Alii: So we are back with the latest part of our story. You were left off with "Angel ran into the kitchen with Taylor coming face to face with…" Ah, our lovely cliffhangers. So anyway, sit back (or lean forward if you're near sighted like Chaos) and enjoy chapter four! Awesome.

Chapter Four

"Kimblee!" Taylor exclaimed quietly. "What are you doing in the kitchen? Wait, what are you doing out of the room?"

"You forgot to lock it," he explained. Angel raised her eyebrow. "But I'm here to send apologies from me and everyone else for being so loud. And I'm supposed to deliver something… from all of us…" He hesitated. Taylor looked at Angel, puzzled. Angel shrugged, puzzled as well. Kimblee took a step forward and engulfed Angel in a hug.

"Ack! What the hell?" Angel yelped. Kimblee let go of her and hugged Taylor as well. She looked bemused. When he turned to go back into the room, Kimblee added, "Oh, and that was mostly only from Greed."

"Oh my God!" Angel yelled. Her brothers walked into the kitchen. "Did I hear you talking to someone?"

"Oh, uh… I was on the phone." Angel picked up the phone, and then put it back down. Taylor slapped her forehead.

Angel smiled. "So why are you here?"

"I can't come to visit my sister?" they both said.

"At the same time, no…" Angel sighed.

Thunk

"I never got to go to the bathroom!" Taylor yelled. "I will be right back!" She turned and sprinted as fast as she could back to the room. She opened the door to find the men sitting in a circle, playing poker again. They all looked up as she entered. "What are you doing now?" she hissed.

"Yo, that wasn't us dawg," Ed said, and Scar and Havoc nodded. "If I was you, man, I'd check upstairs."

Thunk

Taylor looked up at the ceiling. "Oh no," she whispered.

Angel led her brothers back into the family room.

Thunk

"Honestly Angel, what is that?"

"Uh…" Angel fidgeted. "I think out house is falling apart?"

"We should go check it out." Daniel stood up.

"Ah! You must be busy, I'll handle this, and you go home."

Thunk

"But I'm sure we can handle this, it won't take long."

"Sure but I can do it–"

"Come on, let's go see!" Daniel led Angel towards the sound.

Thunk

Taylor ran out of the room to find Angel's brothers coming towards her with Angel trailing behind, trying to dissuade them. She shut the door hastily behind her. "It's all taken care of!" she told Chase and Daniel with a smile. "Go back to the living room and have some quality brother-sister time!" She moved to block the hallway. "Problem solved!"

Ka-thunk

"Damn," Angel said under her breath. Taylor looked scared. They looked up.

Thunk

"How did you win that round?!" Kimblee yelled.

They looked left.

"Heh heh… TV?"

"Angel, Taylor," Daniel began.

"Yes?"

"You're bad at lying," Chase finished. The brothers headed towards the room on the left.

Taylor stepped in front of the door. "It's the TV," she said loudly. "The TV is on. We have nothing to hide in the room. Nothing to HIDE!" As if to prove her point, she opened the door to an empty room. The TV was on to a poker game. "See? Told you." She shut the door.

Thunk

Daniel and Chase looked up and turned towards the stairs. "Uh… my room's messy, could you wait a second?" Angel asked.

Chase looked at Angel. "You're hiding something."

"No…" she paused. "I have underwear everywhere up there. Could you wait?"

"Fine…"

Angel grabbed Taylor and headed towards the room upstairs. "Nice work hiding everyone," Angel whispered.

Taylor shrugged modestly. "No big deal."

At the top of the stairs, there was another thunk. It was coming from Angel's room. The two friends exchanged a glance, and Angel grabbed the doorknob. She threw open the door and screamed. "Oh my God!" Taylor heard Daniel and Chase come upstairs.

Standing in the doorway was Maes Hughes, otherwise known as the Elicia Obsessed Man.

"Uh, hello?"

"And who might this be?" Daniel asked.

"Uh…!" Angel panicked. "Taylor's older brother?"

"Isn't he a little old?" Hughes stood there quietly.

"He's mature for his age? He's 20 years old?" Angel questioned.

"Why are you saying it like a question?"

"I was wondering if you remembered what I told you about him before," Angel sighed.

Thunk This time, it came from downstairs.

"Come on, um, Alex?" She turned around and led "Alex" downstairs, making sure Angel and her brothers weren't following her. When they got to the bottom of the stairs, Hughes turned calmly to face her. "My name is not Alex," he said. "I am Maes Hughes. It is good to make your acquaintance." He stuck out his hand.

Taylor shook it, feeling confused. "I'm Taylor," she told him. "But now you have to go in this room and stay very quiet. Ok?" she opened the door and pushed Hughes inside, then as a second thought she walked in and shut the door. "You can probably come out now."

Angel was upstairs when she heard Taylor go into the room. She looked at the clock in her room. It read 5:00. "Well, Taylor and I are so busy with… some stuff. I'm sure your new families will miss you."

"Oh, of course." Chase and Daniel headed downstairs with Angel following.

"I'll talk to you later?" Angel asked, walking them to the door.

"Yeah." And they left.

Angel turned around and yelled, "You can come out now!" 10 heads popped up, including Taylor.

"Freedom at last!" Envy yelled. Everyone turned to stare at him. He stared defiantly back. "They stuck us in a damn room and made us sit there quietly! Does that seem like being free to you?"

"We're also giving you food, shelter, water and clothes," Angel said.

"And putting up with your antics!" Taylor added.

Angel thought for a moment, then smiled. "And you aren't paying for any of it. That seems pretty free to me," she concluded.

Everyone laughed at Envy's stupidity, and he mumbled something and went to sulk in a corner. After a few minutes Al went to join him. Suddenly Havoc grinned as he thought of something to do. "Why don't we hold a poker tournament?" The room erupted into cheers, and everyone made a circle. Taylor and Angel joined in. "What is with these guys and poker?" Taylor muttered.

"I hate poker…" Angel stood up and began to walk towards the kitchen. Hughes got up and followed silently but Angel hadn't realized. She turned as she got into to the kitchen because she couldn't figure out what to do and came face to face with Hughes. She screamed.

"Hello," Hughes said calmly. Angel mumbled something under her breath.

"I win!" Taylor declared. She picked up the deck and shuffled it. "Man, you guys have horrible luck at this game!" Havoc rolled his eyes and Ed glared at her. "I swear, man, if you win one more game I am outta here, fo shizzle." He picked up his two cards.

Taylor handed the deck to Roy. "I'll watch then," she told them sullenly, and crossed her arms. Greed grinned. "Thank God."

"Hey guys, are you hungry yet?" Angel yelled down at them. Everyone shook their heads and went back to the game. "Fine then… Hughes, go play cards!"

Thump

"Oh no!" Angel looked down at Taylor.

Swish

"Someone's going through my brother's closet!!"

Taylor and Angel ran towards the noise.

Chaos: Oh no! Just when you thought everything was back to normal!

Alii: You're way too overdramatic.

Chaos: Who cares? It's a cliffhanger, you gotta be dramatic. Thanks to everyone who took time off their busy schedules to read this.

Alii&Chaos: BYEEE!!