This is my first fanfiction so please review, comment and criticize. I should probably mention that i do not own any of Joss Stirling's characters.
'Aurora Benedict! Clean up this mess now!'My mum shouted from downstairs. She only calls me Aurora when I'm in trouble; normally I go by 'Rory' or 'Rora.' I'm the youngest daughter of 7 brothers. Wow…..I mean what were my parents thinking! My brother Xavier tells me that I was the unwanted child of the family but my dad says that I was just unplanned, not unwanted. My parents had this alphabet thing going on when naming their children, starting with T, but because I was a 'surprise' child they had to start at A for me. Don't get me wrong, I love all my brothers to pieces, it's just sometimes they get a little annoying and over protective. Like at school for example, all the boys are afraid to ask me out because they're scared of my brothers beating them up.
'AURORA BENEDICT! I WILL NOT ASK YOU AGAIN!' I reluctantly trudge down the stairs to face my mum and believe me, I do not like seeing her angry. She may be small but she sure can be scary.
'What on earth have you done to my kitchen?!' my mum exclaimed.
Oops….that mess was the evidence of my attempt to bake brownies, not very well, may I add.
'Sorry mama, I was baking' I replied and tried for the puppy dog eyes look.
'Just make sure it's clean before I come home.' Said my mum.
'Of course mama that was the plan all along' I said smiling sweetly.
'ZED!' I yelled as soon as my mum left for shopping. Zed's the second youngest child in the family; only one year older than me. He stumbled into the kitchen with Sky, his soulfinder, in tow which wasn't anything unusual seeing as they are practically joined at the hip.
'Remember 8 weeks ago when I covered for you and told dad that I broke the Native American vase just so you wouldn't be grounded? Well you can owe me back my cleaning the kitchen' Zed rolled his eyes.
'Seriously? You've been holding that against me for 8 weeks?! I though you forgot.'
'I don't forget things Zed, encase you've forgotten. Please do this for me Zed. I really am very tired.' I said sweetly.
'Fine, whatever, then were even. For now anyway.' Zed replied and reluctantly started loading the dishwasher. Sky help which was kind I guess. I felt a little guilty though seeing as sky didn't owe me anything.
It was useless arguing with me about incidents in the past because that was my gift, photographic memory. I can recall any incident by replaying the whole thing in my head. It sometimes gives me a headache because I have all these random numbers swirling around my head from what I've seen from car number plates and house numbers and stuff. The school put me in counselling when I was younger because of it. When I was 6 my class was told to draw a picture of whatever was in our heads at the time. Everyone had drawn beautiful pictures of castles and rockets and princesses. I, however, drew a page full of rows of random numbers.
'I think you may have misunderstood the task, Aurora.' The teacher told me.
'But this is what was in my head at the time, miss' I replied.
The counselling started when I used my photographic memory and produced an identical drawing of my picture with all the numbers in the correct order the next day. The teacher got a little freaked to say the least.
I went into the living room to find all my brothers and their soulfinders they were all doing cute things like sitting on each other's laps and kissing and stuff. But as soon as they saw me they sprung apart looking guilty. I am the only one in the family who hasn't found their soulfinder yet. After we discovered that Xav's soulfinder, Crystal, was a soulseeker my brothers: Vick, Uri and Will jumped in line for her to find their soulfinders. I was scared that I would find out my soulfinder is dead or something so I told Crystal that she can find mine when all my brothers have found theirs, which happens to be now. Crystal says she will find mine tonight as all my brothers are in town.