"Rave?" A small voice said weakly.
"What is it?" Raven said, sitting down on the bed besides her sister.
Rayane had gotten better the past three days. Her fever still wasn't completely gone and she was still weak, but she was talking, eating, and moving around more. Raven insisted that she stay in bed most of the time to regain her strength, but she had suspicions that her little sister didn't listen. She had over heard the maids talking about seeing a little girl running around. They hadn't said anything to the masters yet, and Raven reminded herself that she had to talk to them before they did.
"Can I have more co co puffs?" Her voice was so small and pathetic that Raven had to smile. She was so used to being denied what she wanted she still wasn't sure what to expect from the world.
"Of course you can," Raven huged her little sister. "You can have whatever you want."
"Anything?" Rayane asked, her eyes widening.
"As long as it's possible," Raven smiled.
"Okay," Rayane thought hard for a minute. "I want you to eat too."
Raven blinked in shocked, then let a smile creep up on her face. She had been expecting something impossible, like having their owners want them back, but she hadn't been expecting that. She hadn't eaten anything but the fruit she snuck into the basement to grab, and she had only grabed two cans. She had only ate three cans of food in five days. When her sister asked why she said 'my body doesn't need food, remember? I only need to eat if I want to."
This wasn't true, of course. She had told this to her sister when they were still locked in the basement to make her feel better. She always cried when she thought she was making her older sister starve and Raven couldn't deal with her sister being so sad.
"Alright," Raven said. "I'll eat. But only a little. I don't want to eat, nor need to, remember?"
Rayane nodded and Raven walked out of the dark room, shutting the door tightly behind her. She ran into a maid who smiled brightly at her. She wasn't sure why the maids liked her so much. She never smiled at them or laughed at their jokes or anything. She was polite, but she was like that with everyone.
"Hello," The maid said. "You want something?"
"Cereal," Raven said quietly. "Two bowls of cereal."
"Two? You must be very hungry," The maid said. "But I can't blame you. From what I hear you've been eating like a bird."
The maid laughed but Raven stayed silent. She never understood the strange jokes that made people laugh so hard. She didn't understand laughter at all. Her owners had taught her that laughter was just a useless sound your body made, but didn't have to. If it was useless, and didn't have to be done, Raven didn't see the point in doing it at all.
"I'll go get it sweetie," The maid said sweetly. "You go back in your room, don't worry about it. Co co puffs right?"
"Yes ma'am," Raven said. Rayane always requested co co puffs.
Raven walked back into her room and her sister looked at her expectantly. Raven smiled at her.
"The maid is getting it," She said. "They are so strange. The things they say that make them laugh are so pointless and random it's confusing."
"What'd they say this time?" Rayane asked. She liked hearing about what people said and breaking it apart and declaring it stupid or useless.
"She said I eat like a bird and started laughing," Raven said. "It was increadibly pointless and so insignificant it made my head hurt."
He sister smiled at that. She was laying down, covered up completely.
"Have you seen the masters around?" Rayane asked.
"I've seen Tala," Raven said, sitting down on the bed. "But Kai has been going out for 'training' every day and doesn't get back until very late."
"What's he training for?" Rayane asked curiously.
"I don't know," Raven said. "He never said. I don't see why it matters though."
"It doesn't," Rayane shrugged. "What about those girls?"
Raven opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by a knock on her door. She opened it slightly and the maid handed her the two bowls. She said something about Raven never letting anyone see what she's done with the room and Raven closed the door. It was none of her buisness anyway.
"Here," Raven handed her sister a bowl and sat down next to her again.
Rayane began eating her cereal quickly and Raven stared at it. What could her sister like about brown balls floating in white liquid? It looked so disgusting, which was the reason she refused to eat it.
"You said anything," Rayane reminded her.
Raven sighed and slowly took a bite, allowing her eyes to widen at the taste that filled her mouth. She felt goose bumps run up her body and took another bite. Then another and another, until the little chocolate balls were gone and all that remained was the now brown liquid.
"Now you drink it," Rayane instructed her. "Like this," And she demonstrated.
