My friend birthday on the seventeenth, and a lot more coming up including mine yes. So this is my new chapter hope you all like it.
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Chapter four: making friends
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Mirage's job for the day: show her siblings around, specially if you don't know your way around yourself. Mirage stood by the front door, it was eleven and it was a warm day, she wore her favourite navy baggy jeans and a hockey jumper, she was fastening on her rollerblades getting ready to skate with her siblings, "you ready yet?" she called straightening up.
At once all of the kids came down, Jack, and Clyde were carrying their skateboards, Clyde's one being Jack's old one, the rest were wearing rollerblades or carrying scooters, "where are you taking us? I saw this cool skate park can we go?" asked Jack pulling the door open.
"If we find it sure, but remember I don't know this place and it'll take me a few days to find how to get to everything, mum need anything cause we might do some shopping while were out?" she asked walking out the door.
"Just some food," her mother called back, Mirage closed the door and skated down the front steps, "turn left Jack!" she yelled skating to the front of the group.
The neighbour hood was filled with various houses, small houses, mansions or your normal kind of house, each one had a green garden with various colourful flowers, large trees were planted on the nature strip. The family all skated down the large hill, "I'll meet you down there!" Mirage yelled, this was her territory apart from target practice, rollerblading one of the many abilities she had. Mirage skated forward putting an extra burst of speed, the hill was steep but nothing compared to the other hills she's been on, she closed her eyes feeling the wind on her face, she loved the feel of her long black hair billowing behind her.
"Mai watch out!" screamed Bonnie, they all stopped and watched as two men carrying a large pane of glass suddenly stopped to take a break.
Mirage opened her eyes and stared in horror, "I've already missed the jump off, I can't stop now," she mumbled, she crouched down low her left foot forward and to the side, her right in the same position but behind the left. she leaned on the side and came closer to the glass, bending her head lower and trying to lower her body closer to the ground with out getting hurt she went under the glass. Mirage breathed out a sigh of relief and stood up straighter then going faster down the hill, "I'll still meet you at the bottom!" she yelled keeping her eyes on the path.
She went passed to boys but not taking in their appearance as they went by in blurs. One of the boys looked up and swore he saw a familiar looking girl but thought nothing of it, "so what were you saying Tala?" he asked turning back to his red haired friend.
"Where the hall did these kids come from?" exclaimed Tala moving out of the way as seven kids came rolling down the street. Kai shrugged and continued walking when it was safe.
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"Mai that was so cool," said Jack lifting up his skateboard, "we going in there?" he pointed to the big supermarket.
"Guess so…wait," Mirage put out her hand, "no sign saying no rollerblades," she mumbled, "we're going in," Mirage smiled and entered the supermarket grabbing a trolley, "you push," she rolled the trolley to Butch who caught it.
"I reckon we split up, Mai can do the fruit and veggies, I'll do the meat, Butch lollies, Jack chips and biscuits with Bonnie and Clyde and Shawn you go with Mai she can do the rest, cya," he said rolling towards the deli.
"Get back here why do I have to the important stuff!" the black haired girl with the multicoloured fringe yelled, pulling her littler brother along. The others shrugged and went to their jobs.
Half an hour later they all met up again putting the food in the trolley, "this isn't going to be cheap," Dan and Mirage mumbled looking at the full trolley.
"Twenty each, cough up," said Butch holding out her hands, grunting they pulled out twenty dollar bills, "here, we'll wait outside cause that dude man has been watching us since we entered," Butch pointed to the security.
"He's just the security guard, he can't stop us cause there's no sigh saying 'No skateboards, rollerblades, scooters, pets or hawkers are permitted in the building,' and stay close cause we'll need help carrying the stuff," Mirage started unloading the trolley with the help from Dan and Jack.
Butch shrugged and went and waited outside the cashier booth, "that all comes to a hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety-five cents," said the black haired boy smiling toothily, the boy had a single red streak in his hair and amazing green eyes.
"Yo, Ozzy your shift over yet!?" called one of his friends an orange haired boy with blue eyes, he came to the boy and was watching him pill the bags, "the others are waiting," he said breathlessly.
"After this one," the cashier grumbled giving the change back to the boy, "have a nice day," he said smiling.
"Don't say things that you don't mean," Mirage, said emotionlessly picking up three bags, "help would be nice roundabout now guys," she said to her other brothers and sisters.
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"Your clothes are ironed and are laid on your beds, go clean up get changed for that dinner tonight," said Lucy putting the ironing board away, she was already dressed wearing black formal pants and a red blouse, she was given extra height by the high heels.
"I'm not wearing a dress am I?" asked Butch and Mirage at the same time.
"No, Butch you've got pants, Mai you got a skirt," their mother answered.
"Damn," Mirage mumbled, dragging her feet to her room, on her bed was a black skirt that had the icicle look at the bottom, it only reached her knees, a green silk top to match, Mirage put it on and looked in her mirror, "not my style, but I think I can make it work," she smirked and started shuffling through her drawers pulling out various things.
Ten minutes later Theo called up the stairs, "inspection," all the kids stood in a line by age, all the boys were wearing suits and well the girls varied, Butch was in navy pants and her school blouse, Bonnie and Johanna in matching dresses but in different colours and Mary-Kate and Ashley in similar dresses but different colours.
"Mirage what did you do, that's a different top than the one I put on your bed," Lucy looked at the one sleeved green silk shirt.
"I had an hour so I made a few adjustments, this looks way better than what it was before, I like the boots and stockings and the weird gloves grandma got me," Mirage smiled and spun on the spot, "so what do you think?" she asked looking at her siblings.
