"JIM?!" I exclaimed.
What on earth is he doing here? Here! At Hopes house?
"Do I know you miss?" Jim asked
Before I could answer that, there was a spiting noise and then coughing. I looked past Jim to see Hope hitting her chest and coughing.
"I warned you not to drink that too fast, Hope." Jim said
"Whatever." Hope coughed, "You're coming with me!"
Hope grabbed my wrist and drug me into the house. Down a hall way, then down some stairs to what seemed to be the basement.
"Besides nearly giving me a heart attack," Hope said turning around and looking me in the eyes, "What are you doing here dressed in that?"
"I…I came to see you." I said.
I knew I was blushing, I didn't really care though. But then I saw Hope blush. Hope's blushing! That made me blush even more.
"What? Why would you do something like that?" Hope whole face was red now as she looked away from me.
I don't know why, but she seemed embarrassed about me being there.
"Is something wrong Hope?" I asked.
"Um….well…" Hope seemed to go redder and redder by the second.
"Who's your little friend Hopeful?" a girl's voice said from the stairs.
Hope rolled her eyes with a sigh and told me who the girl was,
"This is Andria."
Andria walked down to Hope and I was able to get a better view of her. She had long blonde pigtails and bright green eyes.
"Aww, be nice my little Hopeful." Andria said with a sweet little voice, "Who's your little friendly-whendly?"
'friendly-whendly'? She seemed a little on the perky side. The too perky side I mean.
"I'm Odwina." I said before Hope could answer.
"It's nice to know that my little Hopeful-whopeful has another female friend. Maybe now she'll stop sneaking out to see those icky-sticky boys. My little Hopeful is such a tommy-whommy boy. It's still very cutesy-whootsy on her though."
How can Hope stand her? This girl was starting to get on my nerves.
"I see you drank your usual bottle of perky today Andria." Hope said as Andria hung off of her.
"Did you know my little Hopeful doodles?" Andria asked me
"It isn't doodling." Hope said pushing the blonde girl away from her.
Hope went to a closet and pulled out a long cardboard tube. I couldn't believe what I saw when she pulled the papers from the tube. There were drawings of the fountain in the park, birds nests from different trees, and other scenery drawings. But the one that caught my attention was a man in a ship captain's uniform. It was a face shot of him. The man had fiery red hair with a beard and mustache. He had sapphire blue eyes and seemed very strong. He was standing behind the steering wheel of the ship that I guess was his. The name of the drawing was under the captain,
"Captain Kane" I said aloud
"That's Hopeful's father." Andria said.
"At least what I can remember of him." Hope said.
"Girls?" I heard one of Hope's mothers call, "It's dinner time."
I guess this was the true test now. Let's see if Hope's guardians can recognize me……
(a/n: I've gotten some requests and some email's asking for a lemon chapter of this story, what do you readers think? Should I write a lemon chapter? For those of you that don't know what a lemon chapter is, it is a chapter where the two characters do "adult" stuff I guess is what you could call it. It's up to you, let me know.)
