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Cammie's POV
"Lucy and Maddie, are you ready to go to stay with Grandma? Your brother has been ready for twenty minutes." I shouted up the stairs at my girls, hoping they would hurry up. My husband, Zach, got up from his chair and walked up the stairs, "I'll go check what's taking those two so long."
I turned to find Noah, my 4 year old son, playing with the suitcase that contained his clothes. "Do you have everything ready, Noah?" He nodded and continued to play with the suitcase. I was about to ask him what he was doing but decided we really didn't have time.
"Cammie, can you come up here? We have a problem." Oh, what now? Why couldn't we just leave the house on time for once?
I got up the stairs and entered the twin's room; it was a mess of toys that had been thrown all over the place. Zach stood in the middle of the room, Maddie stood at one side of him glaring at Lucy who stood on the other side of him.
"What is going on up here?" I asked in an aggravated voice. Both of the eight year olds started to talk at once, I was a spy but not even I was good enough to hear what they were saying over each other. I held up my hand which was the universal sign in this household to shut up; they both stopped talking straight away, "One at a time. Lucy you start, then Maddie you can have your say." I said neither looked very happy about the situation.
"Well, Maddie stole and hid my night vision goggles and now she won't tell me where she put them and I can't leave without them!" Seriously, why did kids have to argue about things that really weren't that important?
"Well, the night vision goggles are mine and I haven't hidden them. And I didn't steal them because they are MINE! She's just jealous cos she lost her pair last week." Maddie shouted at her sister and Lucy decided to charge at her to show her who's boss. Zach picked both of them up before anything could happen, since both of them had been doing martial arts and all that for a very long time, it was safer for everyone if they didn't start to fight.
"Okay, I am going to go downstairs and I want both of you down there within two minutes with everything that you want to take with you. If you are not then neither of you get to take anything. Understood?" Both girls, still in the father's arms, nodded. "And I want to hear nothing of those night vision goggles. Neither of you are to bring them with you nor are you to talk or argue about them, we will sort all of that out when we are not in a rush. I want you to say sorry to each other." Neither of them apologised. "Now!" both of them whispered a "sorry", neither of them sounding happy about it.
I left the room, Zach stayed there to make sure nobody committed murder. I walked down the stairs and Noah was now on the floor pointing up at the ceiling, normal. After a minute Maddie and Lucy were both coming down the stars with their backpacks on, Zach followed them, he was smiling which told me we were now ready to go.
"Okay, let's get in the car." We left the house and the kids scampered towards the car. After, turning back three times we were finally further than ten metres from the house. We drove for two hours and we finally go to Roseville, Virginia. All the children woke up just as we entered the town.
"Okay, you have to be good for Grandma because there are students at the school so she will be busy. That means no arguing", I turned my head to stare at them, "And definitely no looking for trouble." They looked between themselves, and then looked at me and nodded, "Aunty Abby and Uncle Joe will all be there and I know you haven't seen them in a while, but remember they still have classes to teach." They all nodded again.
We drove through the gate of the school passing the security, I looked back at my three children to find them looking at the Mansion in awe. It was the first time they had seen it and even I was still amazed by it and I had seen it many times in my life. Zach stopped the car and the kids jumped out, they were still staring at the Mansion as if it wasn't real. I looked at Zach and couldn't help but laugh with him at them, they were so innocent.
We walked into the mansion, it was a Saturday and girl's mingled around the front entrance, they all stopped talking as they saw our family, they stared at me and Zach, which was unnerving. Whispers went around the area and being the spy I was I heard every single word, "Is that the Goode's?", "Is that Headmistress Morgan's family?", "He is so dreamy." I tried not to get a little bit jealous when a girl on the stairs said the last one, I mean I know he is hot but that doesn't mean anyone is allowed to comment on it. Zach just smirked at me and strolled towards my mother's office.
Lucy and Maddie followed him there eyes darting everywhere; I knew they were searching for the secret passages that Zach had told them about and how I had found all of them in my first couple of weeks at the school. They wanted to beat that and find all of them now, we hadn't told them that a lot of them had been blocked, but oh well.
