A/N: Okay so last chapter didn't pan out the way I meant it too hence the sort of misleading A/N in the last chapter sorry I forgot to change it before posting. But I guess my writing works like this so I', going to try and roll with it. Wish me luck DISCLAIMER: I own none of the characters created by Kelley Armstrong for the Darkest Powers trilogy; I do however own my new additions to the story. Oh and this is in Chloe's point of view. Enjoy!
Chapter 4
"Okay so I got up yesterday and I went to check on Starr cuz ya know I felt bad about the whole cat thing, which totally was not my fault at all but still I wanted to go check on her and she was just laying there looking severely annoyed when I realized Simon totally over-stepped Derek and went AWOL with the over-protectiveness!" I was of course gossiping with Tori at this point in time. What else was there to do? In a house like this secrets can't stay secrets for long. It kinda sucks to be honest. But if this is shocking you should see Derek, he's actually like talking to other people! It's like a frigging miracle! And well to be honest gossiping isn't really my cup of tea at all let alone gossiping with Tori, but she has been kind of growing on me and well she is the only one who actually knows anything about Starr, so this once I can condone it.
I started laughing, for once the infamous Tori is totally shocked, like something-just-hit-me-and-crap-theres-a-camera-there-that-i-need-to-hide-from-and-oh-no-i-think-i-left-the-toliet-seat-up-mums-gonna-kill-me shocked. It was great.
So I had to continue, "So I pulled her aside earlier and started asking her about it. She said like Simon carried her all the way to the room, put her on his bed, refused to do anything but treat her like royalty, stayed up half the night to make sure she was ok then fell asleep and when she woke up his arm was around her and even though she was like really pissed that he keep like baby-ing her she didn't want to wake him so she just stayed put."
"Oh well that makes sense. Simon totally keep going crazy every time you got hurt too and as much as Starr hates being babied, Simon does need someone to take care of everyone once in a while and someone to take care of him. I think she made a good choice by staying put." For once Tori actually made sense, and sound intelligent, not to mention most shockingly she sounded nice. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep Starr around.
We kept talking for a while and then Andrew woke up. When he came downstairs he did not look happy. He sighed and rubbed his temples. Keeping track of four teenagers in once house must be really stressful on the poor guy, and now he's got two more to take care of.
"You girls holding up fine?" he asked us.
We nodded. God the poor guy looked awful. I wondered if he had talked with Simon about a certain subject yet. All of us girls think it would be a good idea after all, if he did. No offense to Simon or anything but he did go a little over-board
Andrew headed off to the kitchen to fix a breakfast and we waited for the rest of the late sleepers to dwindle down here. First down was Derek then Simon and Starr and lastly the kitten chick. When we were finally all settled and fed Andrew called us all to the living room to have a "meeting". I was a little excited, for once I get to sit down and plan and stuff without it being in a life-threatening situation for the moment. I don't know exactly how seriously I can take this. Maybe I best just keep quiet for the mean time.
"Okay, is there anyone who is still absolutely clueless as to why we are meeting right now?" Andrew asked, the look in his eyes screamed "Please no one say they have no idea why!"
I had to look away to stifle my giggle. Derek glared, what was new? He would probably lead the entire discussion and the minute I had input, he'd probably call me stupid again and then I could spend the rest of the meeting pouting. So fun.
The kitten girl raised her hand whilst Starr rolled her eyes. Yeah, I'm starting to see the resemblance between the two. I noticed Tori was being unusually quiet. I wondered if she was going to vouch for Starr.
Andrew had started talking again and I had not noticed until someone asked me a question. That made me blush, usually I pay attention, very close attention but something has been off with me lately. Derek raised an eyebrow. Great here comes the snarky comment. And then the strangest thing happened, he said nothing but made a strange face to Andrew. If there was one thing I hated more than him and his snarky comments, it was his silent talking.
Of course Andrew cancels the meeting after his silent little interlude with Derek. Figures, guys always do that.