Authors Notes: Someone asked me how to pronounce Hydi's name. Its kind of like Heidi or Hi-Dee.


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Chapter 2

Breakfast

As usual Ty was up at dawn with her father. Once again doing her chores. Regardless of what would happen that day she didn't see any reason why she shouldn't do her chores.

Hydi as usual was sleeping in the weirdest position anyone could be in. Ty rolled over to see her soul sister sitting there with her butt in the air and her head covered up by the pillow. One arm hanging off the top bunk. Ty giggled swatting the younger ones hand away from her. Hydi just moaned and rolled over nearly falling off the top bunk.

Ty walked into the hallway and out the front door. She stopped just short of the garden she had been managing since spring started, their was little plants in its place now. She hoped by September their will be a lot of food to take off the plants. She had a few of the plants get sick and have to start all over again. But of course she planned for any trial and error since it was her first garden. The most of the food however did good and was beginning to bloom.

She however paused at the water mill to get a bucket of water. She had planned to reroute a stream to go through the garden but the shape that the garden was and where it was next to the hill wouldn't allow such an idea. So she just had to keep going back and forth between the mill and the garden.

She paused and looked down at her bucket. It was becoming warn, and hardly usable to anyone else. Soon probably at the beginning of fall their would be holes in it. It was also to thin to fix. She set it down and walked back toward the house. She just didn't feel like doing anything to her garden right now. She felt someone pick her up and hug her to him. At first she wasn't sure who it was, she felt the tears sting her eyes again.

In her mind she wasn't to sure why she was acting this way. Last night was really blurry as if she chose to forget it, and kept going. She however still felt someone someone poked her heart with a hot pick. Or dropped it on the ground and scraped it across granite. or both.

She leaned her head back against Coles shoulder. She could see him from the corner of her eye. Cole could see the fresh tear that fell. He knew that she wasn't okay last night, and came to see her this morning.

He didn't sleep a wink last night after feeling as though he had hurt his little friend.

"You hungry? You didn't eat anything last night." Cole said setting her back down and knelled in front of her.

"I think so. Its like my body isn't firing off properly. I can't stop this." She pointed to her tears. Cole kissed her forehead and held out his hand.

"Come on. Lets get you something to eat then hum?" Cole said walking back into the house. Zane was in the kitchen making breakfast when Ty walked in with Cole. Zane looked up and narrowed his eyes at Cole.

"Get me the leaks." Zane ordered Cole. Cole sighed and nodded his head. Zane felt Ty put her forehead on the small of his back. She did this sometimes when she just didn't feel right and she wanted to be close to him, yet he was to busy to help her. So she would wait for him to be done. Zane often wondered why she just didn't ask for him to hold her. He wouldn't mind holding her as he cooked.

"How long has it been now?" Ty asked allowed.

"Since when?" Zane asked in return. He could hear the softness of her voice as if she had been crying again.

"Since we met?"

"One year, six months, seven days, six hours, ten minutes, 18 seconds...19...20..." Zane looked over his shoulder at Ty.

"Why do you ask?" Zane asked with a smile.

"Just wondering how long it takes before someone starts getting tired of you." Ty said walking out of the kitchen. Cole dropped the leaks he had been holding out to Zane.

"She's a little literal today isn't she?"

"She hates me Zane...thats what that is." Cole said pointing harshly toward the door. His face red with anger. Zane however looked very calm.

"Isn't that what you did to her last night? As far as this is concerned Cole...she is now even." Zane said holding up the plate of pancakes. "Table." Zane said

Cole however was still fuming. He took the plate and went into the dining room. He put the plate down and looked at Ty who was leaning over with her head on the table. She was starting to feel a headache coming on. Cole sighed and turned around to walk back out again. His anger was at a dangerous level again. When he got to the door he felt someone take his hand and kiss it lightly. It caught him off guard since no one has ever done that to him. He looked down to see Ty with both her hands in his, and her cheek against his thumb as if apologizing for what she had said.

"I'm confused, and hurt, and...and I've never been in one place long enough to worry about these things. I just feel like I'm on the outside sometimes. So when someone gets angry with me...I feel like I can't ever fix it again." She finally spilled. Her voice still sounded like a mix of a roughness then their was that childlike tone she always had.

"Just...just go get packed okay." He said opening his own bedroom door. The sudden smell wafted toward her. She sighed and nodded. She planned on pulling the bedding off the guys beds when she got back though. It stunk in there, like guys.

Ty walked into her bedroom and pulled out her bag that she had gotten from Noni. She threw a few things in there that she needed and a few outfits she had. Even a bathing suit just in case. She didn't know how to swim yet, but neither did Kai and they had attempted to learn once only resulting in Kai nearly drowning...again. She walked over to Hydi and watched her sleep for a second, then look at her evilly.

"Hydi?" She said in a teasing voice. She sent an emotion of a playfulness. Hydi just smiled in her sleep and just jumping sky high when Ty licked her cheek. Ty ran out of the room being chased by Hydi. Ty learned a long time ago that it was the best way to get Hydi up. She saw Kai do it once to Nya and wanted to try it.

Kai was standing outside the bathroom door.

"Hurry up Nya!"

"Uh...no." She said and turned on the water. Kai watched Ty and Hydi run down the hallway. Hydis hair was a mess and hardly ever looked fixed.

Actually it was a wide conversation that perhaps they should cut it just a little shorter to help with its thickness and with the heat it would make it much cooler out. Tys hair remarkable was the same length as her soul sisters but straight as a board and platinum blond. Where as Hydis was thick and coal black. The eyes on them both were a mirror of their abilities. Kai had at one point said Tys eyes looked like gold bars, with little spots of orange. Hydis was purple with little flecks of dark blue. Both of which getting their elemental powers from the sun and moon. Hence the reason why they were called Lunarins and Solarins.

Ty ran into the dining hall running right into Lloyd. Lloyd caught her in his hands and he looked down at her. He was half awake, and wasn't really ready to deal with the day.

"No running inside Ty. You know this right?" He asked one of his eyes still closed and the other a little blurry.

"Yes sir." Ty said with a giggle. Lloyd smiled and chuckled too. He loved the sound of her giggle. It was infectious...even if it was only to him.

"Eat up Ty. If you're going with Cole today you might want to eat as much as you can." Misako said handing her a full plate of everything on the menu. Even a piece of fried fish. Ty looked at it with disgust and then looked at Hydi.

"Not liking?" Hydi said holding up her own plate. Ty shoved the fish off her plate onto Hydis. Ty sat down and began to eat.

Cole came in a little while later and began to eat. He looked up seeing Ty with her head on Zanes shoulder talking low to him. He couldn't hear much at all, except that he wanted her to stay close to Cole no matter what. It was dangerous. The usual father daughter talk.

Eventually Ty excused herself to get some things from the bathroom and then sat on the porch. A little while later Hydi sat down beside her.

"You...dun go to far." She looked scared for a second. Ty looked at Hydi and sighed nodding her head.

"We're going up on that mountain there." Ty pointed to it. It wasn't that far they were right at the bottom of it. Its what fed the hot springs.

"Not far." Hydi smiled putting her forehead to Tys. "Can't save if far." She said. Tys heart skipped a beat when she heard that.

"Hydi nothings going to happen."

"I feel...not true." She said and hugged Ty fearfully. Ty sighed and nodded.

"Okay I'll keep a watch out."

"Ready to go?" Cole asked slinging her pack onto his shoulders. Ty nodded her head and pulled her own pack on.

"Take care of her Cole." Misako said and hugged Ty.

"I've got her." Cole said and motioned for Ty to follow. Ty ran after Cole and was out of sight before they knew it.