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Chapter 9

Molly walked to Gill's home and knocked on its big, blue door. She waited patiently as she heard Gill's voice yell faintly from the other side. The door flew open to reveal Hamilton's short body.

"Molly!" he said cheerfully. He grabbed her arm and tugged her inside the house where Gill was dusting off his clothes and smoothing his neat hair as he swore under his breath. "Come in, come in! Oh, my Gill has been so anxious about today. I can tell he likes you! Just look at him straighten himself out for you. My boy is finally growing up!"

Molly laughed uncontrollably and had to hold on to her knees in order not to fall over.

Gill turned red. "I'm doing this because you pushed me to the ground in order to answer the door first!"

"Oh, look at that mean blush! Last time he blushed like that was when he visited you at the Clinic. Oh, I still have the photo I took that day!"

"Father!" Gill snapped.

Hamilton ignored him. "I'll be back in a flash!" He ran out of the room and came back within seconds with a white picture frame. He laughed and handed it to Molly.

Molly observed it and couldn't help but laugh even harder. It looked like the picture was shot in the same room they were in. It showed Gill trying to block the camera's lens with a scarlet face.

"Oh, man!" Molly said, still laughing. "You've gotta make me a copy of this!"

"Okay, that's it!" Gill grabbed Molly's arm and dragged her into his room, an anti-Hamilton zone. He sighed in relief. He snatched the photo from Molly's hand and put it safely inside his desk drawer.

Molly looked around Gill's plain room and saw a blue bed, wooden vanity, a dresser of the same type of wood, and a bookshelf that was overpopulated with literature. He had so many books that he made piles on the ground beside the shelf.

"You've read all of these?" Molly asked in astonishment.

"Maybe not two or three," Gill said, unaware of how much reading that was to someone that rarely picked up a book by their own free will.

"Oh, I found your diary!" Molly took the green book out of the bookshelf.

Gill grunted and snatched his diary like he did the day before. "Sheesh! It's like you and my father are entertained by any and every thing that can possible embarrass me!" He put it in the dresser drawer with the picture frame.

Molly giggled. "You got me!" She took a second look around his room and turned to him. "So, where is the piano?"

"We'll have to use the one inside of the school. That's the one I always use."

"But the school is – " She was then cut off when Gill tossed her a silver key. "Never mind."

They walked next door to the school where they unlocked the door and settled themselves in the music room. Molly went straight to the glossy piano and started pressing its keys. Hearing its sound made her smile grow more and more. Gill smirked at how easily amused she was.


Angela carried her hammer on her shoulder this time as she made her way to Fugue Forest. She always saw Luke do it, so she thought that she would try it out too. He said it was much more comfortable that way, and it was; more so than it was by simply carrying it in her rucksack. She didn't know why she chose to go to Fugue Forest for the rest of her stone. The forest was dark and terrifying. She could've easily gone to the mine again to get the rest of her stone, but then she would've felt defeated by the forest.

"Wait up!" she heard from behind her.

Speak of the devil.

"H-Hey, Luke…" She stopped to wait on Luke to catch up with her.

"Are you going to the forest?" he asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Awesome!" He jumped up in the air. "I have to get lumber there today. We can go together!"

"Oh okay," she said rather shy and reluctantly.

Angela still didn't know how to act around Luke after what Owen told her. Could it have been true? Angela started to see Luke in a new, unfamiliar light after what Owen said sunk into her brain. The thought of being near him started to make her heart beat, which said a lot for when she was actually near him. Why were all of these new feelings creeping up on her so suddenly?

"What's wrong with me? He's my friend" Angela thought to herself while sitting on the ground. She had already collected all of the stone she needed. Luke was chopping down yet another tree trunk. The tree fell over and crashed to the earth, making Luke involuntarily celebrate with a fist pump over his head.

He hollered, "Yeeaahh!" He turned around and saw Angela staring at the dirt below her. His grin faded. Why is she being so quiet? She's been acting weird"Hey, are you okay?" Luke asked.

Angela shot her head up and gave him a reassuring smile. "Yeah, I was just thinking."

Luke rested his heavy axe on his shoulder and sighed with relief. "That's good. I thought I was boring you!"

She chuckled and shook her head. "I don't think that's possible."

He sat on the ground next to Angela. "So, what were you thinking about?"

She paused for a moment to grip her chest and said what she was feeling. "Have you ever had your heart beat uncontrollably when you're around a certain person?"

Luke muttered, "You have no idea…" A light blush appeared on him that was almost unnoticeable from his tan face. "It's actually happening…right now."