Raven immitated her sister and drank the liquid until it was gone. She smiled at her sister and her sister smiled back.
"I told you so," Rayane said.
"Yeah," Raven said. "You did."
Kai sighed as Tala smirked at him. He wanted to have another party, and Kai couldn't say no to him. He was blackmailing him again.
"What about the girl?" Kai asked, using his last excuse.
"What about her?" Tala asked.
"She's your responsibility remember?" Kai said. "How are you supposed to throw a party and keep an eye on her at the same time?"
"Ahh, that, my friend," Tala said. "Is where you come in."
"I'm not babysitting," Kai said.
"You don't really have a choice do you?" Tala asked. "You don't really hang out at the party anyway and if you don't I'll tell everyone your secret fear."
"I am not baby sitting a fifteen year old girl who's afraid of light," Kai said. Tala stared at him.
"No..." Kai's eye twitched when Tala didn't argue, just stared at him with an 'you can't beat me,' look plastered on his face.
"Well," Tala stretched. "I suppose I should get to work then. It'll take a while to send an email to everyone we know."
Kai's eyes narrowed. "I'll kill you one day," He threatened.
Tala smirked. "I'm sure you will, but until then, you better get ready for your baby sitting job."
"A party?" Raven said.
"Yup," Tala replied. "You might wanna clear out tonight unless you can stand a lot of noise."
Raven winced at the thought, causing Tala to laugh.
"Where should w- I mean I go?" Raven mentally slapped herself for almost saying 'we.'
"Kai's gonna take you somewhere," Tala shrugged.
"I thought he was training."
"Nope," Tala said. "I think Mariah and some other people will go too."
"Yes, sir," Raven said, openeing her door slightly and slipping into her room. She closed the door behind her and rose her eye brow at her sister, who was looking at her guiltily from the floor.
"Eavesdropping?" Raven asked and her sister smiled sheepishly.
"Couldn't resist," She said. "So what are you going to do?"
"I don't know," Raven sighed. "If there's going to be a lot of people some might come in here. The door doesn't have a lock and people will find you. If I sneak you out you might be found and there'll be a lot of people around so you might get lost and you're still sick."
"I'm getting better," Rayane argued. "Maybe you should just tell them."
"I don't know..." Raven said.
"They never did anything to make you not trust them," Rayane said.
"That's true," Raven said. "But what if I tell them and they turn out to be bad people?"
"You knew they were going to find out eventually," Rayane countered.
"Alright," Raven sighed. "Follow me."
She opened the door and walked out, closing her eyes tightly for a minute against the light. Rayane did the same and Raven led her down the hall. She whispered at her to wait by the wall, out of sight, so that she could warn them. She walked around the corner and found the two boys glaring at each other.
"M-" She had to stop herself from saying 'masters.' "Umm..."
The two boys looked at her and she felt an unfamiliar heat in her face.
"I have something to tell you," Raven said.
"What?" Kai said, annoyance in his voice.
"Promise you wont get mad?" Raven asked, though she knew promises meant nothing.
"Oh boy," Tala said. "Something that starts out like that can't be good. Oh crap! You're not pregnant are you?"
Raven looked down at her stomache, then looked at Tala.
"I look like I'm pregnant?" She asked, putting her hand on her stomache and looking back down.
"No," Kai said. He looked at Tala. "Stop being an idiot, I know that's hard for you but do your best."
"Well... Umm..." Raven said. She heard her sister sigh.
"This'll take forever," She said and walked into view. Tala and Kai stared at her.
"There's two of them?" Kai asked. He looked at Tala. "I'm not babysitting them both."
"I don't need to be baby sat!" The two girls said together. They didn't even look at each other, they were used to it.
"Who are you?" Tala asked.
"I'm Rayane," She said happily. "I'm Raven's sister!"
"You never said you had a sister," Tala said, looking from Rayane to Raven.
"You never asked," Raven said, shrugging.
"How come we're just meeting you?" Kai asked.
"'Cuz my sister didn't know what you would do if you found out about me," Rayane said, earning her a nudge in the back from her sister.
