A/N: I got the idea for this when my bestie and I were hanging up posters in my room. My Tokio Hotel 'Schrei' poster had just arrived so we kind of needed to reorganize it. And we were looking at Bill, when he was all young and sexy, and said "Why couldn't he stay like that?" at the same time. And so this happened. Basically, read to understand what our strange obsessions are. By the way, I am NOT as smart as my character in this story. I wish I was, 'cause I'd be rich! And I could meet Billie Joe Armstrong and Bill and quite a few other sexy people and make them my age. That would be awesome! One more thing, 'Shaunee' is pronounced shaw-knee. Don't screw up my freind's name, okay? Okay!
"Why is everyone we like way older than us?" Shaunee asked as Rayne started wiring yet another one of her mechanical machines that was a strike of genius.
Shaunee and Rayne were each fifteen, and twins, but they were each very different from each other. Shaunee was shorter than Rayne. Her light brown hair had been dyed midnight blue and she wore bright red hair extensions in it. She also was much more athletic than Rayne. And she wasn't as smart. Not at all.
Rayne, however, was like the next Einstein: a genius, full of technological ideas. All she did, was sit in her lab under their house and design things. She was five inches taller than Shaunee, and her hair brown hair was dyed black. She wore a different hair extension every day. She was also much paler than Shaunee, as she never really left her basement.
Rayne's lab was covered in bits of experiments. One wall held rats that she would occasionally experiment on. But she gave them the best treatment she could. Machines covered parts of the other walls. Computer screens and hardrives were focused in the center of the wall opposite the stairs down to the lab. A metal table sat in the center of the room. Shaunee sat on it with googles over her green/brown eyes while Rayne had a lab coat buttoned over her dark jeans and Green Day t-shirt. Googles covered her brown eyes, as well. She held a blow torch in one hand.
"I have no idea," Rayne replied as she started to torch the metal together. Then she stopped and held up the machine. It was the size of a pen, made of shiny metal with a laser point at the end. There was a black button near the middle. "But this might change everything."
"What is it?" Shaunee asked.
"It should change the age of people, animals, and plants," Rayne said. "But that's what I've said about quite a few different inventions. But I'm not perfect. I will make mistakes."
"Are you going to test it?"
"No, I'm going to never use it," Rayne said sarcatically.
"Well, then."
"Actaully, I'm going to test it on one of the oldest rats. See, if it works correctly, then all I have to do is twist this dail-" she pointed to a dail on the end of the pin with numbers written on it. "-and then press either the positive or negative button and then it will age or grow younger based on what I have it set to do."
"Awesome!" Shaunee said.
"Can you get the rat out?" Rayne asked.
"Sure," Shaunee said and jumped off the table. She came back a moment later holding a rat with graying fur. "Here."
She sat the rat on the table and Rayne adjusted the laser pointer.
"I'm only going to set it back a few months so that in case it doesn't work correctly, he should die," Rayne said as she pointed the laser pointer at the rat. She pressed the button and the rat's appearance started changing. It's fur gained shine and became a more pronounced brown.
"Awesome!" the girls said together.
"I wonder if it would work on people," Shaunee asked out loud.
"I don't know, but I sure hope it does!" Rayne said. "'Cause I've got a great plan."
She leaned over and started whispering into Shaunee's ear.
"Yes!" Shaunee said.
"Isn't that awesome?" Rayne said. "And then I can work on that other invention while you spark off the idea to move to Germany!"
"WE WIN!" they said together and started jumping up and down around the room. Shaunee hit play on Rayne's iPod and 'Schrei' started to play by Tokio Hotel, their favorite German rock band.
"SCHREI!" they shouted together. "WOO!"
That night at dinner, Rayne and Shaunee sat around their table with their mother. Their father had left them at the age of three, so they didn't remember him well.
"Mom," Shaunee said.
"Yes?" their mother replied. Her hair was curly and short, nothing like thier's. But it was black. Her eyes were also brown.
"Rayne's newest invention is a success," Shaunee said.
"That's great!" their mom said, beaming at Rayne.
"Yeah," Rayne said, seeming modest. "I want to try and get notified by some science commity!"
"Okay," she said. "I'll get to work on it."
"Thanks, Mom," Rayne smiled. "Can we go to Germany?"
"Only if you're offered a scholarship to some German college," she said. Rayne was already in her last year of high school; she had skipped so many grades!
Rayne glanced at Shaunee. She was hoping she wasn't feeling over-shadowed by Rayne's genius again.
"And Shaunee won her soccer game earlier," Rayne added.
"Yeah, six to zero!" Shaunee said with a grin. "Although, they were very easy to beat!"
"Good job!" their mother said.
"Thanks!"
The small family finished eating dinner and then they all went back to doing their own things. THeir mother started reading, and the girls went back to Rayne's lab.
"Are you going to check and make sure there's been no reverse effects on the rat?" Shaunee asked.
"Exactly," Rayne said as she picked up the rat from inside its cage.
She looked it over and then put it under a screen bordered with metal. She pressed a few buttons and then an electronic voice filled the room.
