Okay, I've skipped the goodbyes, so here's the bit we've all been waiting for, and the most fun I've ever had writing something! The house snooping! :D
Danielle braced herself as the limo turned into an urban area of Las Vegas.
"Vegas? That's no place to raise children…" She muttered to herself.
They passed many houses, each one bigger than the last. She swore she saw at least three celebrities. Eventually, they pulled into the biggest house on the street. It was a huge mansion, painted a burgundy colour with bushes pruned to be shaped like roses in the drive.
"Good lord…" She whispered as she got out the car.
On the director's nod, she walked into the front porch and knocked on the door as she had been informed to do earlier.
The door was opened by a man in a suit, with dark glasses covering most of his face. He stayed in the shadow of the door instead of coming out into the harsh sunlight.
"May I help you?" He asked.
"I am the new mother here." Danielle replied.
"Ah, yes of course, Madam. My name is Nilsson." He did a little bow and allowed her to come inside.
A BUTLER! Danielle internally screamed.
She swallowed her distaste and looked around the front room she was in. There was a huge grand staircase and several pictures on the walls of teenagers doing strange things…
She first looked around the bottom floor. She was extremely upset by the size of the living room, and television. She found the kitchen annoyingly small in comparison. Did they expect her to cook in there? She could barely fit! The dining room was huge, but covered in maps, weapons (hopefully fake), and typed pieces of paper.
"It's like they don't eat…" Danielle told the cameras.
She then went upstairs after being told to go round the back later.
The first room she came across was a large, master bedroom with a portrait of a young, blonde couple above the headboard. With the amount of paper on the desk and the money she found in the drawer, Danielle figured this was the mother and father's room.
The next room was a large library, it was about as big as the entire bottom floor of her house and was completely filled with books. While Danielle did not like extravagance of this kind, she did like how the library was neat and obviously used.
The room after that was a Goth's room. There were two double beds and the names "Rashel + Keller" carved into the door. For some reason, there was a tiara on the side. She wanted to investigate further, but she left pretty quickly when she took a peek into the walk-in-wardrobe and found swords and wooden stakes.
The next room was actually an average sized room, but was clearly inhabited by many people. There were three double beds and one set of bunk beds squeezed in and the one window was thoroughly covered with bright red curtains.
The owner of each bed had clearly marked their territory. One of the beds was neat and looked like it had gold on it. There was even a crown on a shelf above the headboard, and a journal that said, "Property of Delos Redfern, KEEP OUT OR DIE!"
Another bed had a patchwork quilt on it and looked quite homely, there were several pictures of a blonde teenage boy and a brunette girl who looked about the same age. All were framed and dusted like they were prize possessions. There was a canvas on the wall with "Ash + Mare Forever", painted on it. Danielle saw this boy as a sweet young man. However, after a look in the chest of drawers and noticing the gun hidden in there, Danielle's opinion of the boy went down.
The other double bed was black and the owner didn't even bother to hide his weapons. He was clearly involved with one of the goth girls as there were many pictures of him with one or both of them, and a few with the blonde boy. There was an organiser with "Quinn" typed on it.
The bunk bed must have housed two immature teenagers or children. They had superman covers on the bed and were obviously the owners of the bright red curtains. Beside the bed was the biggest media player Danielle had ever seen, and on the wall were several shelves of Cds. There was a cork board on the wall with many pictures tacked to it. Most of the pictures were of a brown haired boy who looked remarkably like James Dean, and a pixie-like red headed girl. Danielle decided that they must be the owners of the bunk-beds. Both beds were unmade, but only one looked recently slept in…
The next two doors were different from the others and had peep holes in them. Above the doors was a massive sign with "Blackthorn" written on it. Danielle went into the first one warily.
Inside was a massive double bed, unmade, and the room was filthy. There was a broken punching bag on the floor with it's filling spilling out and many weapons littered about the floor, there was even a cage!
"Oh my goodness!" Danielle exclaimed when she found a dog bowl with "Morgead" carved on it.
She very quickly walked into the a joining room, to find it was quite girly. There were teddy bears everywhere and a look into the wardrobe showed many girly, non-revealing clothes. Danielle sighed with relief.
"Finally, a normal child." She told the cameras.
But then when she looked in the cupboard she found things you would think to see in a witch's broth.
"Eye of newt, Dragon's blood, Phoenix feather…" Danielle read out loud. "What is wrong with these people? Are they aware that one of their children is practising the dark arts?"
On the wall was a huge picture of a black haired man and a red headed woman, the man had a small blonde girl on his shoulders and they all looked quite wild.
The next room was average size and housed only one bed, it was neat and tidy and Danielle immediately decided this was her favourite child. So what if there was a crown in a glass case and several pictures of a golden haired boy and one of the goth girls used as bookmarks?
The a joining room was also neat and tidy, there wasn't a crown, just some diamonds and pearls. Danielle decided that these two were raised well, but with silver spoons in their mouths.
"How on earth do these two survive in this household?" Danielle asked the cameras.
The next room was large and completely pink. There were two identical double beds, but the two girls that inhabited it clearly had different interests. One side of the room had star charts all over it, the other had football posters.
