Chapter 2: Starting Off Good
Emilia's POV
We finally made it into California and drove to the house. When we came up to tropical like area, I drove in there and the house came into view. It sat right by a beach and some of the amusement parks were nearby, so we didn't have too far to go if we wanted to go on an outing.
I drove into the garage and we went into the house through there. Lil T and Glitch ran in first and the rest of us were getting bags out the car, until we realized that Tan and Kerith were still asleep.
"You've got to be kidding, neither one of them are morning people. But I don't get why their still tired from that long nap on the plane." Complains Jaryn. "Can you hand me the headphones from my bag Emilia," asks Oblio. I hand him the devices and he sticks them into Tan's ipod and puts the buds in his ears and plays the music loudly. Tan's jerks up by the noise and doesn't look tired at all, he feels something wet on his shoulder and turns around to find Kerith drooling on it, "Okay, that's really gross," as he pushes him off.
"I'm giving you permission, since your the closest, smack Kerith as hard as you can to wake him up." Commands Jaryn. "Yeah i'm not gonna do that." Tan get's out the car and helps the other's with the bags.
Jaryn struggle to wake her brother up.
We all walk into the house, I suggest to everyone that they should start picking rooms, since Tan was the oldest I gave hims the single bed room. He didn't complain, but I forgot about the headphones. I motioned him to follow me and show him the room, he liked he didn't have to share a room. Everyone else finished picking rooms and we all met in the sitting area.
Taye's POV
It was weird having Tan along with us, but who wouldn't intimidated by the Glitteratti twins? I sat there looking around at the room. It was pretty big, Oblio asked could they see the dance studio, so we all got up and followed Emilia.
The studio was a nice size, with mirrors all around the room. "Go ahead and try it out." Proposed Emilia.
No one volunteered, Tan didn't hear much with buds in his ears. I took a glimpse at Oblio and he nudged his dad, Tan must have known what he was talking about and Oblio left, coming back with a boombox, Tan took the buds out and Oblio selected a song.
"Play Matryoshka."
The music started playing and they started dancing.
It was flawless and in sync.
Not many of us heard this song before, probably besides Glitch and Dare. "There are two different dances to Matryoshka, most common danced is the freestyle, like their doing," explained Dare.
They finished with the final striking pose.
Aubrey's POV
I can't believe the old geezer pulled it off, i mean everytime we went against him, he let the robots battle us. I wonder what else he can do. "Hey old fart, you have anything else your hiding from us, like you could've been going against us instead of having stupid robots do it for you." I said.
"He knows how to play the piano and guitar," blurts Oblio. "They really didn't have to know that." "He used to sing and sometimes he'll go somewhere and sing. He's still really good." "I'm thinking of killing myself."
"I want to here something from you now," I say. Everyone else starts rooting for it and Oblio just looked amused, he got his entertainment. We all know Tan didn't want to be bothered by us, but Emilia and I grabbed him and escorted him to the recording studio. They had a set of guitars, drums, pianos, and many more items needed.
Emilia set up the equipment. "You better figure out what to sing, i'm suggesting three songs."
He looked at me annoyed and just walked away, after Emilia, got everything done, Oblio went for the drums and Tan grabbed a guitar.
Tan's POV
This was just my luck, I shouldn't have come here. Oblio had to go and blurt out like an idiot. I turned to look at him, he had a wicked smile on his face. "We're gonna play 115. Ready?" Oblio nodded and we started to play.
No one can see me and I've lost all feeling and I know I won't die alone
I'll stop you from breathing and all your deceiving and this house is not my home
No
More forgiveness
No
And the reason is I know I won't die alone
As I sung, everyone looked in amazement of one of my hidden talents, last time I did this was right before Oblio turned seventeen. It was a surprise to me, that I still can do this after so much time, I finally ended the sing.
I forgot I have to do two more.
After I finished singing Carrion and Don't Say Lazy, oh dear god I hope none of them seen that anime. They went down to the beach and I went into my room and took a nap.
Oblio's POV
My father went to take a nap, while the rest of us went to the beach. Taye was the first to ask about the last song he sung, "What was that last song from, i've never heard of it before?" I took out my cellphone and pulled up the K-On ending video and showed everyone.
After it was over, everyone started laughing. "I can't believe that, what is a grown man like him doing listening to something for like kids and teenagers and probably people in their 20s?" Asked Bodie. "It's one of the few he likes, well I can't say few," I replied. They were curious that there was more. "There all in his ipod, wanna look through em'," I asked. Everyone nodded.
We walked from the beach and back to the house. We headed for my father's room, he was still sleeping, with a book covering his face. He must have read to make himself more sleepy. His ipod was sitting on top of the dresser next to the window, I walked over to it and grabbed the ipod and hurried out the room.
We all sat in the sitting room and browsed through the list, I showed videos of animes where most of the songs were from. "Oh my." Said Emilia.
Taye's POV
Oblio just finished showing us his dad's music list on the ipod. It was too true to believe, of all people we didn't expect Tan to have music like this.
