I finished reading the invitation and looked up at Pagan who was glancing curiously over my shoulder to read the paper.
"This sounds like so much fun!" I exclaimed, "When is it?"
"It begins in three weeks. You have plenty of time to get ready."
"Does mom know?" I asked curious.
"Yes. She was the one who handed it to me right before she went to work."
"Oh, ok then. Thank you for giving it to me."
"You're quite welcome. Now I must take my leave. The house needs tending to."
Of course. It ALWAYS does. I thought sarcastically and closed the door behind Pagan.
Dear Diary,
Well it looks like I might be going to ball. That is if Mom and Dad let me go. It sounds like fun. And who knows? If the prince picks me then I could live with him, and get away from here. That would be so nice. If only, if only It would be such a cool experience to marry a prince. I know this 'thing' isn't for marriage, but what if? There would be castles, crowns, maids, a handsome husband, a beautiful sister-in-law and no stepsiblings. Ch- what a dream. – Cindi-
One week later.........
"Ok Cindi. Just try to have fun at your fathers ok?"
"Ok, mom." I rolled my eyes and pulled out of her hug. She grinned widely at me as I turned to walk to Dads car. As I turned, I caught Jack and Zack staring down at me through the window. Their mouths were moving, but they were to far for me to make it out. I didn't care anyway. I was getting away from them.
"Hey Cindi. How was your week?" Daddy asked as I slid into the passenger seat.
"Like usual. Hellish." I smiled at him as he stared at me unbelievingly.
"Ish?" He raised an eyebrow at me as he started the car. I laughed out loud. We talked a little more about my week before I brought up the ball.
"Dad, have you heard about the Winners Ball?"
"Of course I have. Kahea (Ka-hay-a) is ecstatic about it. She keeps ranting on and on about how she' going to win the princes heart, and all that phooey baloney."
"Phooey baloney? Dad, I think you need to find a new word." I smile a crooked smile at him and shook my head.
You see, unlike mom... Dad isn't blind to his stepchildren's faults. In fact he doesn't cherish them like mom does at all. Only that makes me happy once in a while. Knowing that sometimes I come before those strangers.
Dad parked his car in the driveway and we both stepped out of the car. As he went to the truck to take my bag out, he called me over.
"Yeah dad."
"Uh- I forgot to mention this in the car, but you remember Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Barton and Mr. Chang right?"
"Of course!"
"Good, well uh- they're here visiting, and like they promised... they brought their sons." I nearly jumped on him.
"Are you kidding me? That's Awesome!" Then I did jump on him. We both fell on the driveway laughing, as I hugged him.
All of Daddy friends have kids my age. Ok, maybe a little older but the point is that they have kids. I've never met them before though. But when I was small I used to hear stories all the time when they came over to visit Daddy. All three of them live in the colonies, and I've never left earth, let alone anywhere near the country border. During the war, all four of them were soldiers. Actually they were Gundam Pilots. But that's not the point of my story.
We both rushed into the house, and as I entered the front door, I saw the back of three heads on the couch. Two with light and dark brown hair and one with black.
"Here she is guys!" My dad called from behind me and they all turned their heads.
"Hey Cindi." They chorused, got up walked towards dad and me.
Mr. Maxwell wrapped his arms around me and lifted me off the ground in a tight hug then he put me down.
"Hi everyone!" I smiled.
"Where are the boys?" Dad asked.
"Out in the back playing basket ball with Josh." Mr. Barton answered. As if on cue, the sliding door opened and four sweat, panting boys walked into the living room. One of the boys I recognize as my disgustingly, muscular huge stepbrother, Josh. But the other three were completely new faces, and they were all very cute.
"Hey boys," My dad waved.
"Hi Mr. Yuy." The boy with violet eyes answered. The other two just nodded.
"Cindi, These are our sons." Mr. Maxwell started.
"Tai, Eric, and David." Mr. Chang finished.
Looking at the three of them I could tell immediately tell who was who's son. David was defiantly Duo's son. Not only because of his Violet eyes, and brown hair but the long braid that hung down his back gave him away. Eric was also a dead give away to his father Trowa. He had the same chocolate brown hair and love for blue clothes, but his baby blue eyes must have come from his mom. Tai was also easy. He looked Chinese! He had his dads same black hair and Asian eyes. His hair was cut short, and it was slightly spiked on top. But I think what really captured me was the color of his eyes. They were kind of like a pale blue. They were pretty.
"It's nice to finally meet you all." I greeted smiling.
"Like-wise." Eric answered
"Hi-ya!" David exclaimed
"I agree." From behind Tai, I saw Josh, and when he saw me look at him he flipped me off. Suddenly my face turned into to a shock and disgust, but then to my horror, Tai thought I made the face at him.
"What?" he snarled.
"I-I wasn't making that face at y-you." I stuttered, kind of scared about his sudden attitude change. "Sorry." He squinted his eyes, and I felt about an inch tall. He was intimidating. Suddenly his eyes widened as his head jerked forward, and I saw Wufei's hand hovering over his head.
"He accepts your apology Cindi." Wufei growled, aiming his anger at Tai. Tai scowled at his father then directed his attention towards Josh who began speaking.
"Now look what you did twerp. You got them arguing." He sneered.
"Why you-!" I started but dad put his arm in front of me.
"Stop it. Go to your room Josh." He ordered.
"But-"Josh began to argue but daddy cut him off.
"NOW!" he hollered shutting him up. Josh frowned and stomped upstairs.
"So where were we?" Mr. Maxwell interjected breaking the icy silence that had suddenly fallen over everyone.
"17-23" Mr. Chang mumbled.
"Oh yeah," Mr. Barton agreed and all four of them started heading for the kitchen.
Naturally I followed, but Dad turned around and stopped me...again.
"Why don't you stay out here Cindi?"
"And do what?" I asked stupidly
"Talk to them of course. They didn't bring their sons, just so that they could sit on our furniture. Be their hostess."
"Right." I mumbled, turned around. The three of them were talking silently, when I walked up to them.
"What do you think they're talking about?" David asked me.
"What ever 17-23 is." I shrugged my shoulders.
"Well it's got to be a code for something." David mused.
Three hours later....
"So your part of the circus?" I stared with wide eyes at Eric.
"Eh-kinda, my dads been doing it since he was about my age. My aunt has done it all her life. So it's kinda like my life style."
"I help my mom and dad with their Mechanic business. "David added.
"I also help my mom and dad. They work for the preventers. My mom the Head M.D. She's trained me lot's in Medical type stuff."
"Wow." I couldn't believe that they had such interesting lives. "All that sounds so much better than what happened to me in the past three years."
"Why what happened?" David asked.
"My parents got divorced and married the devil and his sister."
"Oh."
"Anyway, change of subject," I started. "Have you guys heard about the Winners Ball?"
"Yeah, My aunts making me go to that thing." Eric stated
"My mom is making me go." Tai added
"MINE TOO!" David exclaimed.
"Wait- I thought that the invitations were only sent to the Sanq kingdom. How did you get it?"
"I don't know. My dad just came in one day, handed a white envelope to my mom, she squealed little then suddenly I was going."
"I think that the Winners actually chose a few people to go. It wasn't all random." Tai concluded.
We kept on talking like this until the wee hours of the night. Actually talking to all of them was extremely exciting. My stupid stepsister came down once, but I scared her back up stairs when I threatened to throw her shoes out into the mud. what a sissy
Yay finally re-written! Please R&R or else I might not know if you like the re-writes, and I'll just stop updating all together.