The morning sunlight shone through the curtains and blinded me as I opened my hazel eyes.
I sat up and looked around, my eyes landing on a sleeping Lucy. She looked so peaceful with her short auburn hair spread out on the pillow and her usually blue eyes covered by her tired eyelids.
We've lived here for about 2 years now and we're completely settled in, and although it's not our old house I guess it's kind of starting to feel like home and everything feels just about normal.
I glanced at the clock, it was half past eight and it wasn't like I was going to fall back to sleep, so I swung my tanned legs over the side of the bed and stood up, wincing as the cold wooden floor made contact with my warm feet.
I made my way over to the wardrobe opposite the two beds, and searched for some clothes.
I pulled out a navy blue blouse, a black silky skirt and I put my chestnut hair into a messy bun.
Once I was dressed I made my way down stairs and into the kitchen and dining room area to see Professor Kike at the table with a mug in his hand.
He looked at me as I walked in "Good morning Alexandra" he greeted
"Morning" I replied, shuffling over to the cupboards to get some breakfast
"Is Lucy not awake yet?"
"No, she's really tired after yesterday, we were out for ages" I chuckled
I'd always liked professor Kirke, he was so kind and I felt like he actually cared about us, not like Mrs Macready who just gave us place to stay and didn't even look at us if we walked passed her.
Speaking of the devil, she walked in. "Ah Alexandra you're up, I was looking for you both to inform you that we have some people coming stay with us, they're evacuees from the war and I was asked if I could look after them"
"Oh, so like children? We aren't going to the have little kids running around the place are we?" I huffed.
"I've been told that there's three of them and they're all teenagers, they're The Pevensie family" she replied plainly
As I sat down at the table, Lucy trudged in.
"Morning Lu"
She gave me a tired smile, "Why didn't you stay in bed for a bit longer? You were exhausted last night"
She yawned "I know but I heard people up so I thought I come and join"
She sat next to me and continued "So what's this about people coming to stay?"
Mrs Macready answered her "some evacuees are staying with us, three teenagers, I'm about to leave to pick them up, when I get back I expect your bedroom to be completely clean, and you need to sort out the the other two rooms as well"
She didn't give us a chance to reply before she walked out of the room.
"Oh my gosh Alex this is so exciting! We're going to have friends to play with" she exclaimed
At first the thought of new people coming to live with us wasn't very appealing, but when Lucy put it like that I guess it would be quite nice, it does get quite lonely around here, and I mean it's not like there isn't enough space, this house is massive.
"Get something to eat and and then we can get started on the rooms" I said getting up to wash my plate and cup.
"Ok, do think I should wear my dress? You know the really nice with the flowers? I want to make a good first impression" she wondered
I giggled at her, she's exactly like mum was. Always wanting to look nice and please people, although I was completely opposite to them. I didn't give a crap what people thought of me.
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I breathed a sigh of relief as I closed the door of the guest bedroom, both of them were completely cleaned and ready for the new people.
I looked at Lucy who had just shut the other door "Well done, we're finished we can relax now"
She look up at me with the same look of relief that masked my face "Mrs Macready will be back soon as well" I said
"Hey Alex?" She asked
I hummed in reply "What's in there?" She said as she pointed towards a door opposite one of the grand paintings on the wall.
I've never been in there before but I've always wondered what lied behind that wooden door.
"I have no idea, we can have a look?"
She nodded eagerly and stood up speed walking to the door, I followed and reached for the handle, it slowly clicked open.
Just as it started to squeak and the plain walls were being revealed, the edge of a wardrobe came into view but suddenly the front door slammed shut, and my reflexes made me pull the door closed and jump away from it.
"Macready must be home then" I mumbled in shock
"Come on let's go and meet them!" Lucy exclaimed as she grabbed my hand and dragged me down the stairs, her flowery dress that she ended up wearing, flowing in the process.
I stumbled down the stairs still being pulled by Lucy's surprisingly strong force "Lu slow down I'm going fall!" I gasped
But I as I looked up I was met with three pairs of eyes looking right at me, Mrs Macready wasn't in the room.
"Umm hi?" I mumbled as Lucy was beaming up at them, they all smiled
"I'm Lucy, and this is Alex" she greeted and pushed me forward, I looked at the three of them, the shortest was a boy around my age I think, he had dark hair and freckles scattered over his cheeks.
Next to him was a girl, also with dark hair, she looked a bit older than me and was defiantly taller. The last was another boy, he was obviously the oldest and he had golden hair that swept perfectly across his head and just below were a pair of beautiful blue eyes that stared directly into mine.
I realized we'd been looking at each other for a while and he finally spoke up and said "Hi, I m Peter" he reached for my hand and I shook his politely, I was defiantly blushing though.
I could see Lucy grinning at me out of the corner of my eye.
"I'm Susan and this is Edmund" the girl said and pointed to her other brother, I smiled at them and said "You can take your bags up to the guest rooms, I'm guessing you boys want to share and Susan you can have your own"
They nodded and me and Lucy helped them up with their bags leading the way to their rooms.
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Hiiiiii that was a bit longer than the first one :) please follow and review if you like it! and here's Alex's outfit: chapter/set?id=145228330
