Author's Note: I know this is a very weird first chapter, but I won't be here tomorrow morning, and I'll be back around 6:00 or 6:30 at night, and then my aunt and uncle are going to stay afterwards. I hope you enjoy this story!
Chapter One: Hide And Seek
Hide and seek was a favorite game among children, like jump rope and hopstoch.
And Lilly played all of those games with her baby-sitters, but she loved hide and seek the best.
Haylie Anderson and Ryan Evans were working on their homework that due tomorrow, and Lilly was bugging them to play.
"Come on! It'll only take a few minutes!" she protested, and Haylie placed her book down on coffee table.
"Lilly, we have to get this done. Otherwise, it's considered late."
Ryan looked at Haylie, and he smiled.
"It's only a game of hide and seek, Haylie. It's not going to take very long."
"Yeah, please with sugar on top?"
Haylie looked at her boyfriend, and the little girl, and she smiled.
"Okay. Just one game. Then we need to go back to our homework."
"Yay!" Lilly stated, as she grabbed Ryan's hand, and together they went to go hide, while Haylie stayed on the couch, and counted to twenty.
Finally, when she stated, "ready or not!", she got off the couch, and went to search for a boy and a girl who were both blondes.
She checked the hallway closets, downstairs, and anywhere that could hold two people.
Haylie was searching in Lilly's room when she heard a muffled giggle coming from a big, pink closet, and she grinned.
This was oh so easy!
She crept towards the closet, and opened the door, to reveal Lilly falling on top of her, and Ryan jammed inside, laughing.
"That was quick! What kind of powers do you have?" he asked as he picked up Lilly so Haylie could get off the ground.
"I have ultra-sound, but then again, Lilly's giggles aren't too hard to hear."
The little girl pretended to pout, and she folded her arms.
"No fair! And that was a good hiding place too!"
"Yes, well..it was little cramped, Lilly." Ryan said as they headed downstairs.
"Well, you are a big person, Ryan."
Haylie giggled as she said, "Yeah, Ryan. Your pretty big."
Ryan rolled his eyes at the two girls as he sat on the couch.
"Well, you could easily pass for a twelve year old, Haylie."
Haylie sat next to him on the couch as he started to grin, and Haylie threw a pillow at him.
"Let's just get back to work, okay?" she asked, and Ryan grinned and threw the pillow aside.
"Alright.."
"I mean it, Ryan."
"What? Noone has called you Strawberry Shortcake before?" he asked, and Haylie fought back a smile, but she failed.
"No, and I don't want it to start now."