Lizzie and Matt slouched on the couch, their arms folded across their chest. "Lizzie..."

"What?"

"I'm bored."

"Me too." She replied.

*My parents have been gone for less than two hours and I'm already bored out of my mind. ARG!*

"I'm going over to Miranda's." Lizzie stated. She sat up and got off the sofa. She then proceeded for the door. She had her hand outstretched for the doorknob when...

"You can't do that. You know mom would freak if you left me home alone." Matt said. There was a small smirk on the side of his face. He knew he had her.

Lizzie stopped in her tracks.

*Darn him! He's right. My mom would overtake the pilots and fly back here if something even small happened.*

"Well..." She was trying to think of a solution to this predicament. "I'm going to have Miranda and Gordo come over here." She turned around and grabbed the cordless phone in the process.

She was halfway finished dialing the number for Miranda's when Matt piped in, "My friends can come over too."

This stopped Lizzie's dialing finger. "NO WAY!" She yelled.

"WAY! Mom said my friends could come over too."

"Your friends are freaks." Stated Lizzie, annoyed with her brother.

"And?" He asked flatly.

*Bangs head against wall*Darn it, darn it, darn it!!! He's right.*

"Fine!" Lizzie snapped, giving in. "But you stay quiet and out of my way."

"Yeah yeah yeah." He replied while snatching the phone from his sister's hands.

* ~ * ~ * ~ *

"Lizzie, your brother's friends are freaks!" Called Miranda from the kitchen. Lizzie and Gordo were in the living room watching the TV.

She passed Matt and his friends by the opening between the kitchen and living room. She had bowl of popcorn. Matt and his gang were playing a game called 'survival' where they crawled on the floor like animals and pretended to eat each other.

Miranda took a kernel of popcorn from the blue bowl and bit it. The crunch made Matt perk up and look at her. "AH! Popcorn! It's evil!" Matt yelled in a shrill gritty voice. His 'animal' voice.

Like a horse he bucked up and down. His hands dangling in front him like claws.

"AH!" Miranda screamed, she dropped the bowl and the yellow snacks were sprinkled all over the carpet.

"Need nourishment! Come my brothers!" And then they started to lick the popcorn off the floor.

"UGH!" Miranda said in disgust.

"Matt heel!" Lizzie yelled. Miranda walked past and flopped on the sofa, upset she no longer had the treats.

The crunching stopped. "Have the creatures returned to their caves?" Gordo joked.

"NO!" Matt piped in. He hopped up directly behind the sofa. His friends followed his lead.

*My brother is weird if you haven't already figured it out. I'm pretty sure that at least one of us is adopted.*

"Lizzie we're bored." Matt said. He was, thankfully for Lizzie, speaking in his normal voice.

"What do you want me to do about it? Go away. we're trying to watch the latest S Club 7 music video."

"LIZZIE!" Matt nagged.

"GO!" She demanded.

Matt rolled his eyes and left the couch. The front door slammed shut so Lizzie guessed he left the house.

"Aren't you the least bit worried about what he is going to do?" Gordo asked.

"No, as long as he doesn't break--"

{SMASH!)

"OH MY GOD WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!" Lizzie screamed as she ducked for cover.

"No we're not." Miranda corrected. "Look at what your brother did."

Lizzie removed herself from her fetal position and looked at what Miranda was looking at. "Oh no, he broke a window!" She griped. "Well at least it's replaceable."

"Well what about that?" Asked Gordo, who was looking in the opposite direction, at the bookshelf. The girls looked.

Lizzie looked at the very top of the shelf. There was a lone baseball. "W-where's the statue that my mom put up there?"

"Right there." Gordo directed their direction towards the floor where there were hundreds of little bits of statuary. Lizzie started dumbfounded.

"Hey Lizzie! Can you give me my ball back?" Matt called from outside.