Elizabeth Wattson stood in front of the Pryce family house's door. As much as she hated Matt…that jerk…forgetting their anniversary…that…err…. as much as she hated him, Luke was Emma's best friend. Plus this was a huge party; she might not even see him. She knocked the door only for it to be answered by HIM.
"Liz…" he said slightly shocked.
"Matthew." She said raising her head and her nose upwards slightly. Yet her heart started to flutter ever so slightly when he looked down and his eyes softened.
"Emma." He said a large smile on his face. God, he was always so good with her.
"Pryce!" she squealed jumping up into his arms. She hadn't seen him in over 2 weeks, which was quite long for any Wattson girl to not see a Pryce boy.
He hugged her so tightly. When they went out he'd tell her Emma was the closest thing to a daughter he would most likely ever get.
"So are you going to let us in or make us stay out here in the cold?" asked Liz, trying to remind herself Pryce was the bad guy.
"Yes of course." He said slightly coldly as he stepped out of the way and let the eldest Wattson girl in.
The Pryce family home was once a haunted manor. Liz, once being an archeologist had read many ancient legends on demons because of her job and knew just as much about the demon world as Matt did. Even if he did go to that school. He had bought it really cheap because it was haunted, and luckily with the help of his sibling's powers he was able to fix it up quite cheaply as well. Joni has the power to freeze water move it, and control wind. Luke has the power to summon lighting and control fire. While Mark was incredibly strong and had to the power to cause small earthquakes and such.
Yet now, it stood filled with people. The thing about Pinegreen Virginia was it was awfully small. Matt was friends with a lot of people because of his constant work in the community. Teaching kids how to swim over the summer, teaching the first graders when he first came. Now teaching the high school. Doing peewee basketball currently, and doing some guitar lessons in the park on Sundays. He loved children it was one of the reason she had fallen for him the first place. He was so gentle and great with kids, maybe he-no she is doing it again. He had totally forgotten their six-month anniversary and if he really wanted to be with her he would of remembered.
"Oh god what am I going to do?" mumbled Matthew as he entered the kitchen. She came here…smelling like she does…looking like she does…talking the way she does. Even if it was in a slightly cold manner she can't take the gentleness away from that voice. He started pacing franticly; he had to take his mind off of this as he turned on the stove deciding to make rice-crispy treats.
Liz sat in the corner talking to a few of her friends who worked at the elementary school. She had been the bookstore owner, of the only bookstore in Pinegreen and so everyone comes to it. They don't even have a Wal-mart, yet they recently just got a Startbucks. So she knew almost everyone in town. This was her hometown after all.
"Ok you got it?" asked Luke as they all huddled in his room above the party.
"Yep, right here." Said Emma taking out from her coat something that one would think was sacred.
"You got it RJ?"
"Yes," he said taking out a fishing pool he got my Wren that summer. They all had gone to the beach and they had all gone fishing.
"Ok let's do this." Said Luke determined.
The three kids snuck out of Luke's bedroom and stood on the balcony of the stairs waiting cautiously. The loud noises from the part below. "Jingle Bell Rock" was playing, people where everywhere. Yet RJ stood above the balcony ready to lower the mistletoe at any moment.
"Emma I don't understand what the point of this is-"
"Luke why am I coming out here aga-" yet both stopped seeing each other.
"Oh hey look your under the mistletoe." Said Emma as the pair looked up to see the Mistletoe mysteriously comes lower to the ground.
"Guess that's mean you have to kiss." Said Luke shrugging.
"Then make-up." Shrugged Emma.
"And stop cooking." Luke said glaring at Liz.
"And stop cleaning!" said Emma glaring at Liz.
The pair glanced at each other and for a moment…only for a moment considered listening to their little siblings for once. Yet that thought quickly went away and they frowned and ushered their little siblings off in own directions to give them a lecture about meddling with other people's love lives.
It was about an hour later when someone screamed.
"It's snowing outside!" everyone rushed to the window's to see a giant snowstorm.
"Wow." Liz murmured and what she didn't see was three 9 year olds run out through the back door.
About 30 minutes later Liz and Matt alike started looking for their younger sibling. Yet neither knew the other was doing the same thing.
"Hey Mike have you seen Emma?"
"Nope, sorry Liz, hey try the dip it's great!"
"Kevin have you seen my brother?"
"Which one?"
"Luke"
"Nope, but hey great party."
"Thanks."
The party started to dissemble because of the storm. People not wanting to get caught in it started leaving early from the party. Soon there was only the Pryce's, Oaks, and Wattson still remaining. All 3 searching for their younger sibling.
"Did you find any of them?" asked Matt coming into the living room guessing by the fact that Luke was gone, then Emma and RJ where as well.
"Luke gone to?" asked Wren worried.
"Yeh so is Emma."
"Mark said theirs coats are missing and so are their sleds."
"You know where they went?" asked Wren
"Don't you?" asked Matt
"Dead Mans Hill." Said Elizabeth Wattson before quickly going to the front door grabbing her keys and jacket Wren and Matthew close behind.
Luke, Emma, and RJ would constantly question the things they where never aloud to do. Such as swimming to far into the lake, going on a boat alone. Yet one of the question they would ask the most was why couldn't they go sledding on Dead Man Hill? What the older siblings had never told their younger ones was that its name explains it all.
Dead Man's Hill is like almost a brick wall down, about 30 feet high. You only go on that hill for suicide, you are stupid, or just really drunk. Yet knowing RJ Luke and Emma stupid is the number one thing that comes to mind.
They came to the hill and looked at its slightly grand size.
"You two go left, I'll go right we'll meet up at the other side." Said Wren and without a word the trio split up.
"You ok?" asked Matt after a slightly small silence as they walked in powdered snow. His only answer was a sniffle, from a face hidden by her hat and her face looking downwards at the snow. "Hey hold up." He said holding onto her and placing a piece of her chestnut brown hair behind her ear. "It's going to be ok." He whispered to the red nose and red eyed Liz. "I promise," he whispered.
"Matt I-" yet her words where interrupted by a scream. They both looked up to see Emma Wattson and the other two flying in mid-air above them in a sled.
"LIZ!" cried Matt and suddenly Emma's sled stopped in mid-air. She had used her telepathy to stop them and she looked as if her head might explode yet she brought them down about 2/3's of the way and then fell back on her back letting the 3 younger siblings fall to he ground yet safely because of the snow padding their fall. "Liz?" cried Matt seeing her fall to the ground. Yet when he went over to her she wasn't moving.
