"Do you think they will like us?' Lucy Pevensie nervously asked her older siblings.
"Well of course." Susan said, "Why shouldn't they?" to anyone else she would have sounded completely confident, but since she was so close with her siblings, they all looked at her worriedly, all of them except Peter, the oldest of the children.
"Su, Luce, Ed, guys come on it going to be fine. She's mums best friend. Mum wouldn't send us here if she didn't trust Mrs. - err… what's her name again? Peter asked shyly.
"Greene" replied Edmund, the second youngest, but he easily could have thought to be older because of his height.
"Ah right, Greene, I have to remember that." replied Peter, "Well it looks like we're here." The Pevensie's were being shipped to a friend of their mother's home in America. Her name was Amanda Greene. She was a widow with four children; the twins Kasen and Kassi, Daniel (Danny) and little Melissa.
"Look at the size of this place!" Edmund said in awe, "Its like a mansion! It must have at least five floors!" Indeed the Greene's were a wealthy family, but it was all thanks to Mr. Joshua Greene, a U.S. General, a successful doctor, and had been a lawyer in his earlier days.
"Well, said Peter, the oldest Pevensie child, "we mustn't be rude and just sit out here all day." He knocked on the door and it was swung opened to a room a room with a very mean looking woman with dark eyes and snow white hair.
"Ah, about time you got here." the woman said to the children "The misses said you were to be expected by noon! Come in, hurry now…"
"Glenda, please try to nice to our guests." A sharp voice commanded from some where in the house. A woman with dark brown hair and dark eyes suddenly appeared in the doorway. "Hello, you must be the Pevensie children. Please excuse my maid, Glenda, she's not the most fun person to be around I'm afraid. I'm Mrs. Greene, but you can call me Amanda. Let me show you to your rooms. If you would follow me." Then she turned to the maid at the door "and Glenda would you please send in Philip to grab their bags. Thank you" Peter shared a glance with Edmund, although they were far away from the wardrobe and the train station, they would never forget their, well now Prince Caspian the Tenth's, Kingdom. Edmund immediately thought of his memories with his horse friend and felt a stab of regret. He never got to say goodbye to one of his closest friends in Narnia. The children followed Amanda to the flight of stairs and Amanda stated that their rooms would be on the third floor. "Ah well I must say it's very nice to finally meet you." Amanda stated as they reached the second flight of stairs. "Your mother has told me the most wonderful stories about all of you. But then I guess I can see why she would be very proud of you, I've only known you for a few moments and you already seem to…hold yourselves with such dignity that its hard to believe that you are only children. I also can see why she said our children seem to be acting the same." She added the last part in a whisper, but the Pevensie's heard every word. They wanted to ask her what she meant but they had just reached the third floor of the house.
"Alright, I hope its okay that you are on the same floor as my children. I didn't want to put you on a floor all on your own, or on the floor with the maids. And I'm sure you didn't want to be on my floor. This was also the only floor that gave each of you your own rooms. Is that alright?"
"Yes of course it's alright Mrs. Green, replied Edmund speaking for all of them.
"Okay that's good, now here is the first room and Edmund, please its Amanda. This room is for Lucy"
Lucy immediately noted her suitcase beside the bed. Wow her servants sure are fast. Then Lucy took a look around the room and gasped. The room was extravagant. It had a king sized bed with red sheets, a dresser with a mirror and twelve drawers, a bathroom, and a balcony with a view of a pond in the Greene's yard. There was also a closest that was filled with dresses of all colors.
"All this is for ME?" asked Lucy stunned.
"Of course", replied Amanda "and I hope you like the dresses in the closet. I didn't know how many clothes you were aloud to bring so I wrote your mother and got the sizes for all of you and took the liberty to buy you all some clothes."
"Thank you Mrs.-uh Amanda, the dresses are beautiful!" Lucy responded.
"Wait," said Susan "did you say all of us?"
"Well of course you didn't expect me to buy just one of you clothes did you?" Amanda said in a hurt voice. "Now come on, let's let Lucy get her stuff unpacked." The three remaining children followed Amanda out the door and to the next room. This one was set up the exact same as Lucy's but instead of being yellow, the bed sheets were green. "This room is for Susan", explained Amanda. Susan was then left to get her thing situated. The next room was Edmund's and it had white/silver sheets. The last room was to belong to Peter and he noticed that the sheets on his bed were yellow. Huh, he thought, strange how she got all of our favorite colors as our sheets. And these are also the colors of cloaks we wore when we were crowned kings and queens of Narnia. Amanda left him and told him she would call for him in an hour to meet her children. Peter took his alone time to his advantage and looked around the room. His was noticeable different, for one thing the balcony on his room looked right into the mountains. The room was also bigger, it had two dressers. But what caught his eye was the door that he guessed was to be a secret. The door was on the floor left of his bed, covered under a rug. Peter doubted that anyone would have never seen one would have seen it, but Peter had seen hundreds of them. Doors like this were all around in his castle. *Sigh* His castle he thought again. He felt a rush of sadness sweep through him. He would never see his castle again. Why Aslan? Why are Susan and me never aloud to return to Narnia, to our home! Suddenly Peter was furious. He threw the shirt he was putting away and started pacing around the room. How could he do that? How does Aslan have any right to tell me and Su what we can and can not do! I m the KING, the HIGH KING of Narnia! I should be telling HIM what to do! Not vice versa! As soon as he thought those words he felt remorse. I'm sorry Aslan; it's just that I don't understand. We have grown up and I understand that, I just don't understand why we can't go back. Just then there was a knock at the door,
"Peter," Amanda called form behind the door, would you please come down stairs?"
