A/N These are the kids and their ages which you meet in this chapter.
Bruce and Bettty: Lilly (15) Lewis (15)
Also some of the the ones from the last chapter will be there too.
Dialogue in italics is Spanish.
Nothing will ever bring us back together.
Chapter Three- Pen Pals
BANNER HOUSEHOLD
"Lilly and Lewis get up now!" Betty Banner shouted at her kids in English, the language they used at home. She was not going to let them be late on their first day back to school. The twins rubbed their sleepy eyes and slowly got dressed. They ate their muesli and unusually didn't complain about it. Betty supposed it was because they were not fully awake yet. Bruce had already left for the lab so he could be home in time to pick the twins up from school. The Banners lived in the middle of nowhere so Bruce could go in to the forest when he was stressed, which wasn't very often anymore. This meant that Lilly and Lewis counted on their parents picking them up and dropping them off. "We're leaving in five minutes." Betty shouted from the other room. "And you two better be ready."
Five minutes later Lewis was scrambling around trying to find his soccer ball while the girls were waiting in the car. When Lewis finally found it Betty told him to get in and they a drove off before he had even got his seatbelt on.
At school Lilly and Lewis generally ignored each other. Today though, they had a new homeroom teacher. She put them in register order so Lewis had to sit next to Lilly. They then had the same person for English. They had to sit next to each other again. This was in some ways good, as the only two fluent English speakers, they would be top in all pair assignments. However, it could lead to many sibling arguments.
"Right class," She said, "Today you are going to pick your Pen Pals for the rest of the year. You will be emailing them weekly, at least. They come from a school in Los Angeles." She then came round with a box full of slips of paper. Lily picked 'Ella Stark'. Lewis picked 'Ethan Barton'.
"Lils," Lewis said, in a low whisper, "Please tell me I'm not going mad. Please tell me Stark and Barton sound familiar."
"They do," Lilly replied, "But Lew, I can't quite put my finger on it."
'To Ella,
My name is Lilly and I don't see the point in this because I speak fluent English. Sorry if that sounded arrogant, I'll help you learn Spanish. My favorite color is green, I don't know why though. I like to dance with my friends. I have a twin brother called Lewis, he can be really annoying but he is sometimes fun too. I don't have a boyfriend, mainly because all the boys in here are actually so stupid. Do you? I think I'm gonna leave this here because I think I'm babbling. Bye, Lilly Banner.'
Lilly was not pleased with her email but it was not really like she was ever going to get to know here. Lewis on the other hand thought his was ok.
'To Ethan,
Hi, my name is Lewis, I'm fifteen years old. How old are you? I have a twin sister called Lilly, do you have any siblings? Do you find them as annoying as I do? I have to sit next to her writing this so I'm going to stop there. I already speak, read and write English fluently so I guess this will just be helping you unless you speak Spanish. I'm sorry that I'm so boring by the way. Your surname reminds me of something but I have no idea what. I'm gonna go now before I bore you to death. Bye Lewis Banner.'
SCHOOL IN LA
"Right class." The Spannish teacher called. They had been at school one week though, all the class had taken Spanish last year. "You will each go onto your school emails where you should each find an email from your Pen Pal. If you don't see me. You will the write a reply. Go." Ethan took out the slip which he had been given that morning which had his school email on it. He logged on read it and within five minutes had tapped out the reply
'Hi Lewis,
Thanks for your email, I don't find you boring. I'm going to answer your questions in order. I'm fifteen as well! I have a younger sister called Yekaterina but everyone calls her Katya, her name is Russian, I'm half Russian. She's twelve. Yes I find her annoying but she is sometimes fun too. I speak read and write English, Spannish, Russian, German and French. I don't find you boring but you probably find me boring. I don't know what you think my name is, my parents aren't famous but Banner reminds me of something too. Bye, Ethan Barton.'
"How did you do that?" Ella hissed to Ethan.
"I'm fluent, do you want me to do yours too?"
"Ok." Ethan wrote and Ella hissed what to write but in English. "To Lilly, It was kind of arrogant but I don't care. I don't speak Spanish, but I'm getting a friend to write this for me. My favorite color is gold, no idea why either. I have a younger brother called Joe, he's twelve. He's always annoying. I don't have a boyfriend either."
At this point Ethan hissed at Ella "What am I then?"
"Err my friend?"
"If you say so... Ella do you want to be my girlfriend?"
"Yes."
"I'll scratch that last then."
"I have a boyfriend who is your brothers Pen Pal. I don't think I'm babbling but I'm going to leave it there. Bye, Ella Stark." After a few minor edits the whole message read,
'To Lilly,
It was kind of arrogant but I don't care. I don't speak Spanish, but I'm getting my friend to write this for me, he's fluent. My favorite color is red, no idea why either. I have a younger brother called Joe, he's thirteen He's always annoying. My boyfriend is your brothers Pen Pal. I don't think I'm babbling but I'm going to leave it there. Bye, Ella Stark.'
They all emailed each other more and more and became much more at ease with each other. They had never met but they felt like old friends.
A/N Sorry for not updating yesterday, I was really ill and slept all day. Just to say, Alice and Blaze don't get much of the story, Blaze more than Alice. Please review, leave constructive criticism, ideas, anything you want. Reviews make me write faster so I can crank out chapters for you.