Melinda woke up alone the next morning. Xi had already gotten out of bed and was somewhere in the house. Looking around the bed, she didn't see him, and sighed. He was the first thing she wanted to see in the morning. But, the lamp had to suffice.

Deciding she really didn't want to get fully dressed she looked around the room, found her panties, then opened Xi's closet and put on a dress shirt that reached her knees. Stretching she put her back into a pony tail and walked into the hallway to hear someone typing on a keyboard down the hall.

Trying to remember the layout of the house, she followed her ears till she reached an open door. Looking in she saw Xi in his office at his desk typing on his computer. Melinda stepped into the room and Xi looked up at her.

" Morning, there's coffee downstairs," Xi said to her.

" Don't drink coffee, never really liked the taste," Melinda said to him. Xi took a sip of his coffee then closed his work that he had just finished.

" What were you working on?" Melinda asked, walking around the desk and then sat on it next to the keyboard, teasing Xi to look under the shirt. He did and saw he panties then looked away when he knew he was caught. Melinda smiled, because she was hoping he would.

" Working on a presentation for the boss," he said to her.

" Couldn't you make someone else do it?" Melinda asked, " You are an executive."

" I actually do my job," Xi said then rolled his chair away from the desk and stood up. " My sister called, Travis is coming home in about an hour."

" Slept over?" She asked.

" Yeah. They do that a lot. It's either here or there. Lili and Travis get along better than any two kids I've ever seen," Xi said, remembering he never got along with his cousins. Hiroki's son Markus was a ball hog in soccer, and he never really grew up.

" Should I get dressed soon?" Melinda asked, figuring if his ten year old son was coming, she'd need a little more clothing. Xi nodded and Melinda walked back to Xi's room and put her skirt back on, but kept the shirt after putting a bra back on.

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The front door opened and three kids ran into the house with Xi and Melinda sitting on the couch watching the news.

" Dad?" Travis shouted running into the house followed by Lili and another girl.

" In here buddy," Xi shouted back. Travis ran into the living room and froze when he saw Melinda.

" Who's she?" Travis asked. Melinda got up off the couch and walked over to Travis.

" Hi Travis, my name's Melinda, nice to meet you?"

" Did you guys have sex last night?" The other girl asked.

" Why do you ask?" Melinda asked, just curious where that was written on them even if it was true.

" Your wearing a guys shirt. More or less his, which means you were too lazy this morning to get your own back on," she said to them.

" Smart kid," Melinda said to Xi who nodded. Keiko walked into the room and saw her.

" Oh, you must be Melinda," Keiko said to her then walked over to her. " I'm Keiko, Xi's sister."

" To be honest, you two don't look related," Melinda said.

" Well, unlike my brother, I actually look Japanese. You should see Justin, he's like fifty fifty," Keiko said to her then shook her hand.

" Who's the girl?" Xi asked.

" Amber, Lili's half sister," Keiko answered. Xi looked at her, and noticed she looked somewhat like Toby. Xi looked at her and she nodded.

" I was born outta wedlock, she hates my mom," Amber said, pointing at Keiko. Keiko nodded. " I'm eight years old, but I'm already in sixth grade. Right Travis?" She looked around the living room to see Travis was gone.

" Where did he go?" Lili asked, then heard a door slam shut upstairs.

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Kat was fourteen, and assigned by her mother to watch her seven year old brother and sister. Ben and Jean had a strange appearance, each looking more like the parent of the opposite gender.

Ben had short brown/black hair like his mother and wore thin glasses. He was timid, and shy, and usually didn't talk much. He wasn't embarrassed to admit he needed his mothers hugs on a daily basis. Being seven he was just starting school, and had to sit next to a girl in his class. When he entered the girls are scary phase, he hit it hard, so never talked in class.

Jean was much more lively. Blonde hair flowed down her back and she had the same glasses as her brother but with pink rims. She was taller than Ben by a few inches and never liked it when her mother tried to hug her. Unlike her brother, she wasn't going through the boys are scary phase. So when she thought a boy was cute, she let him know, gave him a kiss on the cheek and walk away with a smile and a skip.

Recently Kat had been trying to accomplish something. A bet. She made a bet with her friends that she could kiss the hottest senior and make him kiss her back. Every freshman girl at Kadic knew who the hottest guy was. Charlie Robbia.

Kat at first was a little un-anxious about this. They were somewhat related. She did the family tree for this. Charlie was her half sister's, half brother. Which in a since would make them siblings to some extent. Then she went in it further. They didn't share a parent, so they weren't directly related, thus not siblings, thus this bet could be accomplished without incest.

