. She wants to go for a walk." I pat her neck. She nickered back. SeaBreeze was a good horsey.

"Hi, Cocoa." Indigo came out. She had red hair and blue eyes. She had to help me get SeaBreeze back in my brain.

"Hi. How are you?" I asked. I wasn't always ready to see my characters outside my head and since there were three series worth of them, I could get surprised.

"I'm ok. We want another outside day. That was fun." Indigo said. I let them have outside time with other characters to let them meet the each other. They got along pretty well. Well, most of them. Some of the villains didn't behave long enough for me figure out if they would like the others. I won't let them meet the other villains.

"Ok. That's sounds good." I told her. Daddy stopped so I got off SeaBreeze and gave the rein to Indigo. She lead the horse back into my brain.

"Are they in?" Daddy asked me.

"Yeah." I looked around to make sure. I didn't see anyone out. I got in front of the ditch and took a few steps back to run. Daddy allowed that. I ran, got to the edge, and jumped. I stumbled as I landed.

"Yay! Go, Cocoa." Mint yelled. I turned around to see all of them outside. Daddy looked too.

"You did it." Dellia, a main character that's a werewolf, howled. Her kids joined her.

"Ok. Let's go home and get some ice cream." Daddy told me after they calmed down. The others looked at him.

"Ice cream?" Lettuce asked.

"I want ice cream." Ruke said.

"We don't have enough for all of you." Daddy jumped over to me.

"Aw. Can the kids have some?" Draco, Dellia's husband, asked.

"Where does the food you eat go?" I wondered.

"I dunno." Stephen shrugged.

"Oh, Jazz and Junior are coming tomorrow. I have to go clean their rooms." Daddy carried me and ran back to the house.

"No ice cream?" Lettuce made puppy eyes.

"Sorry. Junior goes for the tub before I can stop him." He said.

"That's why we should eat it." Lok said.

"Jazz'll want some too." We got to the backyard and Daddy put me down. I went inside and put my jammies on. I got some ice cream anyway. Mint and Ruke ate some of the chocolate sauce. Lettuce snuck a bite of ice cream and took my spoon.

"Yummy." She licked her lip.

"Stop eating Cocoa's reward." Daddy was in his nightshirt and boxers. I looked away. It still felt weird to see Daddy without clothes on. He gave me my spoon back.

"Thanks." I took it back and ate more.

"I'm still getting used to you in nightgowns, too, Cocoa-bear." He kissed my head.

"Ok." I leaned back onto his tummy and his face was upside down. I smiled.

"Aw." Sophie cooed.

"Look at them. It's so cute." Dellia squealed.

"Stop it. Go to bed. Her cousins are coming and I don't want her to be tired." Daddy blushed.

"Right. Nighty-night, Cocoa. Be good for your daddy." Tara, one of Dellia's twin girls, knuckle eyed Daddy gently.

"Hey. Don't-" Dellia growled at him.

"I wouldn't do that." Draco warned him. Draco was a vampire. His and Dellia's kids were werepires. Half vampire, half werewolf.

"Ok. C'mon Sweetie, let's go to bed." Daddy led me upstairs and we brushed our teeth. Then he tucked me into bed and turned off the light.

"Love you." I told him.

"Love you, too. Get some rest." Daddy closed the door.

The next day

We were cleaning Junior's new room. He used to stay in my room. Daddy wouldn't let the others help. I had to clean all by myself. I just finished vacuuming when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it. You put the vacuum away." Daddy went downstairs. I put it back in its little closet and went downstairs. Aunt Jane was there with two kids. One was a girl with red hair in a long elbow length braid and bright blue eyes like her mom. Junior looked like Daddy, but smaller and not as muscular.

"Cocoa, this is Jazz," Daddy pointed to the girl, "And this is Junior." He pointed to the boy.

"Hi." Jazz waved.

Junior was quiet for a minute then he yelled, "I hate you! You made Uncle Jack miss my birthday and Thanksgiving and Christmas." Everyone was silence for a couple minutes. I started tearing up and then full out sobbing.

"Sor-ry." I wailed.

"What the hell, Junior?! Go talk to your son, Jane. Cocoa, he's just mad. He doesn't hate you. Shh." Daddy hugged me. I grabbed his shirt. I didn't mean to hog Daddy from Junior. Or anyone.

"I'm sorry about Junior." Jazz touched my shoulder.

"Thanks." I sniffed.

