Eli: Hello, hello! I can see you have all started an Eli's Dad haters club,
with JW as leader since she had the most....... Vivid image of what should
be done about little E's father. Man, and you guys ain't seen nothing yet.
Okay, I've finally been able to remember that this site is weird and likes
to not make italics so you guys can tell the music from the speaking. I'm
just gonna put this chapter into the poetry mode thing and song lyrics have
the little ~~ marks on them. Thanks for all the reviews! Here's the next
chapter, Enjoy!
An hour or so later, all of Eli's laundry was done. Ian helped her carry it
up stairs into her room. He shook his head when she dumped it on the floor
by her bags. She was over by the mirror practicing how to curtsey. "A real
lady puts her things away." He told her quietly. Eli sighed and went to go
pick up her stuff.
"Being a lady is hard work." She told him seriously as she stuffed all her
clothes back into her bag.
"I will take your word for it." He told her.
"Can I watch cartoons?" She asked as she stuffed the last of her clothes
back into her bag. She smiled when he nodded. "Cartoon, Cartoons!" She
shouted as she started running toward the living room. She tripped on the
rug and fell face first onto the ground. But instead of crying, like he
expected her to do, she started laughing.
He stood in front of her and helped her to her feet. "Are you all right?"
"Uh huh! I flew!" She said in between laughter. Ian shook his head and
ushered her into the living room. She jumped onto the couch and turned the
television onto cartoons.
"Which cartoon is this?"
"Batman Beyond. See, there's old batman, and there's new batman. The new
batman knows how to fly. This is a good episode! This is when Terry, that's
new batman, runs into the royal flush gang, again." She told him excitedly.
"Eli, if you have already watched this episode and know what is going to
happen, why watch it all over again?"
"Because it's good. Don't you ever watch things you like over again, or
read a book you look over again?" She asked him seriously. He nodded.
"I am going to make dinner. What would you like to eat?"
Eli shrugged her shoulders. "It doesn't matter. You can make what you
like." She told him without taking her eyes off the television.
He came back about an hour later to get her for dinner. She was watching
another cartoon. She was standing up for this one as she shouted things at
the characters and jumped up and down on the couch. It amused him how
seriously she acted toward a cartoon.
"Eli, it's time for dinner." He told her. She shook her head.
"Five minutes, please? I'm watching Sailor Moon." She told him. "Hey, c'mon
Sailor Jupiter, use your thunder dragon attack! Use the thunder dragon!"
She told the teenaged looking girl in green.
"Very well." He told her.
"Thank-you! Ohhh, Tuxedo mask! Go away, no one likes you! Except for
Serena. Sailor Mercury, do your bubble blast! Make the bubbles come! Yay!
Mercury bubbles blast!!!" She said with the character, along with mimicking
the movements of the attack.
After a long five minutes of watching her insult or cheer on certain
characters, she started heading toward the kitchen.
"Fighting evil by moonlight. Winning love by daylight! Never running from a
real fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon!" She sang out. "She never
turns her back on her friends; she is always there to defend! She is the
one whom we can depend! She is the one named sailor......!"
"Wash your hands first." Ian told her in the middle of her song. She nodded
and went over to the sink to wash her hands.
"Sailor Venus, Venus, Venus! Sailor Mercury! Sailor, Mars, Mars, Mars,
Sailor Jupiter! Secret powers are stuck into her! She is the one named
Sailor Moon!" She started humming another part of what Ian figured to be
the theme song. She wiped her hands on a towel and went to go climb onto
the counter. "Fighting evil by moonlight! Winning love by daylight! She has
the sailor scouts to help fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon! She is
the one named Sailor Moon! She is the one! Sailor Moon!!!" She finished.
Ian smirked at her ending. "Are you finished now?" He asked.
She nodded. "Uh huh, what's for dinner?"
"Spaghetti."
"Yummy! I like that! I like that!" She told him excitedly.
