A/N: Finally! Another chapter! Sorry for the long break, I just got really busy with sorting out my schedule since school started...But I should be fine now! Here's the nextdoor chapter, and thanks for the reviews! They are what help me continue this the most, knowing that someone is still waiting for that next chapter. I work best under stress, so please review!

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Chapter Two

(Jay's POV)

Ok, ok. So me and Rudy are preparing a huge movie marathon for everyone that's coming to our house, and I am super excited! We have a very specific list of which genre and which movie first, no matter what happens. Well, I guess if someone urgent happens like an earthquake then our schedule is bound to change. Or even something small, like another kidnapping in Palo Alto. My parents freak out about that stuff, and we're not allowed to leave the house without a chaperone. Anyways, tonight is going to be epic! But I can't use my super speed which is a big bummer, who doesn't like super powers!?

Oh yeah, Mom and Dad say that super powers are a curse. I think this is where I'm supposed to say they are, but they make things way more efficient. The only downside is that we have to worry about revealing ourselves. Even the high metabolism is cool, because that just means we get to have more sugar without getting obese! We get to eat more junk food without a care!

Jay, calm down, get back to the subject.

So anyways, there's like this giant party at our house, and everyone is coming, so Rudy and I are trying our best to get everything ready. Mom says we have to clean our room or else we don't get ice cream after dinner. And shoving things under our bed never works, because John and Zee are the ultimate detectives, and they always tell our parents. Rudy and I sleep in a bunk bed, with him on the top because he's older. That morning, he was cleaning out the closet, while I was putting away the toys. There were nerf bullets and arrows everywhere. Rudy loves archery, and using the nerf guns supposedly teach him to aim faster, since there are more bullets and you don't have to reload as much.

After cleaning up we scarfed down breakfast and were just about to set up the patio when Raquel came. She's really nice and fun, but sometimes she gets addicted to her phone and stops paying attention. She's really protective of her stuff, too. One time, Rudy accidently dropped her phone in the pool, and she looked sooo mad. While she walked away to keep herself from yelling at us, Mom gave us the lecture of our lives. I'm not sure if Raquel is over it yet.

The thing is, while she and Lian (that's our cousin) are the most mature and kind, as soon as the other arrives, they walk off and keep to themselves. Dropping Raquel's phone and Lian's Kindle was a dare from John, and we learned never to do it again. From then on, they never let us touch their stuff, and I've noticed that everyone is alert when Rudy or I enter the room. But we just tell ourselves that it's because we bring the party. It does hurt, though.

We may inhale our food in two seconds, but the truth is, we're pretty self conscious about it. Of course we have a tendency to eat any food in sight, but that doesn't mean we have to shove it in our mouths. If we ever stopped to eat like a civil person, everyone would question if something was wrong. People are expecting us to be the optimistic, energetic kids that don't care about all the darkness in the world. If we stop for one moment, well... to everyone else it's just not possible. Except we balance on that line every day, like a ticking bomb waiting to go off. I know that someday it will happen, and that's what I'm scared of. Hurting those around me and losing control.

Alright, enough of the boring sentimental stuff. I can't be thinking of that when remembering the best day of the year.

As soon as Raquel came, Rudy and I rushed to the front door. Our dad was there first (he has super speed too) and he answered the door before us. Raquel was standing in front of her father, Uncle Cal. His name's actually Caleb Durham, but my everyone calls him Cal as a nickname. For some reason, whenever we see them, they wear something usually worn in winter. Last year they were both wearing scarfs. The year before that they had snow boots, and so on. Today they were both wearing turtleneck coats. Raquel had baggy jeans and fingerless gloves. She wore a blue beanie on her head and black leather boots. "Hey Raquel, how have you been? Where did you travel? What took you so long? Do you have pictures? Or souvenirs? Or-" I could tell Rudy was trying hard not to slip into super speed. Luckily, Mom interrupted him first asvI bounced on the balls of my feet..

"Alright guys, back up and let them through. People should start arriving at six o'clock, and we have a lot to do," she said, polite as always. As far as speedsters go, the only things in our dictionaries were talk, eat, run, and talk some more. My mom isn't one though, so she's usually the only formal person in the family. Rudy isn't as bad as me, and Dad was apparently like us before growing up, but they still have a large amount of hyperactivity in their day.

Raquel and her dad came in and looked around. We had some of the decorations up, but most were peeling off of the ceiling and walls. My mom prepares things early, so all of the food was ready. It was just kept in the fridge so we didn't eat it on sight. My dad pulled out a paper and looked over it. "Alright, Cal, your setting up the grill. Arty, you and I are finishing the decorations. Kids, you help bring out chairs and set them around the tables outside. Raquel, you can get some fun games and get things for everyone to do. Jay, Rudy, you guys can help get games for kids, but leave the games for adults to Raquel."

"Aw, fine. But we already have this huge movie thing set up, and we picked all of the movies, and--I should stop talking now." One year we were in charge of getting games for everyone, and the adults had to play Scrabble after I mixed the games up. Hey, I was three! And Rudy didn't correct me because he was five!

"That's great! But make sure you run through them with Raquel first, so she can make sure they're safe," Mom told us, and we all got up to do what we were assigned.

We ordered two pizzas for lunch, and played a couple of games. By the time it was five forty-five, the time had gone by so quickly that I thought it was three. The next ones to arrive were John and Zee, the rich kids. While they try to dress modestly, seeing what's normal to wear in tabloids can be hard when you're trying not to be in them. We usually ask if we can go to the mall for shopping, since we live pretty close by. John and Zee let us borrow their credit cards for the night, and they never run out of money before our free time ends.

Soon everyone came, and everyone was having fun. There was nothing to worry about, and like usual, we went to the mall. We had fun, bought food, pranked stores. Lian even got kicked out of one when the employee literally exploded in her face, causing a big situation. After that the surrounding shops didn't let her in, but she just got large sunglasses, let her hair down, and pretended to be a foreign Vietnamese woman. Except we did, however, have one problem.

Some old friends of our parents supposedly weren't happy with their decisions to 'abandon them.'

A/N: Make sure you review and tell me what you liked/didn't like! I was kinda stuck on deciding who to do next, but in the end I decided to do a speedster. I have some sort of plot and conflict in my mind, but I hate writing things down, so I never have any actual plans for stories. Please review, and hopefully help me through constructive criticism!

MusicLyric: Thankyou so much! I got bored of reading those bios too, so I tried to put it in one of the characters' perspective!JaggerK: Honestly, I was trying to think of names that didn't start with the same letter, so I just picked a random name from Supergirl and ended up choosing Alex. I'm not sure if Alfred is dead yet, but he might be mentioned ;)

Poksie: Thanks! I'm hoping this one won't just turn out to be one of my ideas that starts out cool in my mind, and then shrivels up in a corner and dies! XD

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JaggerK: Thanks! I was kinda trying to choose names that didn't start with the same letter, so I picked a random name from Supergirl and ended up with Alex. I might change it though! ;)

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