Heh, sorry for those who were looking for Jo and Dug in this chapter They'll be in the next chapter, don't worry.
Hm...who wants Jo and Dug to hook up?
"What? You live out here?" Edwin asked. 'What the hell? That's not right…' he thought.
The boy nodded and smiled sadly. "Me and mommy."
"Where's your father?" Carina wondered.
"Dead."
Cain looked sad, he didn't know the kid but he felt kind of sorry for him.
"Do you need a place to stay?" Edwin looked from Ke to Carina, then to Cain. "I've got a pretty big place, if you want to come."
The boy smiled suddenly; one of the brightest a person could ever see. That startled Cain; he never expected that.
"No. We may not have money, but we're happy," he said.
"Heh, no money and happy… huh?" Carina smiled and looked at the ground.
"Huh?" Edwin looked at her, confused.
"Oh, did I say that out loud?" she laughed a little and said, "Nothing, my mind was just on what happened before we got here."
"Your mind is on too many places at once... and it can't be on me?" Edwin smirked a little. He was, of course, teasing her. And he got the reaction he wanted.
"What?! I'm always- no, I mean you're-…"
"I'm…?"
Carina blushed and stopped talking. Ke smiled and said, "Edwin, you're mean."
Edwin shrugged and smiled, "I was only teasing her." Carina looked like she wanted to shoot him in the eye with a BB gun.
Cain looked around; Ke's house was half the size of the other houses he'd seen. But even though it was half the others' sizes, it was quite large. The other houses were somewhere around four stories. And it was homey as well... it looked like a very comfortable place.
There was a large window that led out to, and he only knew because he'd seen it on one of the pages in the magazine Carina had on the plane, the landing of a fire escape. He could see a few of the metal, crisscrossing poles of the stairs leading up and down from it.
There were small cabinets along the wall, and quite a few bookshelves, though each of them were only stacked half way with books. The tops had things like picture frames and vases on it. There weren't any flowers in the vases though, so he figured that she was probably saving them for something special.
There were large paintings on some of the walls, but they were mostly splatters of color and dots. The walls were a light blue from the halfway point, down, and from the halfway point, up, was white. The house was especially unique compared to the ones he'd seen so far. And he'd thought the one from earlier scared him.
He had to say, the houses in this century were very comfortable. If he compared Amanda's house to Ke's, he'd have to choose Amanda's, except for the fact that Michael had been around. But he liked both of the homes.
Ahead of them was a hallway, which was what seemed like five meters long and two wide; it had doors on either side of it.
"Like it?" Ke noticed him looking around. "Carina sometimes stays the summer, so it's a bit messy, and I haven't had much time to clean up."
"Heeeey!" Carina stuck out her tongue. "You're just as messy as I am!"
Cain laughed and stared at one of the splattered paintings hanging on the wall.
She smiled, "Well then, I guess you'd all better get comfortable. Cain, we'll go down to the Hargreaves' place tomorrow."
"Huh?"
"Remember? I told you before that I knew some of your relatives. The thing about the great, great, et cetera, grandfather?" Ke said, smiling still.
"Oh, right." Cain didn't remember at first, but then he did. Now that he thought about it, it was kind of funny. He wondered if he had an eighty-three year old great, great, et cetera, grandson.
Ke chuckled, "Yes. Well, is anyone hungry? Come on, you know you are. Nobody had anything on the plane, so you might as well just say you're hungry."
"Don't gotta tell me twice!" Carina said quickly. She poked Edwin in the side, who jumped and said, "Yes?"
"Haha, I got you to say yes."
"Wait, what?" Edwin raised his eyebrow in confusion. 'What was the question…?' he wondered.
Ke rolled her eyes, "What about you?" she looked over to Cain.
"Huh?" Cain, who was still staring at a painting hanging up on the wall, was caught off guard. Ke sighed and said, very slowly, "Are….you….hung-a-ree."
He shook his head.
"You sure?" she asked as she walked down the hallway. "I'm going to make something, so tell me now if you want anything."
Cain shook his head again; he didn't have much of an appetite. He didn't know why, but food never interested him. He could go days without eating and not even be hungry.
"Alright, whatever you say." Ke shrugged and opened the first door on the left side of the hallway.
"Wait for me, I want to help," Carina said, following her.
Hm...what should his family be like...sweet? Spicey? Hm...I'm treating this like a recipe...for DISASTER...-snigger-
Well, Jo and Dug will definitely be in either the next chapter or the chapter after. After all, they've kidnapped, well, gaynapped, a key character, haven't they? -sniggers- I wonder what will happen !!!