The next room had an identical layout, only it was blue. Both the boys who inhabited it had many workbooks on their desks, and seemed to harbour school-girl crushes on people called Thea and Gill. As in one side of the room, all the notebooks had "Eric and Thea" written on it. The other side had "David and Jill" on it.
After being informed that that was all the bedrooms, Danielle trudged downstairs, completely traumatised.
"Is that it?" She asked the camera man.
He shook his head no, and pointed to the back door.
Danielle sighed and stepped out into a huge garage with several limos and cars, there were two motorcycles in a cage with a padlock on it and about a dozen other vehicles.
"How can they need so many cars?" She asked the camera man, who shrugged and motioned that she should go outside.
She stepped out into a huge garden, with a small forest, rolling hills, and even livestock.
"At least they're self sufficient…" She said to herself, then went into the kitchen to read the letter left to her.
Dear new me,
Welcome to our home. As you can see, it's rather big. But it needs to be, because we have 16 teenagers plus myself and my husband living here, all adopted.
Rashel and Keller are twins. Both are 17, and they like to keep to themselves. But they do get up to some bad things so do keep an eye on them.
"Must be the two goth girls…" Danielle said. "They don't seem to keep to themselves, judging by the amount of boys with pictures of them."
Jez, Morgead and Gillian are a family within a family. Jez and Morgead are a couple and see Gillian as their daughter. Jez and Morgead are 18 while Gillian is 14. While these 3 are friendly when they want to be, they sometimes do get mean and/or moody. Be warned, don't separate them and they do play fight!
"Play fight?" Danielle exclaimed. "But they see each other as family! Why would they play fight?"
Delos, Ash, Quinn and James are all cousins who lost their families in a fire. Poppy also lost her parents in the same fire but is our niece, so we took her and her friends in to live with us. These five all share a room and are all close friends (especially Poppy and James *wink wink*) but watch out! They're pranksters! Quinn is 19, Ash and Delos are 18, and James and Poppy are 17.
Danielle looked up at the camera, worried. "What's "wink wink" supposed to mean?" She asked.
David, Eric, Mary-Lynnette/Mare and Maggie are all best friends. They come in a group package and always will. All are 17 and they all lost their families in a bus crash. Thierry is Eric's older brother so they're all living with us. The boys share one room and the girls have another.
"That's a bit tragic…" Danielle mused. "But I hope they don't use that as an excuse to cause trouble."
That leaves Galen and Thea. They're brother and sister, Galen is 18 and Thea is 17. Both are very shy, but they're both extremely sweet and kind hearted. Both love animals, and Thea may sometimes try to pick up dangerous ones, but don't worry, she never gets hurt.
"Those two are definitely my favourites," Danielle claimed.
You may find the way things work in our household a little strange. One thing the children all have in common is the military, so sometimes they may make references to ranks and sometimes Thierry has to order them before they do something.
Danielle raised an eyebrow at that.
My role in the household is to keep the peace. We have so many different personalities and pasts under one roof that sometimes it gets a little hectic/scary. Don't worry, none of them will actually hurt you and they all do care about each other in the end, so they wont kill each other. But do try to stop broken limbs please. Some of the children have medical and/or mental problems so be careful what you say to them.
Thierry is a successful business man and he works long hours in his study. You probably haven't seen it, and probably wont. As there is a secret entrance so the children can't come in and mess it up. If you need Thierry, ask Nilsson the butler, whom we see as another family member.
I hope you enjoy your time with my family!
Hannah Descouedres.
Danielle stood up, enraged. "This family is crazy! How can these children be properly looked after? Boys and girls are sharing rooms! They seem to be encouraging very odd behaviour, and the father doesn't seem to pay attention to his family! I plan to change all this!"
Danielle then heard a car in the driveway and went to stand in the front porch. Nilsson opened the front door and a brown haired boy and a red haired girl immediately ran in, 15 others followed and all hell broke loose.
A blonde haired man walked up to her and shook her hand. "I'm Thierry Descouedres. May I enquire as to your name?"
Shocked at his politeness and dashing good looks, Danielle answered. "I'm Danielle Wripp."
"Nice to meet you, would you like to meet the kids?" He asked.
"I suppose…" Danielle mumbled, getting a laugh from Thierry.
"ATTENTION!" He suddenly yelled, making Danielle jump.
Quicker than she thought possible, all 16 of the children stood to attention.
"Introduce yourselves!" Thierry thundered.
"Galen!"
"Keller!"
"Delos!"
"Maggie!"
"Jez!"
"Morgead!"
"Quinn!"
"Rashel!"
"David!"
"Gillian!"
"Eric!"
"Thea!"
"Mary-Lynnette!"
"Ash!"
"James!"
"Poppy!"
(AN Yes, that's just the couples in reverse order… I'm lazy!)
"Right…" Danielle nodded uncertainly, this was going to be a difficult two weeks!
It's the holidays at the moment, so I'll probably update soon! And don't worry! There'll be more of my completely inappropriate jokes later, I know there weren't enough of them here, because when I read it to my parents, I didn't have to sensor...