Fire

Hey, this is my story. The story of Lucy Ashley Celeste. I have always said that 'if I love you I'd be at your funeral,' and considering how many funerals I'd been to, I didn't care anymore. But here I am today at my own mother's funeral, I didn't think I loved her but...I'm here. With my older brothers and sister, Loke, Liam, and Lacey. All 'L's' I know. Anyway, Loke and Lacey have strawberry blonde hair while Liam have golden blonde hair. I won't tell Liam but Lacey used to have a brother complex on him. Loke is my favorite because Liam is prided on strength and Lacey is prided on having the cutest clothes in school and her head cheerleader position. Loke and I are the cool, relaxed basketball players out of us quadruplets. Yeah, quadruplets, we're known as the fantastic four at school. I'm the youngest and the only girl on the basketball team. The order goes, from oldest to youngest, Liam, Lacey, Loke, then me, Lucy. On the basketball team Loke and I are the captains. All of us are popular with everyone especially our special groups. Liam's boxing team, Lacey's cheerleaders, Loke and I have the basketball teams. All of us can play football equally greatly, surprisingly.

All of us are 15, sophomores in high school but we refuse to lose our house as foster kids or let some strangers live in it to take care of us. We don't need it. We actually got the government to let us live together, since we are related nothing will happen, likely. Back to the funeral.

Sitting in the front seats, Loke is telling me about some awesome basketball plays. Lacey is telling Liam about cheers for his team as he is trying to get information on what the cheerleaders think about his 'guns.' Everyone else is staring and thinking we are demon children for not caring about the lady who gave birth to us and raised us. Quite frankly, she cared more about her job and money than us so we are rich, hmm. Something good did come from her.

"Loke, what about a three-pointer while I guard you from number 14. I can get him, he's all talk," I informed him, pulling my hair into into a pony-tail, ready to leave before the actual funeral started. I had my tank top under my dress along with some jeans. All of did, we were heading back to school after this to get to our extra curriculars.

"Cool, you got my back if I rebound?" He inquired.

"Always," I replied.

"And forever?" He asked smirking at our inside joke.

"And forever," I assured as my own grin formed. Liam and Lacey looked over and Lacey threw Liam and me a look before glaring at me. So much for 'so over my brother, he's old news.' She totally still likes him, in a sister has a brother complex way.

"Ready to blow this Popsicle stand, guys?" Liam whispered, also sporting a mischievous smile.

"Let`s blow it," the rest of us told him in unison, gathering some glances and looks from others around us. We all gave one another a nod before standing and walking out down the middle aisle of the funeral just as the priest started talking. We went in our groups, the school calls it brains vs. brawns. It was Loke and I with Liam and Lacey behind us. Girls in black dresses and jeans and guys in black dress shirts, unbuttoned and jeans as well. Everyone stared, the priest paused, it even seemed as if the fan had stopped turning on the ceiling. The guys opened both doors for us as the girls did a small curtsy of thanks before slipping out the door. Loke and I rode in his dark blue Lamborghini, Liam and Lacey were in Liam's black one. Loke did the whole 'open the door and get in' thing while I slipped one leg in before throwing the rest of my body in after it. The window went up much to my surprise, I peeked a glance at Loke but he wouldn't look at me. It was weird to have the window up, we usually leave it up until Fall and Winter, it was the dead middle of summer. Loke pressed the engine button and pulled out of the parking lot. I stared at him for 5 minutes as he was driving until he finally looked at me in the side of his eyes and started to speak.

"Lacey likes Liam doesn't she?" It was more like a statement than a question but I still made an agreeing noise.

"Just don't tell her I told you, she'd be mad. `Kay?" I winked, knowing he had an eye on me.

"You didn't think it was important to tell me the girl I like, likes Liam?!" Something in him just snapped like I'd never seen before. So he likes Lacey, huh? This means half of the people in my house have a complex. The sexual tension will definitely go up without Layla, mother alive anymore.

"I-I didn't know, I'm sorry," I stuttered, intimidated by him all of a sudden. He sighed and attempted to apologize but by then the car had stopped and there was no one in the car with him anymore. I was running as fast as I could to the girls locker room, it was all mine since all other seasons had ended. I heard his yelling after me. I had cried on the way as I got into my black and blue number 2 jersey and shorts. I was glad I was the only girl because it meant I could cry alone. Wiping my tears away I took a deep breath and put my high pony-tail into a messy bun. I ran out to meet the guys and coaches so we could practice before our game in 3 days. I cleared my mind of everything except my sport before I got to the gym across the campus. When I got there Loke was staring at the cheerleader stand though nobody was there, everybody was practicing. He saw me looking and gave me a sheepish, apologetic smile. I narrowed my eyes before walking over. The guys all stopped and stared at our unusual interaction. When I got close enough I skidded to a stop.

"Let's keep this strictly basketball, I'll talk to you later, just to get some stuff off of both of our chests. He nodded seriously, I didn't like the atmosphere, people staring starting to annoy me. I spun on my heel, caught a ball thrown in my direction and ran down court dribbling and dodging anyone that tried to block me. I was stopped by one guy though, Daniel Grigori. He was my rival and he didn't like me playing basketball because he didn't want me to get hurt playing with 'meat-heads' as he put it. His girlfriend Lakayla is my best female friend and would kill everyone on the team if I got hurt playing, including him. She was co-head cheerleader.

Daniel had black hair with iridescent violet eyes that glowed every time Lakayla was around him.

Loke ran past and gave me the distraction I needed, I passed him the ball and almost every player that was playing against us flagged him with the exception of Daniel. Luck was on my side as one guy bumped Daniel as he was running to Loke. Daniel lost focus for one second and I got the ball back from Loke and made the three-pointer we needed to win the game.

The rest of practice went similarly to that and Loke kept giving the cheerleader stands glances, it made me mad. The ball was stolen from him 3 times.

~Time skip~

We were at home after showering and grabbing a short dinner. I turned to Loke and gave him a 'ready?' look. He nodded and went in, Lacey and Liam were already there waiting on the couch because I had texted them telling them to meet me at the house after practice because Loke and Lacey had something to say. I left it like that knowing Lacey wouldn't know what she had to say when Liam asked her, hence I was sure they would be here. I went to sit by Liam and nodded to a nervous Loke, Liam and Lacey gave me a look questioning Loke's nervousness, since he was usually calm. I shook my head and nodded to Loke, they soon turned their attention to him.

"Well...um Lacey-