Aunt Jane and Junior came back inside. He looked sorry.

"Say it." Aunt Jane told him.

"I'm sorry I yelled at you. I shouldn't have taken it out on you." He looked at me.

"You won't be sent back home, but you aren't getting any ice cream or dessert. And no TV or Mirriornet. Give me your phone." Daddy held out his hand.

"What?" Junior asked.

"I'm disabling the wifi." Daddy waited for him to get his phone out and took it. He messed with it until the wifi was off. He handed the phone back.

"If I hear so much as a bad word about you, you're coming home until school starts." Aunt Jane threatened.

"Yes, Mom. I'll be good." He slunk back.

"Good, now go unpack." She told them. They got their suitcases and went upstairs.

"Junior, wait, I have to show you your new room." Daddy followed him up.

"Hi, I'm Dellia and we'll make sure Junior behaves, right, guys?" She asked and all the adult characters said yes. I think Lettuce just wanted to included.

"Hi." Aunt Jane stared at them.

"It's ok. We're characters from Cocoa's books. We're not ghosts." Aria, Tara's sister, explained.

"Oh, good." She looked confused and pale.

"Aunt Jane doesn't look too good." Ruke told me.

"Duh, we can see that." Harrison smart-mouthed.

"Don't be mean to your sister. Someone catch her!" Sophie noticed her falling. Lucas and Draco got her.

"Let's put her on the couch." I helped guide them to the living room. They put her on it and decided to leave her alone until she woke up by herself. I poked her face.

"Aunt Jane?" I poked her face again. She didn't wake up.

"What happened... She met them, huh?" Daddy came downstairs and saw us in the living room.

"Yeah. She got scared and fainted." I said.

"Go back in Cocoa's brain and don't come out until I say so." Daddy told them and they left.

"Where's Mom?" Jazz bounced in.

"She fainted." I pointed to her.

"What, why?" She looked at her mom.

"One of you come out. Not the villains." Daddy decided. They chose Cocoa the dog, Dellia's pet.

"Outside time!" She ran around the living room before wanting to be petted.

"Really?" Daddy sighed.

"We panicked." Lok replied.

"A ghost puppy." Jazz pet Cocoa's tummy.

"Writer Cocoa made my owners. I luv dem and her. You smell like food." She licked Jazz's hand.

"I'm a writer. The ghosts are my characters." I explained better.

"Oh. Who's a good dog? I can read your stories?" She tried to talk to me and play with Cocoa.

"Yeah." I pet Cocoa, too.

After Aunt Jane woke up, we had lunch. Junior didn't look at anyone. Aunt Jane asked how old I was and I said 17. My birthday was on the 19th. Daddy said Junior could maybe have cake on my birthday. She left after lunch. Jazz and me went out to play in the pond. Daddy said he wanted to talk to Junior.

Jack B. Nimble's POV

The girls went to the pond. Junior was still messing with the beans on his plate. I sat down next to my namesake. He looked up.

"Look, I don't like punishing you, but you can't yell at Cocoa for what I did. Or didn't do. The point is that wasn't the right thing to do." I told him.

"I know." He nodded.

"Tell you what: if you're good and get along with Cocoa for this week, I'll drop the punishment next week. Ok?" I saw the hope spark in his eyes.

"Really?" He half asked.

"Yeah. Let's go to the pond. I didn't take away that from you." I got up.

"Ok. Let me get my trunks." He ran upstairs. I smiled and I went to get mine.

Jack B. Nimble's POV End

Daddy and Junior came to the pond and we had a water fight. Junior was happy now. What'd Daddy say to him? He'll tell us later. Lucia stayed at the edge of pond. We had rope for her here so she couldn't run away while we played in the water. She stayed in the shade most of the time. We went back after awhile and I fed Lucia then we had dinner. It was waffles. They were awesome. Junior went to his room while we watched TV. He said of Junior was nice to me and good for the rest of the week, he'd let him have TV and ice cream and Mirriornet back.

"Thanks, Uncle Jack." Jazz pulled her braid back as Lucia nipped at it. Then Daddy made us go to bed.

"Let's go to sleep. I'll get your dishes." He pushed us toward the stairs.

"Nighty-night." I gave him a good night kiss.

"See you in the morning." Daddy said.

Dellia and her family have a connection to fanfiction. Dellia was originally an OC for another fanfic called A Seeker's Bond by Adriane Star. It's a part of a trilogy. Wishes is the frist book. Go check it out.