A/N: Hello, it's me again. :) Thanks for the reviews to Jasmine and
Skeptical. Just one thing Skeptical... I know, LOL. I even made that a point
in the story later. :D You'll see... weirdness all around! Yay!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I exit the house when Mom mentions something about a baseball match where Sam has to be. I really don't know what happens with them whenever anyone mentions that game. Someone explain it to me? I think it has something to do with 'hips before hands'.
...
I don't even want to know. Anyways... I didn't think they'd take with so much serenity that I am going out with Christine. What I didn't tell them was that her surname is Covarrubias, and that her mother seemed to know me (Will dad kill me if he ever finds out?).
I walk down the street towards the school and meet my friends on my way. They always wait for me at the bus stop... and then I notice that I am unusually late. Ooops. I don't even have to look at my watch to know: Wayne's face tell me.
''Did your sisters tie you to the bed or what?'' He says. Well, it wouldn't be the first time.
''Sorry.''
He shoots me That Look. But that's him, always being my friend and at the same time my babysitter. It's even scary. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is my best buddie Wayne Skinner. He acts as if he were my boss, if you ask me. (Maybe it's in the genetics?) What matters is that he's saved my sorry ass from more than one problem.
''Audrey, Christine and Nathan headed to the building. You don't want to be late on day one, do you?''
Audrey Doggett is my other best friend. I have known her since forever. She has long ivory hair and sweet hazel eyes. Her smile can cheer up anyone... she is the only person that I really trust, if you ask me. I know that she is special.
Jonathan...Nathan, is my cousin. His mother –I think her name was Diana or something like that- died at birth, and her father is the one that has taken care of him on his own ever since. Uncle Jeffrey is a bit stressed, yeah. And so is Nathan (Can you inherit stress as well?).
Wayne and I start heading to the building with some rushing... we know that there are a couple of people that will make things impossible for us. Namely this ex-girlfriend of mine named Mary (Marigold, actually- is there a prissier name than that one?) that lived in London for a long while and now seems to have come back to hunt me or ... something.
I'll sick Christine on her if she doesn't behave. She has a hard right.
And speaking of her... We reach the building and find out that we are not that late. Our friends are waiting at the door and Wayne looks at me as if saying 'If we had been late, now you would have no head'. I nod and smile at the others.
''Fell asleep during breakfast?'' Audrey jokes. She looks at me with her sweet eyes, and I smile. She knows how to de-stress someone. Actually, she always knows how to de-stress ME.
''More or less...'' Wayne says for me.
''Oh, there is something I have to tell you all.''
We all turn to Christine, that seems to have snapped into reality all of a sudden. Her long blond hair falls loosely over her back, her blue eyes sparkling... I notice I am staring like a fool for the look that Wayne and Nathan are giving me. The last time I looked at someone like that... I think it was a box of donuts.
''Go on, tell.'' Nathan says, getting all the attention off me.
''My mother's Spanish side of the family is coming over, and they are ... totally nuts. They'll be throwing a party and I am sure we will all love it. My mother told me to invite some of my friends over so that my father doesn't go totally crazy.''
''Your father... crazy?''
''Yeah, the last time aunt Ana came over she made him dance the Macarena while he was totally drunk with Rioja Spanish wine. We have it on tape.'' We can't help but laugh at the thought. Whoa, if my father did that I'd crawl under the table and DIE. ''So now mum thinks that if the attention is drawn to my social life they'll leave him alone.''
Well, it had some logic. It was the same sort of thing back at home when uncle Bill showed up. My dad practically hides the twins muttering something that 'they'd remind him too much of the son of a bitch he has as a brother in law' or something like that. (???) Some things in my family are mad. Most of them. And then he'd practically push me in front of my uncle to draw away the attention from his paranoia.
''I'm coming.'' Nathan said with a smile. ''I'll be cheering aunt Ana.''
I laugh a bit at my cousin's remark and wander if when I get there I would be the friend- just like everyone else- or something different. That had changed now. Oh, and if Christine's family knew, would her father get out his gun and try to shoot me?
I knew my father would be capable of it if someone hurt his little girls. I thought about this with rather wide eyes and swallowed hard. Uh-uh. Who told me other dads were not the same? Specially with Christine being an only child...
My friends must have noticed that I was speaking to myself, because they all eyed me oddly. Then, something happened. Nathan looked up at something that we did not see... as if he were searching for something.
''Don't you see a light over there?'' He asked us, and pointed to a bluish radiance that came from the part of the building that we did not see. And that was when it went bang. Well... more like
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
''Doesn't look like a fire.'' Wayne said, and dropping his bag, was the first to rush there. Nathan did the same and took off behind him.
