It's not life without the Twists and the Turns!

Hey guys, I hope you enjoy my story, I have lots of ideas for it. So, this is about Nora from HUSH HUSH, but here she is called Nora Monowara Grey, she is currently 16, and she has 2 brothers, Donny Anthony Grey is 18 and Max Edward Grey is 14. Enjoy.

Chapter 21

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NORA POV!

4.13 pm. After school.

I had just got out of the shower, yep. My second one today. Since we were kind of sweaty after all that gym today.

I got dressed in a black tank with some back shorts, since all I was doing today would be baking and cooking. No need to dress up.

I made my way down the stairs, to find my brothers, Donny, Max and even Liam standing at the bottom, waiting. The were all dressed in an apron and those big chef hats. As if the were looking forward to the cooking. Hell, they just wanted to eat all the food. They were all holding wooden spoons, as if they were excited. As if! I just laughed at them and they scowled. They then exchanged a look between them, which got me slightly scared of what they might just do if they - or should I say I, don't get cooking soon!

Donny back up and made his way to the kitchen, where as Liam and Max made their way up the stairs toward me and took place on either side of me. They then hooked an arm around me and lifted me up. Carrying me to the kitchen. They placed me down in front of the counter and took a place next to Donny, leaning against the counter next to then. Sheesh, they just had to ask. They didn't need to carry me or anything. Oh yeah, they already did that. More than once (!).

"So sis, what are we gonna make?" Donny asked looking excited. Oh God, please don't eat all the food like they did last time.

"First we gotta plan, who's doing what?" They just looked at them and then looked at me expectantly, as if putting me in charge. Silently. "OK, I want Liam to be helping me with the cooking and making and things like that since he's a better cook than the rest of you. I want Donny to be doing all the errands, since he's the eldest and the biggest, and plus we need him out of the kitchen otherwise he might just eat all the food like he did last time." I paused as the guys snickered and Donny gave me a sheepish look which just made me giggle. "And I want to Max to be doing all the wrapping, like putting all the food onto trays carefully and putting the tin foil over it and I want him to help with the decorating since he's really careful and he's got a good guy and a steady hand.

So we all kind of touched fist and started to make all the food.

We decided to make some jalebi's first since they could be eaten hot and cold. I got out my Asian recipe book and we looked at the ingredients.

Ingredients:

2 cups All purpose flour
11/2 tbsp fine-grained semolina or rice flour
1/4th tsp baking powder
2 tbsp curd (plain yogurt)
11/4th cups warm water
1/2 tsp saffron threads, slowly dry-roasted and powdered
3 cups sugar
22/3rd cups water
1/2 tsp green cardamom seeds powder
11/2 tbsp kewra water or rose water
Ghee or vegetable oil for frying

We needed some saffron and some rose water and we needed them soon, so we gave Donny 7 minutes to go and get them from the shops. And me Max and Liam started on reading the recipe, so we won't miss anything out.

How to make jalebi:

1) Mix the flour, semolina or rice flour, baking powder, curd and 3/4th cup of the water in a bowl (preferably a ceramic bowl). Mix well with a whisk.

2) Mix well and then add remaining water and 1/8th tsp. of saffron powder, and whisk until smooth.

3) Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment.

4) Whisk thoroughly before use.

5) Prepare one string syrup by dissolving sugar in the water. Just before the syrup is ready add saffron and cardamom powder.

6) Heat oil in a kadhai. (like a wok). Pour the batter in a steady stream ( or coconut shell with a hole) into the kadhai to form coils. Make a few at a time.

7) Deep fry them until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.

8) Remove from the kadhai and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the syrup.

9) Leave for at least 4-5 minutes so that they soak the syrup.

10) Take the jalebi out of syrup and serve hot.

So we could make the jalebi's in ten easy steps. So me and Liam mixed flour, semolina, baking powder and some water. I got Liam to mix with the whisk since he had the muscles and I went off to help Max with making the piping bag, so that he would be able to pipe the mixture into the pan since he was the one with the steady hand. After we had finished the bag, we still needed Liam to whisk for about another minute or two to get the mixture just right. That was when Donny entered the house and came over with the Saffron and the rose water. Just in time. Liam had finished the whisking. We sent Donny to go and get us some lamb fillet since we would need that for the Lamb Shish Kebabs and we knew for a fact that it would take time, so we sent him a little early.

