Hey guys! If you don't go back and read chapter five again for those of you have already read it a while ago I rewrote it so if you don't read it you will become confused. Sorry I just had to rewrite the last chapter it bother the heck out of me. Anyway enjoy review all the usual stuff thanks 3
I woke up with a thumping sound in my head, I lifted my head and the noise disappeared. I went to stretch but was trapped between the couch and something big. I looked up to come face to face with a sleeping Ethan. I must have fallen asleep on the couch with him. I sat up the best I could, I did have a decent amount of room considering how small I am. I looked back at Ethan I must have heard his heart beating when I woke up. I wanted to get up without waking him, but I wasn't sure how. I slowly slid one leg over his waist; the floor was far beneath the couch. It looked like I was straddling him, which I kind of was I had no other way. I almost lost my balance but a hand caught me at the last minute. I jumped and looked at Ethan. His eyes were half open he looked half asleep.
"Emma if you wanted to play you don't have to surprise me." he had a cocky grin on, I could feel my face heat up.
"Shut up Ethan. If you excuse me I have to pee."
He moved under me so that I wouldn't fall getting off the couch.
"Next time wake me up and I'll move." Next time? Well this is the second timAe I have fallen asleep on the couch with him.
"I didn't want to wake you, you looked peaceful sleeping."
"I would have noticed your absence sooner or later." I headed off to the bathroom, I saw my reflection in the mirror. My roots were showing tiny bit of black, I needed my natural hair back. My blonde bob was in a mess sticking up in different places. I ran my hands through my hair trying to smooth it down. I still had Jazzy's oversized shirt and black skinny jeans, I headed back out.
Khira and Sam were awake, Khira sitting in his lap with her head on his shoulder. Ariel was sprawled on the floor arguing with Miles who was leaning on Lena. I walked towards the couch, Ethan was missing and so was Jazzy. Before I could reach the couch I was tackled. I fell into the giant couch, I heard Miles laughing.
"Shit!" I screamed out, my heart was pounding in my chest.
"Is that the only swear you know?" a voice spoke in my ear, I jumped.
"Ethan! You scared the crap out of me!"
"No she has a few more swears in her." he groaned as he propped himself up on his elbow. My heart was racing from the attack, I let out a sigh and took in a deep breathe.
"You scared me to death!" I cried out, they laughed at me.
"You scared us to death with the whole 'Who are you?' part back at the castle.
Jazzy's mother chose that moment to come into the room. She looked at all of us, and I flashed back to the incident when my mother found us all sleeping in my room.
"You all didn't sleep here last night did you?"
"No ma'am we got here early to surprise Jazzy." I told her, she smiled at me.
"Good to see you again Emmalise."
"You too ma'am." She smiled and left the room.
"Nice save." Jazzy breathed out a breath she was holding, too bad I couldn't save myself like that, would have saved a lot of pain and arguing.
"Let's go to the market." I whispered, Jazzy looked at me like I was nuts, and Sam just shook his head as Khira smiled at me.
"I was trapped in my fricken room forever, lets go out."
"Sounds fun." Ethan said, Miles shrugged and Lena laughed.
An hour later we had headed out to the market, Khira put her arm around my neck, her dirty blondehair falling over her shoulders, she smiled at me.
"Guess what I remember?" she told me, she hugged me closer to her.
"What would that be?" I asked leaning into her arm, I did have a better coat this time, and not to mention warm clothing.
"Some girl named Emma walking my mother home, and not even telling me 'hi'."
"So that was you who was stalking me as I walked home." She laughed and squeezed me into a hug before letting go.
We walked around the market for a few hours before deciding mainly Lena to head back to the castle to relax and warm up. I on the other hand wanted to stay far away from that castle, and all the memories held within it. By the time we headed back into the castle, it was eerily quiet and empty.
"I gave the servants the week off while our parents are gone, with your mother here Emma they go little to no sleep."
"That sounds about right." She laughed, like I said she wasn't too fond of my mother, about as much as I was, and considering what happened a month or two ago that was slim to nothing.
After a cup of hot chocolate we headed up to my room, the stairs seemed a lot longer then I remembered, winding up the middle of the room seem like it would never end. We walked into my room, I sat on the couch I had been sleeping on for the past two months.