"I am glad to hear that." He told her as he put a plate down in front of
her. She started eating it right away. He turned his back on her for a
minute to pull up a stool so that he would not need to stand the entire
time. When he sat down and looked at her, he noticed that she had the messy
food all over her face and hands. The reason being she was picking up
noodles with her hands instead of the fork and slurping them down. "Eli,
you are making a mess!"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I know, but it's the only way you can eat
spaghetti the fun way. See!" She picked a noodle up and sucked it up into
her mouth. She started giggling at the look on his face. "C'mon, you try."
She told him, offering him one of her noodles.
Ian shook his head. "No thank-you. Can you please stop eating the fun way?
You are getting it every where." He asked her seriously.
Eli sighed and nodded. "Alright! Alright." She picked up her fork and
finished off the last of her dinner.
Ian then had her go into the bathroom for a bath. It took a full hour to
get her clean from all of the spaghetti. It was all over her face, her
hands, part of her arms, and somehow, some had gotten behind her ears. He
had to change the water once since it had turned red from all of the sauce.
Eli just found it funny and laughed most of the time.
He had her then get ready for bed. "It's too early." She grumbled.
"Sara is coming over tomorrow with someone to play with. Don't you want to
be rested to be able to play?" He asked her. She nodded, forgetting that
Sara was supposed to come over.
After she was done, Eli gave Ian back the shirts and shirt she had
borrowed. Both were dirty from her activities. He sighed and put them away
to be washed. Eli jumped into her bed and crawled in under the covers. She
made Ian read her Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella before she finally was
willing to go to sleep. She held onto her pikachu as Ian tucked her in and
told her good night.
And for once, she didn't have night mares.
-The Next Day-
"Ouch!" Eli exclaimed as she felt a sharp pull on her hair. She tried to
turn around to make it stop, but that only made it hurt worst. "Ow!!"
"Sorry, but if you had brushed your hair last night, it would not be like
this now." Ian told her. "Now stay still, or else it will hurt."
Eli sighed and tried to be patient as he brushed out her hair and put in
into pig tails for her. "You're doing two braids, right? Not just one?"
"Yes. Stop turning your head."
"Ian, do I have to wear my overalls? Can't I wear my black shorts?"
"You are already dressed in it. Just leave your overalls on."
"When are they gonna be here? They are coming, right?" She asked him
anxiously.
"They will be here soon. And yes, they are coming. I called Sara before I
woke you up to make sure. You're almost done, so stop moving and maybe I
will be able to finish this." He answered.
Eli stopped moving and hugged her Pikachu. "Do you know the girl Sara is
bringing? Is she nice?"
He smiled at her tone. "I do not believe Sara would bring her over if she
wasn't." He assured her.
Just then, the door bell rang. Eli started heading toward the door from the
Living room. "Ow!" She cried out, forgetting that Ian still had her hair in
his hands. "Are you done yet?" She asked.
"No." He told her.
"Are you done yet?"
"No."
"Are you done yet?"
"No."
"Are you done yet?"
"Hold on.... Yes, I am done." Eli smiled and started running toward the
front door. "Eli, careful, you might-" He moaned when he heard several
objects fall to the floor. He looked in the hallway to see a table, a
plant, and a chair overturned. He put them all back up where they had been.
"Ian! How do you unlock the door?!" She screamed from the hallway. He found
her at the door fiddling with the locks, unsure how to make them unlock. He
opened the door for her.
Sara was leaning against the door frame. Beside her was a girl about Eli's
age. She nodded at Ian and then looked down at Eli. "Hey, Eli. This," She
said, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder, "Is Una. Una, that is Ian, and
this is Eli."
The two little girls studied each other carefully. Eli was dressed in her
butterfly overalls with a lime green shirt underneath. Una was dressed in
jeans and had on a bright pink shirt that said 'Girls Rock' on it. Both
were holding something behind their backs.
