We all stood still, and were standing pretty close to each other when there suddenly was a knock again that scared us all. Stella, Tecna, Bloom and the kids began screaming like crazy, when they heard the second knock.
"IIiiiiiih, where's Brandon when I need him!" screamed Stella
"If we die tonight, I just want to tell everybody that I was the one who colored Riven's hair orange and not Musa! She just covered up for me" said Nabu
"If we survive this I will kill you" said Riven
"It was nice to know you Nabu, I'm really going to miss your jokes" said Helia
Everything was just silent and that probably was the scariest part? The person outside had moved on from knocking on the door, to knocking on the windows. All we could see was a black shadow walking around and banging on our windows and it kinda freaked all of us out. I went into the kitchen got some flashlights, and handed them over to everyone. We all had our flashlights on, so we could see a bit more better than before.
"We're gonna die!" yelled Timmy while walking around in circles
"STOP WALKING AROUND LIKE THAT IT'S FUSTRATING!" yelled Musa at Timmy
"Timmy I know all of this is scary, but even I'm getting dizzy just by looking at you" I said

"Sorry" said Timmy as he stopped

"I miss mommy" said Maddie
"I miss daddy" said Mackenzie
"I love you so much girls, you guys are the best" said Chris while hugging his sisters
"This is so scary" said Stella while holding onto Chris
"And Chris the 8 year old boy is gonna save you from that thing or person outside" said Riven while laughing

"He's better than you, isn't that right Chris" said Stella while still hugging
"Yes I'm just perfect" said Chris while laughing
"I'll go outside and see who's here" I said

"NO!" yelled everybody
"Why are you all yelling? There's a person freezing to death outside" I said
"Sweet innocent lovely Flora don't you ever learn?" said Nabu while shaking his head
"You don't let strangers in Flo" said Layla
"I'm scared" said Stella
"Haven't you see The Purge" said Nabu
"Yeah we don't even know if that person outside is being chased by killers" said Sky

"OR IS ONE!" said Chris
"So if we let that person in, then we would probably be targets too! Just like in the movie" said Riven
"But didn't it end good? They all almost survived?" said Timmy
"ALMOST! Meaning someone died, Flora you're not going out there" said Helia
"Where's Flora?" said Bloom

I walked over to the door and opened it, and all of a sudden I see this man in a black coat it was very dark and I turned off my flashlight on my way here, so I couldn't see him! All of a sudden this man hugged me, and I screamed like a maniac. I was hitting him with my flashlight and I eventually hit him in the head, and then causing him to scream, but I recognized this scream. By now everybody had run out to me and this guy in the hallway.
"Brandon?" I yell as I turned on my flashlight
"Why did you hit me! I never knew you were violent!" yelled Brandon
"WHY DID YOU AMBUSH ME LIKE THAT!" I yelled
"I WAS FREEZING! I needed something to warm myself up, so I hugged you" yelled Brandon
"Body heat?" said Timmy while laughing
"Exactly" said Brandon
"What are you doing here, shouldn't you like be home tomorrow night?" I said

"Yeah but they said the storm would get worse tomorrow, so all the flights to Gardenia were canceled!" said Brandon
"Then how in the world are you here now?" said Sky
"My driver drove me" said Brandon
"All the way from California to here?" said Bloom
"That's like 4 hours?" said Nabu
"Yeah but I made a promise that I couldn't break" said Brandon while looking at me
"Where's Stella?" said Tecna

"She hid herself somewhere, she said if someone has to die it shouldn't be her" said Musa

"Because she was to beautiful to die" said Layla while laughing

"Okay but I have 2 questions" said Brandon
"What is it?" said Timmy
"Why are you all besides Helia and Flora in PJ's it's like 8.30PM? and what are you all doing here?" said Brandon
"Well we all evacuated here together because of the storm, and they all bumped in 6 in the morning" I said
"Lets go into the living room, turn on the fireplace, lit some candles, find Stella and get Brandon warm" said Helia
"That sounds really great dude" said Brandon while walking into the living room
We turned on the fireplace, and lit some candles and the room was looking really good and cozy! We got Brandon lots of blankets, Maddie found Stella behind the curtains and we all just sat and talked till it got pretty late. Then Helia and I went over to get into our PJ's, and he went into the closet to change and I went into the bathroom. Do you know how hard it is to dress in pure darkness? I put on my pink one piece jumpsuit, put my hair into a bun and then I went out and to the living room where Helia sat in his night pants and t-shirt along with the rest of the PJ-gang.
"It's 11.00PM and the kids are still up" said Bloom
"So I guess nobody is going upstairs, while all of this is going on" said Sky
"Are you sick!? Let's stay here" said Bloom
"In the living room?" said Tecna

"Yeah it's pretty big if you haven't noticed" said Riven while laughing

"Plus the guys and I always sleep down here when they're sleeping over" said Brandon

"So we have to get the mattresses from upstairs" said Musa

"Nope we'll sleep on the air-mattresses" said Nabu

"Do we have that?" I said

"Yeah" said Brandon while laughing
"How many? I don't think we all could share 4?" said Layla
"There is 8, 7 big and a small one for 1 person only" said Helia
"We got the same dilemma again, meaning we need to talk sleeping arrangements again" I said

"Now that Brandon is here everything is messed up" said Riven
"I see, nobody missed me" said Brandon
"I did" said Stella as she kissed Brandon's cheek
"I'm glad someone did then" said Brandon while looking at all of us
"This time we'll say Riven and Musa takes one, Stella and Brandon takes the second, Nabu and Layla will take the third, Sky and Bloom will have the fourth, The twins takes the fifth, Chris gets the small one meaning he'll have the sixth, Flora and Helia and share the seventh and Timmy and I will take the last one" said Tecna
"I'm good" said Helia while laughing