"Lena?"
"Yes Emma-bear." She looked at me as she leaned on Miles with a cup in her hand.
"Do you think we can remove the bed? I prefer sleeping on the couch, reminds me of home. I tend to end up on the bed when I wake up from sleeping on the couch."
"Yeah, we can do that as soon as you want too, oh and Emma you sleep walk."
"What?"
"You sleep walk."
"I do not!" I stared at her, her face showed the truth, that can't be possible I never slept walk in my life."
"You do. Ever since you moved here you began sleep walking. I've seen you do it, especially after what happened. That's when it got really bad."
"Emma doesn't sleep walk though, ive had multiple sleepovers with this nut and she has never slept walk."
"You don't understand. She does it when she'sstressed; she never wanted to leave her house. When she moved here she was scared of how her mother would react to things here."
"Are you some kind of mind reader or something."
"Emma you study Princess etiquette, I was born a princess therefore I could learn whatever I wanted. I learned how to read people."
"Okay that scares me." Miles called out, Lena laughed. He put his arm around her shoulders and squeezed her close to him.
"Never use that stuff on me got it Lena." She laughed.
"I'm going to take my cup down, anyone else need me too?" I asked standing up from the couch.
"I'll come with." Ethan stood up next to me and we gathered up the empty cups and headed towards the stairs. We slowly headed down the stairs together.
"Remember when I had to escort you down these stairs?"
"You make it sound like you had no choice." Helaughed; we headed into the kitchen and rinsed out the cups in the sink. It happened to be the size of a giant tub; I took the bubbles from one of the soaking pans into my hand. I blew the bubbles into the air;they blew into Ethan's face.
"Hey!" he laughed and wiped them off, he took a handful of bubbles and tried to smear it on my face. I dodged at the last minute and ran around the counter. He laughed and walked towards me, we circled the island in the middle of the kitchen several times before he had managed to corner me. I ducked under the arm and climbed onto the island, thankfully nothing was on it.
"Common Wendy, don't think I can't catch you."
"I'd like to see you try." He laughed at me and reached for my ankle, I narrowly dodged it and teetered on the edge of the island. My Converse shoes slipping on the edge I went tumbling towards the floor, Ethan caught me before I hit the ground.
"You ok?" I was gasping for breath that was close. I nodded at him and he pulled me to my feet.
"Stay off the island, you're short and that is high off the ground." I pushed his shoulder.
"I'm not that short!" he laughed at me. I smiled at him and poked his shoulder.
"First one up wins." He grinned at me and we raced each other up the stairs, I will admit that myrunning practice paid off, I made it up the stairs first and took off towards my room. He grabbed me by the waist and spun me around before I could enter the doorway. I laughed, my door opened and Lena came out with a confused look in her eyes.
"Hey Emma, could you two grab us snacks we're hungry." Miles popped his head out of the door and smiled. Ethan had his arms wrapped around my waist and I was leaning away from him trying to escape to win from our race,
"Not what you think Miles." Lena replied slapping his arm and walking back into the room.
"She is a pervert for being only 14. I'm serious by the way, get us snacks." He walked back into the room and I rolled my eyes. Before I knew what was happening I was lifted over Ethan's shoulder and being carried back down the stairs.
"Yes because being hauled over your shoulder is getting snacks for the gang." He laughed at my remark and carried me to the kitchen. He placed me on the island and looked around the kitchen
"How do you find anything in here?" he asked.
"I honestly have no clue, I've never been down here until today." He laughed, he walked into a giant pantry and disappeared from my sight. I started humming to myself as he walked around the kitchen looking for snacks.
"Are you gunna help me or what?"
"Or what."
"Haha very funny, now get over here and help me find something."
"Lets make them wait, lets bake cookies." He gave me a funny look.
"What? Never baked in a kitchen before?" I teased, he frowned a little and looked at me.
"Actually no I never have."
"Well then! I guess we're making cookies." I hopped off the counter and headed towards him to look in the pantry. I searched the pantry for ingredients, when I was younger my father and I use to make cookies. When he died, I only made them for the holidays, and considering the prince and my mother were going to be gone this Christmas why not?