I doubted for a second. And then it struck me:
My sisters.
''Shit!''
I rushed behind the two, knowing that Christine and Audrey were right behind me. I reached the spot where the others were and found myself lost into some kind of fog. How does fog get to the behind of a school when it's a bright sunny day?
''It's... magic.'' Audrey said it without realizing. It was her explanation... and maybe mine as well.
Her brother Oliver, two years younger, rushed to her when we were half- lost in the fog. People kept gathering around us, and a teacher had started calling the firemen. Surprisingly enough, there was no fire alarm on.
''Oliver, who was here?'' Audrey asked, worried. ''Did you see that?''
''The twins. The twins were here.. I was heading to greet them when out of the blue something blasted.'' He was totally pale... as if he'd seen a ghost.
Oliver had been friends with my sisters for a long while as well. He came over almost every Friday and rented a movie with them. They sat on the couch for hours chattering about God knows what.
I shook my head. This couldn't be. I rushed into the mist and forgot that everyone must have been watching me. I heard Wayne and a teacher call my name from behind me, but I didn't stop running.
Soon I saw them. Two bodies that lay lifeless on the floor. Gasping I took off towards them and felt their pulse. Lucky enough, they were just unconscious. The fire alarm was heard in the distance, and I called Wayne.
He soon appeared through the mist, guided to me by the sound of my voice. Audrey had rushed behind him too even when he had been telling her to remain with Christine and Nathan.
''Help me carry them.'' I demanded him. I felt that my cheeks were burning and my eyes misted... This could not happen. If my sisters died, I would have a stroke, or something like that. Sometimes you don't realize how much you'd miss your siblings until you see what would happen when they're gone.
Wayne didn't say anything. He just picked Sam up and I did the same with Mel. Audrey lead the way towards the light back between the intense fog, that got thicker every time. Darker, almost solid and cold.
We reached the light and saw my parents. My dad was yelling to a fireman that would not let him come towards us while Nathan tried to calm him down, and my mother was with the people at the ambulance with Karen in her arms. They both saw me and rushed over to us.
''What happened?'' My father said as he came into view and saw the twins.
I was just able to shake my head without knowing what to say. The girls were taken to the ambulance and we followed them. The whole family, the bunch of friends... and the looks from the whole school.
They were being taken inside. I heard my parents talk. The baby was handed to dad and my mother went into the ambulance with the girls.
''The doctors say that they are just unconscious. I will call you when we get to the hospital and I will make them get any sort of test done. Find out what happened here... what that explosion was.'' She said, and hugged me and dad. Then she entered the ambulance.
And that was when Audrey made the difference. She stepped forward towards the girls and looked at both of them.
''STOP!'' She bellowed.
Everyone eyed her oddly. But she did not even flinch. She looked at the twins, then at my parents and me. Then she pointed to the silver stars that he twins wore on their necks: the shape of the star was burnt upon their chests, as if the pendants had been on fire at some point.
I noticed the look that my parents sent each other. It was the same one when I moved things with my mind. I was not sure if it was good or bad, by then. But this time it could not be good. Could it?
My mother disappeared with the ambulance and the girls, and I remained by my father and a confused Karen for a second.
''Was the fuck was that?'' I muttered.
''The most repeated question of my life.'' My father answered.
I eyed my friends as well. Nathan was still dealing with the firemen that complained about me and the others entering the mist. His father soon took over the lawyer job –his area of expertise- and things calmed down a bit.
Christine and Wayne's looks were out of place. They seemed lost in another world. They soon started talking to each other. I noticed that they seemed to make lots of questions. That was what everyone did, in my opinion.
Everyone but Audrey.
She came over to me with a slight, rather sad smile. I looked down at her and she turned to my father as well.
''The pendant acted as a shield.''
''WHAT?'' We both said, with wide eyes. Ok, now... I discovered that when my family is under stress, we become sillier. Maybe it's in the genes as well?
''The five edged star is a protection symbol.'' She said.
''They said they came here this morning to set a protection spell.'' I said that in front of my father's confused face. When I said that I thought he was going to go green and faint.
''You mean they actually did it?'' He asked. ''Does this happen often? They came here to protect themselves and get hurt?'' He said this starting to lose his temper.
''Maybe they found something they didn't expect to.'' Audrey said, and with a glance that left me and my dad with the same look- staring like idiots- she left us to meet her brother.
''Dad...?'' I asked .Just what could be going on in his mind? I knew the look he had on now. He was making his FBI deductions. His crazy, paranoid FBI deductions.
