Okay, chapter 2 good to go. And thanks for reviewing the author's note. I got rid of it, but thanks for telling me what the thing is called. I really appreciate it. Well, here's the second chapter. I hope this is worth the wait. I'll try to update again in a few days.
Summary: "Bigger Than Us" by Miley Cyrus.
"Hey. Hey kids. Wake up."
I heard a voice saying. I slowly opened my eyes, Archie still behind me with his arms around me. I rubbed my sleepy eyes with my hand and looked at the man who was talking to us. "What time is it?" I groaned.
"Time to go home. Come on now."
I looked up to see a police man poking us with his black baton. I groaned and sat up, rubbing my back and shaking Archie up. "Archiiieee. Get uuup." I complained. Boy was I tired. "We have to go hoooome."
Archie groaned and slowly opened his eyes the same way I opened mine. He blinked a few times and saw a police man looking at him. He yelled in surprise and said, "Okay whatever you're thinking of that you think I did, I didn't do it."
The police man rolled his eyes. "Ya whatever kid now get up. Don't you know you're not allowed sleeping on private property?"
Archie groaned and said, "Isn't this a free country?"
"You pay to live don'tcha?"
Archie groaned and layed back down.
"Come on Archie, we better get up."
I see your face look in your eyes
What you feel is no surprise
Everyone needs something to believe in
Tell me your dreams, I'll tell you mine
In our hearts we'll look inside
And see all the colors of the rainbow
I know
"Fine. Fine. Just, give me a minute."
"Well you kids better hurry up before you get in big trouble." The man said, looking around in case other police members were around, police members with higher power.
"Don't worry we will. Thanks for waking us up." I said, trying to stay out of trouble.
"Don't worry about it ma'am. You two have a good night now." He said with his slight southern accent. I've always liked southern accents.
I watched the police man leave and I shook Archie like mad. "Archie get up!" I said. He didn't move. I slapped him across his arm and his eyes shot open as he yelled out in shock.
"What was that for?"
"Shh shh shh!! Do you want to wake up everyone in the neighborhood and get on the police man's bad side? I don't. So keep quiet."
"Sorry. Dozed off there for a second."
"What time is it?" I asked.
"Archie yawned and looked at his watch on his wrist. "1:37 a.m." He yawned and then looked at his watch again in disbelief. "1:37 a.m.!?! Oh, man we gotta get home!"
He didn't give me time to say anything. But before I could say anything, he grabbed my hand and we ran towards our dorm. He opened the door and came in panting. He snuck up the stairs with his hand still in mine. "Hope our dorm councelor didn't notice." He whispered.
We both stopped once we saw the hallway light flick on. We slowly turned our heads to see our councelor in her pajamas. "And where, exactly, have you two been?" She said, trying to keep herself from not yelling at them. She had blonde hair tied in a loose ponytail and pink pajama pants with a white tank top. She had sparkling chocolate brown eyes.
"Um. Well, Sabrina, we went to the beach, watching the romantic sunset, we were talking and then Atlanta fell asleep. I looked at my watch and saw that it wasn't very late, so I stayed there for a while until i fell asleep."
"Yaaa. Suuure. Just get to bed. You need some rest before tomorrow."
"Okay." We both whispered to her.
That's Sabrina Coast. She's our dormitory's councelor. She's the person in charge of he students in this dorm. She's fun to be around with, but make sure you stay on her good side. The last time someone got her mad for the stupidest thing, they had to go to the principal's office and he's no Santa Claus either.
"Come on Lan. We should get to bed. She's right. We do need rest for tomorrow." Archie told me.
I nodded and followed him to our room.
We all wanna believe in love
We all wanna believe in soethin
Bigger than just us
We all wanna be a part
Of the greater picture
That's hanging in our hearts (our hearts)
Ya it's bigger than us
As we entered our dorm room, I smiled at the familiar scenery around us. The dark blue walls that were covered with posters, and the clothes on our brown wood floor. Yep. Definately home. Not really, but you know what I mean. I was going to miss this life. The school life. It was actually interesting. It was like...our own drama school island. And when I say drama, I mean drama! Lots and lots of drama. It was fun, even though I did miss our other friends, Theresa, Jay, Odie, Neil and Herry.
