Disclaimer: Neither FES nor I own any part of Jak and Daxter, everything except our OCs belongs to Naughty Dog.

JKA: Hey, y'all! Fire-Eco-Sage and I are back with our fourth story! We'll be going with our usual pattern of switching off between chapters, and this first one is FES's. Read, REVIEW, and enjoy. ^_^

Chapter 1: Breaking the Tedium

The hallways where empty at Mar High School, home of the Warriors. In English, Aleighna was watching with excitement as her teacher, Mr. Henry passed out their tests. She grinned when she saw her result — an A plus, as usual.

Glancing casually over at her friend Lizzy seated at the desk beside her, Aleighna noticed that the brunette girl was also smiling, kicked back in her chair with her feet propped up on her desk and her test in her hands.

"What did you get?" Aleighna asked, peering over at her friend's score.

"B plus, what did you get?" Lizzy asked.

"A plus. Good English runs in the family; my mom got good grades, my dad, even Jak," Aleighna said as she leaned back in her chair again. She looked at her sister, who was sleeping soundly on her desk, only to be woken up by her friend Ethan. "Apparently, it skipped a twin."

Mr. Henry gave Chris her paper, then, revealing the bright red D minus adorning the top. Chris looked at Aleighna, sticking her tongue out at her sibling as the latter shook her head sadly.

The final bell rang and they all ran out of the classroom.

"So, we're the big one-five tomorrow!" Chris announced as she leaned against the lockers lining the spacious hallway.

Aleighna pushed her English book in her locker and pulled out her homework.

"I can't believe it, so many things happened while we were fourteen. Keira got pregnant and we turned into cre-" Aleighna was cut off by Chris.

"We swore we wouldn't talk about it!" Chris growled, earning a laugh from her sister. "Wait, fifteen means… we. Have. To. Be. Mature." Chris gripped onto Aleighna's forearms and shook her with each word.

Aleighna rolled her eyes and got out of her sister's death grip. "Chris, we'll always be immature. Plus, we have to save our title when the baby is born."

"Yeah, if anyone is going to make Jak mad, it's us."

Aleighna smiled and they left the lockers. They walked out to the front of the school to meet the music of Jazz. Some kids were painting stuff on the walls, others were picking on anyone they saw. Chris and Aleighna sighed and walked toward two of their friends, Lizzy and Jay.

"Hey guys," they both said in unison.

"Hey," Lizzy said. "So, tomorrow is your birthday." The twins nodded, grinning at each other.

Suddenly, the screech of protesting brakes resounded through the front parking lot, and all four of them turned to see Jak and Keira waiting in their four-seat cruiser. The twins waved good-bye to their friends and climbed in, settling comfortably into the back seats.

"How was your day?" Keira asked.

"I got an A plus on my English test," Aleighna announced proudly.

"That's my girl," Keira praised.

"I got a D minus," Chris informed her, mocking her sister's smug tone and earning herself a punch in the arm.

"Best grade you've gotten this year," Keira noted, twisting around in her seat to smile at the younger duo. Both siblings beamed at the sapphire-haired she-elf, and then cast glances in their brother's direction. Jak hadn't said a word since they'd gotten in the zoomer, and his eyes were fixed firmly on the road ahead of him. This reminded the twins of the time they'd turned thirteen and Jak had remained silent until the next day.

Once they got home, the girls walked in their room and flopped down on two beanbags, pulling out their textbooks for some studying time.

(Twenty minutes later)

Aleighna looked up from her English book and Chris looked up from her book to meet her gaze.

"What did you get for question three?" Aleighna asked as Chris flipped through her notebook.

"I got x equals one-hundred-and-thirty-five," Chris said, looking up at her sister. Aleighna glanced from her, to her English book, and back again.

"Weren't we doing english?" Aleighna asked, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion. Shrugging dismissively, she leaned over to check the problem in her open math book that Chris had just answered. "And you got it wrong. It's x equals five."

Chris looked at her book and gave a shocked 'huh?'. Aleighna giggled and went back to her work. Chris touched Aleighna on her shoulder but she didn't look up. Frowning impatiently, Chris shoved her sibling and got Aleighna's attention.

"Oh good, you're listening. Did you hear about Brittany and Jake?" Chris gossiped. Aleighna shook her head. "Well, Jake invited Brittany to the party he's throwing this weekend, after he'd already invited Luna."

Aleighna's jaw dropped at the news. "Luna from science?"

"No, Luna from cheer!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and the girls looked up at the same time. "Come in!" they called in unison.

The door swung open and Jak strolled into the room. His bangs were let down, which meant he was in no mood to fight with them. He was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt, which meant he was relaxed, and his gun was nowhere in sight. He looked sort of happy, a good sign.

"Hey girls, um, what are you doing?" Jak asked.

"Keira got pissed at you again?" Aleighna inquired nonchalantly. Jak grinned sheepishly.

"It's not my fault Heather wants to marry Kyle," he grumbled, leaning against the door. The girls knew he was talking about this soap opera that Keira was addicted to. She'd read that if a baby is a girl, watching soap operas would help avoid pregnancy at a young age; if it was a boy, on the other hand, he'd end up gay.

"Hey Jak, what are we doing for our birthday?" Chris asked. She and Aleighna both were hoping, no, praying, that Jak would act like his brotherly side and say 'whatever'. Instead, Jak's smile softened and he gazed at his little sisters in an almost fatherly way.

"I was planning on taking you girls to Barney's," he announced, shrugging away from the doorframe and taking his leave as if that settled the matter.

Moments later, Keira walked in, her hand held gingerly to her back to support her full belly. She noted that the twins looked as if they'd found out they were having a nephew, which would be quite the catastrophe as they were both hoping for a girl.

"What's wrong? I thought you liked Barney's," Keira asked, frowning. The girls looked up at Keira.

"Yeah, when we were seven!" Aleighna groaned.

Keira looked at Aleighna and then at Chris. "Come on, girls. Be nice to Jak."

"Keira, we haven't been nice to Jak since the moment he pinched us," Chris pointed out, reminding the older woman that Jak had used to pinch them when they were newborns because he hadn't known any better.

Keira shook her head and walked out. The girls rolled their eyes and got back to work.

"Chris?"

"Yeah?"

"WE ARE DOING ENGLISH FOR THE LAST FREAKING TIME!"

~X~

Aleighna and Chris walked out of the bathroom, ready for bed. They tucked themselves in and drifted off to sleep, ready for a new day.

JKA: And that's chapter 1 under the belt, ladies and gentlemen. Guess that means it's time for me to start on chapter 2 now. XD I'll try to get that up as soon as possible, in between schoolwork and other such nonsense.