"What are you holding?" Una asked Eli. Eli pulled out Pikachu from behind
her back.
"What are you holding?" Eli asked Una. Una pulled a Squirttle, another type
of pokemon, out from behind her back.
The two girls smiled. Sara and Una entered the house. Sara glanced around
at the place and winced. "You sure this house is child proof?" She asked
him.
"They should be, as long as they know not to touch anything without
permission. Right?"
"Right." The girls answered. Eli noticed that the adults seemed to be
standing closer together than usual. Eli baked away from them, taking Una
with her.
"Careful around them both, Una. They like to tongue kiss." Eli warned Una.
"Ewl! Gross! You really do that Aunt Sara?" Una asked, grossed out.
Sara rolled her eyes. "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Yeah, whatever." Eli answered mischievously. She turned to Una. "Let's
have some fun."
"Yeah!" Una answered.
Ian saw the look between them and groaned. He had a feeling this would be
another long day.
The living room was blaring with noise. Eli and Una had seemed to choose it
for their head quarters in which everything would be done. Their toys were
everywhere. They had crayons and paper littering the thousand dollar rug,
they had a monkey hanging from the priceless glass chandelier (They had
broken one of the chairs in getting the monkey to ceiling.), and not only
was the television on, but they also had a small CD player that Una had
brought and were blasting music.
~Turn it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over me
And when I wake you're never there
But when I sleep you're everywhere
You're everywhere. ~
Ian couldn't believe it. He had expected that Eli and Una would get along
for a simple day of fun, but it had never occurred to him that they would
be a demonic, chaotic duo of insanity. He watched as they now currently
battled their stuffed animals or pokemon as they called them. They were
shouting various things such as 'Pikachu, do your thunderbolt attack!' and
'Squirttle, use your water gun!'. Sara seemed to be quiet amused, until Una
ordered her Squirttle to do a head butt, which meant throwing it across the
room and making it come in contact with a vase from the 12th century.
~Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there~
He winced as it crashed to the ground. Both little girls stopped playing
and turned to the adults, apologizing in the sickeningly adorable way that
kids apologize in. It ended with Ian cleaning the mess up, after assuring
Sara it could be replaced, and Sara having the girls sit down to watch a
movie, or at least trying to.
"C'mon, half pints. Let's watch a movie." They ignored her as they sang the
chorus to the song. Ian held in a laugh as he went to go dispose of the
broken glass.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone~
They were holding hands and jumping in circles, trying to scream out the
lyrics. Sara shook her head. "Hey, stop that now. Don't you two want to
watch one of these movies that I brought along?" She asked.
"After the song." They answered. Eli stopped jumping and looked at Sara.
"Sing with us!"
~I recognize the way you make me feel
It's hard to think that
You might not be real
I sense it now, the water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain away from me
Away from me~
"Nah, I don't do singing, and I don't know the song." She answered.
"Oh, c'mon Aunt Sara! It's not hard, just listen and you'll know it." Una
told her.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone~
Sara shook her head. Una and Eli went up to her and grabbed her hands,
trying to get her into their game. "Sara, we can tell you the lyrics before
they go on and then you can sing them." Eli offered.
"Yeah, we can do that. C'mon, Aunt Sara, sing with us!" Una pleaded.
~And when I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so~
Sara sighed and nodded. "Fine, whatever. What's the lyrics?" Eli and Una
told her the lyrics before Sara took her turn to sing along with the song.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I catch my breath
It's you I breathe
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
You're in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me? ~
"Yay! That rocked!" Eli said as she applauded. Una agreed. "Yeah, it
rocked! Do it again, do it again!" She asked.
Sara shook her head and laughed. "No, no. Don't lie to make me fell good,
it wasn't that great."
"I thought it was quite good, considering you didn't know the song." She
heard from the doorway. She looked over and felt her face suddenly feel
very hot.
"See! Even Ian says it was good!" Eli told her. "Do it again, do it again."