Going with her perfect plan she sat on the couch and thought about it. " I fail a class, and then sign for a peer tutor, and ask for Charlie. He meets me everyday after school, and I flirt with everything I have."

" Kat, your nuts. Charlie is a senior, and is having sex. He's way out your league," her friend said on the other side of the phone.

" It's going to work. And when I win this, I get the concert tickets," she said with a smile on her face.

" Whatever Kat, keep dreaming."

" Oh dream I shall.." she said, then the bell rang. " He's here, wish me luck." She hung up the phone and ran to the door. Stopping at it she took a deep breath, fixed her hair, took a breath into her hand and smelt it. Looking at the mirror next to the door she looked at her chest and noticed something. She was close to flat.

Running back into the kitchen she stuffed her bra with some tissue paper then repositioned them in the mirror to make sure they weren't lopsided. Taking another deep breath, she opened the door.

" Hi Charlie," she said then opened the screen door for him.

" Hey Kat, I can't believe you failed algebra," Charlie said, then walked into the house, placing his shoes at the door.

" Yeah, well," Kat said, hiding a smile. She led him to the kitchen to 'study.' Charlie seemed a little sad. Then she remembered why. His grandfather had died.

" Okay, so I have to distribute both sides of the equation and then solve for x?" Kat asked. She was trying to make herself sound cluelessly cute, even though she could be doing calculus no problem.

" Basically."

" You're a good tutor. Ever think about being a teacher?"

" Not really. Don't like kids enough to put up with them," Charlie said to her. " Plus, I have to take over the company since my brother didn't take it."

In less than ten minutes she finished her work then placed her pencil on the table. She handed the paper to Charlie who looked it over for mistakes. He found a few intensional ones that Kat made just so he'd talk more.

" No, you need to multiply by the reciprocal then work the equation," then he looked at the work again. " Wait, your work's right, the answer isn't." Kat lost her mental smiled. He was more observant than she thought.

" Huh, weird," Kat said as convincingly as she could. Which wasn't very convincing.

" Your faking aren't you?" Charlie asked. Kat felt her pulse go up.

" Took you long enough," she said, playing this by ear.

" Why?" Charlie asked. Kat looked away and Charlie sighed. He figured out why.

" I'm sorry, but I'm too old for you," he said to her. Kat sighed as well.

" I know, but I made a bet with my friends that I could kiss you, and make you kiss me back." Charlie rose up an eyebrow at that.

" Why?"

" Concert tickets!" Kat shouted at him. " Sold out. If I could win this bet, they're mine."

" What if you lose?" Charlie asked. " What happens then."

" Then I have to come to school in the most ridicules dress possible. I look like a antique doll in the thing." Charlie laughed then closed the math book.

" Wanna go out. Technically we still have an hour," Charlie said to her. Kat then thought about something. She was supposed to be baby sitting, where ever in the house they were.

" Can Ben and Jean come. I kinda need to watch them. God knows what they'll do if they're alone." Charlie nodded, and then they left to a nearby park so the kids could play.

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Jean ran around the park with some of the other children there while Ben hid under the slide because he was the only boy around. Everyone else the enemy. Girls. Kat and Charlie were sitting on a bench talking about the bet.

" How did my name pop up for this venture?" Charlie asked.

" Well, you're the furthest out of league for someone like me. A bigger challenge."

" Sorry you can't win," Charlie said to her.

" Why not?"

" Because, even if I kiss out of sympathy, a rumor will spread around the school that I have a fetish for underage girls." Kat laughed. Charlie shook his head.

" I promise that won't happen. I just want to go to the concert so bad," she said to him. " I'll tell them to keep it between us, no one will ever know. Please." She begged. Charlie groaned.

" Why don't I just bye you a ticket?" He asked, he had the money to buy the entire school a ticket.

" That completely defies the point, and I am not wearing that dress." He groaned again. Looking around he saw a large bush that was blocking view from the entire park and the street.

" Fine, over there," he said, pointing at the bush.

" Yes!" Kat shouted then ran to the bush, as Charlie got off the bench and slowly walked over to the bush as she ran around it.

Just when they couldn't see the twins, Jean looked across the street and saw a woman stopped on the sidewalk with her dog. Jean was an avid dog lover, so wanted to go and pet it so starting to run towards them. She was too excited to even look for cars. And if she did, she would have seen a blue car rounding the corner.

Ben looked around the slide and saw the car. " Jean!" Ben shouted at her to stop her from crossing the street. She didn't hear him and kept running. " Jean, watch out!"

Jean smiled as she ran over the sidewalk then through grass again. Like Jean, the women behind the wheel wasn't paying attention. To busy talking to her girlfriend on the phone about her knew haircut. Jean hit the curb and kept running. The car hit her before she even knew it was there.