A Tale of Two Cousins

Jordan walked into her room; she was tired, but extremely happy. She had a successful day at the mall and was finally back home. It was good to be home; she never liked leaving her cousin alone for too long. She opened up her shopping bags, taking out her profit one at a time. When she came across her last bag, she remembered the creepy old lady at Anime Fina (Anime store) that tried to sell her a poster. The poster was of her favorite anime; Saiyuki, and in the end she bought it half price. Jordan looked at the time, she had to hurry. Her vacation would start soon, and she still had to pack. It would be so glorious, the sun would shine bright on her's and her cousin's cruise ship. Yes, it would be a serene vacation, together for a full week. They definitely needed some relaxation, after the hectic past couple of months they had. She hoped this would bring her cousin out of her shell again. Jordan grabbed the poster, walked into the hall, and came back into her room with thumb tacks. She jumped onto her bed and pinned the poster right side up, over her head board. Then she climbed down and took out her black and white luggage bags from underneath her bed.

Knock- knock

"Come in." Jordan called, as she opened her drawers and began pulling out clothes.

The door was opened by a girl a little younger then Jordan.

"You almost ready cuz?" The girl asked, as she walked over to her roommate's big table mirror.

"Almost, you ready?" Jordan asked as she opened another drawer.

"Just about, I got our tickets; they are on the table. Try not to forget them! We got to be outta here at 12:00 p.m. That would be in two hours. So please hurry up, I know how your ass can take forever."

Jordan zipped up the last of her bags, "Don't worry I'll be ready."

Kadence headed for the door, but then turned back around, "Hey JJ."

"Hmmmm?" Jordan glanced up from her things.

"Can we share your small black tote bag? The one that you always put your cosmetics in?"

"Why?"

"I'm running out of room, in my bag."

"How?! You have that huge ass bag you use for camping!"

"I know but I may or may not have over packed a few precautionary items..."

Jordan looked over and saw a bat, a stun gun, and what appeared to be some brass knuckles hanging off the side of Kadence's luggage bags in the hall.

"Kade...we talked about this..."

"...I know."

"Kade, he's not coming back, and he especially isn't going to be on this cruise, plus I'll be there to have your back."

"Can I at least keep the stun gun?"

Jordan rolled her eyes, "Whatever, fine. Here, you can share my black tote."Jordan handed over her tote bag.

"Thanks; I'll pack my items into it right now. Is your stuff inside already?"

"Yeah, while you're at it can you turn on the A.C.?"

"Can't." Kadence replied as she looked inside the bag.

"Why not?"

"It's been broken for a week now. I told you we had to call in someone to fix it."

"Shit. It's freaking hot." Jordan went to her table mirror, wiping down any sweat on her face. She wore a plain white T-shirt, skinny jeans, and dark gray sweats over it. She fixed her long straight hair, moving it out of her face. Kadence looked at her cousin, she was a bit envious because her cousin had curves, was beautiful, intelligent, and big chested. Kadence herself had many of these qualities except the big chest; she was regular and had more of an athletic build. Kadence smirked inwardly, her cousin looked like the perfect woman but appearances were deceiving. She knew her cousin, and she knew about her inner wild psycho crazy bitch side. Kadence pulled her short wavy brown hair back as well, fanning herself with her hand. She wore her Rudolph PJs that consisted of a light blue tank top with her favorite deer, and sweat pants with a pattern of bright red noses.

"I think what we are wearing isn't helping the cause." Kadence said smirking with a "dur d' dur" expression on her face.

"Good point." Jordan arched an eyebrow at her. Her cousin was the biggest smart ass she knew, and most of the time she wanted to smack that stupid smirk off her face.

Kadence left Jordan's room, to put in the exact same items that her cousin had in their now shared black bag. She packed her deodorant, make up, brush, toothbrush, soap, razor, Q-tips, hair ties, and threw in her cell phone charger.

Kadence came back into the room seeing Jordan on top of her bed resting. She put the bag on top of the bed next to her cousin.

"Nice poster." She said smiling up at it.

"Thanks, wait until I tell you how I got it from this creepy old hag."

"Haha. Hey, the corner of the poster is coming down it looks like the thumb tack got loose."

"What? Where?" Jordan said standing on top of her bed.

"The top left corner."

Jordan placed her hand on the poster trying to smooth it out as she pushed the tack back in.

She stepped back just a bit checking to see if it was flat. She raised her hand again ready to smooth it out one more time, but just as she touched it her hand went through.

"WHAT THE F—k!" Jordan screamed as she could feel her body getting sucked in. The poster's colors scrambled and swirled into what resembled a rectangular tie died rainbow. "KADE!" Jordan screamed as her cousin jumped on the bed after her. They grabbed each other's hands trying to see if they could fight it but they couldn't, because it was now sucking in Kadence. Jordan grabbed on to Kadence's legs holding on for dear life. Kadence grabbed onto the rim of their world (the wall corners); her fingers slipping. Kadence tried to free one hand to hold onto something else. She could feel Jordan letting go of her legs, her body felt heavy, and she was blacking out. She grabbed the next thing she felt, and then slipped away, into the colorful world.

There was a breeze, a loud honk, and screeching. Kadence opened her eyes slowly. She saw a green jeep dodge her just in time. She was lying on the ground next to her now stirring cousin. They were on a dirt path with only forest around them. She had a black tote bag in one hand. She looked up groggily at the now pulling over jeep. Her eyesight was still a bit blurry. She could make out only four figures. She rubbed her eyes trying to clear the image.

"Talk about damsels in distress." She heard a familiar voice say.

"Ooooh, I like the big chested one!" she heard another familiar voice say.

Wack! Wack! Wack!

"Hahaha. That's what you get you perverted Kappa!"

Kadence felt her body being lifted; and then heard the roar of an engine. But before she could process the situation, she blacked out once again.

FIN1