They begged.
"No, no. Let's start that movie." She mumbled out as she grabbed one of the
tapes she had brought and put it into the VCR. The two little ones groaned
and then went over to the couch. Eli looked over at the adults, who were
now on opposite ends of the room.
Confused at what was going on, she asked "Hey, aren't you guys gonna watch
it with us?" When they both said they were, she asked "Then how come you
guys aren't sitting on the couch with us? We can't start it up till you
guys sit down." She told them.
They nodded and both went over to the couch. They sat on the ends with the
girls in the middle.
The movie that Sara had put in was "Hook" which involved Peter Pan and
Captain Hook. The girls, who had both seen the movie before, shouted things
like 'Bang-A-Rang!' and 'Think happy thoughts!' at various points of the
film.
It made Sara laugh out loud. They were wonderful together. She was glad
that they hit it off so well, almost too well. She feared that they would
start crying when Una had to leave. If so, she wasn't sure what she would
do. But until then, she wouldn't worry about it.
On the side, she noticed that Ian was particularly fond of Eli. He didn't
mind it when she used his arm to hide her eyes during the kissing scenes,
and his arm lingered above her on the top of the couch. 'Protective. Almost
as if he were her....' Her thought was interrupted as Una and Eli decided
to try and have their own sword fight with the pillows, hitting each other
and everything else around them with their weapons.
After all the shuffling and fighting, they finally got the pillows out of
the girl's hands. The girls now sat on their laps as they watched the
movie.
Ian could help but notice how physically close they were now. Mere inches.
All one of them had o do was shift and they would be touching.
Then, in the movie, a character got stabbed and was dying. Eli and Una both
shifted toward each other to fake cry, which ended up in them muffling
their laughter. The impulse made their human pillows shift as well as they
now sat side by side.
On contact, they couldn't help but glance at each other.
TBC
"Everywhere" by Michelle Branch, who is secretly a closet fan wb SPIN-
er.... Or at least seems like it.
with JW as leader since she had the most....... Vivid image of what should
be done about little E's father. Man, and you guys ain't seen nothing yet.
Okay, I've finally been able to remember that this site is weird and likes
to not make italics so you guys can tell the music from the speaking. I'm
just gonna put this chapter into the poetry mode thing and song lyrics have
the little ~~ marks on them. Thanks for all the reviews! Here's the next
chapter, Enjoy!
An hour or so later, all of Eli's laundry was done. Ian helped her carry it
up stairs into her room. He shook his head when she dumped it on the floor
by her bags. She was over by the mirror practicing how to curtsey. "A real
lady puts her things away." He told her quietly. Eli sighed and went to go
pick up her stuff.
"Being a lady is hard work." She told him seriously as she stuffed all her
clothes back into her bag.
"I will take your word for it." He told her.
"Can I watch cartoons?" She asked as she stuffed the last of her clothes
back into her bag. She smiled when he nodded. "Cartoon, Cartoons!" She
shouted as she started running toward the living room. She tripped on the
rug and fell face first onto the ground. But instead of crying, like he
expected her to do, she started laughing.
He stood in front of her and helped her to her feet. "Are you all right?"
"Uh huh! I flew!" She said in between laughter. Ian shook his head and
ushered her into the living room. She jumped onto the couch and turned the
television onto cartoons.
"Which cartoon is this?"
"Batman Beyond. See, there's old batman, and there's new batman. The new
batman knows how to fly. This is a good episode! This is when Terry, that's
new batman, runs into the royal flush gang, again." She told him excitedly.
"Eli, if you have already watched this episode and know what is going to
happen, why watch it all over again?"
"Because it's good. Don't you ever watch things you like over again, or
read a book you look over again?" She asked him seriously. He nodded.
"I am going to make dinner. What would you like to eat?"
Eli shrugged her shoulders. "It doesn't matter. You can make what you
like." She told him without taking her eyes off the television.
