(Thanks for your reviews it really helps to make me want to write more. This chapter takes place the next day after school. I will put more Guy/Connie and Scooter/Julie. You'll also see some Adam/Cedes goodness. I'm not sure about Mac and Charlie though.)
The next day after school Cedes, Adam, Julie, Scooter, Mac, Charlie, Connie, and Guy went into the city on the bus. Mac and Charlie went to Ms. Conway's work they all decided to meet up later because they were invited to Cedes and Mac's house for dinner with the rest of the Ducks.
"Hey mom, this is my new friend Mac." Charlie introduced Mac as they walked in. Mac was dressed in light blue jeans, light fuzzy yellow sweater, and a black fuzzy hat.
"Hi honey, I'm glad you brought her. It's very nice to meet you Mac, Charlie doesn't really ever bring girls around here you must be special." She smiled while serving coffee to a costumer.
"Mom, do you mind?" Charlie groaned.
"O Charlie, I'm sure she's used to the shock of mothers with her beauty." The two teenagers sat at the counter.
"Thanks, Ms. Conway." Mac smiled.
"No problem, what would you two like to drink?" She asked walking behind the counter.
"I'll have water." The teenage girl looked at Charlie.
"Pepsi is fine." Charlie answered his mom.
Casey Conway handed her son a glass of Pepsi and the brunette girl a glass of water. "What are you doing this weekend?" Casey leaned on the counter looking at her son.
"Actually Mac and her twin Cedes invited the Ducks and I to have dinner with them tonight can I go?" Charlie sat his glass down.
"Sure hone, do you have practice this weekend?"
"Yeah, Coach Orion is giving us a whole new game plan this year we're going to have a better season." Charlie checked his watch. "We better go we told everyone we'd meet them at Mac's house in 20 minutes. Love you." Charlie leaned across the counter kissing his mom on the check.
"Bye, love you too. Maybe next weekend Mac can eat dinner with us." Casey grabbed the glasses.
"I'll look forward to it." Mac nodded at the woman.
"Nice to meet you."
"You too." The two teenagers walked out of the diner. "I like your mom she's sweet." Mac looked at Charlie whose hands were in his pockets. "Are you nervous?" She bumped into him playfully.
"Yeah, I mean your dad's in the army."
"He's not scary trust me." They got on a bus.
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"Hey Mackenzie honey." Mallory greeted her daughter as she opened the door. "This must be Charlie." She looked at the hockey player.
"Yes, Charlie this is my mom, mom this is Charlie."
"Hi Mrs. Emmet thanks for having me over." Charlie looked around the large entranceway of the large home.
"Call me Mallory. Where are Cedes and the others?" Mallory started walking and the two teens followed.
"They'll be here soon." Mac and Charlie walked into the huge dining room.
"Ok, well why don't you show Charlie your room?" Mallory set a plate down.
"Follow me." Mac and Charlie went up a spiral staircase and down a long hall. "It's a little messy." She opened the door to a enormous room, it was painted dark blue with stars and a moon on the ceiling, she had a wooden daybed, a dark blue wooden dresser, a wooden desk with a computer and TV, their were clothes on the floor, trophies stood on the dresser as well as a little wooden shelf above her bed under the shelf was a cork board with pictures, posters hung on the walls, stuff animals sat in a corner with a fuzzy light blue chair, she had one window with a little sill to sit on, and picture frames joined the trophies on the dresser.
"Um...nice room." Charlie was in awe.
"Thanks, my dad and I fixed it up during the summer." Mac sat on her bed the comforter was dark blue with golden stars and a moon.
"Who's this?" Charlie picked up a framed picture of Mac and a dark haired boy.
"That's my boyfriend Leo." She smiled at the picture.
"You're boyfriend as in he's a boy and he's a friend right?" Charlie asked quickly.
"Yes, he was my best friend in Cali we dated before I left but broke up since I was moving."
"Hey mom says you two can come back now because Cedes is here." Connor walked into his sister's room.
