I had given up on finding my sister and began heading for home when I noticed a figure lying in the grass over by the large oak tree. Wondering who they were I walked over to them. Finding them to be a little boy with blonde hair. Being a 9-year-old girl I couldn't help but giggle at him. Which caused him to open his blue eyes and sit up in surprise. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" He demanded. "Huh? What am I doing here? My mom and dad own this area. See?" I asked as I pointed to the large mansion down the hill. "That's where my family lives. I'm Tear. Who are you?" He looked like he was about to call me a lair when I heard, "SIS!" Turning my head I waved to my older double as she ran up to me. Her green eyes glitter with joy as she stopped in front of me. "Alex is coming home tonight! Mom just told me." She said very fast causing me to almost miss it. "Really? Alright!" Alex is our older brother by one year. He broke his leg a week ago but the doctors noticed something was up with him so they kept him longer. "Who's Alex?" The boy asked. "He's our older brother. He's finally coming home from the hospital." I explained. "Sis, who's he?" I had no answer for my sister. "I'm Thor. Who are you?" He asked. "I'm Dark. How'd you get here? No one's come in since early this morning." Sis asked. "I don't have to tell you." Thor turned from her. I giggled at them because of how alike they were. "Hey Thor. Wanna come to our house? Mom's got some brownies in the over and I bet they are just about ready to eat." I asked. "What are brownies?" Thor asked. I looked at sis and she gave me a confused look. "Well come on and you can try some." Sis grabbed Thor wrist and I followed after the two while sis dragged him to the mansion.
"Do you really have to go Thor?" I was sad when he told us he had to go so I volunteered to walk him out. "Yes, I need to go home." He answered. "Tear, I'm sorry I was rude to you before." He said as we stood in the front doorway. "That's ok Thor. Hey, if you come back tomorrow maybe you can meet Alex. He'd like to meet you." I had added the last bit when I noticed that Thor looked a little uncomfortable. "I can't Tear. I have to go home and stay there for a really long time. It's what my father and I agreed too." He told me. "Oh. Well when you can come back will you visit?" He seemed to brighten at that question. "Yes. I'll come find you when I can come back." I gave him a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek. Strange thing was he didn't seem grossed out by it. In fact he blushed a little. "See you later Thor." I called as I watched him walk away from my home.
That was years ago. I never did see him again. Sis tried to convince me that he was an imaginary friend I had made up after dad started telling us stories again but I didn't believe her. I know Thor was really and that I will see him again. However until that time I had to focus on school, training, and most important of all family; for not three years after meeting Thor my parents were killed. Alex kept everyone from separating us until he was old enough for sis and me to live with him (as long as someone came by once a week to make sure we were being well looked after). They meant well but those government people really need to learn to back of a lot!
Waking to a pair of green eyes I sighed. "Nightmare again sis?" I asked Dark, my twin. "Yeah. Same one too." She answered. Sitting up with her I gave her my tightest hug. "It's over sis. You don't have be scared anymore." By that I meant the death of our parents. They had been murdered and both sis and I had seen the whole thing. "I know sis. But I can't help it. I sometimes feel like they're right outside the bedroom door." She explained. Carefully pushing off the covers I helped her out of bed and into the bathroom. "Come on sis. You know a good 20-minute soak in a warm bath is the cure for this." I set about gathering her fave bath stuff while she filled the tub.
"Another nightmare?" Alex asked while pushing his dark bangs out of his eyes. "Yeah. I wish they would stop for her like they did me." I sighed as I watched my older brother. He was the only one out of the three of us to have dark brown hair. He had let his grow this year because his boyfriend commented about liking it long. Yeah my brother is an open gay and sis and I are very happy for him. But back to my brother. His sea green eyes flicked over a few stories in the paper before shifting to me. Another thing Alex has that sis and I don't is tanned skin. But then again he always was better at tanning then us. "I have to work late tonight and Johnny's asked me to meet him for drinks. Think you can handle Dark?" He smirked while asking that and I chuckled. "Yeah we should be alright. The two of us can cook plus we have money for take out. Maybe we'll see a movie or go for drinks ourselves." I answered before peeking in the frige. "Cool. I'm on my way out now. See ya." Alex kissed my forehead before heading for the door. "Later!" I called, hearing sis do the same from the tub.
"Really sis Johnny needs to reveal to the world that he is with Alex. Otherwise our brother is going to get hurt." Having to listen to Dark going on about our brother's boyfriend really wasn't what I had hoped to talk about after the movie we had just seen. "Sis what would you say if I told you I want to cut my hair?" Ok not the best subject I could come up with but it seemed to work. "How short?" Sis asked. "I don't know." I answered. I hadn't cut my hair in years. It was almost past my butt now. Sis however had cut her hair so it ended just along her jaw line as well as dyed one half of her bangs red. "Short would look really nice on you sis. Maybe to your ears and layered. Yeah that could work for you." She suggested. "Sounds like a nice look. Too bad no one's open who can cut it right now." I sighed. "Yeah. Oh well. What do you wanna do now sis?" I was about to answer when I caught site of something. It was a blonde guy wearing some kind of armor disappearing around a corner. "Sis did you see that?" I asked her. "See what?" Dark asked. "Come on. Just follow me and you'll find out." I told her as I ran after the figure.
"Sis we've been running around for hours. What are you after?" She asked. "I was sure I saw them go this way." I couldn't believe I had lost them. Whoever they were. "Alright sis I think we should head home. Cause clearly you aren't thinking clearly." Sighing I almost agreed with her before hearing the sound of something hit the ground. Something metal. Turning my head to the far wall I spotted what looked like a silver helmet. I couldn't help myself. I just headed right over to it and picked it up. It was very well made with wings on the top. One on either side. "Wow. Thing some actor dropped it?" Sis asked as she looked at it from over my shoulder. "Sis I think this dropped out of the sky." Dark laughed at that. "Yeah sure sis. And Thor is real. Come on sis! How could that have fallen from the sky and still be in one piece? The metal's not really that thick and it's not even dented. No way it fell. Maybe a cat knocked it over." She tried to brush off. "Thor is real and this did fall from the sky. I don't care what you say I know it's true." I tell her as I tuck the helmet into my bag. "Come on sis. Let's go home."