''Will... this is the first X File you see.''
Shit!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I exit the house when Mom mentions something about a baseball match where Sam has to be. I really don't know what happens with them whenever anyone mentions that game. Someone explain it to me? I think it has something to do with 'hips before hands'.
...
I don't even want to know. Anyways... I didn't think they'd take with so much serenity that I am going out with Christine. What I didn't tell them was that her surname is Covarrubias, and that her mother seemed to know me (Will dad kill me if he ever finds out?).
I walk down the street towards the school and meet my friends on my way. They always wait for me at the bus stop... and then I notice that I am unusually late. Ooops. I don't even have to look at my watch to know: Wayne's face tell me.
''Did your sisters tie you to the bed or what?'' He says. Well, it wouldn't be the first time.
''Sorry.''
He shoots me That Look. But that's him, always being my friend and at the same time my babysitter. It's even scary. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is my best buddie Wayne Skinner. He acts as if he were my boss, if you ask me. (Maybe it's in the genetics?) What matters is that he's saved my sorry ass from more than one problem.
''Audrey, Christine and Nathan headed to the building. You don't want to be late on day one, do you?''
Audrey Doggett is my other best friend. I have known her since forever. She has long ivory hair and sweet hazel eyes. Her smile can cheer up anyone... she is the only person that I really trust, if you ask me. I know that she is special.
Jonathan...Nathan, is my cousin. His mother –I think her name was Diana or something like that- died at birth, and her father is the one that has taken care of him on his own ever since. Uncle Jeffrey is a bit stressed, yeah. And so is Nathan (Can you inherit stress as well?).
Wayne and I start heading to the building with some rushing... we know that there are a couple of people that will make things impossible for us. Namely this ex-girlfriend of mine named Mary (Marigold, actually- is there a prissier name than that one?) that lived in London for a long while and now seems to have come back to hunt me or ... something.
I'll sick Christine on her if she doesn't behave. She has a hard right.
And speaking of her... We reach the building and find out that we are not that late. Our friends are waiting at the door and Wayne looks at me as if saying 'If we had been late, now you would have no head'. I nod and smile at the others.
''Fell asleep during breakfast?'' Audrey jokes. She looks at me with her sweet eyes, and I smile. She knows how to de-stress someone. Actually, she always knows how to de-stress ME.
''More or less...'' Wayne says for me.
''Oh, there is something I have to tell you all.''
We all turn to Christine, that seems to have snapped into reality all of a sudden. Her long blond hair falls loosely over her back, her blue eyes sparkling... I notice I am staring like a fool for the look that Wayne and Nathan are giving me. The last time I looked at someone like that... I think it was a box of donuts.
''Go on, tell.'' Nathan says, getting all the attention off me.
''My mother's Spanish side of the family is coming over, and they are ... totally nuts. They'll be throwing a party and I am sure we will all love it. My mother told me to invite some of my friends over so that my father doesn't go totally crazy.''
''Your father... crazy?''
''Yeah, the last time aunt Ana came over she made him dance the Macarena while he was totally drunk with Rioja Spanish wine. We have it on tape.'' We can't help but laugh at the thought. Whoa, if my father did that I'd crawl under the table and DIE. ''So now mum thinks that if the attention is drawn to my social life they'll leave him alone.''
Well, it had some logic. It was the same sort of thing back at home when uncle Bill showed up. My dad practically hides the twins muttering something that 'they'd remind him too much of the son of a bitch he has as a brother in law' or something like that. (???) Some things in my family are mad. Most of them. And then he'd practically push me in front of my uncle to draw away the attention from his paranoia.
''I'm coming.'' Nathan said with a smile. ''I'll be cheering aunt Ana.''
I laugh a bit at my cousin's remark and wander if when I get there I would be the friend- just like everyone else- or something different. That had changed now. Oh, and if Christine's family knew, would her father get out his gun and try to shoot me?
I knew my father would be capable of it if someone hurt his little girls. I thought about this with rather wide eyes and swallowed hard. Uh-uh. Who told me other dads were not the same? Specially with Christine being an only child...
My friends must have noticed that I was speaking to myself, because they all eyed me oddly. Then, something happened. Nathan looked up at something that we did not see... as if he were searching for something.
''Don't you see a light over there?'' He asked us, and pointed to a bluish radiance that came from the part of the building that we did not see. And that was when it went bang. Well... more like
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
''Doesn't look like a fire.'' Wayne said, and dropping his bag, was the first to rush there. Nathan did the same and took off behind him.
