CHAPTER 7 MORNING AFTER

When Antoinette woke up the next morning her mind was swimming with the excitement she felt from last night. Her life really seemed to come together. Her feelings for this boy were different. She wasn't giddy over this man, she felt like his equal, and she liked that. She liked him, a lot, but she couldn't let him know that. She was supposed to take Elizabeth and Breanna swimming at the lagoon with Ace today, and she could feel the excitement swelling in her chest. "I get to see him without a shirt."

She got out of bed slipping into her Marilyn Monroe Bathing suit, and slipping a pair if jeans over it.

Walking down the stairs she hears voices in the kitchen. The kids must be up already, and indeed they were. As well as Ace and the other Cobras, but Breanna was gone.

"Sorry Sis we kind of horned in on your lagoon time. Elizabeth spilled the beans so were going to go along."

Elizabeth looked down at her feet obviously feeling bad.

"That sounds like fun, and then I don't have to be the only one watching the girls." Another knock on the door and Candy, Heather, And Bridgett comes strolling in.

"Awe man, Billy your girl is huge!" giggled Eyeball.

Billy knocked him upside the head, "Shut Up man, she looks great." Bridgett smacked eyeball upside the head as well. "See I look great jack ass."

"Aren't you all romantic, and stuff." giggled Candy, eying Dominic.

"Don't look at my brother like that." giggled Elizabeth.

"Like What?" Blushed Candy

"Like you're going to eat him."

The group burst into fits of laughter while Candy dove for Elizabeth and tickled her viciously.

"No, stop it, Dominic help me!"

"No way kiddo, I don't want to be eaten alive saving you."

The group continued to laugh, and while Ann slipped out to see where Breanna had gone.

She walked up stairs to look for her, she was so smart for a four year old, she could read, and write very well, and she scored very high on every single test that she had been submitted to. Yet she still wouldn't talk and that made people think she was stupid. She searched the house, but there were no signs of her, she new she was out in the garden then. She walked through the kitchen unnoticed and slipped out the door, only to notice Breanna sitting in the garden with a larger figure next to her. She was flailing her hands about explaining something, and Ann had assumed that the figure was one of her siblings, but as she approached she realized that it wasn't. It was Ace sitting with Breanna, letting her attempt to explain things to him. More than likely about her lap being full of tomato's, and flowers.

"I was correct I see."

"Breanna looked up smiling so big."

"You are trying to steel my date aren't you?

Breanna shaking her head so violently "no" that it made Antoinette chuckle.

"Then what are you doing?"

"She was telling me about how much fun you are, and what things you show her in the garden. She showed me that Sunflowers are shadows of the sun."

"How do you know she said?"

"I just listen to her. You understand her don't you?"

"Well yes, but I'm her sister and I'm around her all the time."

"Well you don't have to be around her all the time to pay attention to what she's saying."

Ace got up and wiped the dirt off of his knee, and kissed Ann on the cheek. "Are you coming with me little one?"

Breanna got up and grabbed Aces Hand walking into the house with him.