"Be down in a minute." Mac took the picture from Charlie setting it back on the desk. "I'm glad I met you Charlie Conway." She looked from the floor back up to him.
"Same here." Charlie reached for her hand.
"We've better go downstairs they're waiting." She went towards her door and Charlie followed.
"Bought time damn what were you two doing?" Cedes asked jokingly to her twin and Charlie.
"Looking in your under..." Mac stopped short as a tall man, with shaggy brown hair and wearing an military uniform walked through the front door. "Dad! Glad you're now we can introduce you too all our friends." She gave him a bright smile. "Mom!"
"Hey honey." Mallory smiled at Cole.
He smiled back. "Mom, dad this is Charlie, Guy, Fulton, Connie, Dwayne, and Russ." Mac introduced a few of the ducks that stood in front of her.
"This is Adam," Cedes pointed to Banks who stood next to her. "Goldberg, Averman, Portman, Luis, Julie, Scooter, and Ken." Cedes introduced the rest of them.
"Nice to meet you all I'm Mallory and that's my husband Cole." Two black labs, Two Chocolate labs, and 3 German Shepherds ran up to the hockey players from the back.
"Sorry!" BD walked into the entryway. "Spike, Faith, Jewels, Angel, Ace, Doyle, Xander sit!" He ordered and the six dogs sat.
"Come here Spike, Doyle." Mac patted her legs and the black lab with red collar and a German Shepard blue came to her. "They're mine." She looked at Charlie.
"Faith come here girl." The Chocolate lab with a purple collar went to Cedes. "And she's mine."
"Ace is the other black lab and he's mine, Angel is Connor's he's the one with the black collar, Jewels is my mom's she has on the pink collar, and Xander's is my dads." BD smiled as Ace slowly walked up to him and sat.
"Hey guys, you're crowding the door." Connor walked downstairs.
"Yeah, you all can go into the living room." Mallory walked away towards the kitchen and Cole, Xander, Jewels, and Angel followed her.
"See you later Connor." Mac waved to her brother as he left out the front door.
The Gang went into the humongous living room with 1 couch, 2 loveseats, 6 recliners, a flat screen TV, and a pool table. Fulton, Scooter, Dwayne, and Charlie sat on the couch, Cedes and Adam sat on one loveseat, and Guy and Connie took the other, Mac sat down in front of Charlie, Julie sat in front of Scooter, Russ, Portman, Luis, Averman, Goldberg, and Ken took the recliners, Faith laid down in front of the loveseat where Cedes and Adam sat, Spike laid in between Julie and Mac, and Doyle laid in front of her feet.
Cedes flipped on the TV. "What do you guys want to watch there's The Wedding Planner, Miss Congeniality, Blue Streak, Big Momma's House, Major Payne, or Now and Then?"
"Blue Streak." The boys on the couch said.
"Major Payne." Came the ducks in the recliners.
"Miss Congeniality." Julie and Connie rang.
"Big Momma's House." Guy and Adam agreed.
Mac and Cedes looked at each other. "Ok, it's between Major Payne and Blue Streak since more people wanted those two." Mac looked around the room.
"Who wants Major Payne?" Cedes asked.
Guy and Adam went along with the ducks in the recliners. "Ok well it's Major Payne because with Julie and Connie for Blue Streak it would only be 6 against 8." Mac nodded at Cedes.
"Wait you and Cedes didn't vote." Scooter looked at the twins.
"I say Blue Streak." Mac looked at her twin.
"Major Payne so it's still 7 against 9." She flipped the channel leaning into Adam.
Mac leaned against Charlie's legs and she looked over at Julie who was getting a massage from Scooter then she looked to her twin, Adam had his arm around her and her head was on his chest, when she turned to Connie and Guy she smiled Guy was sitting with one leg on the couch and one not and Connie sat in between his legs leaning against his chest their hands linked together. She turned quickly Spike had stood up because Scooter got off the couch to sit next to Julie who smiled at Mac mouthing "sorry." Mac grabbed Spike's collar and pulled him to go sit on the other side of her but he had another idea he jumped on the couch into Scooter's old spot and laid down. She jumped when Charlie touched her shoulder, which made Doyle's ears shoot up causing Spike to do the same making Faith bark.
