Pancake: Not necessarily a perfectionist; I just wanted to do a more, say, realistic yet Carsverse version of TCUASP. xD And I think I'll have to do other Carsverse versions of humanized stories and vice versa; the plots will be minor changes, and at least I have determined the other details(brithday, personality, etc). xDD
This is not only to Mere, but to everyone else: I started this fic this way so I can have the details shown to you. These are some parts that I may need to refer to someday; I'll fix them someday. xDD
Chapter Two
Neatly clipped shrubbery. Trees that stretched towards the sky, their branches, thick with leaves, providing shade. A stream cut through the land, and bridges, ducks, swans and fish littered along its length. Birds built their nests in the trees and in the thick bushes. Butterflies fluttering in the sunlight. This was the vision of La Ontario Park.
It was the favorite place of the Caminos during lazy afternoons, weekends, and holidays. It was a place to relax, to have fun, or enjoy the tranquility of nature.
That day, the entire family had gone out for a picnic, and everyone was split to groups. The parents talked together. The two older sisters played, and Mireia joined in. It was like that for a while, until Eugénia went off by herself.
"Miguel, Miguel," Mireia called, nudging his older brother's side, "let's explore."
"Mireia, you know we can't—"
"Por pabor, Rodrigo," she pleaded with wide, green eyes.
He sighed resignedly. "Alright." Mireia squeaked in earnest, and Miguel shushed her. "If we're going to sneak away, you had better be quiet."
She shut her lips, biting them shut, and she nodded. He then led her away to the mini-maze of hedges. She stared in awe at the beautiful bushels of red Spanish roses in full bloom, at the white fountain, at the tall, neatly clipped walls of leaves and twigs.
Soon, they could hear the tweeting of birds, and Mireia peered into a bush.
"Look," she whispered, and they looked into a nest of chirping chicks. They stared at the brother and sister, then started chirping in panic.
"Come on," he murmured, "before the mother comes back."
She nodded, and they moved away. They quietly entered a 'room' adjacent to the first one when they crossed a hedge archway. There they found Eugénia kissing another car.
Miguel pushed Mireia back slightly before she could even comprehend what she saw. "What's wrong?" she asked quietly.
"Let's go back," he said firmly, and his tone made her obey.
"Mamá," Miguel called out as the family came into view.
The sisters, their brother and their parents looked up. "Rodrigo, Mireia!" Sofía replied, almost angrily. "What have you been doing away from us?"
He shook his front. "It doesn't matter, mamá; you have to follow me!"
Sofía rolled her eyes, but followed. "Mireia, stay here."
"But—"
A glare from her mother silenced the youngest of the family, and Sofía turned to Miguel again. "What do you have to show me, Rodrigo?"
Miguel only smiled, called out "Tolomé?" as he beckoned to his brother, and turned to lead his mother and his brother to the hedge maze again. "Have you noticed Eugénia wasn't here?"
"Yes, and?"
To answer her question, he led her into the second room, where Eugénia was making out with a silver-bodied Alfa Romeo.
"Eugénia!" Sofía shrieked just as Tolomé appeared right beside Miguel.
The grand tourers turned, startled to see a fuming Señora Camino and two snickering Camino berothers. One look at her golden-painted brother with green eyes told her everything, but she cannot deny what her mother had seen.
"Mamá—"
"You are a young lady, Eugénia!" Sofía told her daughter. "This is unacceptable!"
"But mama—"
"You are forbidden to leave the home unnecessarily, and you will be fetched to and from school with your brothers!" Sofía declared.
"What!" Eugénia exclaimed, but Sofía had turned away.
Miguel and Bartolomé hid their smiling faces from their mother. "Take her home, and she never leaves your sight, do you understand?" Her tone was only stern. As Miguel and Bartolomé nodded, their mother turned to leave.
When she had gone out of earshot, Miguel and Bartolomé burst in laughter, staring at their younger sister, who fumed.
"Who told Mamá?" Eugénia snarled at them.
"Not me," Bartolomé said, and nudged his brother with his tire. "Nice going, Rodrigo!"
"Why?" Eugénia wailed at her older twin brother. "Why would you do such a thing?"
"because you took away a privilege of mine; about time you did, too!" he told her, his shout with triumph, anger and laughter.
"But..but I love Romeo," she murmured, and the Alfa Romeo touched his tire to hers.
"Yeah, yeah, and I love my laptop," Miguel shot back. "What's the difference?"
"Romeo is real!"
He blinked. "My laptop is as real as he is."
She shook in her anger. "Why take revenge on me, Rodrigo?"
"As if you wouldn't do that to me," he retorted.
"But I'm your sister!"
"And I'm your brother." He stared at her. "I don't know if you'll even be able to love anyone with the thinking, 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'."
"Neither can you!" she shot back.
"That's why we're twins." He smirked at her. "Now come on; Mamá will flay me and Tolomé if we don't get back."