"The age of the rat is still at age one. The body appears to be under no outside stress. The body systems are working perfectly. The rat is not showing anything that could harm it. All vital signs are perfect. The heartbeat is at the average number, exactly. Breathing is at a normal, safe rate," the female voice said.
Rayne ran her finger across the screen so as to move it to a new picture of the rat. It was an x-ray of its body. No bones were broken. Nothing had been moved out of place. And nothing was twisted or disformed.
"This is perfect!" Rayne said with a grin, putting the rat away and turning off the Body-Reader. "I only need to test it on plants and a human now."
"Let's start with a plant," Shaunee said.
"That's what I was going to do," Rayne said.
Rayne walked into a side room and came back holding a leafy plant. She sat it on the work table, where Shaunee had taken a seat and was playing with a tennis ball in one hand.
Rayne sat the plant down and Shaunee became very attentive. Rayne picked up the Body-Reader (good for plants, humans and animals) and held it over the plant.
"The plant is ten months old," the electronic voice said. "There are no abnormalities to speak of. The plant is completely healthy."
Rayne put down the Body-Reader.
"How old should we make it?" Rayne asked Shaunee.
"Make it then years old!" Shaunee said with a stupid grin.
"Okay," Rayne shurgged.
She set the number dial and hit the positive button. Then she hit the button that would put it all into action. The leaves turned brown and fell off. The plant started to disfigure itself and was soon a pile of plant shrivels.
"Sweet!" Rayne said. She picked up the Body-Reader and held it over the plant.
"The plant is now ten years and ten months old," the female voice said.
Rayne sat the Body-reader down.
"All we have to do," she said, "is test it on a human."
She set it to where she would grow a month younger and picked up the Body-Reader. She held it in front of herself. Shaunee watched on in anticipation.
"The girl, Rayne Monsun, is at age thirteen, two months, and three days," the voice said. "She is asthmatic and otherwise in perfect health."
Rayne sat the Body-Reader down.
Well, here goes nothing," Rayne said.
She pressed the button. She didn't feel anything at all but then sat the thign down. Shaunee held the Body-Reader in front of her.
"Rayne Monsun: age thirten years, one month and three days," the voice said. "Asthmatic, but otherwise in perfect health."
Shaunee moved the Body-reader down.
"It worked!" they shouted together.
"But I would like to be the same age as you," Rayne said and reset it so as it made her the same age as when they started the experiment. She checked it with the Body-Reader and everything was set to go.
"So now that we've finished this," Shaunee said, "will you start to work on the next thing?"
"Tomorrow, for sure," Rayne said, patting her sister on the head.
"Yes!" Shaunee said, pumping her fist in the air.
The climbed the stairs from the basement and then up another flight of stairs to their rooms. Rayne's room was very different from her lab. It was painted dark red with band posters, movies, and TV shows: Green Day, Tokio Hotel, Avenged Sevnhold, Disturbed, Nightmare Before Christmas, a Spock poster, Severus Snape, and a NCIS poster she had made of pictures of her favorite characters. Oh, and then there was another Tokio Hotel poster.
She had her matteresses in a corner with an extra pad on top so she could sleep better. She didn't have a bed frame. There were five bookshelves. Four were filled with all her scientific journals, and the other had actual books. There was a desk with a lap top sitting in the corner. There was a dresser filled with random shorts, shirts, and other clothing. And a closet with her fancier clothes.
Shaunee had went to her room. It was painted a pale green with fake ivy painted up all of the walls. She had posters of Tokio Hotel, L from Death Note, an Ouran High School Host Club poster, and a Draco Malfoy poster. She also had stuck up random Pokemon drawings she had drew. She also had soccer and swiming tropheys on a shelf above her closet. There were bookshelves were there weren't posters or drawings. Half were filled with books. The other half were filled with books she had written. A laptaop sat on a desk in the corner. Her bed was simple and had a dark green blanket covering it. A closet and dresser were at the far end of the room.
She changed into pajamas at the same tiem Rayne was. And, at the same time, Rayne and Shaunee fell into bed at the stroke of ten.
The next morning, it was Saturday. Thank God. The girls stayed in their pajamas and went downstairs where their mother was sipping her coffee.
"Are you going to work on my German college scholarship?" Rayne asked her as she got a bagel from the bag on the counter.
"Yes," their mother said.
"Sweet! Which one?" she asked with an excited grin. "I learned German three years ago, tell me I'm going there finally!"
"I'm going to look at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences," she said.
"YES! COMPUTER SCIENCES!" Rayne said, squeeling like a little girl being given a pony and jumping around the kitchen. "But that's so far from Magdeburg." She started to pout.
"We'll go there whenever we can!" her mother said, ruffling her black hair.
"We're leaving Shaunee out again," Rayne said.
"I'm sorry, baby," she said, hugging her other daughter.
"Nah, it's cool," Shuanee said, shaking her head. Then she glanced at her sister. "But we do work to do."