Angela almost gasped. "Me too…" She avoided eye contact because of her embarrassment.

Luke looked at her with disbelief. "R-Really?" He turned his head in every direction, but couldn't find another soul in a close radius. "Who are you talking about?" he asked, completely blind and fearful of who she was talking about.

"He's…a good friend of mine and has…weird colored hair," she hinted shyly.

Luke crossed his arms and thought, "Good friend and weird colored hairWho the heck is that?" Luke groaned, "Can you give me another hint?"

Angela sat there, stunned. "He has yellow cat-like eyes…"

Luke bit his lip. "This is hard!" he whined.

She facepalmed. Is he serious? "He is sitting right next to me!"

Luke's eyes widened. His blush became visible. "Wait, that's me!" She nodded and choked out a laugh. Luke looked at her with crooked grin. He leaned closer. "So, that means you're in love with me," he said teasingly.

Angela gaped. "I-I wouldn't s-say l-love!" she stuttered. Luke chuckled, causing Angela to turn even redder. "W-What about you! Who were you talking about?"

Luke didn't show any signs of nervousness or shyness when asked that; he was confident. Why would he be nervous when he knew about how she felt about him?

"She has pretty, brown hair," he began. His smile grew as he described Angela. "She has these huge brown eyes – "

"You better not be talking about my sister." Angela joked. She was smiling so wide that it was hurting her face.

Luke looked her straight in her honey brown eyes, sometimes getting lost in them. "Angela, I've been crazy about you since I first saw you at school. Your probably the most interesting thing to actually happen there."

"Luke," she whispered. "I've never seen this side of you."

"Me neither."

She looked into his wild, yellow eyes. They held a hidden softness that Angela hadn't noticed before. She found herself leaning towards him, tilting her head. Right when their lips were only a few centimeters shy, the faces of Chase and Gill rushed though Luke's mind. He turned his face the other way, making Angela kiss his cheek instead.

"This isn't right," Luke thought to himself.

Angela looked at him worriedly. "What's wrong?"

Luke sighed. "Can we just…take this slowly?" he asked in a quiet voice. She opened her mouth to say something, but she quickly shut it and nodded instead. Luke stood up. "Thanks, Ang. I got enough lumber. Do you want to head outta here? I know how you don't like the forest and all."

She nodded. "I have to order our house upgrade, anyway." She was helped off the ground when Luke offered his hand. The feel of his leather glove on her palm made her heart skip a beat.

A million thoughts were bouncing all around her bewildered head. Most of them she shouldn't have been thinking, but she did anyways. Why did he really stop her from kissing him? She didn't believe Luke when he said he wanted to take it slow; Luke wasn't the kind of person to want to take anything slowly. He thought life was too short to be slow. Did Angela do something wrong? "Maybe he doesn't actually like me like he and Owen said. Maybe he just didn't want to hurt my feelings" Angela second-guessed. She couldn't figure out a better reason for why he rejected her kiss.

Luke walked her to the farm to pick up her money and materials. Then they went to the Carpentry. During their walk, he thought hard about what had just happened. He couldn't let her kiss him – he couldn't let himself win the bet. The thought of winning the bet now made him feel dirty. There was no point in participating in the bet anymore. He had already proven to himself that he had a chance with Angela. He really did want to kiss her, though. It was so hard for him to resist her even while they walked together, hand in hand. He replayed his entire conversation with Angela in his mind and mentally pressed the pause button. Abruptly, he said, "Wait a second…I don't have weird hair!"

Once at the Carpentry, Angela placed her order and was finally introduced formally to Dale, Luke's father. He was hefty and had a husky laugh. Dale was very friendly to her and enjoyed her company. He took every opportunity he got to tease Luke and make Angela laugh. Angela laughed a lot. She knew Dale was going to soon become a father figure to her just by that one visit, especially since she never had the chance to really know her own father very well.

Bo was there too. Angela learned about how Bo considered Dale like a father to him and Luke like a brother. She thought it was funny how different Luke and Bo were and still managed to be best friends.

After an hour of talking with the carpentry crew, Angela looked at the time and proclaimed that she had to leave.

"I have to meet my brother, Kasey, at the dock soon," she explained when they asked why.

Bo and Luke waved their arms in the air frantically. "Can we go? Can we go?" they asked as if they were hyperactive children.

Angela laughed softly and said, "Sure."

They high-fived each other. Okay, maybe they were a little alike sometimes. They walked together to the dock. Luke's hand kept bumping into Angela's until she finally caught on to what he was doing and held his hand. Bo smiled at the sight, but it was short-lived when he thought about a certain person that didn't even know he existed.