"What do you think ya be doing?" I jumped backwards into Ethan; he had to catch me from falling. I looked to the doorway of the kitchen to find a woman in her early fifties I would think; she had caramel brown skin and short brown hair.
"Who are you ma'am?" I asked after I had regained my balance. She eyed me and took a small step toward us.
"I am Meme, I be the cook and the maid."
"Oh I'm sorry. We were just going to make some cookies."
"Why there be a boy with you Princess? You know no boys be here." She gave me a meaningful glance and I looked down at my feet.
"Meme, he's my friend, Lena and a few others are upstairs. We just wanted some snacks." She raised an eyebrow at me her hands on her hips, I will admit she kinda scared me. It was like I was caught drawing on the wall of my house, only to have my father scold me, this was a little worse though.
"The cookie mix be on the top shelf of the pantry, don't be maken messes in ma kitchen. Good day Princess, boy."
"Goodbye Meme."
"Goodbye Meme." We had said it at the same time, causing her to look back at us like we were guilty of something.
"She scare you two?" I asked, he laughed at me and nodded.
"Now, let's make cookies."
After about forty-five minutes later with flour in his hair and dough on my face we finally stuck the cookie sheets into the oven.
"I can't believe you threw flour at me." He nudged me with his shoulder as we washed our hands from the dough. I laughed, "You smeared dough on my face!" I countered.
"After you threw flour at me, you started it you know."
"Pshh whatever!" he laughed at me, I turned to look at him. His gaze caught mine and he slowly moved closer, his lips met my nose. He pulled away and I felt my face go red.
"You had dough on your nose." I couldn't stop the giggle that came out of my mouth, he smiled lightly at me. I leaned up against the counter and music began blaring out of the blue, I jumped away from the counter.
"What the hell is that?" I looked at Ethan, he was doubled over laughing. He spun me around and reached into my back pocket, I jumped away from him.
"What the hell are you doing?" he held my mp3 in front of my face the earphones blaring music, he was still laughing. My face heated up and I looked away. That's embarrassing. When he stopped laughing he smiled at me and help his hand out towards me.
"Will you dance with me my barefoot Cinderella?" I smiled at him and took his hand. We danced slowly to one of my favorite songs.
"Ok love birds where are our snacks?" Ariel came skipping into the kitchen, I laughed at her, the timer started to beep. I found an oven mitt and pulled the cookie sheet out.
"What are you two doing down here anyway?"
"Baking cookies, Ethan's never baked them before." She smiled at me, and started to laugh.
"Ethan you have some um, you have flour in your hair."
"Yeah, I know. I can give you one guess as to who did it." He looked at me for a second and then back to Ariel. I started to laugh.
"I wouldn't be laughen Emmers, you have flour in your hair too." Ethan started to laugh.
"Flour AND dough? Ethan!" I cried; they bothstarted to laugh uncontrollably.
"You guys suck!" I cried out, I pulled out whatever dough I could manage while making faces as I did. This had Ethan and Ariel laughing at me.
"I'll go tell the gang you guys are busy maken things in the oven." My face turned red, I wasn't the purest when it came to things that sounded perverted,and I blame Miles.
"Eww Emma!" Ariel laughed when she saw my red face.
"You said it!"
"You laughed at it!" she counted.
A little later Ethan, and I headed upstairs with a platter of cookies and chips. We walked into my room to find Lena lying on the couch upside down, Miles coloring in a book on my floor. Khira was talking to Lena and Ariel on the floor. Jazzy was staring out the window with Sam right behind her, we stood in the doorway.
"Uh, room service?" I called into the room. Miles looked up at me and dropped the crayon in his spot and headed towards me. He patted my shoulder and took the plate from me and sat back in his spot.
"Your welcome." I called out, he smiled with a cookie in his mouth. I held my hands up in defeat, and walked over to sit on the bed.
"Heard you guys were maken things in the oven, didn't think you guys were at that part in your relationship."
"MILES!" I yelled, my face was hot, sometimes I hated Miles.
"Ariel I blame you." Ethan pointed at her, his face was probably equally as red as mine.
"Honest mistake, shouldn't have told Miles."
"Damn right." I mumbled.