I apologize in advance for all the dialogue and thanks to all the people that help me figure somethings out. I dedicate this to my little cousin for giving me the idea about the cockroch (true story).
Disclaimer: I own nothing I'm just playing with James Patterson's ideas I promise to put them back when I'm done.
"Oh Max, I have to show you our room! Daddy can I give Max a tour of the house?"
Ana had woken up and was hyper as ever; she wouldn't stop talking!
"Why Max don't live here." Tyree snapped. I was startled, she said with so much anger I never thought she could talk like that.
"Silly, silly Tyree that is why we have to give her a tour!"
Tyree didn't reply just quietly walked into the house and went upstairs without a word.
"Dad can I give Max the tour?" Ana asked again.
"Go change your clothes first." She hesitated for a second but then followed her sister upstairs.
"Anastasia and Tilden. I like those names; how did you come up with them?"
"Their mother picked out the names; I just agreed because I could not come up with anything better."
"Who is their mother?"
"This girl that used to live next door to me, her name is Kimberia Johnson." Talk about the girl next door huh?
"What happened to her?"
"What do you mean?" He asked confused.
"Well you have the kids right? why doesn't she get them?"
He was about to answer when he was interrupted by Ana. She took my hand into her little cold ones and tried to steer me out of the kitchen but it wasn't working that well.
"Come. On. Max. I have to give you the tour!" She said struggling with every word to make me move.
"Alright let's go."
"You have to see our room first."
We went up the stairs and turned left when we reached the top; walking all the way down the end of the hall.
On the right side of the wall there was a door. The door was decorated in stickers including the little smiley face stickers you get from Wal-Mart; At the top of the door there was two names Tyree&Ana, Ana turned the knob to reveal the bedroom inside.
To one side of the walls there was a bunk bed they were fixed neatly in Tinker bell spread sheets. A dresser stood off to one side and a little table to the other. The table was covered in pencils, crayons, papers and different kinds of little books.
"Max this is my draw wall." Ana pointed to a wall that looked more like a giant scribble book . I walked over to it.
"You drew this?" I asked in walls were decorated in different shapes circles, squares, triangles etc. all different colors. But it did not really look so childlike it looked beautiful in its own way.
"That's beautiful." I said smiling at her.
"Thank-you Max. I put more stuff on it everyday. Daddy let me."
We went to see her closet and she pointed out which side of the closet was for her and which one was Tyree's. She was about to show me all her clothes when I reminded her we had to finish the tour and did not have time.
She showed me where the bathroom was and the hall closet. Then I got a tour of the guest room. We finally reached the other end of the hall where the last bedroom was which I guessed was Fangs.
"Daddy's room always smell good." She stated. It was true Fangs room smelled of cologne, I loved it. On the dresser was a picture of him and the girls and another with a picture of a woman who looked in her late forties.
"Who is this?" I asked Ana.
She turned her head to see where I was pointing at "Oh that is grandma. This is daddy's closet."
"Wow!" Fang closet looked as if it was never even touched.
"Mommy says he has OCD." She giggled. We both started to laugh nonstop when we finally did calm down we headed downstairs to finish the little tour.
"This is the living room, that is where we eat place and this is the kitchen. The garage is right here and the ac machine there and inside there is another closet."
"Thanks for the tour."
"Do you want to see the pictures?"
"Okay." I said uncertainly.
She went into the living room and opened the glass door under the place where the TV was sitting and pulled out an album.
Tyree who I had not seen suddenly appeared behind me I didn't even realize when she got there.
"Ana we have to go eat." she said.
"Later Max. Now we have to go eat. Do you want to eat too?"
"I'm coming." I said far away.
I didn't realize it when I walked in but there in the living room was a picture of four people; the twins, Fang and a woman. The woman had black hair that reached a little passed her shoulder curled up slightly in a style.
She was smiling showing bright white teeth, her dark brown eyes looked as if they were staring strait at me.
Her skin was not very light she could easily be mistaken for a very light skinned African-American. Strangely she reminded me of Diana Ramirez. I knew who I was looking at it had to be Kimbria.
"That smells good Fang. You cooked it?"
"Yeah. Its called Ajiaco: a traditional Colombian meal. Its Chicken soup, with two kinds of potatoes, corn, sour cream, capers, avocado and guasca."
"guasca?" I asked.
