Book 1: Breaking the Ice Chapter 8

Rosalina woke up first this morning –to her surprise-. She began to stretch her arms as she sat up, and raked her nails through her messy hair. Then, she hummed a little tune as she walked around; trying to wake the rest of herself up. "Mornin' Rosy." Buck said tiredly as he got up. She jumped and gasped, "Oh! I didn't know you woke up, morning." She turned her to where Roxanne was sleeping. She was going to get her back for throwing a pineapple at her head.

Rosalina snickered mischievously as she crawled next to sister. She took a big breath and screamed, "MORNING!" Roxanne screamed and hit her head against the stone that Rosalina slept on last night. Rosalina laughed, "Hahahaha! That was payback from last time, Roxanne!" Roxanne growled, "Oh my gosh, Rosalina! I am going to kill you!"

Rosalina took off running and screamed when Roxanne was hot on her tail. Finally, Roxanne caught her and pinned her sister to the ground and panted, "Ha! What are you going to do now?" Buck chuckled and decided to join in on the fun. He charged at Roxanne and pulled her off of Rosalina. He held Roxanne over his shoulder. Roxanne laughed and growled playfully, "Hey! Let me go!"

Rosalina came behind Buck and started tickling him on the ribs. He started laughing and dropped Roxanne. "I didn't know you were ticklish, Buck." She giggled as she kept on tickling him. "Lass, Hahaha, p-please, Hahaha, stop." He laughed. Rosalina stopped tickling him and helped him up from the ground.

After their morning fun, Buck cleared his throat and grabbed his knife from the ground and chuckled, "Alright, let me think of where we go now." The she-weasels thought for a moment, and the answer finally hit them. Rosalina was about to say where they were going next , but yet again, she cut off by her sister. "We're supposed to go to the Plates of Woe now." Roxanne reminded him.

"Oh, alright. Thanks, I guess I got distracted by the little fun we had." Buck said. Rosalina grinned, but Roxanne just face palmed but smiled. He finally ordered, "Okay, follow me." The twins walked arm-in-arm as they followed behind him.

As they were walking, Buck thought, "Maybe I should ask them if they would like to stay down here with me. Rosalina's a sweetheart, Roxanne is playful at times, and they're both fun to be around." He shook his thoughts out of his head and kept his eye in front of the path.

As Rosalina was looking around, she thought, "I wonder if Buck would let us stay down here. He's funny, caring, fun to be around, fearless, insane, and very protective. I wonder if he ever wanted foster-daughters. I sort of think of him as a dad to me." With that last thought, she mentally slapped herself, shook her thoughts out of her head, and kept looking around their path.

Roxanne, who was also looking around the path they were taking, thought, "I think I'm beginning to warm up to Buck. I think we should stay here with him. I mean, if he wants us to, that is. My sister seems to trust him and he is better than our step-father. I think we are better off with Buck than Tim." She shuddered at the name of their step-father and immediately shut herself out of her thoughts.

After walking miles, they made it. Buck stopped walking which caused the she-weasels, again, to bump into him and fall on their rumps. Rosalina helped Roxanne up and looked at Buck curiously. Buck finally turned around and said, "Lassies! We are officially at the Plates of Woe, or wotever is left of them."