But I'm sure this summer will be just as fun. Because Archie was staying at my house, due to the fact that his parents split up and he doesn't have enough money to visit them both. My dad died when I was little, but my mom was married again 4 years later. So I understand Archie's pain. Another reason why we were the best of friends, until we "accidentally" became in a relationship. But I'm not gonna go there. I still get embarassed as I think of it.
I turned around as Archie was changing, looking at my side of the room, looking at my Hairspray, Cascada, Linkin Park, Miley Cyrus and lots of other posters on my walls.
"Okay, you can look now." I couldn't help but think that he was smirking for some reason.
I shrugged it off and turned around, my eyes widening slightly at his muscular abdomen. "Whoa." I whispered to myself. "You're turn to turn around." I smirked back at him. It's my turn to wow him.
Archie laughed lightly and turned around, hearing my shirt and pants fall off my body and hearing another shirt and pj pants come on my body. "Alright. I'm descent."
I smiled as he turned around, his eyes widening oh so noticably. He saw me in my lavender tank top, that showed alot of my stomach, and my tight blue pajama shorts.
"Wow." He said. I laughed. Just as I predicted.
"I knew you were going to say wow. Well this is our last night together in this dorm and I wanted to wear something...special. Something I never wore before. And since you're staying at my house for the summer, we'll never be alone. Almost literally." I shrugged.
"I like it. I like it alot." He said as he walked over to me, wrapping his arms around my sharp waist and pressing his lips firmly against mine. I felt the need to fall over to the bed like we did earlier, but with Archie's body pressed against mine, how could I say no? Exactly. When it comes to stuff like this, I do not say no. Especially Archie, duh.
I quietly giggled as he pushed me down to my bed. I moved myself so my head was resting on my pillow, with Archie between my legs. "I guess you wanna sleep with me tonight?" I giggled silently.
"I guess so." He shispered, lowering himself to my face. "I just can't wait until we go to your house tomorrow."
"I can."
"Why?"
"Because my brothers are the most annoying people ever! Literally! You couldn't last one day, scratch that, five minutes with them without wanting to jump out the window. But thankfully my mom got married and now I have a little step sister. And I have my older sister who's visitng from university so it shouldn't be that bad." I explained. The only reason I don't want to go back is because my brothers drive me insane and I feel like committing suicide. I'm not, but I just feel like it so bad, or eve better. I feel like committing murder. But I'm not allowed, unfortunately.
"Wow. But don't worry, I'll be there to protect you."
I giggled and said, "That won't be necessary. I can take them, it's just...they have their ways. But I'm sure you and my older sister can help me with them."
"Okay." Archie said as he rolled beside me and wrapped his arm around my waist, holding me tightly. "Good night. I love you."
"Love you too." I said before closing my eyes and falling asleep, hoping that my brothers at least matured a little since I last saw them.
I wanna see beyond my own little world
Grab your hands so we can twirl around the galaxy
See the world with clarity
Oh-oo-oh
We all have a long way to go
But I know
We're getting closer every day
Everyday
The next morning, I woke up to the blinding sunlight pearing through my blinds that only covered half of my windows and to the sounds of the annoying little morning birds. I groaned as the flashing sunlight hit my eyes, making me squint in displeasure. I sat up and rubbed my sleepy eyes, I looked at the digital clock on the headboard of my bed, to find that it was,
"10:11!!" I almost yelled. Everyone would be on their way to the airports by now. I scrambled out of my bed and packed my clothes as quickly as I could. I didn' have time to take a shower so I put my hair up in a lazy ponytail and quickly got dressed in casual dark blue jeans with a white t-shirt and a maching dark blue hoodie. Once my clothes were all packed I packed most of Archie's clothes and woke him up. "Archie! Archie get up!! It's time to go!! We're gonna be late!"
