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I'm just writing for fun. I hope you enjoy.

The chirping of the birds outside Chloe's window is what woke her up. She groaned before pulling the pillow tight around her head to drown out the sounds. All she wanted to do was sleep. Was that so much to ask for? She hadn't slept well in the last several days… actually it was more like; she hadn't slept at all in the past several days. You know the whole fleeing for your life and being able to accidentally raise the dead while sleeping really didn't help either. The only reason she was able to fully rest was hearing Derek confirm that there were no dead bodies near the house.

When she finally accepted that the pillow around her head wasn't working she threw it across the room while flinging her legs out of the covers. Sitting on the edge of the bed she put her head between her hands and sat there. Now that she was awake there were so many questions that were running around her head, and to many to figure out which one to start with.

She laid back down and tried to will herself to go back to sleep so she could just forget everything for just a little while longer. No one would mind, well that's what she hoped, but the sudden knock on her door caused her to yelp and she groaned while she sat back up, asking, "Who is it?"

"Simon." She sighed; she didn't really feel like speaking to anyone at the moment, even if it was Simon.

"Oh, uh," she had no real reason to not talk to him, so after a few stalled moments she told him to come in. The door opened slowly only the top of Simon's blonde head appearing first before he fully entered the room.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing. I came up yesterday but you were dead asleep," he said giving her a large smile. Chloe returned his smile but hers was only half-hearted. 'Maybe he won't notice,' she told herself.

"How long was I asleep?" She asked while rubbing her sleepy eyes. 'It couldn't have been that long,' she thought. It felt like she had her normal amount of sleep, 'but he said he came by yesterday.'

"Just a couple of days," he said noticing the dark circles around her eyes, 'maybe I shouldn't have come by this morning,' he thought, 'she was probably still sleeping.'

"I bet your starving huh?" He asked, trying to distract himself from starting at those circles around her mesmerizing blue eyes.

Chloe sighed, "Kind of," her stomach grumbled loudly, she placed both hands on top hoping she could smother the sound but Simon was already looking at her and chuckling softly. A small blush crept its way into her cheeks and she looked down embarrassed.

"Well then you should come back down with me. Derek and I are making breakfast this morning," he said, causing Chloe's head to pop up at the mention of Derek's name. "What? You didn't think we could cook? You have no idea what you've been missing." Simon finished.

Chloe's mind was still on Derek so she hadn't noticed that Simon had walked up to her. It wasn't until he took her hand, intertwining their finger like he had done that night in the car that she did. There was something… different about this time; he gave her hand a light squeeze. "Are you ready to have your taste buds blown away?" He asked, flashing another big smile.

This time when she smiled it was whole-hearted, "Definitely." As they made their way out of the room she wondered to herself if she was happy about "having her taste buds blown away" or if it was the fact that she was going to see how Derek was holding up.

As they walked hand in hand down the stairs Simon couldn't help the smug smile he wore. Chloe on the other hand, only had one thing on her mind and that was food. With every step they took her stomach demanded she put food in it immediately, the consequences of it not getting what it wanted soon were unknown even to her.

When they finally arrived to the kitchen Tori and Derek were the only ones present. Chloe's eyes scanned the large kitchen but saw no one else.

As they made their way deeper inside Tori's eyes landed on Simon's and Chloe's hands and she whispered to herself, "Wonder how long that's going to last?" She obviously had forgotten that there was someone in the room that could actually hear everything even while whispered.

'Wonder how long what's gong to last?' Derek thought as he turned his head from the pancakes on the stove, his gaze landed on the intertwined hands. 'No! What? Let go!' He mentally yelled.

Chloe immediately dropped Simon's hand which she could tell really hurt his feelings. 'What the heck?' Simon thought, as he tried to pass it of as him letting go instead of Chloe. He slowly walked to the refrigerator to "grab the eggs" then headed to the stove 'Stupid Tori.'

Chloe began to play with her fingers nervously, while she adverted her gaze from everyone else's. She had no idea why she had let go of Simon's hand but something had told her to do so and so she did.