"Mmmhmmm," Tala said, standing up. "Well, I have to go and get the food and beer out for the party so..." He slipped out of the room.
"I'm not baby sitting both of you," Kai said. "You can come with me tonight but if you bug me after that you're out of here."
"We don't need to baby sat," They said.
"Sir," Raven said. "Is Mariah and Skye and Hilary going to come?"
"If they're coming I don't see why I have to," Kai said. "They can take care of you."
Raven bit her lip, tempted to say something but not wanting to.
"My sister thinks that those girls are stupid and too happy and doesn't like them one bit," Rayane said. "If she has to go with them then she might end up killing them. And from what she's told me they might be dead before she can do anything to them."
Raven hit her in the back of the head and gave her a look. She gave her a look back and Kai rose his eye brow at the two girls. They were definatley not what he had expected. He had expected a clingy, scared, annoying girl but instead found himself sharing his mansion with a secretive, shy, polite girl who kept everyhitng to herself. They may not be as bad as he thought.
"You said it!" Rayane said to her sister. "Don't tell me stuff if you don't want me to repeat it! You should know that!"
"Well I know that now don't I?" Raven asked. "See if I ever tell you my opinion of someone ever again."
"I never asked you to tell me what you thought about them," Rayane said. "You just did! It's not my fault!" She stuck her tounge out, which earned her an eye roll from her sister.
Kai sighed. "I get it!" He snapped. "Stop arguing. You're giving me a headache."
Both girls stopped arguing and looked at the floor like they were ahsamed.
"Sorry sir," They said together. Kai rose his eye brow.
"Stop calling me sir," He said, walking out of the room. "Do you guys want to see a movie?"
"A movie?"
"Right," Kai said, feeling stupid. The had never seen a movie before. "Movie it is then. I don't know who else is gonna come. You'll have to deal with it if it's the PG's."
"PG's?"
"Preppy Girls," Kai said. "That's what me and Tala call them."
The two girls smirked at each other.
Raven and Rayane stared open-mouthed at the huge screen that lay in front of them. Was it physically possibly for something to be that big? There was no way, was there?
"What movie are we watching?" Rayane asked. "What's a movie? Why is that screen on the wall? Is it gonna fall on us? Will I die? Will I go to heaven? What's heaven? How did they get that screen on the wall? What's it do? Can I have more candy?"
"The ring," Raven said. "Two through eight, I don't know. And no."
"But I like candy!" Rayane argued. Max laughed at the hyper girl.
"What are you laughing at blondie?" Rayane demanded, earning her a slap in the back of the head from Raven.
"Shut up and sit down Ray," Raven commanded.
"I wasn't talking," Rei said.
"Not you," Tyson said. "Her sister. Even I knew that."
"Oh," Rei said, sitting down.
Ravne and Rayane's jaws dropped when the pictures began running on the screen and Kai smirked at their faces. The seating arrangment was a shocked Rayane at the end of the row, Raven, Kai, Rei, a disgruntled Mariah, Tyson, Hilary, Max, and Skye.
Mariah was pissed that Raven got to sit next to Kai and didn't focus on the movie at all. Hilary kept hiding her face in Tyson's arm at the scary parts, Skye and Max laughed everytime someone got killed, Raven figured because they both had a lot of candy. She kept jumping when Rayane grabbed her hand and hid her face in her arm. Kai just sat there, looking like he'd rather be somewhere else.
"She looks cool," Raven whispered to Rayane as Samara's face appeared on the screen. Rayane nodded in agreement.
"How did she get like that?" Rayane asked. Raven shrugged.
"How am I supposed to know?" She asked.
"You're older," Rayane whispered. "You're supposed to know everything."
"I've never seen this before," Raven whispered back.
"Not my fault."
"Shhh," The people behind them said.
Rayane was about to turn around and yell at them, but Raven put her hand over her mouth and told her to watch the movie and don't do anything stupid.
"This is me you're talkin to," Rayane smirked after the stupid comment.
"Do you're best," Raven smirked back.
"No problem," Rayane smirked bigger. Raven had a feeling this was going to be a very long movie.