"What time is iiiiit?" He groaned.
I sighed and said, "It's flippin 10:15!! We gotta go NOW!!!"
"Why didn't you wake me uuuup?" He said. All he heard was the door slamming shut. "Atlanta?" He said as he opened his eyes and looked around the room. "Atlanta? Great she left without me." He got up to see his suitcase packed full and his favorite t-shirt and jeans laying on his bed. He groaned as he stretched and got dressed, grabbing his case and running down the stairs. "Thanks for not waiting for me."
"You're welcome. Now can we just get on your bike and move?!" I asked, very impatiently.
Archie sighed and ran to the side of the dorm building to find his motor cycle laying against the wall. "Let's go!" He said. We both strapped our luggage to the back of his bike, tightly so we wouldn't lose anything. We quickly got on and put our helmets on, with Archie getting the engine ready. "Ready?" He yelled through the roaring of the engine.
"Yes! Now move!" I yelled back at him, wrapping my arms tightly around his waist.
"Hold on!" He yelled as his foot rested on the petal and the bike sped off. "When does the plane take off?"
"11:30!!" I yelled.
He sighed again, not that I could hear it, and pushed the trigger on the left handle to make his bike go faster.
I thought we were gonna be late. It takes about 45 minutes to get there on bike and who knows how much time it gets to put our bags and lug 'em through baggage, giving us who knows how much time to get on the plane, and there is alot of people on planes these days during the summer. Yep. Summer is a busy, busy season.
"11:30!! Hurry up Archie!" I yelled, looking at my watch.
"Don't worry! We're going to make it! We're almost there!" He said, parking right there in the parking lot.
Wow he is good. We took our helmets and quickly undid the knot that held our bags together, we took them off the bike and ran to the luggage cart. We both smiled in relief as we saw Sabrina waiting for us, checking her watch. We ran to her as fast as we could, putting our bags on the cart.
"What took you two so long? You are so lucky. I was just about to leave." She said.
"Sorry Breen, slept in." I told her, panting.
"Ha! Like I haven't heard that one before." She said. "Now go, I'll take care of your bike Archie." She said, walking towards his motor cycle.
"Thanks. Come on. Let's go." He said, grabbing my hand and leading us to the plane.
"You kids have a good life now, ya hear?!" She said.
"We will! We'll miss you!" I yelled back to her, waving good bye. I really am going to miss her, she was the best councelor ever! Maybe with any luck she'll be our college dorm councelor.
"Come on! I don't want to drag you!" Archie said, tugging my hand.
"Sorry." I said, running with him.
We all wanna believe in love
We all wanna believe in somethin
Bigger than just us
We all wanna be a part
Of the greater picture
That's hangin in our hearts (our hearts)
Ya it's bigger than us
It fills the universe
It lights the skies above
It rescues our hearts with love
But once we finally got in the plane, took our seats and got comfortable. The plane wouldn't move. "Oh come on! The tickets said the plane would leave at 11:30!" I said.
"Just be patient, babe." Archie told me, squeazing my hand.
I sighed and laid my head against the head cushion, holding his hand. I did what he told me, which lasted about 5 minutes. "Come on people I could walk to Northwest faster than this! Let's move!" I yelled.
"Anxious to see your family again?" Archie smiled, obviously trying to tease me.
"Somewhat ya." I smiled back at him. I'm not taking the bate this time Arch. Try again.
"Oh and I suppose the somewhat would be your brothers, hm?"
Try again.
"My brothers at heart ya."
Ha ha.
"Brothers at heart?"
"Ya. My best friend boys I had since before I was in kindergarten."
"Oh. I still bet you want to see your brothers again." He's still at it, well I'm not playing.
"If you're trying to tease me it's not working. And neither is this plane!! Come on people let's move! I could crawl over to my house ALOT faster than this!! We wanna go home before we have kids and stand by their graves!" I groaned. I looked at Archie to see if he had something to say but he just laughed at closed his eyes.