He came back about an hour later to get her for dinner. She was watching
another cartoon. She was standing up for this one as she shouted things at
the characters and jumped up and down on the couch. It amused him how
seriously she acted toward a cartoon.
"Eli, it's time for dinner." He told her. She shook her head.
"Five minutes, please? I'm watching Sailor Moon." She told him. "Hey, c'mon
Sailor Jupiter, use your thunder dragon attack! Use the thunder dragon!"
She told the teenaged looking girl in green.
"Very well." He told her.
"Thank-you! Ohhh, Tuxedo mask! Go away, no one likes you! Except for
Serena. Sailor Mercury, do your bubble blast! Make the bubbles come! Yay!
Mercury bubbles blast!!!" She said with the character, along with mimicking
the movements of the attack.
After a long five minutes of watching her insult or cheer on certain
characters, she started heading toward the kitchen.
"Fighting evil by moonlight. Winning love by daylight! Never running from a
real fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon!" She sang out. "She never
turns her back on her friends; she is always there to defend! She is the
one whom we can depend! She is the one named sailor......!"
"Wash your hands first." Ian told her in the middle of her song. She nodded
and went over to the sink to wash her hands.
"Sailor Venus, Venus, Venus! Sailor Mercury! Sailor, Mars, Mars, Mars,
Sailor Jupiter! Secret powers are stuck into her! She is the one named
Sailor Moon!" She started humming another part of what Ian figured to be
the theme song. She wiped her hands on a towel and went to go climb onto
the counter. "Fighting evil by moonlight! Winning love by daylight! She has
the sailor scouts to help fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon! She is
the one named Sailor Moon! She is the one! Sailor Moon!!!" She finished.
Ian smirked at her ending. "Are you finished now?" He asked.
She nodded. "Uh huh, what's for dinner?"
"Spaghetti."
"Yummy! I like that! I like that!" She told him excitedly.
"I am glad to hear that." He told her as he put a plate down in front of
her. She started eating it right away. He turned his back on her for a
minute to pull up a stool so that he would not need to stand the entire
time. When he sat down and looked at her, he noticed that she had the messy
food all over her face and hands. The reason being she was picking up
noodles with her hands instead of the fork and slurping them down. "Eli,
you are making a mess!"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I know, but it's the only way you can eat
spaghetti the fun way. See!" She picked a noodle up and sucked it up into
her mouth. She started giggling at the look on his face. "C'mon, you try."
She told him, offering him one of her noodles.
Ian shook his head. "No thank-you. Can you please stop eating the fun way?
You are getting it every where." He asked her seriously.
Eli sighed and nodded. "Alright! Alright." She picked up her fork and
finished off the last of her dinner.
Ian then had her go into the bathroom for a bath. It took a full hour to
get her clean from all of the spaghetti. It was all over her face, her
hands, part of her arms, and somehow, some had gotten behind her ears. He
had to change the water once since it had turned red from all of the sauce.
Eli just found it funny and laughed most of the time.
He had her then get ready for bed. "It's too early." She grumbled.
"Sara is coming over tomorrow with someone to play with. Don't you want to
be rested to be able to play?" He asked her. She nodded, forgetting that
Sara was supposed to come over.
After she was done, Eli gave Ian back the shirts and shirt she had
borrowed. Both were dirty from her activities. He sighed and put them away
to be washed. Eli jumped into her bed and crawled in under the covers. She
made Ian read her Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella before she finally was
willing to go to sleep. She held onto her pikachu as Ian tucked her in and
told her good night.
And for once, she didn't have night mares.
-The Next Day-
"Ouch!" Eli exclaimed as she felt a sharp pull on her hair. She tried to
turn around to make it stop, but that only made it hurt worst. "Ow!!"
"Sorry, but if you had brushed your hair last night, it would not be like
this now." Ian told her. "Now stay still, or else it will hurt."