We then carried on, by adding the saffron and then whisking for about 5 minutes until it went smooth. We then wrapped the bowl in cling film and set it aside to ferment.

6.04 pm.

We got out some somosa pads so that we could make some somosa's and spring rolls. We had already made some before, but there wasn't enough so we had to make some more. I made the somosa's since I was the only one who could make them and they made the spring rolls. I was making chicken and vegetable somosa's, where Liam was making mince spring rolls and Max was making some filled with potatoes.

Donny soon came back and Liam and Max started on cutting up the meat since they were already done and Donny helped me finish off the somosa's. By the time we were finished making the somosa's the guys had made the kebabs and they were put in the oven. Also, it had been 2 hours since we had put the jalebi mixture away.

So I brought it out and started to whisk it thoroughly, while the boys were following ym orders. Liam was making the rice, Donny was cutting up some chicken and Max was boiling some eggs. I made the rest of the jalebi mix and soon handed over Max, so that he could use his steady hands to make the jalebi's look nice in the oil. They have to be left for 4 - 5 minutes so that they can set and ready to be eaten. I took over the job of making the rice and sent Donny to go and buy loads and loads of dhoi (a type of Asian yogurt), and big empty bucket so that we could all the coins in there. While Liam was done prepping the chicken that Donny had started on and was now covering them in spices and frying them so that they would be nice and crunchy for the biryani.

10.37pm.

It was late and we had finally finished with all the cooking.

After all this time we had made:

1) Two types of somosa's. Chicken and Vegetable ones. We had made about 100 of them. More or less.

2) Two types of spring rolls. Potato and Mince ones. 100. More or less.

3) Enough goo - looking jalebi's to feed 150. And the not so good - looking ones, well ... let's just say that we got quite hungry after all that hard work.

4) We made about 150 medium - sized portion of chicken and egg biryani.

5) 100 medium - sized portions of chicken stir fry.

6) 150 long lamb Shish kebabs.

7) 5 big tubs of shop bought dhoi (Asian yogurt).

8) Asian sweets

And some other various nick nacks.

And after we had donated about $25 each, so that if we don't make as much as we wanted to, we wouldn't look so bad.

We then headed off to bed, happy with all that we had done.

Tomorrow's sure to be something.

Patch's POV!

The next day at school.

7.45pm.

I had finished frying the samosas, as the Donny came back to the house. They had been taking some of the food and driving to the school to drop it off, where Liam was. He was setting up the stall as we brought all the goods to him. We told him to get a good place, and for Max to try to get a cable leading outside so that we could set up one of the school's microwaves encase some of the food gets cold.

I handed the samosas to him and he left the house, leaving the door open behind him. Idiot!

I locked up the house and made sure all the windows and doors were closed. Mum wasn't home, somewhere around the world on a business trip, so there wasn't going to be anyone home. I locked the door and got into 'The Benz', I drove over to Vee's house to pick her up. I listened to some random music while I drove. Not really caring. I was too excited to care.

I parked outside of her house and honked the horn. She came rushing out the house, slamming the door behind her, holding as much lipstick and gloss as she could. The kissing booth. Ugh. Why had I agreed to this with her? And how did she even make me agree? Ung!

At least I wasn't the only one doing the booth. Vee was doing it along with me and we would take turns doing the booth. While one of us was doing the kissing, the other was helping out the boys with our booth. And at the end of the day we would all put our money together. We were charging $5 per kiss. No more and no less.

"He babe," Vee opened the door and sat down. Strapping on the seat belt as she did. "Which one looks better?" Hmm. This was going to be a hard question. So much gloss, but so little time. But I knew I had to make a decision.

"We should use my new gloss. Passionate Pink. I got like ... 7 tubes. Just in case." She smiled and nodded as I revved up the engine. I had made a good choice and I was happy about it.

"Hey cute outfit." I know it's cute. Today I was wearing a black V - neck sweater, with a pin flowy skirt which went mid - thigh and black, strapped, boots. I had on black eye liner and some of the Passionate Pink Gloss. I should really call it PP from now on. The name is just too long.

