Chapter 7: How I learned to stop worrying and let my sister take over
As we submerged from the water, I looked to see the tip of the plane was in the water, the wings and body balancing off of the rocks and unsteadly still. I moaned as I swam towards the rocks, pulled myself up along with Kowalski who was unmoving in my arms. As I sat upon the habitat my eyes stared at the code written on the plane. It wasn't very big perhaps the size of a private jet and the words on the plane were half emerged in water, Ell were the only words I could make out so far, just then I heard a shrek coming from the other side of the plane. I dashed over and walked cafefully on the wing but gasped when I saw who the victum was.
" Hannah?" The question was slurred in either suprise or anger, I couldn't pick which one. She had a coy, annoyed smile on her face as she swam over to me, she streightned her mauve trenchcoat and her black and white swirled dress, she waved her hair fruitlessly as if a dog removing excess water from her long ponytail. She turned towards the plane and whistled quickly. Out of the door wobbled a platypus, Aussie walked as fast as he could into Hannah's arms, she smiled proudly as she cuddled him. She then looked up at me and noticed Kowalski in my arms, I cuddled him closely scared she would pounce and grab him from me.
" Sky! I'm so glad I found you I was worried about you, and so was dad why in the world are you living here?" Hannah stubbornly asked while she did her scuffing of the nose thing, I scowled in responce.
" How did you know where I was? New York is a big city for a little girl" I chided, she scowled at me like a mirror reflection, she then smiled as she looked around coyly at the whole place.
" So you live in the zoo, figures" She whispered under her breath. I cocked my head in annoyence at her, muttered under my breath as I sighed.
" What do you want Hannah?" I placed my hands on my hips.
" Oh that, well I found you by my GPS tracker on you and I wanted to see how you were doing"
" Hannah you are the most, idiotic, stupid, annoying thing on the face of this Earth! I swear why did you ever bother to come here if you kicked me out in the first place?" I felt Kowalski shutter in my arms from me yelling. Hannah flinched to her disliking, she groped Aussie in her arms, I could hear her starting to speak quietly but quickly dislodged it from my mind.
" How dare you! I must say I become awfully worried about my actions to you and out of the bottom of my heart I came to find you" Hannah yelled towards me.
" Yeah the black abyss of your heart" I chided.
" Nevermind Father has become very depressed and would like us to go for dinner with him" Hannah closed her eyes shyly and walked towards the jet.
" Tell him I have plans" I thought of my father's poor, ailed face I couldn't help but frown. I heard Hannah's stifled laugh.
" My dear sister Sky, may I remind you of our father's condition? A poor, widowed young man filthy rich and all he wants is Hilly back, and you know what I think that you could at least have the desicency to come to dinner with us since you are the cause of the death" Hannah biterly recoiled to me.
" Your the reason I'm not going" Darkly I swallowed my fears, lodged all of my anger and directed them towards my sister, she got hit by my words.
" Very well then I suppose Father will have to make do without then" I nodded in agreement.
" Skyler Hillary Bell, I figured you have more of a consious towards this, I suppose you do not" Hannah climbed into her jet along with Aussie. I could have sworn she was staring at me the whole time with saddend eyes. I felt my hands roll up into balls, I knew I should have more of a standard towards my father and the death of my beloved mother, however with Hannah involved it could turn into chaos instead of a plesent meal.
" Alright Hannah, I'll intend where and when shall we meet?" I sighed, defeated.
Hannah smiled a devious smile and turned to face me.
" We'll see you at the Tenzan at 6:00 be ready" Hannah turned to walk into the jet when abruptly she turned, not fully but enough to see a coyish smile spring on her face.
" By the way I'm planning to bring Austin, you know the cute guy who lives next door to us? Just to let you know" I frowned, she was bringing a boyfriend to please Dad and to get mom of his mind, I frowned largely as she sat in her jet and sprung up into the air.
" She makes me sick" I muttered to myself, I turned to find Kowalski staring intently at me.
" You have a twin sister?" he asked bewildered.
" Unfortunely yes, that was my younger sister Hannah Bell as you can infer we don't get along very well" I turned to walk into the fishbowl opening.
As I climbed down the ladder, I ran straight for my room and opened my drawer. My wardrobe wasn't big enough yet I would have to do with my purple turtle neck, beige khaki pants, along with black sandals. I walked to my bathroom to get changed and frizz up my hair, however it still managed to stay as flat as a board. I looked at myself in the mirror, my eyes were still slightly closed, I grown atone to those eyelashes I recieved and love the squinted eye look. I took a bit of water and painted my lips to make them a darker tint. I walked out of my room and flated the wrinkles in my clothes.
" Well boys I'm going out for dinner tonight" I replied while I snatched an elastic on the recliner ( It must have fell from my backpack) and pulled my hair up into a small ponytail. The boys all studied me intently, Skipper narrowed his eyes.
" What if a spy comes and attacks you while your eating? I can't trust my lovely lady to be poisoned!" His voice shifted at the word poisoned, all the others gasped at his words.
" What?" I asked.
" Make one of us human so we can keep an eye on you" Skipper demanded, without hesitation at the sound of his voice, I concreted and tried to make one of them human. As I closed my eyes I heard a pop of a bubble like the sound before, as I opened my eyes I saw who it was,
Kowalski.