Eli sighed and tried to be patient as he brushed out her hair and put in
into pig tails for her. "You're doing two braids, right? Not just one?"
"Yes. Stop turning your head."
"Ian, do I have to wear my overalls? Can't I wear my black shorts?"
"You are already dressed in it. Just leave your overalls on."
"When are they gonna be here? They are coming, right?" She asked him
anxiously.
"They will be here soon. And yes, they are coming. I called Sara before I
woke you up to make sure. You're almost done, so stop moving and maybe I
will be able to finish this." He answered.
Eli stopped moving and hugged her Pikachu. "Do you know the girl Sara is
bringing? Is she nice?"
He smiled at her tone. "I do not believe Sara would bring her over if she
wasn't." He assured her.
Just then, the door bell rang. Eli started heading toward the door from the
Living room. "Ow!" She cried out, forgetting that Ian still had her hair in
his hands. "Are you done yet?" She asked.
"No." He told her.
"Are you done yet?"
"No."
"Are you done yet?"
"No."
"Are you done yet?"
"Hold on.... Yes, I am done." Eli smiled and started running toward the
front door. "Eli, careful, you might-" He moaned when he heard several
objects fall to the floor. He looked in the hallway to see a table, a
plant, and a chair overturned. He put them all back up where they had been.
"Ian! How do you unlock the door?!" She screamed from the hallway. He found
her at the door fiddling with the locks, unsure how to make them unlock. He
opened the door for her.
Sara was leaning against the door frame. Beside her was a girl about Eli's
age. She nodded at Ian and then looked down at Eli. "Hey, Eli. This," She
said, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder, "Is Una. Una, that is Ian, and
this is Eli."
The two little girls studied each other carefully. Eli was dressed in her
butterfly overalls with a lime green shirt underneath. Una was dressed in
jeans and had on a bright pink shirt that said 'Girls Rock' on it. Both
were holding something behind their backs.
"What are you holding?" Una asked Eli. Eli pulled out Pikachu from behind
her back.
"What are you holding?" Eli asked Una. Una pulled a Squirttle, another type
of pokemon, out from behind her back.
The two girls smiled. Sara and Una entered the house. Sara glanced around
at the place and winced. "You sure this house is child proof?" She asked
him.
"They should be, as long as they know not to touch anything without
permission. Right?"
"Right." The girls answered. Eli noticed that the adults seemed to be
standing closer together than usual. Eli baked away from them, taking Una
with her.
"Careful around them both, Una. They like to tongue kiss." Eli warned Una.
"Ewl! Gross! You really do that Aunt Sara?" Una asked, grossed out.
Sara rolled her eyes. "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Yeah, whatever." Eli answered mischievously. She turned to Una. "Let's
have some fun."
"Yeah!" Una answered.
Ian saw the look between them and groaned. He had a feeling this would be
another long day.
The living room was blaring with noise. Eli and Una had seemed to choose it
for their head quarters in which everything would be done. Their toys were
everywhere. They had crayons and paper littering the thousand dollar rug,
they had a monkey hanging from the priceless glass chandelier (They had
broken one of the chairs in getting the monkey to ceiling.), and not only
was the television on, but they also had a small CD player that Una had
brought and were blasting music.
~Turn it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over me
And when I wake you're never there
But when I sleep you're everywhere
You're everywhere. ~
Ian couldn't believe it. He had expected that Eli and Una would get along
for a simple day of fun, but it had never occurred to him that they would
be a demonic, chaotic duo of insanity. He watched as they now currently
battled their stuffed animals or pokemon as they called them. They were
shouting various things such as 'Pikachu, do your thunderbolt attack!' and
'Squirttle, use your water gun!'. Sara seemed to be quiet amused, until Una
ordered her Squirttle to do a head butt, which meant throwing it across the
room and making it come in contact with a vase from the 12th century.
~Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there~
He winced as it crashed to the ground. Both little girls stopped playing
and turned to the adults, apologizing in the sickeningly adorable way that
kids apologize in. It ended with Ian cleaning the mess up, after assuring
Sara it could be replaced, and Sara having the girls sit down to watch a
movie, or at least trying to.
"C'mon, half pints. Let's watch a movie." They ignored her as they sang the
chorus to the song. Ian held in a laugh as he went to go dispose of the
broken glass.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone~
They were holding hands and jumping in circles, trying to scream out the
lyrics. Sara shook her head. "Hey, stop that now. Don't you two want to
watch one of these movies that I brought along?" She asked.
"After the song." They answered. Eli stopped jumping and looked at Sara.
"Sing with us!"
~I recognize the way you make me feel
It's hard to think that
You might not be real
I sense it now, the water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain away from me
Away from me~
"Nah, I don't do singing, and I don't know the song." She answered.
"Oh, c'mon Aunt Sara! It's not hard, just listen and you'll know it." Una
told her.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone~
Sara shook her head. Una and Eli went up to her and grabbed her hands,
trying to get her into their game. "Sara, we can tell you the lyrics before
they go on and then you can sing them." Eli offered.
"Yeah, we can do that. C'mon, Aunt Sara, sing with us!" Una pleaded.
~And when I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so~
Sara sighed and nodded. "Fine, whatever. What's the lyrics?" Eli and Una
told her the lyrics before Sara took her turn to sing along with the song.
~'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I catch my breath
It's you I breathe
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
You're in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me? ~
"Yay! That rocked!" Eli said as she applauded. Una agreed. "Yeah, it
rocked! Do it again, do it again!" She asked.
Sara shook her head and laughed. "No, no. Don't lie to make me fell good,
it wasn't that great."
"I thought it was quite good, considering you didn't know the song." She
heard from the doorway. She looked over and felt her face suddenly feel
very hot.
"See! Even Ian says it was good!" Eli told her. "Do it again, do it again."
They begged.
"No, no. Let's start that movie." She mumbled out as she grabbed one of the
tapes she had brought and put it into the VCR. The two little ones groaned
and then went over to the couch. Eli looked over at the adults, who were
now on opposite ends of the room.
Confused at what was going on, she asked "Hey, aren't you guys gonna watch
it with us?" When they both said they were, she asked "Then how come you
guys aren't sitting on the couch with us? We can't start it up till you
guys sit down." She told them.
They nodded and both went over to the couch. They sat on the ends with the
girls in the middle.
The movie that Sara had put in was "Hook" which involved Peter Pan and
Captain Hook. The girls, who had both seen the movie before, shouted things
like 'Bang-A-Rang!' and 'Think happy thoughts!' at various points of the
film.
It made Sara laugh out loud. They were wonderful together. She was glad
that they hit it off so well, almost too well. She feared that they would
start crying when Una had to leave. If so, she wasn't sure what she would
do. But until then, she wouldn't worry about it.
On the side, she noticed that Ian was particularly fond of Eli. He didn't
mind it when she used his arm to hide her eyes during the kissing scenes,
and his arm lingered above her on the top of the couch. 'Protective. Almost
as if he were her....' Her thought was interrupted as Una and Eli decided
to try and have their own sword fight with the pillows, hitting each other
and everything else around them with their weapons.
After all the shuffling and fighting, they finally got the pillows out of
the girl's hands. The girls now sat on their laps as they watched the
movie.
Ian could help but notice how physically close they were now. Mere inches.
All one of them had o do was shift and they would be touching.
Then, in the movie, a character got stabbed and was dying. Eli and Una both
shifted toward each other to fake cry, which ended up in them muffling
their laughter. The impulse made their human pillows shift as well as they
now sat side by side.
On contact, they couldn't help but glance at each other.
TBC
"Everywhere" by Michelle Branch, who is secretly a closet fan wb SPIN-
er.... Or at least seems like it.