1.47 PM

The day gone great and the money kept rolling in. All the food was selling and we being kept busy. Even Marcie bought something from the stand. Even though she said it tasted like shit. I saw her scoffing it down in the corner of the field. She though no one would notice but boy, was she wrong. From then on she sent her drones to come and buy us out of business. And I thought she was supposed to be watching what she was eating. LOL! I guess she'll be putting on some pounds over the next few days.

I don't get why she chose to wear what she was wearing. A skin tight boob top and a black mini skirt. I know its summer right now, but it's not exactly sunny today. There a little cool breeze around and I bet her butt's freezing right now.

Even the kissing booth was ding great. There were so many guys coming back for more kisses. We were down to the last 2 tubes of PP gloss already. Who knew it would be this big a success? Me and Vee were taking turns. Each selling kisses for half an hour each. It would be my turn soon, so I tried to make as much money as I could at the Asian food stall right now. I was the cashier. Having people pay the money to me and me giving them their change. The money just keeps on coming. I'm pretty sure we've made like ... nearly $1000 dollars already.

As I was adding more money to the box and getting change out for some senior guy, Vee nudged me. I knew what that meant. It was my turn to carry on with the booth and it as time for Vee to take a little rest being the cashier at our stall.

I rolled my eyes. I mean, it is her stall. It was her idea as well. I don't how she roped me into doing this together. I rolled my eyes. Again.

I walked over to the stall and applied some of the PP gloss while looking in the mirror, until I noticed how long the line had just gotten? Had it just gotten longer? I wonder if they'll get disappointed now that Vee just went. Oh, well. Not my fault, they can wait for her to get back.

I started with the kissing. $5 dollars per kiss.

I was just giving away kisses. One by one to teenage boys who looked like they were loving it. I knew this because they were guys who just paying for a kiss and then getting back in line. The line was moving quite fast and I was making a lot of money. I was sure that I was up to like my ... 50th kiss in 10 minutes.

When I just gave a kiss to this blonde senior, I noticed a guy in the line not too back from the beginning of the Que. It was Patch. He was wearing a white sweater and his signature black jeans. We had made up since before, but we were friends for now. What is he doing in the line? To talk? O for a ... kiss?

He was looking right at me while I gave kisses to the guys ahead of him.

When I finally got to him. He handed over a $50 note.I just looked at him confused. He must have noticed because he just smiled and said, "No change." As if that was the most normal thing in the world. I rolled my eyes at him and his ... silliness and started to fish for $45 through the box to give him as change, when I felt a hand on my wrist. I looked up to see who the hand belonged to. Patch.

OK, that's weird. "What are you doing?" He carried on looking at me, which just creeped me out. I bet he was doing this on purpose, freaking me like this, for a laugh. He still didn't say anything so I rolled my eyes and carried on, " You do want change, don't you?"

He just shook his head, not removing his hand from my wrist, as if I would go fishing for the change once again if he let go. "I don't want change. I want ... " He didn't finish off the sentence, just stared at me with desire. I sure knew what he wanted now. Hell, I want the same thing. But I'm confused. I thought we were just going to be friends, I don't want to complicate the relationship now. But then I want to. I was still thinking when I felt a pair of familiar warm lips against mine. They molded into mine like before. We just kissed each other, no tongue or nothing, just showing how we missed each other.

His tongue licked my lips, begging for entrance. Just as I was about to open up, granting entrance, we were both cut off by a voice, " Hurry up will ya? We're all here for the same reasons. But you're taking ages man. You can't just hog her." We both turned around to see some really tall guy (probably a senior), looking pissed for us having taken so long. I just rolled my eyes at him, but couldn't help the blush that creeped on up my cheeks.

I turned back to Patch, knowing that he was looking at me, looking for emotion. But I just kept my poker face on and didn't look at him. "That's going to cost you extra." I could hear him chuckle, and then he grabbed my hand and placed a $20 note in my hand, wrapping my fingers around it. He leaned in again slowly, giving e the chance of pushing him away. If I wanted to. But I didn't. He smiled and gave me a brief short kiss. Which left tingles running through my whole body. My knees felt weak and heavy. He could do that to me. He gave me a look, we have to talk. I knew he was right But not now. Later. I would talk to him later.