I was looking at Helia and I couldn't believe my eyes and ears right now, 2 days ago he didn't even know I existed and now he talks to me, smiles to me, laughs with me and now sharing a air-mattress with me? Could somebody please pinch me because I think I'm dreaming?
"Is there anyone complaining?" said Timmy
"Nope, I'm looooving it!" said Riven while eyeing me
"Me too!" said Stella while laughing
"Then question is? How the heck do we pump air into those things without electricity" said Musa
"We have a air pumper that works without electricity" said Brandon
"Cool seems like you were prepared for the worst" said Tecna while laughing
"Nope I just camp a lot with the guys" said Brandon while laughing

"So guys, lets pump those things up because it's really late and the kids gotta sleep, and I need my beauty sleep so I can wake up even more fab than now" said Stella

"You're weird?" said Mackenzie while looking at Stella
"Brandon remember DeeDee is still an opportunity" said Maddie

Stella just looked at the twins, and then went to sit down in silence! Usually she would make a huge scene that usually ends up with Brandon or Nabu or Riven getting hurt or sometimes all 3 of them. We all started laughing at Maddie's comment and Stella's priceless reaction. We went and got the air pumper and pumped up all the mattress up, got some pillows and blankets from the closet, made Maddie and Mackenzie apologize to Stella, but lets just say she didn't take it well. I put the kids to bed, and they were asleep very fast. Then everybody just sat on each of their own mattresses, talking to their husband, fiancé, boyfriend or in my case "mattress-buddy". Helia and I talked about everything from paintings to favorite pizza topping.
"That's pretty gross? You like pineapple on your pizza? Fruit and pizza shouldn't be mixed?" said Helia while laughing
"Yeah I guess that's normal, it's pretty good" I said with a smile
"I've never tried it, but if you say so then I guess I'll try" said Helia with a smile

My heart melted a bit when he looked at me like that, he seemed to be very interested in our conversations, laughing, smiling and even looking deeply into my eyes. I've always known that I've been crushing on Helia for a good reason, and not only because he's totally handsome but also because he's just simply amazing.

"You and Brandon just like to mix a lot of things" said Helia while laughing
"Amen to that, since we're talking about mixing stuff!" said Brandon with a devious smile
"NO!" whisper-screamed everybody
"Why not?" said Brandon
"Brandon I think it's not for their style" I said while smiling
"Whimps" said Brandon as he turned to Stella
"Who are you calling a whimp? Maybe if we're so whimpish, why don't you go to that Gigi or was it DeeDee girl" said Stella while hitting Brandon
"Flora she's hitting me again" said Brandon
"See what I have to live with" I whispered to Helia making him laugh
"FLORA!" whisper screamed Stella and Brandon
I got up went over to them, had a long talk! There was a lot of hitting, emotions and Stella being overly dramatic as always. Since we're all staying in the living room, everybody besides Stella and Brandon were amused by their little couple's counseling with me 2.00AM in the morning.
"Why does she always have to hit me, since high-school! If I get a brain damage is probably because of her" said Brandon
"You deserve it" said Stella with crossed arms

"Kids,kids! It's okay to have arguments in a relationship, but violence is never the option" I said calmly
"Only for Riven and Musa, Musa seems to have him wrapped around her finger after years of violence" whispered Nabu
"That's true Nabu, but don't give Stella idea's" I said while not trying to laugh

"Well I think we need to separate you for tonight then" I said

"But I want to sleep on the mattress" said Stella and Brandon at the same time

"As your counselor I would say that you have to compromise, as Brandon's sister I would say Brandon Lopez don't you dare let a woman sleep on your couch, hasn't mom taught you better" I said
"I think we'll both sleep here? You're fine right Steel?" said Brandon
"Right back at ya' B" said Stella
I went back to mine and Helia's mattress and he was just laughing.
"This is how you make them work things out" I said while whispering

"How?" said Helia
"By telling them to go away from each other, they won't because they care about each other and they know it's nothing serious they're fighting over" I said
"You're good? How did you know" said Helia
"1. I'm Stella's best friend and Brandon's sister so I know how to handle them, 2. I had psychology in my second semester at Colombia" I said while laughing
"You know when you weren't here that used to be my job" said Helia while laughing

"You were substituting for me then" I said while laughing
"Well I would usually tell Stella that there was a big shoe sale at the mall, and then everything would be solved! Until Stella eventually comes back to kill me because there wasn't a sale!" said Helia
"I feel so bad for us" I said while laughing
"You're not the only one" said Helia with a smile

"Would you guys stop talking, and Tecna and Timmy please shut those PDA's down you're not getting any signal anyways so just stop and go to sleep" said Riven
"Seems like it doesn't bother Layla" I said while pointing at a very sleepy Layla, she was even snoring

"Good night peeps" said Nabu
"Deuces" said Brandon

"Night girlies" said Stella
"We're boys too, you know" said Sky
"But girlies will do" said Bloom while laughing

I felt nervous, I was sharing a mattress with Helia.. It's a bit awkward, I guess even though I had butterflies in my stomach the whole time we made it work. We slept back to back, not facing each other but still I was still extremely shy and I forgot to breathe a couple of times because of my nervousness! I have one advice for you girls out there, if you're a shy person like me do not share a mattress with an extremely hot guy!