"A special herb grown throughout the Americas and gives soup its distinct flavor. Kimbria showed me how to make it. She's Colombian trinidadian." He explained.
The meal went by quietly. I felt a little uncomfortable, I could feel Tyree's eye watching me the whole while I was eating. Whats up with this girl?
When they were finished both girls dropped their dishes in the sink and got up to do 'homework.'
"They get homework?" I whispered to Fang.
"Little stuff like spelling words and writing their names." He shrugged. "Max can you help them until I finish cleaning down here?"
I went upstairs to the girls bedroom. They were sitting at the little table whose previous contents now layed in a pile on the ground.
"Max how do you spell like?" I was surprised it was Tyree that asked. I took the opportunity to show her I'm not a bad person.
"L-I-K-E." I spelled slowly. "do you need help writing that?"
"No I am just fine." She bent her head over her paper and worked intensely for the next five minuets.
"Max look what I did". She came bounding up at me and handed me a folded piece of paper it read "I DEW NOT LIKE YOU. BIE." At least she spelled like right. I looked up but she was not there no more. I turned my head to the door which had not opened since I left. Where did she go?
"Tyree?" I called.
"Yes." She said. She was sitting at the table by her sister but I could have sworn she was not there a second ago or am I just going delusional.
Fang walked in and I ripped the piece of paper where Tyree's note was written so he would not see it.
"I want a cookie." Ana asked while Fang was tucking them into bed.
"I said no." Fang said shutting the bedroom door.
We went to his bedroom.
"Whose the lady in the picture?" I asked pointing at the photo of the older women who Ana had said was her grandmother.
" She is the lady that adopted me."
"You were adopted?"
"Uh-huh. Later I found out she is my actual mother."
"Oh Fang that's great! She wasn't evil or anything right?"
"No."
"Did you meet your dad? Was he anything like Jeb?"
"What happened to rest of the flock?" He asked going off in a tangent.
"guess what do you think happened?"
"Iggy became a chef, I know he did didn't he?"
"Yeah he owns his own restaurant."
"I'm good. Nudge became a fashion designer." He said knowingly.
"Uh, no. Nudge actually owns a show called America's next great designer."
"What happened to,"He did not get to finish because right then came the sound of glass breaking from downstairs followed by a scream and little feet hitting the ground.
Both me and Fang got to our feet but he was faster and got to the door first. The two girls where running up the stairs almost colliding with Fang.
'What happened?" Fang demanded.
Ana spoke whose face looked as if she saw a ghost "We...we went to get a cook...cookie and... and the cockroach started to chase us!"
I couldn't help it and neither could Fang we burst out laughing. Ana started to cry "the cockroach is going to... going to get Tyree!"
Me and Fang stopped laughing and went downstairs with Ana following closely behind looking here and there as if the cockroach was going to pop out and attack her.
Tyree was standing in the dinning room standing on a chair looking down on the floor. Fang went to get her. I finally saw what they were running from a little black cockroach maybe three or four centimeters long. The cookie jar was broken into pieces lying on the ground and the cabinet door was opened.
Something occurred to me. If the cookie jar was all the way up there how did they get it? I looked around but there was no chair in front of the cabinet. I shook it off. Before I went upstairs I did them a favor and scooped the little roach outside.
By the time I got upstairs the girls were in there bed again and Fang was closing their bedroom door.
"Did they get in trouble?"
"Naw they had enough for the night."
"Cockroach." And we started to laugh again.
"I have to go home, work." I said.
"Where do you work?"
"I'm a lawyer."
"Max a lawyer?"
"Yes and I'm sure damn good at it. I love to argue with people and I only take cases I'm sure I am going to win."
"Smart." And he took me by the waist and embraced me then gave me a quick kiss on the lips.
"Will I see you tomorrow?" He asked.
"No doubt about it."
I went into his bedroom and opened the door to get out to the balcony. It felt good outside cool, not to warm or cold. From up here I could see lights dotted around everywhere. Not as much as New York City but still a few, It was beautiful up here.
I pushed myself off the balcony letting myself fall then whopping out my wings. I went soured up the wind carrying me away. It felt good to be out here in the sky, where I belonged. There was so much to think about but for now I'm going to go home and rest.
Anyone else realize that the all four chapters are on the same day? Yeah I'm going to start speeding stuff a bit. PM me your ideas I love reading them and might even use to them thanks.
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