The guy behind him, the one who was pissed because of the amount of time we took, happily paid me. I kissed him. Short. Nothing like the kiss with Patch. He looked disappointed, but I didn't do anything. I didn't really care. But that didn't stop him from getting in the line again.

"Next."

I carried on taking money and giving out kisses. Knowing fully well that Patch's eyes were on me. I knew that he didn't like the fact that I was running the booth, but hey? I didn't know he liked me. Correction. I don't know if he likes me. I don;t know his feeling about me right now. But I sure as hell wanted to know.

And I intended to find out.

Later.

Patch's POV.

I wasn't doing anything for the fundraiser, except for donating. Something very charitable.

I spent the whole day sitting near the back of the field, on the bench alone. Surrounded by all the other people sitting at all the other benches, eating, laughing and enjoying themselves. Some of the girls came up to me occasionally, asking if I wanted to do something with them, or trying to start a conversation, but soon they all left without any success. I only had eyes for one girl. But she thought I didn't like her. That I had moved on. But I hadn't. I couldn't tell her about the agreement I had made with the Archangels. Though, I wanted to.

I was watching Nora, as she gave out kisses to raise money for charity. I had been up there a couple of times now, hoping that she would get the idea and want to talk later. But I doubt it. I don't think she'll want to talk.

I had told her last time to meet me on the road which was about 5 minutes away from her house later. At 4. But I doubt she would come. But that couldn't stop me from waiting for her later. I would wait for her. I would wait forever if I had to.

4.07 pm.

She wasn't going to come. She wouldn't normally be this late. But there was something that stopped me from moving from this spot. Something that told me repeatedly that she would come. I just had to wait.

A few minutes later, I heard very faint foot steps coming my way. But I didn't look up, still leaning against my bike. I didn't t want to look up. I didn't want to see that it's not her and then be disappointed.

The footsteps stopped, a few feet away from me. I still hadn't looked up. There was silence for a moment. Until I heard a voice. Her voice. "We have to talk." I agree. We do have to.

"Yeah. You start." I didn't know what to say. Nothing I said could show her how much she meant to me, how much I loved her. Nothing could say that.

She started to play with the bracelet around her neck. She was still wearing what she what she wore to school. I would love to tell her that she looked beautiful. but I didn't want to make her even more nervous than before.

"I thought you just wanted to be friends. No more, no less. I didn't think you liked me that way, like before. But after today, I'm not so sure. I'm confused. I don't know what you want from me, but I do know that I want to be with you. I don't want us to be like we were before. Cold and mean to each other. Treating each other like trash." That last part stung, but it was true. We were a bit ... titchy after we had broken up. Which was my mistake by the way.

She didn't say anything. The silence indicated my turn to speak. So I just told her what was in my heart. " I though you just wanted to be friends. I wanted more. Want more. But I didn't know if you wanted the same thing. I was unsure. But Angel, I miss you. I wat you back. I want to go back to how things were before."

"But - "

I carried on, not letting her interrupt me. " I know I made a mistake. Leaving you for Marcie. But ... " I had to tell her. " The Archangel's did it. They sent me a letter saying that I would have to leave you alone, that I had to guard Marcie then, that was my punishment. That I couldn't get out of it until Marcie decided that I had to leave her alone. They day Marcie broke up with me, I even did a happy dance. Trust me, I was that happy." That made her laugh. Her laugh made me happy. She made me happy. " I don't much about love Angel. But I do know something. I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have. I love you Angel and ... "

I would have carried on but my mouth was very busy at the moment.

My Angel was kissing me so much passion. My mouth molded with her and I just kissed her back showing her how much I love her and how much she meant to me. And that I missed her. I wrapped my arms around her, securing her against me. She had her arms around my neck playing my hair. I loved it when she did that.

The thunder roared and rain started to fall onto both of us.

But we didn't care. We were together and that's all that mattered. We carried on kissing. I was so happy. Happy knowing.

Knowing that she wanted me.

There it was guys, my twenty-first chapter.

I hope you all liked it and please do review, so that i can find out if you like it or not.

Hopefully the next chapter will be on very soon.

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