It's me again with a whole new chapter; school over here starts in a few days and so is my birthday. So I'm I hope you like this chapter, here goes.

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Chapter nine: camp and projects

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"Why am I working on the car and you're not?" asked Mirage rolling away from under the car using Jack's skateboard, her face was all grimy with oil and she was wearing her old overalls also covered in oil.

"Hey I'm cleaning the windows you want to do it?" Dan snapped lowering himself from the wall using Shawn's bungee cord.

"Sure," Mirage stood up and brushed herself off, "you work on the car I'll do the windows," she smiled and harnessed herself to the cord and started climbing grabbing the soupy sponge and washing the window, "hey! What are you doing in my room!" she yelled through the window and watching as Johanna was going through her drawers.

"Where are your CDs!" the blonde haired girl called back opening the window and poking her head through it looking her older sister.

"In the CD rack next to the stereo," Mirage said in a voice that said it was the most obvious thing in the world, "after that stay out of my room and don't scratch my CDs," she warned drying the window.

Johanna smiled and leaned forward and kissed her sister's cheek, "thanks bye and you missed a spot," she giggled moving away and closing the circular window.

Growling Mirage wiped the spot and abseiled down the wall starting on the next one, "what are you doing up there?" called a voice from behind her fence.

She turned around and smiled at Cristina, a black and red haired girl with blue eyes, "hey Cris what's up?" she greeted holding onto the cord.

"Obviously you," Cristina opened the fence gate and entered into her garden, "you still grounded? Oh hey Dan," Cristina smiled down as Dan rolled out from under the car.

"Hey and yeh we're still grounded," replied Dan rolling back under the car after grabbing at a wrench.

Mirage went back to cleaning the windows, "so is this what your dad gets you to do, clean windows and fix his car?" Cristina whistled and sat on the grass, "you'd have to be smart to fix a car," she added watching Dan.

"Dan just knows cars, he has a go cart in the garage," Mirage stated abseiling to the next window on the ground level, "I on the other hand know computers and electronics," Mirage stepped out of the harness and started cleaning the rest of the windows, "Keith foods burning," she called through the window.

"Shit," Keith mumbled putting his sport magazine on the counter and taking the pot off the stove.

"We have Drama tomorrow did you learn your lines?" asked the black and red haired girl.

"Yes," Mirage mumbled, she didn't choose Drama as a subject but got in the class because she couldn't get in Dance, "shouldn't we be learning Shakespeare in English not Drama and why'd it have to be Romeo and Juliet?" she asked turning around and dropping the sponge in the bucket, "and most importantly why'd I have to play Juliet?"

"Cause you make the perfect Juliet and I play the perfect Nurse, but I don't know how Kai got the part of Romeo? He's a dick and a big one for treating you like shit," Cristina said getting up and looking over Mirage's shoulder at the paper in her hand, "you have to give the twins a bath," she stated moving away.

"Wanna come inside and help or just keep me company?" Mirage asked walking towards the door.

"Sure," Cristina shoved her hands deep in her baggy jeans and walked in the house looking around, everywhere she looked kids were running around and playing.

"Welcome to my life," Mirage caught the look on Cristina's face as she saw all the kids, "these are my brothers and sisters," she entered Jo and Joe's room and took out a pair of new clothes and picked up the babies, "meet Jo and Joe," she held up the two ten month old babies.

Cristina smiled and took Joe out of her arms and tickled, "she's so cute," she cooed.

"It's a he," Mirage smiled walking out of the room and into the bathroom, she put Jo on the floor and switched on the taps getting the bath ready and testing it to see it's temperature.

Jo and Joe were already undressed thanks to her friend and she picked them up and put them in the bath, Jo and Joe like their bathes so they weren't complaining, "lets practice for tomorrow, let do Act three, Scene five where Capulet tells you, you have to get married," said Cris playing with the water and watching the twins play.

"O God – O nurse, how shall this be prevented?

My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;

How shall that faith return again to earth,

Unless that husband send it me from heaven

Be leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me.

Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems

Upon so soft a subject as myself!

What say'st thou? Hast thou not a word of joy?

Some comfort, Nurse. Mirage rinsed the twin's body after cleaning it.

Cris smiled and started her role as the Nurse, "Faith here it is:

Romeo is bandished, and all the world to nothing

That he hares ne'er come back to challenge you;

Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth.

Then since the case so stands as now it doth,

I think it best you married with the County.

O, he's a lovely gentleman!

Romeo's a disclout to him. An eagle, madam,

Hath-"

"Oh will you shut up," said Keith walking into the bathroom, "Shakespeare's work is good and all but it's seriously confusing, quit the weird talking and speak normal," Keith held out a towel and picked up Jo, "I'll dry them you go do whatever you need to finish off," he ordered.