"Yes we do," Rayne said and they bolted down the stairs to Rayne's lab. Rayne grabbed an empty science journal off the desk with her many computers and Shaunee found their Zimmer 483 CD and put it in. bers Ende Der Welt started playing. "So, I'll need to have it programed to read character traits, build, motives...This WILL take awhile. And I have to program memories."
She banged her head on her work table.
"Don't hurt the brain!" Shuanee shouted, pulling her sister back up.
"Crap, that hurt," Ryane said, rubbing her head.
"Again, don't hurt the brain," Shaunee said. "And weren't you the one who said that with every jerk of your head, you lose brain cells?"
"I learned that when I was in the seventh grade. Although at the time I should have only been in fourth," Rayne said.
Shaunee snorted and then went to go chack on the rat.
"He's still healthy," she said.
"That's great," Rayne said, sitting down at her work table and starting to put her brain to work.
Shaunee sat around, playing with the rats.
"DO you think we can get a dog when we're in Germany?" Shaunee asked.
"Maybe we cna get a German Shepard," Rayne said, not looking up from her plans.
Shaunee snorted. "A German Shepard in Germany. Go firgure!"
"Exactly...."
Then there was a knock at the basement door.
"I'M BUSY!" Rayne shouted. But she got up from her chair and walked up the stairs, still shouting. "Can't you people leave me alone while I'm trying to work? I could be in the middle of a technological breakthrough!"
Rayne yanked the door open to see her mother.
"Oh," she said. "Sorry, Mom. What is it?"
"The president wants to talk to you," she said and handed Rayne the phone. "And don't yell at me, or I'll ground you and take away the right to use you lab!"
"NO!" Ryane said and took the phone. Then she started to speak in German. "Hallo?"
(A/N: Pretend everything is in German. I have no idea how to speak German. But I'm going to learn!)
"Ah, yes," the voice said on the other end. "You are Rayne Davis, the acclaimed child genius?"
"Uh, yeah, but I'm not a child," she said slwoly, wlaking back down into her lab and closing the door behind her.
"That is true," he said. "And your mother said you were interested in coming to HAW?"
HAW is the university she wanted to go to.
"Yeah," Rayne said, sitting at her work table again. "I'm interested in pursuing computer sciences."
"Very reasonable," he said. "Have you invented anything new?"
"Oh, yeah! It's awesome, too!" Rayne said excitedly. "I'd love to show it off somewhere."
"Would you like to come visit the university next week? I can have you be a guest lecturer for a while," he said. "I'll have the media there so you can show it off."
"Thank you, sir!" Rayne said. "I'll have to talk to my mom about it though. She'll have to try and get off work, as my sister and I are already out of school for the summer."
"Alright," the president said. "And while we're there, we can discuss your scholarship."
"Oh, thank you! Thank you so muc, Mr. President, sir!" Rayne said. "I'll call you back when I find out if we can make it!"
"That would be great, Ms. Davis," he said. "I'll speak with you then. Have a nice day."
"You too," Rayne said then hung up. She grinned at Shaunee. "I think I got the scholarship!"
"AWESOME!" Shaunee said. The girls started jumping around, cheering and whooping. Then they ran up the stairs.
"MOM!" Rayne shouted as she opened the door. "I got invited to lecture and show off my new invention next week at HAW!"
"That's great!" she said. "I'll talk to my boss and see if I can take the week off and find us plane tickets. It's a good thing we already have passports!"
"Totally," Rayne siad with a grin. "Call your boss NOW!"
"Okay, okay," she said and took the phoen from Rayne. "I'll tell you what he says."
Rayne and Shaunee went back downstairs.
"Do you think he'll say yes?" Shaunee asked as Rayne sat back down at her work table.
"Oh, God, I hope," Rayne said as she picked up the blue prints to the Body-Reader.
"I thought you were making something different," Shaunee said.
"I am. I just like the shape of the body reader," Rayne said. "I think it would be a good shape to use, and I like the screen I have on it. And the voice. I'll wire it much differently, and have it set to create things instead of give a reading. Don't worry, Shaunee. He'll be perfect, eventaully."
"That's good," Shaunee said. "Because I so want Draco Malfoy to be real!"
"He will," Rayne said. "I'll have to firgure out to give him all his memories."
"He better have his memories," Shaunee said with a pout.
"Shaunee?" Rayne said.
"Yeees?" Shaunee said, batting her eyelashes.
"How many times have I told you that I'm more likey to fail than to make it work on the first try?"
"A lot..."
"Yeah. The same thing applies here."
Shuanee pouted again.
"Oh, hush, child."
Shaunee stuck her tongue out in a childish manner.
Rayne went back to work on the new machine. She had a plan. Adn that plan involved her sister, Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series, and a lot of work. So she was going to start right now.
"He said yes!" their mother's voice echoed through the basment suddenly.
"WE WIN!" the twins said together.
"We better start packing up my stuff," Rayne said, gesturing to all the things in her lab she would need while they were in Germany. "Because if things go according to my plan, than we'll be there premanetly."
"I think this plan will be perfect," Shaunee said, smiling at her twin.
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