"Tired?"
"Maybe."
"Take that as a yes."
"Well, I'm takin it as a maybe, which it is."
"Please fasten your seat belts as we prepare for take off. Thank you."
"Finally!!" I said, clicking my seat belt in place. I layed my head against my head rest and stared at the ceiling. "Whoa." I said as I felt my body bump forward. I grabbed Archie's hand and my other arm rest for support, Archie doing the same thing. "Yes! Finally!" I looked over at Archie and finally realized something. "How come you get the window seat?"
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"Well that plane ride took forever. It took forever to take off and then it took forever to land." I said, walking over to get our stuff.
Archie laughed and followed. "I think you were just impatient at the time, I didn't think it was long."
"You were sleeping the whole way there." I said, turning my head to look at him.
"So?"
I curved my lips into a small smile and grabbed my bags, Archie grabbing his bags also.
"So where's your bike?"
"Um..." Archie said, looking around the parking lot. "I don't see it. Are you sure that Sabrina sent it over?"
"Mm hm. She said she'd send your bike over here so you could drive me to my house."
"Well I don't-"
"See it!" I said, pointing over to his red motor cycle, I grabbed Archie's hand and ran over to it. "Now my parents can actually see us again before we go sit over by their graves. Now, let's go." I said. I jumped on his seat and put on my helmet, after strapping our luggage to the back, and Archie climbing on and putting his helmet on.
"Are you sure you know where it is from here?" He asked, looking behind his shoulder at me.
"Yes. We pick up relatives from this air port all the time. I know where my house is, don't worry."
"Okay." He said, starting the engine and driving off.
(L.o.v.e, love) with love (l.o.v.e, love)
That's what's bigger than us (bigger than us, c'mon)
It's love, it's love that's bigger than us
It's love it's love that's bigger than us (Whoo!)
It's love, it's love (it's love, it's love)
"Okay, then just take a left here and if you can't see the number, it's the one with the Canadian flag beside the garage door.
"Okay." He said shifting his bike to go left. "Wow. Nice street for a country."
I giggled. "That one. Right there!" I said, pointing to the house.
"Got it." Archie said, turning his bike to the right and parking it on the dirt driveway. "This is it?" Archie asked, raising an eye brow.
"Ya? Why? Expecting something better?"
"No. Just asking." Archie looked over at me and saw that I couldn't stop smiling. "Excited?"
"Heck ya! I haven't seen my family since last summer! Sorry that you can't go over to your parents' for the summer."
"It's okay. Ever since my dad left we haven't really been doing as much stuff together as we used to. I'd rather spend the summer with you and your family than go over to my folk's house."
"Alrighty then." I said, walking towards the door. I opened the door, and heard a little dog barking and runing towards the door. Once the dog saw who it was he couldn't stop wagging it's tail and kept standing on it's hind legs, stretching his paws up on my legs. "Hey Patches!" I said, kneeling down to pet the dog.
"Patches stop barking! You're going to wake...the.." I saw my mother walking from the kitchen. She slowed her sentence once she realized it was me. "Atlanta!"
"Mom!" I said, smiling. I dropped my bags and ran into my mother's arms, giving her a crushing hug. "I missed you so much! Where's dad and the others?"
"Your dad's at work, your brother's are up in their rooms, Alicia is in her room and Emiliy is downstairs."
"Okay." I smiled. I walked over and picked up my bags and walked upstairs, Archie following. I opened my room and I stared at it in shock. "Wow. My brothers actually had the nerve not to mess it up this time. Hm." I said. I droppd m;y bags again and walked over to my brothers' rooms. I opened the doors and said, "Okay. What's the catch? How come my room isn't messed?"
"Atlanta!" My little brother said, jumping from his chair and giving me a hug.
"Ya, ya it's good to see you but why isn't my room messed up?"
"Go ask Justin, I had nothing to do with it this time. Honest."
"Whatever." I said. "Arch, you can go unpack your stuff. There's an extra room beside mine on the left. I gotta go talk to Justin."
