Chapter Five

Disclaimer: I don't own The 39 Clues, I own half of this plot, and my OCs, that is all, though I wish I owned T39C, but not yet...*cries*

Onto the chapter, and please read the A.N. at the end.

Jonah and Dan ran down the stairs, smirking.

"We'll be back soon, and stay evil to Ian, Saladin." Natalie rolled her eyes, and Ian looked like he wanted to kill Dan even more.

"Where are you going, Daniel?" Ian asked, and Dan glared at him.

"First of all, don't call me Daniel, and second of all, it's a surprise." He grinned evilly at the last part.

"Be careful, and take the bikes, and don't try to talk Nellie into being your chaperone, or any of the adults." Amy told them, and Jonah sighed.

"Yo, why can't we try and get a chaperone, cuz?" He asked, and Nellie walked into the room.

"Because it's my car, and no one wants to drive you around, just so that way you can get tons of mistletoe, and then do evil things with other stuff that you want to get." Nellie pulled some tinsel out of one of the boxes, and started putting it on the tree.

"I'll drive them!" Ivan volunteered, and Irina glared at him.

"No, you are going to help decorate this tree, and not help them annoy and embarrass Amy." Irina shoved two ornaments into his hands, and pointed to the tree.

Alistair chuckled at Irina's reaction, and Amy looked at her gratefully.

Then the doorbell rang, and Dan opened the door. Outside were two seventeen year old girls, having an argument.

"Fiske, I think the surprise cousins are here!" He yelled up the stairs, and Fiske hurried down the stairs. When he yelled, the girls shut up, not noticing that someone had opened the door.

"Katie, Kathryn, I didn't expect you to be here so soon." Fiske ushered the the teenagers inside, and they brought in their suitcases. The first was a blonde with blue eyes, and the second had black hair and brown eyes.

"Yeah, well, we live in New York, which is not too far from Massachusetts, so it took us roughly four and a half hours." The blonde one said.

"You looked that up on Google, Kathryn." The black haired girl told the blonde (Kathryn).

"Does it matter, Katrina?" Kathryn asked, and Katrina started fuming.

"Yes, it does matter, and don't call me by my full name!" Kathryn nodded, and sat down on the couch, shocked at how easy it was to annoy Katie today.

"Whatever, it's a family reunion!" As Kathryn cheered, Katie rolled her eyes, sighed, and hung her head low, as she sat next to Kathryn.

"Bye!" Dan and Jonah yelled, and they bolted out the door, with Nellie's car keys in Dan's hand.

Katie heard the car start up, and ran outside. A few minutes later, she came back in with both boys, dragging them by their coats.

"Okay, this isn't what it looks like, cuz!" Jonah exclaimed as Katie let him and Dan go.

"Really? Because it looks like you two were trying to drive the car, but Katie heard you start it up, ran outside, and dragged you back here." Amy said, giving her brother the stink eye.

"Okay, so it is what it looks like, but on the bright side..." Jonah was thinking long and hard about a bright side, before shrugging.

"Okay, I got nothin, do you have a bright side, Dan?" He looked to Dan, hoping he would say yes.

"No, but it's because Irina wouldn't let Ivan drive us. Can he please drive us somewhere, cousin Irina?" Dan switched to puppy eye mode, and Jonah saw his plan, and did the same.

"Yes, please Irina?" Ivan asked, and Irina was going to give in, unless someone did something.

"Why can't you just take the bikes?" Amy asked, and Katie's eyebrow went up.

"If Amy told you to use the bikes, use the bikes, and your spending limit is $500, total." Katie looked them both in the eye, and they gulped, and then ran out the door, grabbing the bikes and peddling as fast as they could, since the snow wasn't sticking to the ground yet.

"Thank you, and Ivan, keep decorating the tree." Ivan started to protest and they both gave him a hard stare, and he went back to happily putting ornaments on the tree.

"Can you show us our room?" Katie asked Amy, and she looked at Katie inquisitively.

"You two each get your own room. But I can show you yours." Katie nodded, and Kathryn went to help Ivan decorate the tree.

"Thanks, and this is much bigger on the inside." Katie remarked, and Amy nodded.

"Fiske said you would like this room, I'll leave you to unpack." And with that Amy went down the stairs, probably to burn more mistletoe.

Katie pulled out her guitar, and started tuning it.

Downstairs, Alistair, Irina, Kathryn, Ivan, Ian, and Natalie were decorating the tree, while Amy and Nellie were burning mistletoe.

"I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world, but it's feeling just like every other morning before, now I wonder what my life is gonna mean if it's gone." They all could hear someone singing, and playing the guitar.

"Who's that?" Irina asked, and Nellie shrugged.

"I have no clue." The rest agreed, then Kathryn snapped her fingers.

"It's Katie, she's playing her guitar, although I've never heard her sing." Amy looked at her in disbelief.

"You guys are like sisters, but you've never heard her sing?" Kathryn nodded.

"Usually I'm at my job, or somewhere while Katie's asleep, then she must wake up, do what she wants, and then make dinner for us." Kathryn shrugged, and Nellie threw two more handfuls of mistletoe into the fireplace.

Kathy ran up the stairs, and put her ear next to Katie's door, crouching next to it.

"The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and I started staring at the passengers waving goodbye, can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?" Kathy stood up, opened the door, and clapped, while Katie pulled out her bow, and notched an arrow.

"Don't sneak up on me like that, Kathy!" Kathryn pushed the arrow away from her face, and started giggling.

"You just played your guitar, and you did it with knowing that people are downstairs." Katie shrugged, and Kathryn looked at her in disbelief.

"So? I play all the time at camp, why should here be any different?" Kathryn gaped at her.

"You play at camp?" Katie nodded, and Kathryn shook her head, remembering what she'd gone up there for.

"Can you please help us decorate the tree?" Kathryn also gave her cousin the kitten eyes that she used when she was pleading, and Katie sighed, nodding.

Okay, I know what you guys are thinking, I took over a month to write this chapter. And I won't deny it, but I do have reasons for my tardiness.

For one thing, I have had issues with my computer, and then there were holidays, and I've been very busy, I know that's not a very good excuse, but those are reasons that I just now have posted the chapter.

Also, the song is How Far We've Come, by Matchbox20, I don't own it.

Yours Truly,

Caylie:-)

Falalalalalalala! And Happy Holidays!