Chapter 4

Note from the author: this is going to be the shortest chapter in this whole story.

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Knock-knock echoed the oak door.

Nyx ran in her semi-wet, long, black hair to the door, spraying bit of Salt water everywhere as she went. She glanced through the eye-hole and screamed. With that she flung open the door, and screamed once more.

"I missed you guys so much!" Nyx yelled as she tried to hug both Skye and Audrey at the same time, with her short arms, which could barely touch her legs.

"Here" Skye said as she gave her a tiny package, wrapped in the comic page.

Nyx ripped open the paper and was awe-struck. "Oh My God-how did you get this?"

She held up some limited edition cotton candy sex wax. "It's so beautiful" she said, being a drama queen.

"You're such a dork" Skye teased.

"I better get Dean and Torrance" suggested Nyx "Riley and Lelani are in the kitchen" and with that she ran off barefooted in her blotched wet jeans and white tank top.

She ran across the beach to the Boy's house and knocked on the wood next to the sliding-screen door.

"Yes?" sounded the voice of an Armenian woman.

"Umm-is Torrance and Dean here?" she asked.

"Wait one minute" the woman said, turning away.

A second later she re-appeared, opening the screen door and letting the sweaty boys out. Ms. Faradouk bent over and whispered something into Dean's ear. Dean nodded and walked off.

"Damn you guys-the day Skye and Audrey come back and you choose to be like this" Nyx said holding her nose.

"Like what? Constipated?" Torrance joked. Nyx laughed and immediately took out a perfume sample and emptied it over their heads. Luckily, Nyx wasn't the type of girl to wear girly perfume-it was a bottle of peppermint. "Great, I think the alpine mountains deserved a spring"

Nyx laughed again. He was talking about some Dandruff that had just trickled down on the peppermint, down his face. They were sweating because they had just finished up their band practice, which went quite well, because Nyx could hear them all the way across the beach.

As they neared the house the boys wiped off the "dribbles" of peppermint, unfortunately, they smelled as if they had put on too much cologne.

"Hey" Skye said as she hugged Dean, then backing off, obviously because of the strong tang.

"Woo, you guys-"she commented, wafting her hand madly, as she laughed.

Riley picked up the phone and began to talk to the pizza-man. They rarely had pizza; usually it was a choice of foods delivered to the house by the internet, from wherever their parents were.

knock-knock-knock.

The oak door quickly thumped through. They all looked dubiously at the door, wondering who it could be. Nyx walked to the door and answered it to a boy with dirty blonde hair, with cold blue eyes, and a solemn face. Nyx was even more perplexed.

"Hi-umm who are you looking for?" She said finally coming to her senses.

He looked into his hands, down at the camera he was holding. "Skye Wycliffe?" he read off of the label.

"Yes?" she perked from behind Nyx. "Ohmigod! My camera!" She screamed, snatching it, and quickly checking for dents. "Thank You"

"I better be going" He said

"Thanks for the camera" Nyx yelled after him.

He turned around, and smirked, his fierce eyebrows raised from their normal straight position.