"Kay." He said, walking down the hall.
I walked out of the room and went two doors from the right. I entered the second room and saw Justin on his computer. "What's the catch? Why isn't my room all mess up? What did you do?"
"Good to see you too sis, I didn't do anything." He said, turning around on his desk chair.
"Oh, yes you did."
"Oh ya? What did I do?"
"That's what I want to find out. What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! Mom made me and Ed stay our of your room since the last time you came to visit."
"Oh ya. I ended up scrubbing all the chocolate pudding from the floor for a week."
"I didn't do anything, honestly. Go see for yourself."
"Fine. Maybe I will."
I walked out of his room and went back to mine,I slowly walked in to make sure it was safe. Once I made it to my bed, I sighed. 'I guess they didn't do anything after all.' I said. But I wanted to be extra careful. lifted my pillow from my bed. Nothing under there. I lefted my blanket. Ah ha! I took the cream pie from my bed. I slowly walked over to Justin's room. "Oh Justiiiin." I sang, smiling.
"What?" He said, turning around. "AH!!!" He yelled, his face meeting the pie.
"I may be gullible at times but I'm not stupid!"
"How did you know?"
"I didn't. I just checked. Sucker!" I laughed and left his room again.
"Oh Lantaaaa! Someone wants to say hi!" I heard my mom yell from downstairs.
"Coming!" I yelled back to her. I ran down the stairs to find My little sister Emily sitting on the big freezer by the window that was beside the front door. "Emily!!" I smiled.
"Lan-Lan!!" She yelled back to me. She got off from the fridge and ran to me, she jumped on me and I managed to catch her before she fell. I twirled her around while giving her a big hug.
"I missed you so much!" I said, still holding her in my arms.
"I missed you too." She said, digging her little head into my shoulder. I gently put her down and smiled at her.
"Look at you! Boy have you grown." I said, scruffing her hair. "Now if you'll excuse me, there's one more person I have to say hi to." I smiled the biggest smile yet.
I ran up the stairs and opened the first door on the left. "Leesh?"
"Lannie-Mannie!!" She said! Jumping off her bed she ran to me and gave me a hug. She always did give me the best hugs. Yep. The best hugs I could get are from none other than my big sister Alicia. "How are you?! I missed you!" She said, pulling away but laying her hands on my shoulders.
"I'm fine! And stop calling me that! I'm not a baby anymore!" I said. Alicia smiled and gave me another hug. I wrapped my arms around her waist. "I miss your hugs Licia." I said, sounding as if I was going to cry.
"Oh, baby girl." She said, rubbing my back and pulling away from me but keeping her hands on my shoulders again. "I know you're not a baby, but you will always be my baby sister."
I smiled. "I know. When's dad going to get home?"
"I don't know. Oh, I'm just so glad to have you home baby." She said giving me another soft hug.
She always was my favorite sibling. She always calls me "baby" and "baby girl". It might be from the fact that she's 21. She only stays here so she can have a place to stay until she get's the money she needs before she really goes on her own. I always did have a special bond with her. I have a special bond with all my siblings, but this one was...different. I love her so much. "Come on. Archie and the rest of the family should be waiting for us." Alicia said, swinging an arm around my shoulders and leading us out of the room.
We all wanna believe in love
We all wanna believe in somethin
Bigger than just us
Awwww! Don't you just love sister bonds? I do. Too bad I don't have a sister, got stuck with the two most annoying brothers you will ever meet. Well, that's it for now. As I said I will try to update in the next few days. So hang tight. I'm going to start the next chapter later on today. I thank you for all your patience and I hope you can wait for the next chapter. I tried to make the song really blend in with this chapter. And if you read it a couple times and really think about it, it kinda does go with the chapter. But if you don't understand how it does blend, don't ask me because it's kind of hard to explain. Well, I now leave you in your reviewing. R&R&R!! And remember, I like how you rate the story with stars, so if you want to rate the story, rate it in stars okay? Okay. Toodles!
Draykor