"It looks more normal than what I saw you wear before," said Keith rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"No time to change lets go," said Theo ushering them all out the door.
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In one long line they followed their parents to the large mansion across the road, the gates opened letting them enter, the house looked to be three storeys high, it was a white house with creeping vines, it was beautiful to say the least, the garden smelled of roses and lavender, a big fountain sitting in the middle.
"Welcome, come in, I'll show you to the Tithes," said a pretty young butler, he had blonde hair and black eyes, he was pretty good looking to be a butler, he looked around the age of sixteen. The young butler showed them to the lounge that was lavishly furnished with white leather couches, everything seemed to be white or made of glass, a plasma screen TV was hung to one of the cream walls. The family were all sitting around the glass coffee table, the four boys talking, "the Oliveri family," the butler said bowing and closing the door as he left.
"Welcome, I'm Mandy and this is my husband Robert, my kids Bobby, Dashell-"
"Dash," interrupted the blonde boy that was reading a magazine that he and his older brother were looking at.
Mandy frowned, "Dash," she said, "Ross and Mark," the woman smiled, she had short spiky blonde hair and deep blue eyes, she was very pretty, the man next to her Robert, had light blue hair and sparkling light blue eyes.
"Evening," the boys mumbled standing up and smiling at the large family.
"Good evening, I'm Theo and this is my wife Lucy, and our many kids," Theo chuckled softly, "our eldest daughter couldn't be here cause she doesn't live with us, so this is Keith, Mirage," Mirage allowed a faint smile to form on her lips, "Dan," you two met him yesterday and you also met Jack and Butch, we have our first set of twins, Bonnie and Clyde, Shawn, Johanna, Mary-Kate and Ashley," Theo was interrupted by Bobby.
"You named them after the Olsen twins?" he asked his eyes wide.
"Nina the eldest named them, last we have Joseph and Josephine-"
"Joe and Jo, their names are Joe and Jo, that's what I named them," said Mirage glaring at her father while carrying Jo in her hands.
"Or Joe and Jo," Theo sighed scratching his head, "your lucky you only have to deal with four boys."
"HEY!" all the kids younger than Dan yelled.
"We're with you dad," muttered Keith pulling Joe up higher as he was getting loose.
Mandy smiled, "oh, dinners ready, I hope you don't mind but there are allocated seating just so your kids can mingle with ours," she said walking to the dinning room.
"This is a beautiful room," complemented Lucy ushering her kids into the room. The dinning room was big and had a single chandelier hanging from the ceiling, large bay windows let in the light from outside, a black piano was situated in the corner and a long table centred the room.
"I agree with my mother," said Mirage pulling out her chair as she saw her name on a pink card, "nice piano Butch should play something after," Mirage smirked and said a thankyou to a butler that placed her napkin on her lap, after the butler was gone she growled. Mirage lifted up her foot and brought it down on her little sister.
"Stop it," said Lucy turning back to Mandy to continue with the conversation.
"How does your mum do that?" asked Dash who was seated beside her.
"I'd call it a mother's intuition," Mirage answered looking at the boy. Dash had long spiky blonde hair that had traces of blue, his eyes were the same colour as his father's sparkling blue, he was slightly taller than she was and had a few muscles, "saw you yesterday when you were over," she said watching him glare at his little brother.
Dash turned to look at Mirage, "saw you too, you get that black eye from your brother…Jack?" he asked curiously, the girl nodded and smiled.
"I'm not good at hand to hand combat, I prefer using some kind of weapon."
"Anything that reaches her hand can become lethal," said Dan entering the conversation, "paper clips even," he added.
Mirage sighed, "I was supposed to miss and I did, I was only going to scare you not kill you," Dash watched interested.
"Mai we all know you killed Farmer Ted's bird," said Butch turning from her conversation with Ross.
"Hey, how was I supposed to know it was his bird and he was the idiot that gave me the gun," reasoned the black haired girl, "thanks," she said the butler. She picked up the spoon and started feeding Jo the soup, she was making face trying to get the baby to drink up.
"You're making faces," stated Dan spooning his soup.
"Yeh and if Butch won't stop making faces at me she'll get hurt," replied Mirage smiling and wiping her baby sister's mouth.
Dash chuckled, "you're like your mother, you don't need to look up to know who is talking to you or to know what that person is doing, it's cool," Dash made a face and pushed the bowl away from him, "that don't taste normal," he grumbled.
"You have five senses use them," shrugged Mirage sitting back in her chair, "how old are you?" she asked.
"Sixteen," Dash replied, "you?"
"Same, what school do you go to?"
"St Luke's College, you'll probably end up going their cause your father's the new hockey coach and PE teacher, how about I show you around on Monday?" Dash asked leaning back in his chair.
"Sure," Mirage smiled, "do you play hockey? I don't cause I prefer to watch it and I prefer to do athletics."
"I play hockey, not that great but I'll try for the team this year, hey I'd like you to meet Tyrone he's my best friend," Dash leaned back to allow his friend to pull away his plate.
"You're the butler from before," Mirage said looking up at the boy, "nice to meet you."
Tyrone smirked, "nice clothes, different, but that's what we need around here and this job pays well," he added pulling her full bowl of soup away.
"This is better than what I had to come here in originally, Jack-Jack how's it over there?" she asked.
"Feels good not to sit next to you," Jack replied smirking.
"Trust me the feelings mutual," she smirked.
The dinner went on for another hour and the kids had to admit it was fun, they all made friends with the family, after the dinner Mirage had forced Butch to play the piano then they were shown around the big house. It was getting late so they all went to bed seeing as the next day would be their first days at their new school.
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