I doubted for a second. And then it struck me:
My sisters.
''Shit!''
I rushed behind the two, knowing that Christine and Audrey were right behind me. I reached the spot where the others were and found myself lost into some kind of fog. How does fog get to the behind of a school when it's a bright sunny day?
''It's... magic.'' Audrey said it without realizing. It was her explanation... and maybe mine as well.
Her brother Oliver, two years younger, rushed to her when we were half- lost in the fog. People kept gathering around us, and a teacher had started calling the firemen. Surprisingly enough, there was no fire alarm on.
''Oliver, who was here?'' Audrey asked, worried. ''Did you see that?''
''The twins. The twins were here.. I was heading to greet them when out of the blue something blasted.'' He was totally pale... as if he'd seen a ghost.
Oliver had been friends with my sisters for a long while as well. He came over almost every Friday and rented a movie with them. They sat on the couch for hours chattering about God knows what.
I shook my head. This couldn't be. I rushed into the mist and forgot that everyone must have been watching me. I heard Wayne and a teacher call my name from behind me, but I didn't stop running.
Soon I saw them. Two bodies that lay lifeless on the floor. Gasping I took off towards them and felt their pulse. Lucky enough, they were just unconscious. The fire alarm was heard in the distance, and I called Wayne.
He soon appeared through the mist, guided to me by the sound of my voice. Audrey had rushed behind him too even when he had been telling her to remain with Christine and Nathan.
''Help me carry them.'' I demanded him. I felt that my cheeks were burning and my eyes misted... This could not happen. If my sisters died, I would have a stroke, or something like that. Sometimes you don't realize how much you'd miss your siblings until you see what would happen when they're gone.
Wayne didn't say anything. He just picked Sam up and I did the same with Mel. Audrey lead the way towards the light back between the intense fog, that got thicker every time. Darker, almost solid and cold.
We reached the light and saw my parents. My dad was yelling to a fireman that would not let him come towards us while Nathan tried to calm him down, and my mother was with the people at the ambulance with Karen in her arms. They both saw me and rushed over to us.
''What happened?'' My father said as he came into view and saw the twins.
I was just able to shake my head without knowing what to say. The girls were taken to the ambulance and we followed them. The whole family, the bunch of friends... and the looks from the whole school.
They were being taken inside. I heard my parents talk. The baby was handed to dad and my mother went into the ambulance with the girls.
''The doctors say that they are just unconscious. I will call you when we get to the hospital and I will make them get any sort of test done. Find out what happened here... what that explosion was.'' She said, and hugged me and dad. Then she entered the ambulance.
And that was when Audrey made the difference. She stepped forward towards the girls and looked at both of them.
''STOP!'' She bellowed.
Everyone eyed her oddly. But she did not even flinch. She looked at the twins, then at my parents and me. Then she pointed to the silver stars that he twins wore on their necks: the shape of the star was burnt upon their chests, as if the pendants had been on fire at some point.
I noticed the look that my parents sent each other. It was the same one when I moved things with my mind. I was not sure if it was good or bad, by then. But this time it could not be good. Could it?
My mother disappeared with the ambulance and the girls, and I remained by my father and a confused Karen for a second.
''Was the fuck was that?'' I muttered.
''The most repeated question of my life.'' My father answered.
I eyed my friends as well. Nathan was still dealing with the firemen that complained about me and the others entering the mist. His father soon took over the lawyer job –his area of expertise- and things calmed down a bit.
Christine and Wayne's looks were out of place. They seemed lost in another world. They soon started talking to each other. I noticed that they seemed to make lots of questions. That was what everyone did, in my opinion.
Everyone but Audrey.
She came over to me with a slight, rather sad smile. I looked down at her and she turned to my father as well.
''The pendant acted as a shield.''
''WHAT?'' We both said, with wide eyes. Ok, now... I discovered that when my family is under stress, we become sillier. Maybe it's in the genes as well?
''The five edged star is a protection symbol.'' She said.
''They said they came here this morning to set a protection spell.'' I said that in front of my father's confused face. When I said that I thought he was going to go green and faint.
''You mean they actually did it?'' He asked. ''Does this happen often? They came here to protect themselves and get hurt?'' He said this starting to lose his temper.
''Maybe they found something they didn't expect to.'' Audrey said, and with a glance that left me and my dad with the same look- staring like idiots- she left us to meet her brother.
''Dad...?'' I asked .Just what could be going on in his mind? I knew the look he had on now. He was making his FBI deductions. His crazy, paranoid FBI deductions.
''Will... this is the first X File you see.''
Shit!