"Yes Mrs. - err, Amada. Just give me a moment." He hurried and threw the rest of his clothes in the dresser and then opened the door. "Sorry," he apologized, "I didn't realized it had been an hour". Amanda had already gotten the other siblings and the descended down the stairs back to the floor the Pevensie's entered the house from. There they saw sitting on a couch was two children; one boy and one girl.
"Melissa, Daniel, where are Kasen and Kassidy?" asked Amanda.
"How should we know, we can't keep track of them." replied Daniel.
"Yeah mom, you know how they are. One minute they are in the room with you the next they are gone." said the young girl Melissa.
"Hmm, that's so true" replied Amanda with a laugh. "Well" she said turning her attention back to the Pevensie's, "these are my youngest children-Daniel, who is fourteen and Melissa, who is ten."
Peter shook hands with both of them and said "Hello Daniel and Melissa, this is my younger sister Susan, my brother Edmund, and my youngest sister Lucy."
"It's nice to meet you too", replied Daniel "but its Danny, Daniel sounds too old."
"And mines Missy," said Melissa "I don't really have a reason for it, my sister has just always called me that and it just stuck", she laughed.
"Hey it sounds way better than Melissa, you should be grateful." a new female voice said.
"Funny, I thought it was because you couldn't pronounce Melissa when you were younger" an older male voice joked.
"Shut up" the female said but you could hear a smile in the words.
"There you are!" Amanda said, "Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, these are my oldest children. Kasen and Kassidy."
"UGH! MOM!" yelled the girl "it's not Kassidy, its just Kassi. Kassidy makes me sound way to mature." The boy beside her just laughed.
"Kass, its ok. Why don't you introduce yourself next time?" Then the boy turned to the Pevensie's and shook each of their hands "I'm Kasen, but you probably guessed that. And she", he motioned to the girl over his shoulder is "Kassi, my twin sister." The twins looked nothing like their mother or their other siblings; they had blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Kassi also shook the Pevensie children's hands
"Its nice to finally meet you, mom has been going on and on for days about having the house be perfect for when you guys got here." When Kassi shook Peter's hand there hands stayed clasped longer than necessary. They made eye contact and Kassi dropped her hand blushing and looked down at the floor.
"I uhh… think I'll go see if they need any help in the kitchen." Kassi stuttered and made her way out of the door and into the kitchen.
"Hmm. I wonder what got into her." Amanda said quietly as if she were talking to herself. The children (other than Peter) knew exactly what had happened and the Pevensie children grinned mockingly at Peter and the Greene children all stared worriedly at Kasen who was staring at Peter with a dark expression. Peter caught Kasen's eye and the thought "if looks could kill" ran trough his mind.
Peter and his siblings made their way back up to the stairs to go back to their rooms for the night. Peter sat on his bed and starting thinking about dinner. Kassi had sat by him tonight. He didn't mind it at all but what did make him worried was that she wore a strange expression on her face the entire night. It was almost like she was in pain of course she had tried to hide it by laughing and smiling whenever someone caught her eye and asked about it. And just before dinner Peter swore he heard Kassi and Kasen arguing about something. He was dying to know why she was so upset and what her and her brother were fighting about. They seemed so close. He didn't have much time to think about it until there was a knock at the door.
"Come in Ed." Peter answered automatically.
"It's not Edmund" Kasen answered from behind the door, "Can we talk?"
"Uhh, yeah sure." Peter responded. He hurried to the door and saw Kasen standing there with the same dark expression he had been wearing earlier that day. Kasen shoved his way past Peter into the room.
"Well, umm… what do you- Peter started before Kasen interrupted him.
"Do you like my sister?" "I uhh…well umm… what?" Peter managed to get out. "I don't even know her!"
"So." stated Kasen like it was obvious, "you can still like her. And I know you do, I saw you today. And I would recommend you stop. Starting now. Stay away from my twin sister." Kasen then stormed out of the room leaving a very confused Peter.
Ok this is the end of chapter Uno. I hope you guys kinda sorta like it. Please Review criticism is appreciated:)
