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It had been a couple weeks since the Smiths had moved in and, luckily, everyone got along fairly well. At the moment Rosette, Chrono and Sebastian were grocery shopping since both their mothers were at work and Joshua was at home watching Azmaria.
Chrono came back from the deli area and put what he had in the shopping cart, which Rosette was pushing around. A few people who saw them wondered aloud if they were living together. The two teens blushed scarlet. A familiar laugh brought them around to look at Sebastian, who had the thirty-flat off eggs and four loaves of bread.
"Man, you guys could be rented out as stoplights." He said with a grin, then added as he put the eggs and bread in the shopping cart, "Anyway, here's the bread and eggs. What's next on the list?"
A half hour later they were done and heading home. Obviously, both mothers were using the cars at the moment, so that meant that they were walk home. The silence had been stretching for almost ten minutes now, mostly because Rosette and Chrono still felt awkward about the earlier 'couples' comments the other shoppers had made. But Rosette just couldn't take it anymore, she had to say something!
"So... You guys want go roller blading, or swimming when our moms get home?"
The boys exchanged glances over her head – they're significantly taller then her – then said at the same time, "Don't own swim-trunks or roller blades."
Rosette stumbled, caught off guard. She had never heard of someone not owning at least one of the two, let alone both.
"Are you serious?" She asked incredulously.
"Yes." Chrono was the one to answer her question, "We don't know how to swim or roller blade in any case, so it really doesn't matter."
Rosette stopped and stared at them.
"Swim? Roller blade? You don't know how to do either?"
"No." They answered at the same time.
She kept staring – slack-jawed – long enough to make the two teen boys start to feel slightly awkward. Then she power walked past them as she said, "You're learning both. Today."
"But we don't hav-" They both started, only to be cut off.
"We'll get you some." The look on her face as she stopped and turned to look at them was so frighteningly intense it scared the boys; she looked like she was ready to take their heads off.
The blond marched off.
"Rosette!" Chrono called, chasing after her retreating form.
Sebastian blinked, starring after them curiously, then shrugged and followed with a smile. He found his brother's behavior – when it came to Rosette – rather strange and he wasn't sure what to make of it, except that since they had first met the two had been as close as friends could possibly be; it even hinted at something romantic at times.
After dropping off the groceries and putting them away the blond girl had phoned a friend and gotten him or her to meet them at the mall in the food court, then she had grabbed her wallet and haled them out the door again. Chrono had looked a bit worried about the whole thing – he didn't like being in crowded places – while Sebastian wore a bemused smile the entire time.
They arrived at the mall ten minutes later and, looking around, Rosette spotted her friend waiting patiently.
"Genai!" She called waving broadly to get his attention.
He looked over and smiled. Pushing off the pillar he had been leaning on he sauntered over.
"These your friends?" He asked.
"Yup."
He looked them up and down, then turned to his blond friend and said, "Why the hell are you hanging around a couple of freaks? I, mean red, purple?" He turned to look at them again, "And whats with the bandannas? And the hair over the eye?"
If a tall, beautiful, black haired woman hadn't soundly smacked him up side the head Sebastian would have punched the guy in the face; with hair that was naturally both fire-engine red and spiky, not to mention his green rimmed, silver eyes and pointed, distinctly un-Human ears... Well, he tended to be a little touchy about his appearance and as a result didn't take criticism about it to well. Luckily another girl popped up and introduced herself.
"Hi! I'm Shader!"
Blinking in surprise Sebastian gave himself a mental shake to dispel his rising anger at Genai and his shock at seeing someone pop up so suddenly and took the hand the girl offered, introducing himself with a smile. Thank GOD it wasn't Chrono she snuck up on... Sebastian thought in mild relief, keeping the fake, but convincing, smile on his face. The girl giggled stupidly. Everyone but Sebastian stared at her strangely. Then they all smiled knowingly as they watched her start to twiddle her hair, smile at him flirtatiously and held his hand a little longer then needed.
Rosette cleared her throat to catch Shader's attention. The giggling girl didn't hear.
"Uh, Rosette's calling you..." Sebastian told the bespectacled girl quietly.
"Oh!" She gave a small start, "Eh, I kinda ran into them on my way here and they decided to come along." She explained.
Sebastian and Chrono blinked, wondering why she had said that. Rosette saw the looks on their faces and explained, "Shader was the one I had called."
"Ooohhh." The siblings chorused.
Rosette then introduced them to her friends.
As they looked for roller blades and swim trunks that fit Chrono and Sebastian they talked like old friends and eventually they found out that the siblings were fraternal twins. They also found out that in terms of clothes they had almost none and only one pair of shoes. The girls were so horrified that they pooled their money and got them new clothes – despite the protests that what they had was fine; they had been getting by on what they have up until now, they could continue to do so. They had gotten some murderous glares for that; Rosette, Shader and Rizel wouldn't here of it.
Sebastian and Chrono sat down heavily on the living room coach, putting their bags on the floor and flopping back, letting their heads rest on the back of the couch. The mothers and Joshua raised eyebrows at them. The exhausted twins just pointed at an equally tired Rosette. They turned their regard to said girl.
"One pair of shoes, four pairs of socks, three pants, five shirts. Thats all they had for clothes!" Helen chocked on her drink and Joshua's eyes went wide, "So Shader, Rizel and I got them some new stuff."
"Ah. Thank you." Ctanna said, surprised but grateful.
"Not a problem." Rosette replied tiredly with a dismissive wave.
Ctanna turned to her sons.
"You remembered to thank her, right?"
They gave her thumbs-up, then let their arms flop down again. Their mother just chuckled. After several minutes Chrono raised his head off the back of the couch and asked his mother, "How was work?"
The next day Rosette and her friends started Chrono and Sebastian's lessons for roller blading, which mostly consisted of them falling on their butts every few seconds. Genai kept laughing. But he did give them helpful advice on how to stop falling down and by the end of the day they could move around and stop without bruising their bums any further or crashing into things – though they couldn't go very fast. Rosette decided to take them to the pool the day after for swimming lessons but Shader, Rizel, Viede, and Genai all convinced her to take it a little more slowly then that, so the twins started their swimming lessons a week later.
The better part of the day was spent coaxing Chrono into the water. Unfortunately all he did was stand in one place, tense as an over wound spring, then get out after five minutes, sickly white and shaking. Even his brother was surprised by this. No one pressured him to get back in.

His face shimmered above him, distorted by the water as his hand tightened around his throat. Holding him under, suffocating him, drowning him. The air escaped his lungs to bubble cruelly to the surface, leaving him behind do struggle against the force holding him down.
Everything exploded.
Chrono woke up gasping for air, a scream lodged in his throat. It was several disoriented seconds before he realize he was in his bed in the new house, not the bathtub at his old one. Shaking, he laid back down and rolled onto his side, closing his eyes to try and go back to sleep.
It wouldn't be easily come by for him that night.

A/N: This one is half again as long as the avarage chapter in my last fanfic... Anyway, was this boring, interesting, to slow, to fast, to mundain? Please review and tell me!