Author's Note:I'm back!!!!!! Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long, but I've recently had exams (year 10 school certificate exams for all the Aussie readers) and I just haven't has the time, so please forgive me! This fic is sort of on temporary hiatus, meaning that every week or so I'll add a chapter but they won't be added regularly, as I am yet to finish my exams. So every time I have a new plot bunny, I'll add a chapter, and once exams are done, I'll take it off hiatus. Thanks to all the loyal readers who have stuck with me over the months. Thanks guys, and I hope you enjoy the latest chapter of Cookies, Movies and Mermen. I Heart Kid Chino.
Cookies, Movies, and Mermen – Chapter Eight
Monday, 9:05am
"Hello? Anyone home?"
Taylor and Summer opened the front door to the Cohen house after ringing the bell several times, and receiving no answer. For some strange reason, the door was unlocked, so Summer poked her head inside the door. Nothing. The house was dead quiet. Wait... no, she could hear... screaming. Yes, a very soft, distant screaming.
"Taylor," Summer signalled to Taylor to come and listen, "do you hear that?"
"Yeah," she replied uneasily. "What should we do? Maybe we should just get out of here."
"No way, what if something's wrong and the boys and Sophie are in trouble?"
"Well then they can take care of themselves, they're two strong, muscular boys."
Summer smirked, "Yeah, speak for Ryan, as if eth could take care of himself, all they'd have to do is push him over and he'd fall flat on his face." Summer demonstrated with her hand actions.
"You're right. We have to do something." Taylor reasoned.
"We'll be super stealth." Summer agreed.
"Okay then, follow me." Taylor whispered as the girls tip toed into the house and shut the door silently behind them. The screaming noises were a little bit louder now. They were getting closer. "We need a weapon... find weapons, Summer." Taylor spoke in a hushed tone.
Summer motioned to the umbrella stand and pulled out two metal umbrellas. "Good job." Weapons, check! Umbrella in hand, Taylor lead Summer down the steps, into the front sitting room. The screaming was even more apparent, and it was coming from the kitchen. The girls snuck into the kitchen, crouching to the floor. The screaming noises were getting louder and louder with each step. Nothing in the kitchen, though. Taylor snuck up to the corner of the kitchen, and living room wall. The noises were definitely coming from the living room.
"Taylor signalled with her hand motions. "We'll ambush them on the count of three. One. Two. Three." On the count of three the two girls came screaming from the kitchen, into the living room holding their weapons (or umbrellas) to find... two very scared and shocked boyfriends, playing a very violent, gory playstation game. Seth and Ryan's mouths were hanging wide open and they were hugging each other tightly. The girls turned to each other and burst out laughing, seeing the boys looking so vulnerable! At the first sign of the girls' laughter, the boys stopped clinging to each other and pushed and shoved each other, as to look as tough as possible. Ryan paused the game, and the screaming noises subsided. Seth broke the awkward silence.
"What the hell woman? Or women, whatever, just what?" Seth asked in a state of disbelief.
"Well we heard screaming!" Taylor explained.
"We were playing playstation... obviously." Ryan explained like it was completely obvious that they were just playing a game which involved loud screaming noises.
"What kind of decent playstation game involves screaming?" Summer questioned, hands on hips.
"Uh... Blood Bath 2... Obviously." Seth and Ryan smirked at each other. The girls just didn't get the whole playstation thing.
"Well then why were the screams so loud? You couldn't have turned the volume down? You probably scared Sophie half to death" Questioned Taylor.
Ryan looked up at the girls, "Yeah, we would have, but we lost the remote."
Summer sighed and turned to Taylor, "Typical" Taylor nodded in agreement, "Anyway, where's Sophie? You guys were so caught up in your stupid playstation game that you didn't bother to notice that Sophie is not with you in this room, let alone downstairs."
"Yeah she's upstairs somewhere..." Ryan added, as the boys resumed their game.
"Okay, well I'm gonna go find her and bring her downstairs to have a snack." Summer said. Taylor nodded with approval.
"Actually I'm starving" Seth agreed, "Let's take a break, buddy." The boys paused the game once again and walked into the kitchen with Taylor.
"I'll get us food." Ryan began to dig through the kitchen cupboards as Seth and Taylor sat at the bench. Taylor opened up the laptop which was still sitting on the bench from their last visit and logged onto the MySpace account that the girls created for Seth and Ryan.
"Oh yes, you guys have picture comments for your fairy princess pictures on MySpace!" Taylor squealed in delight.
"Oh, man! Let me see" Seth cried in displeasure.
"Ok listen to this one, FairiesAreCoolsays: 'Wow, you guys look really pretty. Comment my pictures from my fairy party for my 10th birthday'" Taylor giggled and continued to scroll down the page, "Apparently the entire 10 year old population of MySpace has commented you guys!" Seth buried his face in his hands, and Ryan groaned in irritation.
"OH. MY. GOD." Taylor screamed.
"What?" The boys asked in unison.
"I think Kaitlin Cooper commented you! Her screen name is KaityCooperIsFreakinAwesom.She says: 'OMG is this Seth and Ryan! I can't believe I found this. You guys look SO gay. I'll see you around fairies! Mwa xxx.' I'm pretty sure that's her!" Taylor laughed before running upstairs with the laptop to show Summer.
Monday, 10:07am
"You know what, peanut butter is SO much better than honey." Seth declared as he and Ryan were scoffing down their peanut butter sandwiches while the girls were upstairs playing horses and cowboys.
"So true," Ryan agreed as he finished his snack.
Just as the boys began to go over the pros and cons of each condiment, the phone began to ring.
"I'll get it" Seth walked over to the phone with a mouth full of sandwich.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Seth"
"Mom? Hey, how are you?"