We sat there looking dumbfounded. To break the silence I asked, "Is your dad afraid of anything, you showed us his secret, he must have more?" "Yeah that would be fun to surprise him once he wakes up." Emilia said excitedly. "We promised to leave him alone and all his fears are locked with a strong password on his phone, it'll be hard to access it." Oblio explained. "Don't worry I hacked a few strong security codes before, i'm sure I can do this one." Emilia said happily. "Well i'm not in it if you do anything."
Oblio turned from us and clicked on the tv flipping through channels. The rest of us went back to Tan's room, this man can sleep hard. We all walked into the room and searched for his phone. "I found it," whispered Lil T.
We hurried out once more and sat at the dining table. "Okay Emilia do your work." I commanded. Emilia went to work with the phone. It took her about fifteen minutes for her to finally unlock it all together, there were a bunch of files:
Pranking Oblio
Fears
Work Schedules
Employee Schedules
Blueprints
Art Class Schedules
Wait, he takes art classes? That's a shocker. We selected the fears one, there were plenty to choose from. We searched through and wrote each one down. I gave Lil T the phone and had her go put it where she found it.
We started discussing how we were gonna do this, when he walked in. We all stared at him, "What?" He asked. We turned back around.
Tan's POV
I have no idea why they just looked at me and I didn't care to find out why. i walked over to Oblio, he had headphones on, he usually doesn't notice me even if I did tap him, so i just smacked him in the head, not too hard though. He knew what it meant, taking the headphones off he turned and looked at me, "What?" "Wanna go race with the watercrafts?" He looked at me like 'you still ride watercrafts', I only did when he wasn't around. Oblio got up and we walked through the sliding doors towards the beach.
I can hear everyone coming to see what we were doing. Oblio and I dragged the watercrafts towards the water, until they started to float.
We walked back to the house to change clothes, after we headed back to the beach. I could see a bouy floating a great distance from here and told Oblio we were going to race there and make a turn around it racing back to the beach.
All the other brats came out to watch, "Bodie, count for us," I instructed. He walked by the edge to where we can hear him. "1, 2, 3, GO!" We shot off with great speed, these watercrafts must be up to date.
As we rounded the bouy, I can feel an attack coming from a serious lung problem I had. That's one of the reasons I keep active when I can, let my left lung get used to not having much air when an attack starts, I also need to take a antibody medicine to get rid of fluid and a few other medicines to help. Once I get to the shore I'll have to run back to my room and take my medicine.
Lima's POV
As Oblio and Tan approach the shore, I realize Tan's expression changed, he looked like he was in pain. I was gonna ask, but as soon as he hit shore, he jumped off and ran to the house. I asked Oblio what was wrong, but he didn't reply.
I just brushed it off, knowing I might try figuring it out myself.
During dinner we all sat at the table, except for Tan, I wonder what he was doing.
Everyone was talking about Tan's fears. One in particular was horror movies, after Emilia and Taye finished eating, they volunteered to go get some scary movies.
About an hour later they came back with about twenty of them, "we want to see which one will scare him the most." Says Emilia.
Aubrey decided to go put her plan into action for the time.
Aubrey's POV
I went to Tan's room, he was sitting on the bed with a laptop in front of him. "Hey geezer, we're gonna watch movies, so everyones going take baths before we start, that includes you as well." He didn't even bother to look at me, but he got up, went to the dresser and took out clothes and headed into the bathroom. I heard the shower running, so I know he heard me.
I went to get everyone else and motioned them to wait in the corner from the bathroom and I turned the lights off. After about twenty minutes Tan walked out and was wondering why the light was off. I was standing right next to the switch, so when he turns it on the first thing he sees is me. I wore one of Emilia's halloween masks she had in her room and had on a black cloak.
As the lights turned on, Tan looked at me and fell backwards onto the floor. "You idiot, what the hell. You know could've gave me a heart attack like that!" Everyone started laughing and he looked at them then back at me. He walked out the door and sat on the couch next to Oblio. That was pretty funny.
All of us left the room, Bodie went to get snacks, Lil T grabbed the movies, and Rasa turned the lights off. We all sat looking at the tv.
Angel's POV
I can't believe someone as fierce as Tan was scared of horror movies, their not all that bad. We saved the scariest one for last, he did not flinch or anything throughout the first nineteen movies. We just had to see what he would do for the last one. It was like one in the morning, no one fell asleep, I guess they were too excited about the movie.
We were watching Sinister and it was getting good. It got to a part where the main character was on the computer and when he looked away the figure on the screen turned it's head and Tan kinda slid in his seat a bit. So we did pick the right one to watch last.
Towards the end of the movie, where all the family members died, the little girl was the only one left. When it showed a vacant room Tan started to leave the sofa, the man popped in front of the screen and Tan jumped over the sofa and ran straight to his room.
We all started laughing, except Oblio.
Mo's POV
Tan wasn't the only one scared on that last part, I was a little shaken. I went to turn the lights back on and walked to Tan's room. He was sitting in his bed, with his knees to his chest, faced buried away in his arms. That really scared him, more than what Aubrey did. I couldn't help but laugh a little bit more.
