Chapter 9
Everyone was still laughing when Kallie and Charles joined them in the living room still laughing as well. Everyone continued to do so; they even started re-enacting it for humor. Even Andy started to relax and pat Destiny's tummy, while Destiny scolded Jewel for scaring Andy like that. After awhile everyone started to calm down. The kids put on some racing video game and Destiny and Andy left to their room. Kallie and Charles played racing video games with the fake steering wheels and pedals. Kallie had beaten everyone at racing. The only person left to race was Jewel. "This is going to be a long game." She thought. Jewel and Kallie raced for five games and still were tied. They were on game six when Charles turned to Alex and started to talk with him.
"Are they always this competitive?" Charles asked him.
"Oh, yeah. That's why I never go against either of them. I'll go against Jewel every now and then, but once you play them….its pretty bad. You may think and say you're the king of video games, but once you play these queens then you feel like an ordinary beginning gamester." Alex chuckled.
"What do you mean?"
"Well Jewel is great at racing, good reflexes, and it's nearly impossible to beat her UNLESS she's distracted. She'll stop at nothing to win even if in the end her car looks like crap. It also doesn't help that she can see if it'll end badly or not first. Kallie is a brilliant at planning. She plans how she'll turn and when she'll get faster or when to slow down. She also reads minds so she knows when not to accept a race. If you were to go street racing, these two are the best people to take with you. Which is what leads to these little tie games that we are watching. They continue these tie games until someone gives up or we kick them off. The worst it ever got was when they started to argue and took it to real street racing. Though you don't have to be worried about it, the only time you should be worried is when they team up against you. They're a very deadly combination with anything; magic, verbal abuse, lectures. Anything you name it, they will be ten times scarier when they work together and that's pretty bad cause their scary on their own." Alex stated and turned his attention back to the television.
Kallie and Jewel both gave up the race because it got boring. Kallie joined Charles on the couch and Jewel took her perch on Alex's lap. Everyone was laughing again about something someone said until Jewel's face glazed over and Kallie started to shake her head. Alex wrapped his arms around Jewel and rocked her back and worth, Charles did the same thing to Kallie. Just as Charles was about to ask Kallie what was wrong, Destiny and Andy walked in carrying a chest.