Mirage and Cris both shrugged and walked out of the kitchen, Mirage checked the sheet of paper, "finished, I'm going to go get changed out of these clothes just wait here," Mirage went to her bedroom door and walked up the stairs to her room.

Cristina just stared at the wall Mirage had disappeared through, "that is so cool," she muttered, Mirage walked out a few minutes later wearing her baggy cargo pants and a black tank top and black arm guards with the fingers cut off.

"I'm officially not grounded want to do something fun?" she asked walking with Cris down the stairs.

"Well the guys are at the movies but we can just go get a pizza or something, my little sis is sleeping over at one of her friends house for the night, hey I got a great idea why don't you sleep over?" the sixteen year old asked.

Mirage shrugged and went back into her room with her uniform, "sure, dad won't mind, I'll just go tell him," Mirage entered the lounge room where her father was talking to two people, who in closer view was Kai and Tala," um…hey dad I'm sleeping over at Cristina's tonight and yes I completed the list," Mirage answered the question that her father was going to ask, "the foods burning," she added looking towards the kitchen.

"Dad or Keith the foods burning!" called Butch hitting the puck in the hall.

Theo swore under his breath and went to the kitchen to handle the food, Johanna walked passed with a collection of CDs in her hands, "Johanna you can't play in here dad's having a meeting, what happened to your stereo?" Mirage asked pulling her little sister by the waist.

Johanna struggled out of the grip, "won't play, let go," she stated, "spent ten minutes trying to get the CD to work but it wouldn't."

"Was the switch on CD and not on tape?" asked Mirage taking the Eminem (is that spelt right?) CD out of the pile, "can't listen to this little sis," she smiled putting the CD on the table.

Johanna pouted and went back upstairs to fix her stereo, "you really are the Family Girl aren't you, how do you survive with this many kids you wouldn't have much money," sneered Tala staring at the black haired girls.

"Bite me cause at least I can walk straight," Mirage said walking out of the lounge holding up her middle finger and laughing.

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Cris was lying on the couch half her body hanging off the edge and the blanket on the floor, her eyes were closed and her mouth was open silently snoring, Mirage was on the other couch her head hanging of the furniture and her legs thrown over the side of the couch, the loud beeping from the middle of the table made both of them yelp and fall to the blue carpeted floor.

"Shit," Cris growled getting up and rubbing their eyes, "oh my god my head," she groaned shutting the alarm clock off.

Mirage stared at the clock and pulled her uniform towards herself and got up to get changed, she walked to the bathroom slowly putting on her uniform and doing her hair, "hurry up I need to pee!" shouted Cris from the other side of the door.

Mirage opened up and smiled, "how long a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on," she stated grabbing her bag and sitting on the couch watching TV.

Half an hour later they were at school sitting in homeroom with the rest of their friends all of them sharing what they did on the weekend, Miss Milan entered the room with a stack of papers and the room fell silent, "I have news on your camp and assignment, you will be graded I thought I'd tell you now for your Home Economics class, you will be paired with someone from the opposite sex and will pretend to be a married couple with a baby you have to look after," the teacher said handing out the papers, "get your parents to sign them, your partners names are written in the corner," she stated going back to the front of the room.

Mirage frowned and looked at her form, she just stared at the paper not noticing that any of her friends were talking to her, she then groaned and hit her head on the table letting the paper slip onto the floor. Tyrone raised an eyebrow at the girl and bent down and piked up the form and he to stare at it wide eyed, he then laughed, "ha! You paired with Kai!" he laughed still holding the paper, "I get paired up with my girlfriend and you get paired up with someone you sort of hate," Dash frowned.

"Ty that's a bad thing," the blue haired boy said shaking his head and closing his blue eyes.

Mirage groaned and looked up, "think I could fake a sicky?" she mumbled pouting.

"Don't think you're that good an actor, you make a wonderful Juliet but I don't think you can pull a Faris Bueller," sympathized Cris patting her back. (Have any of you seen that movie it is the best.)

Mirage glared, "I hate my life," she said letting her head drop to the table.

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"I don't think I can do this Tala, she hates me and I'm supposed to hate her, how can I be married to her and stuff?" Kai moaned, 'how am I going to keep my hands off her man?' Kai groaned inwardly as he thought this.

"You're going to have it hard Kai," smirked Tala shoving the form in his pocket, "I get to have Delilah,' he winked over at the black haired girl with the violet eyes who giggled and started talking excitedly to her friends. Kai scowled and shoved the form in his pocket getting up and holding his books.

"We better get to science," he mumbled walking out of the classroom.

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How was this chapter, things are getting more interesting, (raise your hand if you think so) and I think you'll like the next chapter, but you'll have to wait for me to right it. Love it if you review.

You are getting near superannuation if:

Your knees buckle and your belt won't.