"Good morning," Tori spoke up first. Chloe met her gaze, trying to decipher Tori's tone but she couldn't quite place it. Tori just glanced back at her before continuing to place the plates on the kitchen table.

"Good morning to you too Tori." Chloe finally said. "Good morning Derek," she made herself say, hoping desperately that her voice wouldn't crack, and thankfully it didn't. She felt the need to distract herself so she started to walk to the kitchen table to help Tori.

"Morning," Derek's voice rumbled throughout the kitchen. She stopped where she was and didn't move, so it was back to one word conversations for them. She could feel herself grow angry and she knew Derek would sense it, as long as she didn't show it, she would be okay. She then continued to walk to the table to help out.

'Wow. Can anyone say, AWKWARD!' Simon told himself as he took his place next to Derek by the stove. "Do you need any help bro?" He asked as he plucked the spatula out of his brother's hand. For a moment he stood there staring at Derek, he couldn't quite tell what was going through his brother's mind, but he never really knew what was going on in the big guys head.

'Okay. This is what you wanted. You pushed them together, and obviously it worked out. Then why did she let go of his hand? Well she didn't like the attention it was obviously getting her, that why.' Derek thought, while looking down at his now empty hand to see that the spatula was now in Simon's. 'He just has to take everything, now doesn't he?' A small growl escaped his mouth; Simon caught it and looked up at his brother with a what-the-heck look. Derek just shrugged and resumed thinking to himself, 'WHOA! Were in the hell did that come from?'

Andrew had just stepped out of the bathroom to find all four kids in the kitchen, Great! He thought enthusiastically. "Great, you guys started breakfast. It didn't even occur to me to ask if you guys were hungry when I fixed myself some. Sorry," no one answered him. "Well, thankfully your dad taught you boys how to cook. God only knows he didn't grant me with that talent." Andrew said laughing to himself as he caught the smell of eggs, pancakes, potatoes and coffee. He now wished that he hadn't eaten just so he could taste this food.

What surprised him was that none of them had even greeted him with a 'good morning,' even after he had finished babbling. He was even more surprised to see that none of them were even bickering with one another. Now, he was no psychic but he knew there was definitely something wrong here.

"Good morning Andrew," Chloe said as she noticed Andrew by the kitchen door she just came from. She only noticed him because she was going to try to stare a hole in the back of Derek's head again, hoping that lasers would come out of her eyes. No such luck though.

"Hey Andrew!" Tori said. She looked at him for a moment before bringing her gaze back to the table. Her previous thought coming back, 'the less trouble I cause the less the guys will resent having me here with them.' This is what she'd been telling herself since they first arrived. She had been pleasant this whole time, maybe that would change since Chloe was awake now; she was always trying to one up her on the good girl scale.

Tori scolded herself two seconds later, Chloe had been nothing but genuinely nice to her the entire time they were on their way to find Andrew. If she hadn't stuck her neck out for her, she might just be back at the Edison Group with the bitch of a mother of hers. The guys had obviously not hidden their great dislike they had towards her, but our sweet little Chloe had convinced them to keep her and help her out too. She'd have to find a way to thank her.

"Good morning Andrew," the guys said in unison, before they returned their attention back to the stove, and their hidden thoughts.

'Well at least they said good morning. That's a start I guess. Thank god I don't have kids. I don't think I could handle this on a daily basis.' He chuckled softly to himself again, "Will you guys call me when you're all done? I'm going to call some people up and see if they can't meet up with us since your all up now," he asked, he searched the four faces waiting for one of them to answer.

"Yeah, I'll come and get you Andrew." Simon called back.

"Thanks. Really boys, it smells great." Andrew told them before he left them all to their private thoughts once again; he took his time walking to the study. He didn't really know who to call first. Once he was seated on the large leather chair behind the even larger desk he still didn't know who he would call first, but once he picked up the phone he dialed the first number that popped into his head, thus beginning the first series of calls he would need to make that day.

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