"I'm good, how's things at home?"
"Yeah, good... not as good as a five star hotel."
"Very funny... No disasters? No catastrophes? Everything's fine?"
"Yep"
"Okay, then, well I just wanted to let you boys know that unfortunately your father and I won't be home for a few more days."
"What, why? No, no...uh, we need you, mom."
"Well, your father has been asked to go straight from here to a conference for the Newport Group until Friday, and I've been invited to go with him too."
"And you have to go?"
"Well, it'd be nice. It'd be an extension on our holiday."
Seth sighed, "Okay"
"Alright sweetie, well I'm just going to drop in later today and collect some more clean clothes for your father and I, seeing as we'll be away for a little while longer."
"Okay, we'll see you then, love you, mom. Bye."
"Bye, darling."
Seth turned to look at Ryan, "Ryan, buddy, looks like we'll be in this babysitting game for a little while longer."
Monday, 11:28am
As Kirsten made her way up the steps to the front door of the Cohen house, she pulled out her keys, and let herself in. Wondering where Sophie and the boys were, she made her way into the kitchen... nothing.
"Hello? Boys? Sophie?"
Kirsten trudged upstairs and made her way down the hall into Seth's room, but he was nowhere to be seen. Finally, she heard voices coming from the room across the hall, Sophie's room. Kirsten opened the door to find Taylor and Summer, sitting on the floor with little Sophie, teaching her to tie her shoelaces. Kirsten sighed with content and smiled at the scene unfolding before her. After a few tries, Sophie tied the shoelace correctly and the two older girls clapped and cheered, hugging Sophie tightly.
"Woohoo, go Soph." Taylor cried joyfully.
"Thanks Aunt Taylor and Aunt Summ." Sophie reached out and hugged the girls once again.
Kirsten would have remained unnoticed if he hadn't have spoken up.
"Hello, ladies." The three girls turned around to find Kirsten leaning against the doorframe.
"MOMMY!!!" Sophie bolted across the room and jumped up into her mom's arms. Kirsten picked her up, holding the four-year-old on her hip.
"Hey, Kirsten." Summer and Taylor smiled up at Kirsten.
"Wow, you girls are really spoiling Sophie."
Taylor laughed, "Not really, we were just about to take her to the park, but seeing as you're here to collect your things for the week, we might as well give them to you before we go. It was going to be a surprise." Summer and Taylor looked at each other and smiled at Kirsten.
"What do you mean," Kirsten smiled at the girls as she put Sophie down.
"Well," Summer continued, "We have all of your things packed and ready to go, as well as a box of chocolates for you and Sandy to enjoy while you're away, sitting on your bed."
"Oh, girls, you didn't have to do that. You really are angels."
"It was no problem" Taylor finished.
"Do you know where the boys are?" Kirsten asked.
"They're in the pool house, mommy." Sophie looked up at her mom.
"Okay, well I'll go say hi to them, and then be on my way. Thank you so much for this girls, you have no idea how much it means to Sandy and I that you're looking out for the girls too, and we were actually wondering if you two would be willing to stay at the house for the week, just to keep an extra eye on little Sophie." Kirsten asked.
"Sure that's no problem," the girls agreed.
"Great. Taylor, you can have the spare room, upstairs near Sophie, and Summer, you can have me and Sandy's bed." The girls nodded in approval. "Thanks girls, see you later, then." Sophie, Summer and Taylor all said their goodbyes to Kirsten before heading to the park, while Kirsten headed downstairs to find the boys. She walked through the kitchen, outside the back door, and up the stairs, into the pool house only to find her 'mature' sons pounding each other with pillows, running around the pool house.
"STOP RIGHT THERE BOYS"
"Mom!!" Seth replied as innocently as possible, slowly lowering the pillow he had been holding above his head, ready to smack Ryan.
"Kirsten, hey" Ryan copied Seth's action as innocently as possible.
"Don't even try to give me those looks, boys. Do you even know where Sophie is? Have you been supervising her?" Kirsten planted her hands on her hips.
"Well... not really, but we were in the middle of a play station game, when Ryan used a lethal move on my character when we agreed that we were on the same team, and anyway-"
Kirsten cut Seth off "The girls are with her, I know."
"Yeah, so she's perfectly fine and safe, and supervised," Ryan answered sweetly.
"My thoughts exactly," Kirsten smiled, "Which is why I've asked them to stay for the week to supervise Sophie."
"WHAT? You don't trust us?" Seth exclaimed.
"Well... after today's incident... nope, you're going to have to earn your trust back, boys, by supervising Sophie responsibly and without disaster for the rest of the week. Now give me a hug, I'm leaving." The boys walked up to Kirsten, and one by one wrapped their arms around her in a tight squeeze.
"Love you, mom." Seth smiled sweetly.
Kirsten laughed, "That doesn't get you out of this, but I love you too, boys. Bye!" Just as Kirsten was walking out of the pool house, she remembered that she'd forgotten to ask them one important thing.
She stuck her head inside the pool house door, "Oh, and boys... why is there a picture of you two in fairy costumes in the hall?" The boys just stood there red-faced, speechless.
"Don't answer that question" Kirsten replied, seeing the boys' faces.
Kirsten walked out of the pool house and headed back to her car, stopping to pick up her bags from her room on the way, while the boys continued to run around, whacking each other to like two six-year-olds.
Thanks for reading, guys. In the next chapter: a trip to the hospital is going to send the boys into panic. Hopefully the girls can keep things sane in the Cohen house. This chapter should be added quite shortly, probably by Monday next week at the latest. Also, I know there wasn't much Sophie in this chapter, I promise a lot more in the next! Please review, all comments appreciated, good or bad.