The boat wasn't at the dock when they got there, so they waited on the pier, throwing rocks into the sea until the ship came into view. Pascal, the captain, anchored it when close enough and lowered a ramp the passengers could walk on.

Kasey got off the boat with two suitcases in hand. The sight of him after so long made Angela briefly go into shock. His brown hair was longer and almost completely hid his brown eyes.

Luke and Bo kept looking back and forth at Angela and Kasey, gaping at how identical they looked. He was basically an older, male version of Angela and Molly.

"Hey, sis! It's been a while, huh?" Kasey said, walking up to Angela. "So, where's Molly?

"She's with a friend. She didn't want to come by here, anyways…"

Kasey nodded slowly. "Ahh, still mad, is she?"

"Is he talking about when she threw a chair at him?" Luke asked Angela.

Bo's eyes widened and mumbled, "I'm never going to get on Molly's bad side…"

Angela shook her head. "I'll tell you later," she told Luke.

Kasey smirked at the memory mentioned. He glanced down at Angela and Luke's hands. "So, you finally got a boyfriend? Thank, Goddess! I was starting to think you were going to end up as a nun or something!"

Angela flushed. "Kasey, please!"

"Someone's embarrassed!" Kasey chuckled while Angela pouted. Kasey shook hands with Bo and Luke. "What's up, guys? The name's Kasey." Bo and Luke stated their names. Kasey then elbowed Luke's arm lightly. "I can tell we're gonna get along, dude. But if ya try anything with my sister, I'll skin ya!"

Luke swallowed hard in reaction to Kasey's sugarcoated threat. Angela sighed.

They all walked from Harmonica Town to the farm together. When they made it there, Luke and Bo waved goodbye and headed north, back to the Carpentry. Angela gave Kasey the grand tour of the farm and inside the house too. When they finished the tour, Molly entered the house and glared at Kasey, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"You're here already?" Molly asked curtly.

Kasey sighed. "You still can't be mad at me…"

Molly raised her eyebrows. "Yes, I can."

"Angie here didn't get mad like this."

"Ang never gets mad."

"Maybe you just get mad too easily."

"I'm getting mad right now!" Molly said through her teeth.

"Oh, please! If anybody should be mad, it should be Mom and Dad."

"You dropped out of high school to run off with a stripper - "

"Dancer," Kasey corrected.

" – And left us with two pissed off parents! We had to take the heat because you weren't there!" Molly screamed.

"I bet that's why they sent us here…"Angela choked out. Her vision was getting blurry from tears.

Molly and Kasey gasped. Molly immediately ran over to hug her sister in attempt to console her. She spoke gently, "I told you already, Ang. They sent us here because they thought the city was bad for us. They wanted us to have a better life here."

Kasey felt a load of guilt on his shoulders. He wanted to say something, but he kept quiet, afraid he would say something to make things worse.

"No, they didn't," Angela said with a raspy voice. "Face it, Molly! They don't want us anymore! Why do you think they sent us here or still haven't sent us the money they said they were gonna send? They haven't even called or visited us since we've been here!"

Molly shook her head in denial. What Angela was saying was starting to sink into her skin, but she tried as hard as she could to push it away. She swallowed the lump in her throat and blinked the invading tears away. She wanted to believe her own parents wouldn't do anything like that to them. "So…we haven't heard from them in a while…but that doesn't mean they don't love us anymore. I highly doubt they would stop loving us because of what Kasey did…"

"Yes, they would… They'd rather push us away than watch one of us do something to disgrace them again!"

Molly turned to Kasey and mouthed, "Help me out here!"

Kasey hesitated, but then said, "Hey, Ang, if you want, we all can go out to eat at that bar we walked past earlier. We promise we won't fight at all!"

Molly shot him a look, but she took it back quickly when she saw that it seemed to calm Angela down a little. Angela sniffled. "You guys really promise you won't fight?"

Molly sighed. "We promise. Just please don't cry anymore. It's torture to see you like that…"

Angela cracked smiled and wiped her tears off her cheeks. "Thanks, guys."


The siblings waited a whole hour to make sure Angela was okay before going to the bar; they didn't want her going in public with stained cheeks. It was close to night when they found a table at Brass Bar.

Kasey whistled and looked over Kathy, who was working as a waitress. "Wow, you sure have some women on this island. I might just have to stay here permanently!"

Molly rolled her eyes. "Good luck, player. She has a boyfriend that could break you like a toothpick."