"Faith be quiet." Cedes snapped.
Mac stroked Doyle to calm him she need not to pet Spike he had shut his eyes to sleep. "Sorry bout that." Charlie whispered in her ear, which made her shiver.
"Faith, Spike, Doyle!" Cole yelled from the kitchen.
The 3 dogs stood up running out of the living room. "It's ok." Mac looked up at him.
"No it's not I scared you."
"You know we could just record Mac and Charlie they're talking more than the movie." Goldberg looked at the two.
"Goldberg!" They all shook their heads.
Mac turned quickly to Doyle barking and growling at the front door, he never did that the last time he did that, she shook her head. She got up and went to the door opening it nobody was there. She looked down on the 'Welcome' matt lay an envelope, she picked it up it read 'Mackenzie. Her hand shook.
"Who is it?" Cedes appeared behind her sister.
"No one." She tucked the envelope into the front of her pants pulling down her sweater to hide it.
"Your pizza." Mac looked up surprised to a delivery boy.
"Hang on. Mom it's the pizza!" She called into the house.
Mallory came quickly handing the money to the boy and handing 3 boxes to each of the twins and carrying 3 boxes herself. "Tell your friends to come to the dinning room." She walked off to the kitchen.
"I'll get them." Cedes walked into the living room and Mac headed back to the dinning room setting the pizza's down she ran down the entryway.
"I'll be right back." The gang stared at her as she went past and upstairs.
She walked into her room pulling out the envelope, she opened it to find a piece of notebook paper. Her hands shook even more as she opened the paper.
You can't escape me! I'll be watching you and you're little friends! Your poor little brother he's all alone where is he? Well soon he'll be dead! Run go save him then you'll leave everyone else though so who is it your brother or the rest of them? You better start running. Ready. Get set. GO!
She pulled open her door tearing down the stairs. "Mom! Dad!" Tears streamed down her face.
"Oh my god Mac! What's wrong?" Cedes stepped out in the hall.
Mac handed her the note and turned running towards the front door she grabbed her jacket off the hook opened the door quickly bolting out of it. She ran past her wooden fence down the side walk as the sun disappeared from the sky she ran harder knowing Connor would be going home soon. She reached into her pocket pulling out her cell phone dialing quickly she dialed his number.
"Hey Mac." He answered happily.
"Connor, wherever you are just stay there! Where are you?" She asked stopping.
"Hanging with some friends but I'm on my way home. Why what's wrong?"
"I don't know where are you at?" She looked around lost.
"Um...I see you." She turned as him and a girl with raven hair ran up to her. "What's wrong?" He saw the tear stains.
"A letter I got it threatened you. We have to go back!" She grabbed his arm.
"You seem to have your hands full I'll talk to you later." The girl waved and walked away.
Connor followed his sister's run back home. They both sped through the door panting. "You're both ok." Mallory ran to her children. "What the hell is this?" She held up the letter.
"I don't know it was outside and it was addressed to me." Mac backed away from it.
"Let me see it." Mallory handed it to Connor.
"What's going on?" Portman turned to Cedes where they sat in the dinning room.
"She got a letter threatening us." Cedes said shakily.
Charlie stood up and ran out of the dinning room. "Mac, are you ok?" He pulled her into a hug.
"No, he's playing with my head. He still has control over me, Leo he's in a coma!" Charlie just held her. "He did it Charlie he did it!"
"Who did it? What did he do?"
"Him the one I told you about he put Leo in the coma, he sent that letter, and he still has control over me." She was hysterical.
"Who's him honey?" Mallory turned quickly.
"Luke he did it mom!"
The gang now stood in the entryway with BD and Cole. They all turned to the door as Spike, Doyle, Faith, Angel, Jewels, Xander, and Ace barked and growled at the door.
(Is it Luke or just someone the dogs really don't like? Did Luke really send the letter or is someone else just messing with Mac?)
