Hey many of you wanted a sequel and I'll give you a sequel, this is number two of 'The curse of having brothers and sisters' instead number two is called 'Phoenix's Hallucination' hope you all like it. And my life is going very well.
They met in a forest. They had trouble getting together. He left. Now a business transfer will bring them together again, but will he realize that things have changed.
'Phoenix's Hallucination'
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Chapter one: family88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
Mirage leaned on the school gate waiting for her nine brothers and sisters to get out of school, things had changed in their small town and now both the primary school and high school were next to each other making it easier to pick up the kids.
Mirage was twenty-two and still looked like the beautiful girl she was five years ago, she still had black hair with the side parted fringe coloured pink, blue and purple, the same gray eyes that made her look cold and serious when really she was a sweet, caring woman that would do anything for her thirteen brothers and sisters or her niece and nephew. She had the European look about her from her Italian descent and was quite intelligent she worked as an advertiser for toys mostly.
"Mai!" someone called from her right, she looked to her left and found her younger sister running towards her, Bonnie was always the athlete, "Jack is in a fight," she breathed out bending over and wiping the sweat off her face.
"What?" Mirage said raising an eyebrow, "again?" when Bonnie nodded she sighed, "stay and wait for the others," she instructed walking towards the scene. She reached the large circle that had formed around the fighting kids and shoved people out of the way to get to the center.
"Jack!" some girl shrieked, "watch out!" she warned.
Mirage looked at her and found the girl to be quite pretty 'trust my brother to be so dense as not to know that some girl likes him' she thought smirking.
"Miss Oliveri, get your brother off that boy," Miss Lei said sternly. Miss Lei was the Vice Principle of the high school and was at the school when Keith, Mirage and Dan were at the school, she looked to be in her late thirties and had graying red hair that was still held in a tight bun on her head, she was very thin and very strict.
"I would like to know the reason why they are like this before I pull them apart," Mirage said looking at the older woman.
"Ryan snapped his skateboard and called him some nasty things Miss," a year seven said from behind her.
Mirage turned around and smiled at the younger girl, "thanks, but that is seriously something you don't want to do when I brought that skateboard for him," she growled walking up to the fight and looking down at the two boys that were now breathing heavily being held back by two boys, "Jack and I presume you're Ryan?" she glared at the blonde haired boy.
"You're in trouble now Ryan, my sister will kick you're ass!" Butch yelled. She was kneeling beside Jack. Jack was eighteen and still had collar length brown hair and hazel eyes; he seemed to be the most handsome guy in school with all the girls fussing over him. Butch was next to him and was sixteen and had long dark brown almost black hair and hazel eyes; she was a tomboy but had gotten rid of the beanies and caps she used to wear.
Mirage kneeled down in front of them, "that skateboard cost a lot of money that I saved up for from my job, either you buy him the same skateboard or you come work for my brother or me, you chose," she stated.
"Get him to work for you, Keith and Nina will be to soft," Jack growled wiping the blood off his lip.
"Keith won't be soft, it's Keith," Butch argued, "Mirage is an advertiser how is he going to help?"
"He'll probably work as her secretary or somethin'," Clyde said, he stepped into the circle and handed an ice pack over to Jack, "over the eye to stop the swelling," he said. Clyde was the twin brother to Bonnie so they were both fourteen, they both had red hair and hazel eyes they looked the same a part from the fact that there was a gender difference.
"What do you guys do for a living?" Ryan asked.
"I'm an advertiser, my older sister is a make up artist and my older brother is a soccer player, choose."
"Soccer player definitely," Ryan rolled his eyes to emphasize his point.
"Okay well you better set your alarm on for four in the morning," Mirage smirked and turned around to her brothers and sisters that all seemed to be standing with Jack, "time for us to go home," she stated walking behind the group and to the car.
"Shawn has soccer, Johanna is practicing for the contest and Mary-Kate and Ashley are sleeping over at theirs friends house," Bonnie said looking up at the older woman, "what are we having for dinner?" she asked.
"Food," Mirage answered unlocking the car.
They arrived home in less than ten minutes and found two cars parked in the driveway, "Nina and Dan must be home," Jack mumbled.
"What does Nina want now?" Butch growled getting out of the car and putting her arm around Jack's shoulders.
"Probably wants us to baby sit Michelle and Tray or something," Clyde replied opening the front door to their large double storey house.
"Dan!" Jo and Joe exclaimed jumping into their twenty one year old brothers arms. Jo and Joe were the last set of twins in their large family and had large grey eyes and black hair, they were often said to look exactly like Mirage.