Angela chuckled when Kasey flinched. "That reminds me, why are you here in the first place?" Angela asked. "I mean, I'm happy to see you and all, but it's just that we haven't seen you in so long…"

Kasey drank the rest of his cocktail. "To make the story short, I got fired from my job. Cherry, A.K.A. "The Stripper," broke up with me when I told her, and she ran off with some lawyer." His voice cracked. "You can imagine why I didn't go back home to live with Mom and Dad. So, instead of telling them about what happened, I told them I got some vacation time and wanted to visit you two. And now here I am! I'm broke, homeless, have no girlfriend, and now I'm begging my little sisters to let me stay with them."

Angela showed sympathy. "You want to live with us?"

Molly crossed her arms. "I don't know…"

Kasey responded hurriedly. "Just until I get back on my feet again! And I can help you guys on your farm too so that I'm not just mooching! Please, I don't know where else to go…"

Angela faced Molly. Her face said, "Please?"

Molly sighed in clemency. "Fine."

Kasey lit up. "Oh, man, thank you! You guys are the best little sisters ever!" he exclaimed. "You know what? I'm covering for dinner tonight."

"Kasey, I thought you said you didn't have any money?" Angela said.

Kasey smirked and waved his hand for Kathy to go over to their table. "You guys have tabs?"

Molly gasped. "KASEY!"

Kathy smiled. "We sure do!" She turned to the twins. "I'll just let the three of y'all share one, seeing that this tall drink of water is with y'all. Do you need more drinks?"

"Give me two more grape cocktails," Kasey said. Angela bit her lip.

"Alrighty, then. I think you're going to become my new favorite drinker!" Kathy turned on her heel and went to talk to Hayden at the cash register.

Kasey smirked. "She digs me."

"You better not try any funny business here like you do at home," Molly warned.

"Yeah…you wouldn't want to get in a fight with Owen," Angela said.

"Okay, fine… I'll back off."

Kathy delivered the cocktails, which Kasey chugged down. Out of nowhere, the bar was filled with music. Kasey turned around to the stage to locate the source and saw Selena dancing.

"Crap, I forgot she works here," Angela mumbled.

Kasey's jaw was dropped to the ground. He couldn't pry his eyes away from Selena's body as she shook her hips and shimmied. "Does she have a boyfriend that would murder me?" He didn't even look away to ask that.

"No," Angela snapped, "because she's a rude, dirty sk –" She stopped when Kasey stood up from their booth table to approach Selena. Angela growled.

Molly smile was caused by amusement and amazement of the scene. "She must be horrible if even you don't like her." Molly could see Selena fueling a blaze in Angela's pupils.

"She irritates me," Angela said in a low voice.

"Well, it looks like she's interested in our Kasey." Molly and Angela crept closer to get a better view.

"I'm so glad you liked my dance!" Selena clapped her hands.

Kasey chuckled smoothly. "Who wouldn't love a dance like that from a beautiful girl like you?"

Angela gagged. Molly tried hard not to burst from laughter.

Selena smiled broadly. She was obviously enjoying Kasey's flood of compliments. "Hmm, straight forward. I like that in a man. You want to buy me a drink?"

"Hey, Kathy!" Kasey called. "I need three blueberries and an olive over here!"

"He's going to get drunk…" Angela and Molly said in perfect unison.

And Kasey did. He showed the usual symptoms: slurred words, lack of balance, overly emotional behavior, and the body's urge to vomit.

"Kaathhy!" Kasey called again. "Smmoree grraape!" Selena giggled uncontrollable while she was rubbing Kasey's chest.

Angela and Molly ran over to Kathy, who was hesitatingly making another cocktail. "Don't bother. We're taking him home now," Molly said.

"Sorry about our brother." Angela added.

"Thank you!" Kathy whispered.

Molly pulled Kasey's ear and dragged him out of the bar while Angela tried to make sure he didn't fall over on the pavement.

"Owww! Daat huuurrtss!" Kasey complained.

"Well, you shouldn't have gotten yourself drunk like an idiot!" Molly scolded him.

Kasey was hauled against his will until they made it to the inside of the farmhouse. Molly dropped him off on the couch and Angela gave him a blanket. Kasey looked at the blanket like it was the most amazing thing on the planet.

He rubbed it on his cheek. "It's sooo SOFT! Can keeeep it, Angie?"

"No, and you better not puke on it!"

Kasey hiccuped and gestured for the girls to come closer. "Yooou guys are soooo nice to me!" he whispered obnoxiously.

Molly whispered back with a sweet smile, "Wait until you have your hangover."


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