As if it couldn't get anymore awkward, the walk was the worst. We walked on Columbus Avenue searching for the Tenzan restaurant, many people were out walking the streets it seemed more alive when the lights came on. I watched as we came to a place with green colored texture. As I walked in I absorbed the look.
Red Japanese lanterns hung from the walls, beautifully planted Cherry blossoms sprang from pots and decorated the floors with pink colored petals. The arctexture was made of oak wood, hanging from walls scrolls with many Kanji words. The booths were pretty as well, yellow with black dotted seatings placed at oak tables. I looked around for my Father.
I found him, sitting awakwardly at the table, dressed in a fancy tuexdo looking arrangement. He smiled at Hannah and Austin who were seated with him, nodding in the right places but not with his heart, the empty seat beside him made my heart flutter with dispair. Hannah had her hair made into a bun with a blue rose sliced through it. Her eyelashes sparkled as they were puffed out. Her lips were coral red which made them look like they were bleeding. She woar a black strapless dress as she had her arm snuggled in between her and Austin.
I walked over towards them and took a seat beside my father, Kowalski fell beside Austin, uncomfortably of coarse. My father's eyes looked at mine and I swear he smiled a bit, his hands clasped together loosely as he stared intently at me then back at Kowalski. He motioned towards me.
" Who is this Sky?" His tone sounded, pleased.
" Oh this is Kowalski, he is a tentent at the apartment I boarded in. It just so happened that he was coming here for supper and asked me to join him" I lied between my teeth. My dad smiled a bit more with each word.
" Kowalski eh? Sounds like a man who works at my Bell's Resort in Poland are you from there?"
Kowalski shook his head quickly, his face turned red as everyone looked at him.
" No sir I assure you I am from Manhattan, New York" His tone was sharp as a whip, a rusty whip if that.
My father took a sip of his wine, placed it firmly on the table, gave a glance back at me.
" You know Honey, since living around Manhattan many Univeristies are avaible and even without a public degree you could enter one flawlessly" My father turned the tables back to me.
" Nah, I'm not interested I'd rather be a homemaker right now" I splawed my hands out on the table, my hands nearly touched Kowalski's, to which he flinched a slight bit.
" Well It's always there" My dad replied with another sip.
" Hey Daddy guess what Miyuki's coming with me to Paris next week, and I'm invited to her apartment there isn't that exciting!" Hannah added, I rolled my eyes, another trip what a surprise.
" Hannah that is exicting, I haven't been to Paris in years since your mother's and mine first honeymoon" His tone deepened a bit to which I scowled at Hannah.
" Nice going" I mummered under my breath. Austin got tense as well did Kowalski, Hannah rolled her eyes and muttered something quietly. I watched as a waiter came to our table.
I ordered the miso soup, nothing else sparked my interest. I had to hide my smirk at the fact that Kowalski jumped at the fact that sushi was on the menu. My father ordered a salad while Austin gluttened on the bread basket, apparently he had an allergy to seafood and Hannah forgot to inform him of the restaurant genre.
I watched as Kowalski fiddled around with the plastic wrapping on the chopsticks. He peered once to meet my face but felt embarrased when I saw him struggling. I smiled as I unpeeled the wrapper and grabbed a piece for him and placed it in his mouth. Hannah gave me a look as well did my dad. He took a dainty sip of wine and coughed once to let the silence escape.
" I think Kowalski can handle himself dear" He whispered to me, I shrugged while Kowalski's face burned up.
After our buffet at the restaurant, along with Austin getting sick from the smell of fish. And my dad's drunken songs, even though they made me laugh made me cry on the inside. I smiled to myself when Hannah took us to an ice cream parlour afterwards.
We made our way back to the same Haagen Daz that me and Miyuki found ourselves at earlier. We walked in and sat together at the booth. I ordered a small strawberry milkshake the miso turned my stomach around. My father ordered a small chocolate dipped cone, accidently ordered two but gave the second one to Hannah. I knew he thought of Hilly when his face suddenly stopped and frowned in spite of itself. Hannah had a bit of a remorseful face herself.
Kowalski didn't eat anything, said he had a lactose insuffiency, my father nodded and begain anaine conversation with him. It made me smile to see he was smiling with Kowalski. Austin spend the whole time in the bathroom, with my dad checking often on him.
My father, Hannah, and Austin piled in the limo and closed the door. I offered to walk home along with Kowalski, before they left my dad rolled his window down.
" You know you can always come back home, please don't let Hannah control you life you are the eldest after all" My father replied. I nodded.
" I know but I need to grow up as well" I reminded him, I was plainly looking for a loussy excuse.
He closed his eyes loosely and smiled.
" My door is always open" He took off.
I stared at the street until the limo become a blur in the blackness. I motioned for Kowalski to walk down the street with me. I walked ahead a couple of paces before I turned around and found Kowalski staggering a few paces behind me.
I then started to cry.
Sorry I took a while to update, anyways I want to give you guys a visual idea of what Sky looks like. For those of you have seen or heard of Invader Zim I kinda of modeled her after Gaz. Imagene short blonde hair that cradles her face with puffy bangs, her eyes are squinted close. I also gave her a distritve personality as I designed her as well, however her soft personaillty fits her better I think.
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