"Hey guys, you miss me?" he asked laughing, Dan was an inch taller than Mirage who used to be taller than him when she was younger, he had messy black hair that he never gelled and hazel eyes just like Keith except Keith always spiked his hair and looked more athletic. Dan just started his job as a mechanic and was often found with oil and grease on his face.
"Need you to fix my car," Jack said sitting on the couch in the living room and closing his eyes.
"What did you do this time? And what happened?" Dan asked through all the hugging and kisses.
"Shawn has turned into the little mischief maker and shoved a banana up the exhaust pipe," Jack snarled glaring at the table. (I've done this so many times to these people in my street cause I hated them.)
"Jack got into a fight at school," Jo said watching Play School on the TV.
"Seriously, how'd it go?" the twenty one year old asked excitedly.
"Mai some dude person is on the phone!" Butch said walking passed the lounge and into the kitchen where Mirage was cooking dinner, "some guy from your work," she handed the phone over and sat on the stool at the kitchen bench.
"Mirage speaking," the black haired twenty two year old greeted.
"It's me," a deep masculine voice answered, Mirage could picture the smirk on the guys face.
"What do you want Zack?" Mirage asked smiling at her eldest sister that just entered the kitchen, she mouthed a 'hi' and went back to her conversation.
"The guys are going clubbing want to come?"
"No thanks family night," Mirage replied flipping the food in the frying pan.
"Family night again?" the man whined, "can't you come out with us for a while, they won't miss you," he argued.
"Sorry no can do, you being a spoilt only child won't know what it's like to have brothers and sisters, I've got a job in this family being the third eldest and because the eldest child in the family thinks she's too good for us I have to look after everyone, ow," Mirage glared at Nina who punched her on the arm, she picked up a piece of broccoli and threw it at her.
"Don't you have other brothers and sisters to look after them," Zack said.
"Please don't force me into something I don't want to do, bye Zack," she hung up and passed the phone to Butch.
Butch leaned on the table and raised her eyebrows, "it was that guy wasn't it? The really creepy one?" she asked.
"The one that's been crushing on me since he left," Mirage looked down at the ring on her finger and sighed.
"Don't start crying again," Dan said walking into the kitchen and hugging the girl from behind, "he promised he'll come back and he will you just got to wait."
"She's growing old," Nina scoffed, "I say marry the first man that proposes," she nodded her head and then turned to Dan, "don't you have a date?" she asked wrinkling up her nose, "an ugly one at that."
Dan glared, "hey just because you're a hideous beast and she's an ugly human being doesn't mean you have to be jealous," the others laughed and he just clicked his fingers walking out of the room swaying his hips.
"You owe me five bucks," Butch held out her hand to Mirage who offered her the money, "I also have more money to collect from he others," she walked out of the kitchen calling, "you owe me money!"
Ten minutes passed and Nina just sat on the stool staring at her younger sister, Mirage knew she was watching but ignored her and continued to chop up the vegetables, she knew Nina was about to crack…if she didn't crack first. "Okay what!" Mirage stabbed the knife into the wooden chopping board and turned to the blonde (?).
"Nothing, nothing."
"But-"
"But I was just thinking about what a wonderful mother you would be, like me,' Nina held her hands to her chest and Mirage rolled her eyes.
"How about I find a husband first, than have kids?" the black haired lady poured the chopped up vegetables into the pot and dumped the knife and cooking utensil in the sink, "or how about you get out of my life and stay in yours, worry about your own kids and what they'll turn into if you don't look after them, how about you keep an eye on your husband?" Mirage stared out the kitchen window and to their backyard, "why are you hear anyway?" she asked.
"Came to check up on you," Nina whispered.
"Bullshit," Mirage said softly.
"What?"
Bullshit," Mirage said slightly louder than before, "you came here because you wanted me to take care of your kids, you live in a house away from us saying you didn't want to be around here anymore yet you still come back and annoy the living hell out of us," Mirage shook her head still looking outside the window, "you hardly got to know the twins or the others, you left and what is this guy doing?" she asked frustrated grabbing the baseball bat against the wall.
"Mai think you can help me over here?" Dan asked laughing as he was getting tickled by all the little kids, "Mai?" he asked worriedly, he got up and followed her out the door telling the others to stay behind.
"What are you doing?" the black haired girl asked in disbelief.
"Your sprinklers are on and I decided to come the back way Lady," the red haired boy said climbing off the fence with the help from Dan.
"Daichi," Mirage mumbled rubbing her face tiredly, "if the sprinklers are on out the front then they'll be on in the back to, so-" The others screamed as the water sprayed them, "so they should be on now."
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Hey how was that for a first chapter to a sequel? Will you review? Do you think the story line is good? Please tell me.
Anywho I wrote this on my computer! I just got it back today and it's far better than my old one.
Caution! Driver just doesn't give a shit anymore!