Noah was still stood by my side, shy under the scrutiny of the girls. I took his little hand in mine and started to walk, he looked up at me smiling. Noah was more like me when it came to attention, we would both rather be in the background, Zach and I both think he will be a pavement artist when he is older. Maddie was also a pavement artist but she was also got some of Zach's skill of being a know it all. Lucy was also a know it all, she was very strong and smart. So we defiantly had children who would become spies when they were older and they were all defiantly going to be know it all's like Zach.
Noah and I reached my mother's office a few minutes after the others. Maddie and Lucy were about to wonder off when my mother opened her door. They both ran at their Grandmother hugging her, Noah stayed beside me still a bit shy. "We missed you Grandma." My girl's said in unison, Noah realising he was missing a hug off his grandma ran over to her, "Me too Grandma."
"I missed you all too. How about you go say hi to the rest of them, they are all in there." The three of them ran past my mother and into her office, where I could hear a lot squeals and people saying they missed each other.
"Hey mum, thanks for watching them. We will be back in a couple of weeks." I leant into Zach and he hugged me. This was the first time we had both left the children for a mission at the same time; there had always been one of us home with them. I was a tad nervous, mainly because I was worried about what they would do to the mansion, a little because they might miss us.
We stayed for 30 minutes talking with Aunt Abby, Joe and my mum. "Okay, we are going now. Come and give me a hug." Maddie ran over to me and gave me a hug and kisses, Lucy did the same with Zach. And then they swapped, so Maddie was hugging Zach and Lucy was hugging me. Noah waited, patiently, until his sisters had finished, then he ran over and jumped into my arms reaching out for Zach as well, so we were having a group hug.
"Group hug!" Maddie shouted, so her and Lucy joined the hug.
Five minutes later we were getting into the car, "Be good!" Zach shouted from the car, staring at Maddie and Lucy as he said it. They both just smirked at us and waved. We started to drive away and I saw Noah running and waving at us.
I just hoped that the mansion was still standing when we came back. Thinking about the girls smirks I was doubtful. God help them.
Maddie's POV
Mum and dad had left ten minutes ago and Grandma said that we could go explore, within reason. Lucy and I took that as wonder around the mansion until you have found all the secret passages ways. Noah came with us because he was upset about mum and dad had gone away. You would think having your little brother with you would be a problem but Noah was good at noticing things that other people didn't, dad said he got it off mum, she was strange as well.
Noah had stopped walking and was looking at the wall that Lucy and I had just walked past, "What you looking at Noah?" We both went over to him, he pointed up at the wall above his head. We all looked up at where he was pointing, I couldn't see anything and from the look on Lucy's face she didn't see any either.
"Pick me up." Noah said, Lucy lifted him up and he pushed against the wall and the wall moved forward I started to push against the wall and soon there was a child size gap that we could fit through.
"Well done Noah, you found one of the passage ways." He smiled, and we all started to giggle as we went through the gap. When we got through we found ourselves in a little room, which had a little light. In the middle of the room was a small machine thing, "What's that?" Noah asked pointing at the machine.
"I don't know." I said as we all crept closer to the thing.
"Look there's two buttons. Which one should we press?" Noah looked at me and Lucy; it was probably a bad idea to press either button but I really wanted to see what it did.
"That one," Lucy and I pointed at the same one. We all pressed down on the button at the same time. The machine made a little squeak but other than that it didn't do anything.
"Well that was disappointing." Lucy sat down on the floor. "Maybe we should just go now." We all nodded and were about to leave when I felt a tug on my back, "What do you want Noah?" I looked behind me but saw that Noah wasn't behind me.
"Stop poking me!" Lucy shouted.
"I didn't!"
Suddenly, I felt myself fall backwards and I saw Noah and Lucy fall as well, "What was that?" Nobody answered and I found myself being pulled and pushed and then the light went out. I felt my brother's hand in mine but I couldn't find Lucy.
Then the light turned back on, and the pushing and pulling stopped. I sat up and saw Lucy across from me, "What was that?" she shrugged.
"I want to go back to Grandma." Noah said, I nodded "so do I." We stood up and crawled through the gap again. Noah stood in between us as we walked back to Grandma's office. We walked past some windows, it was dark, it must get darker earlier here.
We walked into Grandma's office but we all stopped dead to what we saw. It was grandma, Uncle Joe and Aunty Abby but they were younger, a lot younger. They all turned towards us and they seemed as shocked as us.
"Mum and dad are going to kill us!"
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